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TVF Confessions

Inspector Sands posted:


*the BBC1 balloon was a very odd idea. Looks odd and doesn't make sense. The idea of a globe at all is a bit odd



Well, waddabout this then ?

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TVF Confessions

Things I hate (non exhustive)

Cut away shots during a piece to camera, from a different camera, but the presenter carries on looking at the original camera.

The unseen off camera person Ben Fogle talks to on his documentaries. (It's the technique, not the person I hate, just to be clear!)

Archive footage (even stuff only a few days old) being degraded to make it look b/w and/or low colour and/or noise added and/or like the Baird 30 line system

Shallow Depth of Field lenses used for news and factual material, (and sometimes with the above effects added)

Journalists interviewing each other, almost relegating the viewer to some sort of eavesdropper.

Streaming services that start up the next episode before you've even had a chance to find the remote and cancel the action (Here's looking at you Amazon)
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20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

Hatton Cross posted:
Markymark posted:

I've just remembered, and looked up the details, a number of Irish activists broke into BRMB in June 1974 and attempted to get on the air...
....They were unsuccessful getting on the air

No wonder, if they used that bloody awful lift in Aston Road North.


Ha, the report says they overpowered the commissionaire and ran up five flights of stairs. George Ferguson was the on air DJ at the time.
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20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

Steve in Pudsey posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Yes, it was the standby for Vanessa Feltz's ill-fated BBC talk show. That was a rehearsal/pilot episode recorded before the series started live. It was loaded every morning without fail and needed a new master in the end as the oxide was falling off at the cue point.


I wonder if that explains the infamous breakdown where Lambing Live fell off air and and the edition of Coast they wheeled out was suffering from sound problems and had to be abandoned? II think at the time it was explained as being likely to be a head clog. Even if that particular tape was in good condition, if the machine used for standbys was regularly handling other tapes that were wearing out it might fit?


Yes, and head clogs often happened without warning, just takes a flake of oxide to turn things from fine to nothing in an instant, particularly with digital tape formats. At least with analogue formats there was sometimes 'bearding' (short black streaks on highlights) that acted as a warning
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20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

commseng posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Talking of Northern Ireland, it was recently the 50th anniversary of when 5 BBC engineers got killed by an IRA landmine:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55989009

A very sad story with too many innocent lives lost.
It ultimately delayed the opening of the Brougher Mountain UHF service I believe.


It did, it should have happened around 1973, it was delayed until 1978.

I've just remembered, and looked up the details, a number of Irish activists broke into BRMB in June 1974 and attempted to get on the air. It was regarding the fortunes of a hunger striker. They were unsuccessful getting on the air
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…and finally

Soupnzi posted:
Shaun Linden posted:
Brekkie posted:
That is why it's never been the solution to "off topic" chat here - it only seems to exist as a place to slag off members of this place. It's toxic - and in recent times that toxicity has sometimes spilled over here and perhaps had too much influence at times.


Metropol gave those with grievances to air them there keeping our waters clean.It is odd in an age where we are told to be kind it's OK to actively slag of members from here on there.

I say that as recently warned poster for being rude here.

Not a particularly nice vibe on there. I’ve read some awful comments about people from TVF, and it didn’t seem to moderated as vigorously as this place. I actually fear for those who’ve been cruelly dissected on there. A bit of a one-stop shop of pedantry and tragedy.


I've never looked in there until now, so I've just had poke around in it. It's positively warm and fluffy compared to Usenet groups for instance. uk.d-i-y is probably the most feral of those groups I subscribe to. Everything is realtive in cyberspace.
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Good Morning Britain

Jonwo posted:
I'm surprised they still use laptops for Breakfast programmes rather than tablets.


Trouble is if the tablet runs out of battery, or crashes, it's a fair old dash to the stationary cupboard for a ream of A4
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20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

I can remember watching in the 70s a Sunday Night at the London Palladium. After one of the commercial breaks, it never returned, and instead there was an edition of Sammy Davis Junior's ATV show to fill the rest of the timeslot.

Nothing was said on air to explain the change, it wasn't until next morning when the papers reported there'd been a bomb scare.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

Andrew posted:
I feel if JVT is on, it should be on BBC One, as he explains things very clearly and robustly quashes daft/scaremongery questions from the media


To be honest, it would be a lot better (and would completely de-politicise things) if he hosted the conferences alone !
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20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

I heard Tom Edwards relate a story from the 80s, where someone turned up at Thames, and asked to see an announcer.
Tom was available, and he went to reception to see them, where he was promptly smacked in the gob because Thames had rescheduled Falcon Crest (I think ?) to a different time slot
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20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

Whataday posted:
Wasn't Thames Television petrol-bombed in the 70s/80s and it didn't become common knowledge until quite recently? I'm sure I didn't dream that but can't seem to find any reference to it online.


I always thought their rivalry with LWT was a myth ?

But seriously, they did apparently get replaced by TVS one afternoon in the 80s ? Perhaps that was the day ?
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S4C Playout Auction

scottishtv posted:
I'm having a couple of acronym guesses here. BoM is Bill of Materials (ie. list of equipment and associated bits), and SI is maybe System Integrator or something similar perhaps (ie. a company you pay to put all the stuff together and make it work to meet your needs). Is that right?


You are 100% spot on Cool .