Markymark's posts, page 12

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Markymark 5 March 2021 1:09pm

S4C Playout Auction

.......Avitel TGE 2040 time code generator. Avitel TRE 2060 Time code.......

<shudder>

From the body language of that document, it feels like S4C still had and dug out an electronic copy of the original BoM from the SI who built the place, and kept it updated. All credit to them. Most auction lists for ex TV stations are not as well ordered as that

Anyone know what SI built the place, and when BTW ? Feels like mid to late 00s ish from the earlier components on the list ?

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Markymark 5 March 2021 10:10am

20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

james-2001 posted:

Was it a controlled explosion? I'm sure I remember it went off while they were preparing for a controlled expolosion, but it actually went off by itself.

You could well be right, and I'm not sure how controlled a controlled explosion might be !

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Markymark 5 March 2021 9:35am

20 years since the Real IRA bombing of BBC TV Centre

Mike W posted:

Little known fact; there is to this day still some damage caused by the bomb on the exterior window frames of Stage VI - in the repairs it was missed.

Shrapnel from the taxi was expelled at high speed and penetrated the aluminium.

The red circles indicate blast damage, the orange line shows the direction of travel from Wood Lane (entrance to Stage VI to the left, towards South Africa Road to the right).
People I work with were placed on search duties in the aftermath to recover whatever was left, the bomb sent metal down onto the LUL tracks for the Central Line and the explosion broke windows on a housing estate behind White City.

It worth remembering this was all damage caused by a controlled explosion, which (should) relaese far less energy than the bomb being detonated 'as intended' ?

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Markymark 4 March 2021 11:02am

TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

Si-Co posted:

Lewismpsmith posted:

In light of this website closing down, this is a tribute to my first ever post on this forum, which was on this very thread!

Here is another version of "The Time The Place" protest, not really anything different about this one (apart from the better quality

) other than a lady announcer apologising over the programme's logo.

"That's The Time and the Place, in just a moment" or maybe not as they cut to a caption. (and a completely different announcer!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0XyVDSQkY

So where were these announcements coming from, and were they networked?

I’m assuming the female announcer is the local one for the region this was recorded from? I vaguely remember seeing this on Tyne Tees and I don’t think there was any voice-over the TTTP caption. It’s a long time ago though - I could be totally wrong.

The male announcer over the TM slide is possibly Granada, as everything from 0925 to the end of TM used to be routed through Quay Street.

I suspect the female voice was Granada's (or possibly Central's) duty announcer, and was heard nationally. The male voice sounds like Mark Liscombe, who was a Carlton London announcer back then. I suspect that recording is from the London area, and the regions had gone back to local continuity to fill the gap. (As was standard procedure I think ?)

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Markymark 4 March 2021 8:47am

…and finally

I stumbled across TV Forum in 2004. Someone on a Usenet group had provided a link to here with photos of Meridian's then new facility at Whiteley.

Very sorry to see it go. It's made train journeys shorter, and stopped me turning into Alan Partridge in hotel rooms while alone on business trips, although there have also been occasions when my wife has threatened to drop my phone into a glass of water, or insert it somewhere painful.

I've had the pleasure of engaging privately with a few members, and having a real life beer with a couple more.

Thanks to Asa, and everyone in here for the last 17 years. I'm sure we'll still be bumping into each other for years to come....

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Markymark 4 March 2021 8:34am

BBC Parliament Rebrand/Reithed

James Vertigan posted:

mdtauk posted:

How long until BBC Parliament goes HD (if only for iPlayer...)

Are the cameras in the Commons/Lords chambers HD compatible?

Those cameras in the pictures are from the mid to late 1980s, and possibly so is the photo. The larger one is a Sony BVP-3P, and I remember setting it up in the workshop. I don't know what the smaller Panasonic is for, possibly an off line 'snoop' camera

Those Sonys were retired yonks ago.

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Markymark 3 March 2021 4:46pm

TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

Inspector Sands posted:

Markymark posted:

Inspector Sands posted:

I can't work out what could have caused that.

It might have been a 'glue' crate at the CC&M centre went down, so five or six incoming regions were dead on the router input.
So, they rerouted the nearest available regions to the affected destinations ?

Possibly that would do it if the fault affected both centres.

Although there's no mention of when that happened, its obviously before 2013 as it's TV Centre, not Salford.... but if it was in the analogue days that wouldn't explain it, or it would only have happened on one platform, not the other

Yes, good point. I wonder if the missing sources were 'lost' in some virtual mapping, that controls both sites? Though if that happened, it doesn't say much for resilience!

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Markymark 3 March 2021 3:31pm

TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

Inspector Sands posted:

I can't work out what could have caused that.

It might have been a 'glue' crate at the CC&M centre went down, so five or six incoming regions were dead on the router input.
So, they rerouted the nearest available regions to the affected destinations ?

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Markymark 3 March 2021 6:51am

BBC Three channel to return in January 2022

Roger Darthwell posted:

JetixFann450 posted:

That, or NPO also runs on a similarly numbered system (NPO1 is basically BBC One, NPO2 is BBC Two and NPO3 is the youth channel basically similar to that of CBBC and BBC Three when they still time-shared)

And NPO3's frequencies show NPO Zapp during the daytime, it's clear that NPO has been inspired by the Beeb! And we are glad of this

If anything it's the other way round, NED3/NPO3 has been around since 1988, and is (obviously) a legacy analogue service.

I still think the original idea (from 20 years ago) of making BBC 3 an all day service, with children's stuff daytime and adult stuff evening would have lead to an overall better awareness and reach.

The same idea was suggested from CBeebies and BBC 4, but it is important to have the break point at 7pm to get the children off to bed. In any case those two channels are chalk and cheese anyway, so no point