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BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

cityprod posted:
The current set design is so limiting in terms of physical design


You say they're limiting yet they've outlived the second longest set by two years. In fact if my maths is right they've now outlasted *both* the barco based sets put together. Up to the point News 24 moved into N6 there was a new set every two years (if you don't count them adding that single red panel to the 99 set as a new set)
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BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

VMPhil posted:
That can't be from 1999, the set has the red panels that were added in 2001.


yes that's the 2001 set, my favourite one. There was a sort of inbetweeny set where they added a random bit of red panelling to the right hand wall of the cream set
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BBC Network news - no longer relevant for the nations?

Cardiffian posted:
It seems this thread is dominated by people who live in England and so don't see the problem with English news dominating the national bulletins, or people who live in the nations and don't agree with devolution full stop, so the BBC can go back to being 'truly British'. Rolling Eyes So we're not going to get much further here.


I think that's unfair, Moz for example lives in Wales. He's just of a different opinion than you.

For what its worth I think the BBC has done significantly better over the past few weeks than its managed in terms of properly representing devolution for the past 20 years. I never used to hear the level of effort put into Newsbeat for example that currently exists.

If anything the times when its not mentioned show up bc its now the exception rather than the norm. Where things need to improve include short headlines on the website where its often forgotten that they are seen outside the context of the England index page. the thatsdevolved twitter account does a good job on this.

However the issue remains that the setup we have here is devolution, not federalism. England remains the default with Scotland, Wales, and NI opting out where necessary.*

Unless we get an English parliament (and I'd argue London should be separate from the rest of England) with Westminster turning into a proper federal govt these messy things will continue.


*yes that's hugely simplified, bore off with quoting me
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BBC Breakfast - 16th July onwards

noggin posted:
That said - Breakfast's set is based on plasmas, which are no longer made.


I forgot plasmas aren't made anymore. I remember the 2000 set being the first time plasmas had been seen by many people and them getting lots of emails asking what these fancy TVs were.

Are the NBH studios plasmas or LCD? What is the alternative?
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BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

chris posted:
I find this video very odd. Who’s it aimed at? Which audience is it serving? TV Forum?


TikTok is full of behind the scenes content, to the degree that there are often parody behind the scenes videos about things like McDonalds where its implied that putting random objects in a microwave magics them into full meals.

Emma and a couple of others are very good with TikTok content which is seen as a good way to humanise and increase interest in businesses. See also MaxFoster for CNN and the amazingly offbeat Washington Post account.
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Beeb

thegeek posted:
It's not the first time they've used the 'beeb' brand name - BBC Worldwide had an ISP called beeb.net for most of the 2000s.

I can see some benefit in this - if only to cut down on the number of times my Google Home tries to offer me a Spotify playlist called "sex music" instead of the alternative digital music station that I'm after.


beeb.com was originally a shopping website, or at least a forerunner of google shopping that curated other shops. I believe the jingle went "at beeb dot com, it's plain to see, it's internet shopping from the B-B-C"

Isn't part of the thing with beeb also to make it more responsive to the multitude of British accents. I find I have to put on my phone voice with Alexa and Siri. Although there is that Irish guy who's trained "alleppa" to understand nonsense its not as if she can easily code switch between the huge number of different accents and dialects that exist within English, often overlapping (In real life, I still have a geordie accent, but tend to say more Scottish dialect words than NE England).
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BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

harshy posted:
That N8 set looks huge though then they rotated it and it looked cramped. Does anyone know why they rotated it?


I think it was so they could fit the three sections in with it still being a single set. Although that set had three sections the "soft set" was never used at the same time, there was always a break when they swung the cameras round. The weather set meanwhile was never actually seen in situ. Of course the left pod ended up being a bit of a waste and was reduced to "use to mask changeovers".
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TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

The animation when the little success banner animates off is hugely unnecessary and lavish so obviously I fully approve.
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TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

Asa posted:
Yep, and it's funny because it's always been like that, did everyone used to just click the ribbon?


Yep I’d always clicked the ribbon. 😂

I assumed clicking the title would take you to the opening post. Which now has me wondering what the default phpBB behaviour over the road is :/
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TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

Well this is very nice. This is pressure to finally tart up the uploader isn't it...

How does one get to the last post read of a thread? I can't see the obvious link?

Two other bugs, I can't seem to mark a request as "answered", and there's no mark forum as read on The Gallery Smile

Homepage is lovely tho Very Happy
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BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

james-2001 posted:
Stuart posted:

- Virtual set 1993-1999 - N2(TC11)


Didn't someone on here say the last few months of that set were in N6?


How would that work? surely they'd need time to build the new set?
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A Red and Cream Tribute - BBC News 2000

mdtauk posted:
I could have asked SOOOO many more questions, but at some point you have to stop bothering a person Razz.


oh absolutely. it's totally highlighted how little info we have about the production of them compared to what would be available if they were made today