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commseng 23 April 2017 4:35pm

Snooker transmission fault

Not only does he get the wrong location he makes the mistake that lots of news presenters do and get to and from mixed up.... you've lost the line from York/Sheffield, not to it.

A particular bugbear of mine.

Mine too!
When they say that on the radio "We've lost the line to the MP", I think how do you know whether he can hear you or not?
We cannot hear him, so it is impossible to tell.

I have booked lines (when it was a music in one direction for the quality on air circuit one way, and a control line for the remote to hear the cue in the other) only to discover with seconds to go that the programme was being made the opposite way to the booking request.
It is really not difficult to get the terminology correct. "From" and "to" are easy words to understand surely?
Grrrr.

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commseng 22 April 2017 1:20pm

Snooker transmission fault

I do not know how this was routed, but surely it would make sense to have one circuit via fibre as the main and one via satellite as the reserve.
Unless to save money the reserve was dropped and the expectation was that the international feed would be used if the main circuit was lost?

If it happens during match play that is OK, but when there is only BBC presentation the international feed is not much use.

Usually the following year funds are restored for a reserve if this has been the case..... Only speculation and bitter experience on my part!

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commseng 28 March 2017 1:30pm

Operation London Bridge: the death of the Queen

It is part of the Radio Data System as used on FM.
For the BBC it is carried by the national networks and when the local BBC station raises its traffic flag (triggered manually or from the start of a jingle) the national networks signal that radios in that area can switch over for travel news if the car radio has it enabled.

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commseng 17 March 2017 9:37am

Operation London Bridge: the death of the Queen

It is possible it was done twice, but the one I remember was Fergie, and was only a few months before the Diana crash.

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commseng 16 March 2017 5:59pm

Operation London Bridge: the death of the Queen

I wouldn't think that the BBC ident used prior to the newsflash would be specified as part of Operation London Bridge - it's only relevant to the BBC.
I'm sure Pres would use a very bland logo which would work on BBC One, News, World News, website (& other means of broadcasting to be invented) etc.

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commseng 16 March 2017 4:15pm

Operation London Bridge: the death of the Queen

I am stunned to see that article published.

There are a few errors, one is that there had been a BBC rehearsal some years before Diana's death which had her involved in a crash on the M4.

I am certain it wasn't Diana, but Sarah Ferguson as the hypothetical victim.

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commseng 25 February 2017 6:49am

BBC Scotland to launch new channel

I don't imagine that there are any ideas what the Radio Scotland music station would cover, but would it be Scottish music, or UK / international music with Scottish presentation around it?

I can see the argument for talk more than music, as surely Scottish musicians are covered by the existing music based BBC national stations?

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commseng 23 February 2017 6:12pm

BBC Scotland to launch new channel

DVB Cornwall posted:

A reminder that England gets BBC Local Radio something that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland(*) don't. Their National Radio services are in no way comparable. I'd suggest that this investment goes someway to balance that in the overall scheme of things.

(*) Radio Foyle being the exception.

There are opt outs of Radio Scotland too, but they are very part time.
Why Orkney only gets half an hour in the morning and Shetland half an hour in the evening heaven only knows.

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commseng 21 February 2017 3:51pm

ITV abandons the South Bank

Inspector Sands posted:

commseng posted:

That email to staff just pushes the fact that there will be new and exciting offices to work in.

Maybe I am just a bit long in the tooth, but wasn't the excitement about working in broadcasting to do with the facilities be they studios, OBs, edits, communications, and so on.

Can anyone really get excited about offices never mind how the walls are painted, the computers on the desk or that there is a ping pong table?

That was the glamour of telly yes but the sad fact is that TV is made in offices. I remember showing a friend round my former workplace, an office space that outputted many hours of programming and she asked what all the people at desks were doing? They were all making programmes, it's just it doesn't take rooms of specialist equipment to do it any more, it's all on computers and the back end is just servers and standard IT infrastructure that you'd find anywhere.

Studios still have their place, but increasingly less

Sadly I think you're right.
Like everything that was novel and interesting when it was difficult to do, it is now humdrum and commonplace.
The old apperatus rooms with varied equipment are all now just rack upon rack of servers. That is the way it goes. Why have studios when you can sort anything tricky out in an edit suite?

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commseng 21 February 2017 2:28pm

ITV abandons the South Bank

TedJrr posted:

commseng posted:

My reading of the initial email to staff at the start of this thread is that they would return to the studios in South Bank........I assume that ITV is the owner of TLS?

It was the Coal Board Pension Fund, but didn't ITV buy it? Perhaps it belongs to their pension fund!

I wonder if there is an intention to completely move out of Gray's Inn Road, bringing ITV and ITN under on roof? Also, mention of Chiswick Park is interesting. Although mentioned in the context of a site being considered, is this an indication that Ericsson's ITV operation could move back to the South Bank?

Funding of facilities has always been an issue. The 1962 Broadcasting House extention was owned by the Prudential Building Society and the BBC transmitters from the early days were financed by Barclays bank.

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commseng 21 February 2017 2:23pm

ITV abandons the South Bank

TedJrr posted:

commseng posted:

My reading of the initial email to staff at the start of this thread is that they would return to the studios in South Bank........I assume that ITV is the owner of TLS?

It was the Coal Board Pension Fund, but didn't ITV buy it? Perhaps it belongs to their pension fund!

I wonder if there is an intention to completely move out of Gray's Inn Road, bringing ITV and ITN under on roof? Also, mention of Chiswick Park is interesting. Although mentioned in the context of a site being considered, is this an indication that Ericsson's ITV operation could move back to the South Bank?

I would doubt it.
It seems as if the management don't want to be involved too much with the nitty gritty of broadcasting. Why would moving another firm who they have contracts with (and other broadcasters have contracts with) into an expensive central London building be an objective for them?

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commseng 21 February 2017 2:03pm

ITV abandons the South Bank

That email to staff just pushes the fact that there will be new and exciting offices to work in.

Maybe I am just a bit long in the tooth, but wasn't the excitement about working in broadcasting to do with the facilities be they studios, OBs, edits, communications, and so on.

Can anyone really get excited about offices never mind how the walls are painted, the computers on the desk or that there is a ping pong table?

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