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Eurovision 2019

JamesM0984 posted:
Didn't SVT spin-off their OB business some time ago (I see from old threads they effectively host broadcasted many of the 2000s shows) to be later acquired by NEP?


Yes - SVT sold off their OB business, like the BBC did, many years ago. They still have in-house entertainment production staff, and some staff studio and OB technical crew, though. Though a large chunk of the production and technical staff on a large show like Eurovision will be freelance anyway. (Crane operators, Steadicam operators are obvious examples, but writers and producers may well be freelance too etc.)

Incidentally - NRK still have in-house facilities. They got two nice new HD OB trucks around the time of the 2010 Oslo contest Wink
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New BBC Radio Slates on Freeview

Interesting - I don't have the little green icon next to Press GREEN to hide.

I have no little green icon and get 'Press GREEN to hide screen.' text (note the added word screen compared to the screen shots in this thread) and no top left BBC DOG. I'm watching on Crystal Palace using a Sony 2018 UHD TV via DVB-T2 but I have disabled YouView.

I do have connected Red Button and do get the nice (not MHEG5) 'Press green to watch from start' iPlayer icon top right when watching BBC channels.
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What is the oldest tv you still use?

JasonB posted:
My grandparents still use their old 40” Grundig TV which they got in 93. Although the picture isn’t great these days my Nan refuses to upgrade to a smart TV. The rgb lines are visible across the top of the screen.


40" sounds very large for a consumer 4:3 CRT. Are you sure it's that big?
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Brexit Dramarama

BM11 posted:
WW Update posted:
itsrobert posted:
I think that's the big problem - the broadcasters want to turn this into a personality contest like it is in the US.


But televised political debates are not just an American phenomenon. They take place in virtually all European countries, regardless of their political system. In fact, the UK was a latecomer to the game.

Of course, having a debate without a vote to go along with it is unusual.

And arranged very quickly - In Denmark in 2015 the first debate was about a day or two after the election was called.


Indeed. Though it's a lot easier in most countries where the main broadcasters usually still have studios...
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New BBC Radio Slates on Freeview

Could this be MHEG5 vs HbbTV differences?
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26th Anniversary of the biggest shake up in ITV

Riaz posted:

I think that the good old BBC rather than Sky or other satellite and cable channels was actually the real competitor to ITV after 1992 until internet TV took off.


Though not for advertising revenue I guess.
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The Sport Thread

Closedown posted:
Bad news for the future of live sports FTA in my view. See also what happened to children's TV production after the sweetie ads ban.


That's probably a small price to pay (and won't impact the BBC, and shouldn't hit higher rating events on ITV).

Personally I think the live sports loophole that allows gambling ads to be aired pre-watershed should be closed legally, not voluntarily.
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26th Anniversary of the biggest shake up in ITV

Whataday posted:
noggin posted:
Riaz posted:

I'm not going to go through the history of the ONdigital fiasco, but did the 1990 Broadcasting Act effectively factor in the potential that ITV (companies) could by 2000ish have additional satellite, cable, or DTT channels, and how they would be handled at a future franchise round?


I don't think they were foreseeing DTT in 1990 - but it was already clear that satellite and cable channels were changing the landscape. The IBA had already awarded our national DBS channels to BSB, after the BBC/IBA joint venture didn't work out (Granada/Anglia + others were involved initially)

Similarly the ITV companies (apart from Thames) and Virgin had created SuperChannel (on European satellite and cable), which although not a success for them (they'd sold it by 1990 I think) did demonstrate that it was a new part of the media landscape.

It was clear by 1990 that non-terrestrial broadcasting was going to be a new revenue opportunity for commercial broadcasters - and particularly for ITV franchise holders who produced high-value, popular content.


But in terms of the Broadcasting Act, the franchises issued were clearly for Channel 3, and not any other operations. Had they included all future operations of the ITV companies that would have been the opposite of what they were trying to achieve - deregulation.


Yes - the IBA franchises were advertised that way - but companies surely were not blind to wider opportunities?
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President George HW Bush dies

I believe it was an ABC director directing the pool of the main service.
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The new NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

Markymark posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
With the centralised coding the BBC now has there's no technical reason why they couldn't have got Midlands Today instead. Though making the decision to to so and getting that to the people who can do it is another matter. It might have been that they thought they might get back for the next bulletin and so didn't want to commit


There's still a problem with the CCM routing a neighbouring region at very short notice ? It requires some sort of approval chain (because it's not the 'pres' part of the BBC or its contractors (Red Bee etc) that run the CCM centres) and it needs someone to actually reroute the feeds (I doubt CCM is manned 24/7 or is remote controlable ?)



I think CCM is staffed pretty much 24/7 though levels will be lower in off-peak hours. However I'm sure you're correct that re-routing a regional BBC One feed to the coding and mux chain is not a 'just make a phone call from the newsroom' kind of operation, and would require a sensible level of authorisation...
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26th Anniversary of the biggest shake up in ITV

Ne1L C posted:
A "UK Gold" featuring a combined BBC/all ITV programming would have been a powerful player imo


In Europe it would - in the UK I think you'd have needed to offer new programmes though. A common complaint in the 80s was 'too many repeats' - as when shows got much higher audiences (because there were only 4 channels) more people had seen them the first time they were broadcast.

Ironically - repeats are probably more popular now than they've been for a while, as fewer people watch shows on their first transmission.
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Loose Women

Jonwo posted:
I wonder if the show has a list of people who can come in last minute if the anchor or panelist falls sick.


Presumably they have the contact details (or agent contact details) for all their main contributors, and the programme editor (and possibly commissioner) will have a view on who would fit best (and then if they aren't available who would be next choice)