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Maybe its time bbc overhaul its channels?

623058 posted:
What happened in Denmark?


DR have reduced their TV channels from 6 to 3, and their Radio services from 8 to 5, closing the stations they launched as digital only about 7 years ago.

375-400 staff cut. Most areas seeing significant cut backs.
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The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

Other option is - if you want a large audience for a relatively small chat show - you'd use a non-studio venue (theatre, concert hall etc.) and an OB truck, as James Corden did when he brought his US show here and used Westminster Central Hall?
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BBC News | Presenter & Correspondent Reshuffles

JamesWorldNews posted:
I'm sure Joe is still cursing your for all those near infringements of his #WeekendNewsClub assignments!

He's probably one of the longest serving (if not the longest serving) Business Reporter at BBC Television News, if I'm not mistaken. (Specifically reporter, not Presenter).


Andrew Verity is the only other name that springs to mind as a long-serving BBC business reporter. (He used to special in personal finance ISTR)
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Royal Wedding - Harry & Meghan

noggin posted:
mapperuo posted:
noggin posted:
So its likely that Sony bought P43 brick cameras, and hired remote heads for them, rather than buying 'robotic UHD' cameras.


Apologies my wording wasn't to imply they were a combined UHD PTZ unit, I just used that term to differentiate those cameras to the larger ones. Your right the remote heads were hired separately.


The P43s will probably be redeployed for sport UHD Steadicam use I expect?

It appears that a mix of F55s and PXW-Z450s are used for UHD RF shoulder mounts, though I think I may have seen F55s on Steadicams too. (The PXW-Z450s effectively replacing the PMW-500/450s or PDW-700/800s in that role, though you do see HDCs running RF too sometimes?)


Just to answer this - AIUI the P43 isn't a good fit for Steadicam use (in contrast to the P1 in HD) as it doesn't appear to output Quad3G or 2SI SDI - and instead is designed to run fibre into a BPU? Probably not going to be a neat integration with an RF link as a result. Suspect F55s and Z450s will remain in that role for the moment?
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Sky News Business Australia closing

Yes - if you want to gain a good insight into Fox News - "OutFoxed" is still a very good watch.
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The Big Breakfast

JasonB posted:
From the same episode above, did they have a replica shed like the bed that they took out to locations or is George Lucas actually at Bow Locks? Looking at the other parts, he doesn't seem to turn up until this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sNaiQm-Lc


Isn't there also the option that the item was pre-recorded in their normal location, rather than being live?
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Peston on Sunday to move to Wednesdays

watchingtv posted:
Quote:

The first midweek episode of Peston on ITV won the late-night ratings battle against Newsnight on Wednesday, with the editor of the rival BBC show saying she “welcomes the competition”.


https://pressgazette.co.uk/first-episode-of-itvs-peston-beats-bbc-newsnight-in-late-night-current-affairs-ratings-battle/


Hmm - comparing an ITV show with a BBC Two show - wouldn't you expect ITV to do better irrespective of content? It will have bigger inheritance and is the more 'mainstream' channel. Be just as interesting to compare Peston with Question Time (different days but similar slots on the two mainstream networks)?

Question Time got 1.9m 2245-2345 / 23.4% share on Thursday
Peston got 0.5m 2245-2345 / 6.8% share on Wednesday
(Figures I have may not match other quoted figures - as sources may round differently or report slightly differently)

If you want to compare two mainstream channel shows covering politics etc. - that feels like a fair comparison...
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Peston on Sunday to move to Wednesdays

Aaron_2015 posted:
Very surprised that the show got an entirely new set, the old set with a night-time backdrop would have been just as effective. The lineup for yesterday’s show was pretty good, I’m guessing there are far better guests available at 8pm on Wednesday.


Surely the old set was designed for a daytime morning show, whereas the show is now a late night show? You probably want a different feel for the show as a result? The old set was very 'daytime'.

There may also have been reasons to get a new set linked to the move of the show from TLS to BBC Studioworks ? (Did the old Peston set share any set infrastructure with TLS ITV Daytime sets?)
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Good Morning Britain

Whataday posted:
The editorial need was already apparent. Piers failed to do something already scripted and the programme moved on, which I would have thought came down to the director, but I'm willing to concede I may be wrong.


No - definitely the producer's or editor's job to ensure something legally or editorially required actually happens.

A Director can try to make it happen, and do their best to, but in the 'pecking order' the talent must to listen to the editor or producer for legal and compliance reasons, far more than they do a director (who is lower down the food chain).

If Piers can't be effectively produced that gives ITV a very real issue. Piers may once have been an editor. He isn't now.
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Sky News | General Discussion

lhx1985 posted:

And one more thing - the new 'state of the art' automation system is killing the channel. Nothing seems to work properly, or nobody's been trained on how to use it.


The BBC went through these automation troubles in 1997 when they launched BBC News 24 with Columbus automation, and again when they switched systems to Mosart when they moved to NBH. Automation is a massive cost-saver, but takes a significant time to get used to and to iron-out the wrinkles.

I think Sky are using Ross Overdrive - which has been around for a while and is in widespread use in the US. Arguably Mosart (used by the BBC and a large number of other European broadcasters) is more 'state of the art'...
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Good Morning Britain

Whataday posted:
Ofcom has ruled against GMB for not giving Herefordshire County Council a right to reply in January when Piers deliberately chose not to read their statement about not housing a war vet.

The director should have insisted it was read out, and I'm surprised Susanna didn't step in. In America those statements are referred to as a Must Do, and for good reason.

In response, Piers has ridiculed the perfectly reasoned Ofcom ruling.


Point of order, the producer or editor should have insisted - not the director.

(Whilst a director may be aware of the editorial need to do something, it's far more the responsibility of the editor or producer to ensure it happens)
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BBC Text on Sky

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
In my experience the Freeview MHEG5 digital text service is by far the quickest to use on a modern TV. The Sky version is slower, and the Connected Red Button stuff is pretty, but less easy to navigate quickly. (Page numbers are still a good way of quickly navigating to the information you want from a TV remote)


How many use the TV based info services though ? There's so much talk of 'second screen' these days,
which in reality means you whip your smart phone out of your pocket, and use that for browsing data, extra info etc etc ?


I know a lot of older people have simply replaced CEEFAX with Digital Text. I often see my parents and my in-laws use it instead of their iPads. Particularly for sport.