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The Sport Thread

dvboy posted:
Would they need one for an EPG slot on Virgin Media for example?


You need a broadcast licence for all broadcast platforms in the UK - cable, satellite, terrestrial. It's going to get woolly around IPTV...
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BBC Europe Direct

a516 posted:

Didn't Europe Direct's titles originally have a stylised "E" coming out of water?


Indeed they did. The E logo was also used on the cushions Smile
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BBC Europe Direct

Batavia posted:
thegeek posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
Didn’t Charles Wheeler also present it, before Shirin Wheeler took over the programme?

Any relation?


Charles Wheeler was Shirin Wheeler's father. Shirin hosted the Record: Europe. IIRC it had two title sequences during its time on air: the first with 2 acrobats doing a ribbon dance, as weird as that sounds, and the second with a glass star refracting light. Both sequences had a blue background.

According to LinkedIn, Shirin is now Head of the Video & Social Media Unit at the European Investment Bank (EIB).


You're absolutely right 'The Record : Europe' is ringing lots of bells - as are both sets of titles.
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Virgin Media Ireland launch

London Lite posted:
London Lite posted:
I'll reupload with the CL and golf removed shortly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja8He1sSxAo



Wow - for the main presenter mid-shot - that set really doesn't deliver much does it?
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Anglia/East of England News Discussion

Philip Cobbold posted:
Out of interest, are the East and West editions done completely separately? I just watched the two side by side and obviously the backdrops are different throughout, but there are clearly bits which are identical. Presumably they prerecord one edition completely, do the second one live, but drop in bits from the first prerecord.


The location reports are obviously shared - but all studio elements must presumably be repeated because the backdrops are different. Also - keep an eye on the script colour. I think one edition is on pink paper, the other on yellow - presumably a sensible decision to avoid confusion between shows.
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Loose Women

They must be desperate - they are getting beaten 2:1 by Homes under The Hammer and more than 3:1 by The One O'Clock News...

Like GMB - it appears that social media 'buzz' is as important to them as audience numbers.

Personally I found the whole Kim / Colleen thing really distasteful, and LW will be incredibly hypocritical to do any items on mental health any time soon.

Just felt like a nasty, 'Celebrity Jeremy Kyle' style stunt. Nobody has come out of it well.
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Anglia/East of England News Discussion

buster posted:
It's proud of place in the entrance - was a nice surprise when I visited last year!
Love a good "presenter walking out of the studio" shot, and that's a classic of the genre.


And presumably pre-recorded too judging by the time on the clock in the edit suite - and the fact it happened on both sides?
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BBC Europe Direct

itsrobert posted:
For some obscure reason, the very much extinct programme "Europe Direct" popped into my mind today. It used to air at various times on both BBC News 24 and BBC World.

I was wondering if anyone can remember much about its production history? I know that it launched with News 24 in 1997 and initially was presented from the soft set in N9


Not quite - it actually launched on BBC World a little BEFORE News 24 launched, but just by a little bit. It was produced from the as-yet-unlaunched News 24 soft area ISTR before the channel launched in Nov 1997.

Brian Hanrahan was the launch presenter.

It came from the sofa area in N9, with Europe Direct branded cushions. It was a sofa-based discussion show with guest journalists from the European press (mainly) as pundits. It was a bit like a European version of Dateline London, discussing European issues with European journalists.

When News 24 moved into N8 in 1998 (windswept conservatory era), it came from the sofa area there. I can't remember if it was still a studio show when the sofa area was replaced by a second desk area in the first Lambie Nairn beige/red iteration.
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BBC Europe Direct

JamesWorldNews posted:
Didn’t Charles Wheeler also present it, before Shirin Wheeler took over the programme?


Charles Wheeler didn't present Europe Direct. That was Dateline London - with Charles Wheeler (as it was initially known).

Europe Direct was initially presented by Brian Hanrahan, but Peter Dobbie, David Jessel and I think William Horsley and a few others presented it across its lifetime.

Shireen Wheeler presented a different European insert, this time from the European Parliament(?) in Brussels, into another News 24 strand (can't remember if it was Breakfast or mid-morning?) I think it may have been called 'European Breakfast' and been quite early in the morning during the Breakfast strand. I think it used TV facilities available in the parliament - rather than requiring a multi camera OB from the BBC (which would never have happened with BBC budgets!)
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Best practice video capturing from VHS

harshy posted:
What do you put in ffmpeg to do a W3FDIF 2x deinterlace?


-vf 'w3fdif=complex:all'
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Virgin Media Tivo - schedule problems.

pmwelec posted:
Their also very good at swapping channels say from BBC1 to BBC2 part way through a programme, particularly live sport


AIUI the BBC EPG unit and RedBee Playout operations generate that data (about channel switches, delays, re-scheduled shows etc., as well as the dynamic 'show start' triggers) that is distributed to all platform operators automatically. Whether the platform reacts is based on their EPG solution I guess ?
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Virgin Media Ireland launch

RDJ posted:
Even the hosts of Ireland AM have a hard time saying 'Virgin Media One' and 'Virgin Media News Hub'.

Virgin One or V One would have been perfectly acceptable. You don't see the BBC calling it British Broadcasting Corporation One do you.

Most people are likely to still call it TV3 anyway most likely given the name is such a tongue twister.


VM One possibly - but I wonder if Virgin Media not being part of the Branson empire means they may have licensed specific brands such as 'Virgin Media' as their brand rather than just 'Virgin'?

It appears when Virgin Mobile was purchased from Virgin Group by Flextech to create Virgin Media a licensing deal was struck to continue using the Virgin brand, but I suspect this has restrictions?
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