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UKTV channels set to leave Virgin Media on Sunday

JKDerry posted:
Freesat at least provide some of the UKTV channels.


Freesat don't provide any channels do they? Channel providers make themselves available via Freesat (by paying Freesat for EPG access) - which is a very different kettle of fish to Freesat operating a TV service (They manage a delivery platform instead)
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Jeremy Vine on 5

bilky asko posted:
623058 posted:
It's seems vine has had a pay cut at the bbc from £750,000 to around £450'000 no wonder he need the money...


Except the way the amounts were reported has changed, so Eggheads (for example) would no longer be included in that amount, which it was before.


Was Eggheads ever included? I thought all Indies (now including BBC Studios) who paid talent directly were not included in the reported figures. It was only direct payments from BBC Public Service that were reported I thought (i.e. News, Sport, Kids and talent deals independent of production companies?)

I think Eggheads, being a 12 Yard production, wouldn't have been included last year if those rules applied and if Jeremy was employed by 12 Yard rather than the BBC for that role?
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Top of the Pops

james-2001 posted:
It is HD on the TV iplayer- but it isn't on the web iplayer. It's resolutely SD. You do usually tend to get HD and 50Hz playback on the TV version even when it's stuck on 25p SD on the web.


I've never seen that. I will ask the obvious question about Motionflow/NaturalMotion etc. on your TV... (That will make 25p look like 50p...)

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Doesn't the TV iPlayer use the 8mbps 1080i50 stream that isn't available to the web version, or am I mistaken there?


ISTR that the 1080i25 (aka 1080/50i) stream isn't made available at the moment because of deinterlacing issues. The highest non-HDR stream is 720p50 at 5.3Mbs. This is made available on both web and some (but not all) Smart TV platforms.

Sky is different as they handle the distribution (and it's a single platform stream) and an 8Mbs 1080i25 stream is made available for them. (This can also potentially have 5.1 sound)
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Good Morning Britain

Brekkie posted:
The wording here implies GMB will show the interview in full and there is no mention of it getting an airing later in the ITV schedules.

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-07-15/donald-trump-piers-morgan-itv-good-morning-britain/


Presumably they want to re-run it, or a different edit, in the evening to get a wider audience?
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BBC Nine O'Clock News & Daytime Summaries

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
Brekkie posted:

I guess practically speaking it was the least disruptive bulletin to put in the newsroom and they could prep for it when the newsroom was quietening down.


The Nine wasn't technically 'in the newsroom' - it had a newsroom backdrop as a wall (of N3 I think) was removed and glazed to give a newsroom view. The Nine presenter wasn't really in the newsroom, and there was not much sound leakage (and disruption) either way because of the glazing AIUI. (I may be wrong - but that is my memory of how the set-up was explained to me)


I recall the bulletin set from the 80s, for a while they had a CSO backdrop using a recording of the newsroom, and on one occasion Micheal Buerk walked behind himself


BBC World also had a newsroom camera position, but they would sometimes use that camera's Iive output (not a recording) as a CSO backdrop source with the presenter in the real studio. Then of course the presenter who was due to take over from the newsroom would sit in on the newsroom camera (or the cleaner)...
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Wimbledon 2018

Rich Tea posted:
There is a time to know when to shut up for a bit, regards Becker, Henman and Barker post match. That time was when Novak was looking at his name on the board, and even more so when he went upstairs and was having a chat with some of the Royal Box ex players and Prince William & Kate, but nope, they carried on talking instead of letting us listen in.

Not sure it's the done thing to listen in on a Royal meeting - think that's the one thing you don't normally do.
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That 1989 ITV ident

simpfeld posted:
I remember reading an article in an electronics magazine (I may even still have it somewhere) on the Thames logo going digital. I seem to remember they scanned the slide original and put the whole thing on ROM maybe EPROM. Then the software (maybe even dedicated digital hardware then) mirrored the bottom half and they just changed the piece displayed. Basically they didn't need to store the whole sequence just the single frame.


Yes - that's how it was done digitally. The BBC Blue/Gold globe (aka COW) was done cleverly too. There were two still frames stored of a blue globe and a gold globe, and then a digitally compressed (run length encoding I think) simple (binary) matte/key stored of the land mass animation which created the composite live.
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Brekkie posted:
Interesting the BBC have decided it is a suit and tie occasion. Looks so out of place nowadays in sports coverage.


Apart from on Sky Sports?
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BBC Nine O'Clock News & Daytime Summaries

Brekkie posted:

I guess practically speaking it was the least disruptive bulletin to put in the newsroom and they could prep for it when the newsroom was quietening down.


The Nine wasn't technically 'in the newsroom' - it had a newsroom backdrop as a wall (of N3 I think) was removed and glazed to give a newsroom view. The Nine presenter wasn't really in the newsroom, and there was not much sound leakage (and disruption) either way because of the glazing AIUI. (I may be wrong - but that is my memory of how the set-up was explained to me)
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BBC Nine O'Clock News & Daytime Summaries

itsrobert posted:
noggin posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Did they not change the position of the set early on to show a less busy area of the newsroom after complaints that there was too much going on in the background, which people were finding distracting? I’m sure there was a cleaner once, wandering around right behind the set with a large bin bag, just over Michael Buerk’s shoulder.

Of course nowadays we’re all used to newsroom backdrops, but when this was introduced at the time, it was a bit of a shock having things going on behind the newsreader, when previously most news was delivered with a plain background (the bad early 70s CSO newsroom backdrop excepted.)


For the Nine it was the opposite. Anyone not in the gallery or an edit suite was apparently asked to work from an in-vison area so it didn't look like an empty newsroom. (Remember the Nine was the last bulletin of the day, with no News 24)

That begs the question why did they choose the Nine to feature the newsroom backdrop if they knew the place would be practically deserted? Surely it would have made more sense to have the One or Six with a live newsroom backdrop and keep the Nine with a plain background. I've never thought about it before but it seems an odd decision.


You won't have been the first person to ask that question...
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Le Neko posted:
bkman1990 posted:
Jon posted:
Nice special replay wipes featuring the trophy for the final.


FIFA are probably showing those replay wipes to other broadcasters that have the rights to show the tournament.

They have them provided for Irish viewers on RTÉ2. It looks really nice.


These replay wipes (charming name!) also appear on TF1 in France.


Surely they are on the host feed of the match taken by all rights holders?
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BBC Nine O'Clock News & Daytime Summaries

Spencer For Hire posted:
Did they not change the position of the set early on to show a less busy area of the newsroom after complaints that there was too much going on in the background, which people were finding distracting? I’m sure there was a cleaner once, wandering around right behind the set with a large bin bag, just over Michael Buerk’s shoulder.

Of course nowadays we’re all used to newsroom backdrops, but when this was introduced at the time, it was a bit of a shock having things going on behind the newsreader, when previously most news was delivered with a plain background (the bad early 70s CSO newsroom backdrop excepted.)


For the Nine it was the opposite. Anyone not in the gallery or an edit suite was apparently asked to work from an in-vison area so it didn't look like an empty newsroom. (Remember the Nine was the last bulletin of the day, with no News 24)
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