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Look East (West) to get dedicated programme

m_in_m posted:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-offers-second-edition-of-look-east-evening-news-bulletin-for-viewers-in-west-of-region/

Look East (West) will now be an entirely separate programme Monday to Friday at 1830. Janine Machin will present Monday to Friday with Amanda Goodman on Fridays. The 2230 separate programmes will continue to remain separate as well. I’m assuming some content will continue to be shared. Will be interesting to see if we continue to see weather OB’s from both the East and West side of the region. I presume weather will continue to be at the end of the programme and therefore pre-recorded for West but presumably it could be earlier in the programme and live from Norwich’s CSO studio.


It's only taken 21 years Smile

It's a long-awaited announcement and a great development. Only downside is that viewers in the West will miss out on Stewart and Susie (who are a fantastic presenting team - able to do credible hard news and much lighter stories without missing a beat).

That's in no way a criticism of Janine and Amanda who are both excellent - more a comment on how good the Norwich team are.

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So Look East (West) will be single headed but Look East (East) will remain with two presenters - though in recent years it hasn’t been uncommon for it to be single headed if Susie or Stewart were off (though only for the odd day - not entire weeks). Perhaps the East edition will end up single headed in the future as well - especially as I think Susie and Stewart generally only present lunchtime and almost never present the late edition.


I expect things will be re-evaluated when Stewart eventually retires. He and Susie are such a strong double act (just as he and Penny were before Susie) it would be a real shame to break that up.
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What's the name for this picture processing effect?

Closedown posted:
Just stumbled on Young Musician of the Year on BBC4. The performance clips use a technique that gives a slight softening of the picture, for want of a better expression. Saw it used on event footage in Today at the (Commonwealth) Games recently too. Feel I should know the name for it... it's not quite filmised, or is it?


There are three real options for doing this :

1. DVE - there are some quite nice soft-blur effects that are subtle enough to get away with - but they don't all 'kick off' on highlights like physical filters do.
2. Some cameras have a 'soft' filter along with a star filter in one of their filter wheels (Philips cameras do, not sure about Sony)
3. Put a Lee 1 or Lee 2 in the camera between the lens and the camera block.

1. is easiest if you need it as an effect 'mid song'. 2 is better if you want it for all cameras but not all the time. 3 is often used if the entire show has the effect (or you can dedicate cameras to have the effect and those not to have the effect)
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This Morning

Warbler posted:

There was, IIRC, a little bit of outrage when the trees outside the studios were supposed to be chopped down for the now-mothballed Garden Bridge development, so I don't think many people would like it to happen.


I think mothballed might be an understatement. It's not happening...
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

davidhorman posted:
Something weird going on with Newsnight on the News Channel (and presumably on the BBC2 showing earlier). Emily Maitlis is interviewing Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci in a studio in New York. On the wide shot of the two of them, no problems. On the close up of Mooch, he's about half a second out of sync.

They were also late getting his mic up as he decided to interrupt Maitlis's introduction of him to "correct" one of the adjectives she used to describe his 11 days in the White House - telling her it was "meaningful" rather than "memorable." She got her own back by reiterating it during the interview Smile

Ah - I thought she was interviewing James Comey - maybe she's interviewing more than one US player whilst she's out there.

Sounds to me like they sent the two cameras back separately via different, un-matched, paths and thus they arrived out of sync. Sound came pre-mixed via one path and so is in-sync with one camera and not with the other. Always a dangerous game to play unless you plan your circuits properly and can guarantee the same latency (including the same standards converter) on both paths.
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Good Morning Britain

JKDerry posted:
Whataday posted:
Probably less stressful to get between TVC and BBC White City than between Studio 5 and the 18th Floor of Kent House.

How do you work that out?


It's an in-joke. The lifts in the LWT/ TLS building are infamously awful.
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26th Anniversary of the biggest shake up in ITV

Riaz posted:
623058 posted:
Well Remeber 25% of all itv programmes from 1993 had to be from independent companies. So there was no need for lots and lots of its studios around the UK...


The logic of this policy has always baffled me. By 1990 C4 was already established as an outlet for indies and the fledgling satellite and cable channels would provide further outlets in the near future.

But neither of these were high-budget outlets.

The BBC and ITV had the big budgets that would allow for larger scale, higher budget programmes that Indies really wanted to make (as they make a lot more profit on them)

The Indies saw the in-house producers as unfairly subsidised - and so a guaranteed commission percentage helped level the playing field for them.

Satellite and Cable were never going to be a significant revenue stream for Indies during the 90s - it wasn't until the 00s that stuff really took off. (Sky analogue was still movies and sport driven with not much for Indies to produce)
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Good Morning Britain

TVDP posted:
With Richard Gaisford & Others. Someone know where they are ? Next to the Studio ?


ITV Daytime have a considerable amount of office space in the former BBC White City building just up the road from TV Centre. I'd expect the newsroom, next-day production teams and other ITV Daytime staff (production management, support etc.) to be based there, with on-the-day teams based in a production office near the studio at TV Centre.
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Good Morning Britain

Brekkie posted:
I thought ITV News now supplied the news for GMB anyway, and had done since for ITV Breakfast since Daybreak. I think they've got the balance right really - there is a link to ITV News there, but somewhat at arms length.


ITV News supply news resources to the show via ITN I believe (crews, trucks and material), but GMB still has it's own, separate, news production operation which is part of the GMB production team AIUI. (i.e. the packages and bulletins are scripted and running orders produced by a GMB team not ITN staff)
London Lite and UBox gave kudos
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Dale Winton dies aged 62

Larry the Loafer posted:
noggin posted:
Dale is clearly credited... Wikipedia is just a crowd-sourced document - nothing more... Never treat it as anything more than that.


Well sod me, I stand corrected. I'd googled the name of the show to no avail and assumed his TV career hasn't started til the 90s. I didn't think he was presenting that early on.


Genome is an incredible resource.
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Dale Winton dies aged 62

Larry the Loafer posted:
Huw also stated he joined the BBC in 1986 to host "Pet Watch"... when Wikipedia states his career started in 1987.

BBC News have really made a balls up of this.


A cursory check of BBC Genome confirms Dale Winton presented Pet Watch in 1986...

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=pet+watch&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search

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Sunday
28 September
1986
18.00 Pet Watch

Presented by Bruce Fogle
Jan Batchelor
Wayne Mockett and Dale Winton
This week Pet Watch goes live to Alexandra Palace to cover the Pet Trade and Industry Exhibition.
Jan learns grooming the hard way, Wayne reports back from a pet cemetery and Bruce looks at the future of the E900 million pet industry. If you want to learn more about your pets' future phone in on [number removed]. The line opens at 5.30 pm.


Dale is clearly credited... Wikipedia is just a crowd-sourced document - nothing more... Never treat it as anything more than that.
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Good Morning Britain

London Lite posted:
Whatever you think of the two current presenters, neither which I personally find easy to watch, they have finally given ITV a niche at breakfast. More news based, but not as fluffy as GMTV or Mark II Daybreak.

However for those of use who aren't a 12 year old pres enthusiast or a housewife and are actually able to watch breakfast tv for more than 2 mins, Breakfast and Sunrise continue to do a decent enough job of a rigid schedule of news and back end topical discussion.


Precisely.
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Good Morning Britain

Overnights are in :

Breakfast 1.5m 40.4% share
GMB 700k 20% share

Good figures for GMB relative to earlier shows this month - but they were without Piers?