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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

TellyFan posted:
In relation to BBC Sport moving studios due to broken air conditioning, they should keep the ‘blured’ background they have at the moment. I think it looks quite effective. To me, anyway.


Sport haven't had an air con failure have they? MediaBoy says they are having a tech upgrade. And he'd know.

The air con issue was in NBH and was why News Channel output moved from the newsroom studio to the BBC London studio?
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BBC Weather changes preview

Markymark posted:
Don't worry, with the unstoppable march towards 'phone friendly' vertical AR, the shape of the UK is ideally suited !

As long as you don't want a presenter on-screen...
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BBC Weather changes preview

Inspector Sands posted:
Rich Tea posted:

Consideration needs to be given to the size of the UK on screen. We are not all sitting in front of 50" screens.

They did that last time when they tilted the country to make it fit on the screen better and look how that went down...


And the current map is very similar to the 4:3 electronic graphics that were launched in the mid-80s, and effectively lasted until the early 00s with sides added for 16:9. TVs were a lot smaller in the mid-80s and we seemed to cope OK...

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BBC HD Channels

The COM7 and COM8 muxes are being moved around a bit - and the channels on them are being redistributed. Chances are you need to do a re-tune/re-scan.
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Commonwealth Games 2018 on BBC

Jon posted:
It’ll be interesting to see what they do for Birmingham 2022. The obvious option will be to be based at the Mailbox in the canal side studio space.

That’s assuming the BBC gets the rights of course.


I'd expect them to at least use one of the bubble studios somewhere near a venue or in a more iconic Birmingham location instead. There aren't huge benefits to being at the BBC Mailbox in facilities terms. (The One Show had to use a Visions OB truck to make the pilot series there in 2006)
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The Sport Thread

Steve Williams posted:
Here's the Commonwealth Games press release, FYI...

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/commonwealth-games-2018

Pretty much the same as the Winter Olympics, including Salford and Queensland bases. Clare, Gabby and Jason Mohammad in Salford, Hazel and JJ Chalmers (who I think is really good) in Australia.


Presumably Salford because of the timezone (similar to Winter Olympics) and to avoid the 'BBC send hundreds to Australia' headlines (particularly as - like the Winter Olympics - they don't have the same high audience levels as the Summer Olympics)
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
Markymark posted:

Well, (and I've said this before in here) the term 'filmed' is used to describe electronic studio productions, which seems to be a relatively new thing, because it always used to be 'taped' or 'recorded'.


I think that may have come from the US sit-com announcements e.g. "Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience' (which was correct - in the US they used multi camera techniques with film cameras for sitcoms like Cheers, Frasier, Friends etc.)


You're right, though I do remember the term 'recorded in front of a live studio audience ' used on another US sitcom (that was an electronic production). I thought it may have been 1970s 'Soap' but a couple of sample You Tube searches doesn't bring up an example on that show.


True - but taped US sitcoms weren't as popular in recent years - Family Ties, Kate and Allie, Different Strokes all spring to mind, and I think Alf and Married with Children? But the major primetime hits of the 90s were mainly film (until HD electronic video arrived)
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
deejay posted:

Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’


Ironic that 'Go Grams' (from gramophone record) is still a regular command, but 'Go Tape' (which used to be heard every day in News, even though 1/4" had long since ceased to be used) has gone the way of all things.


Well, (and I've said this before in here) the term 'filmed' is used to describe electronic studio productions, which seems to be a relatively new thing, because it always used to be 'taped' or 'recorded'.


I think that may have come from the US sit-com announcements e.g. "Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience' (which was correct - in the US they used multi camera techniques with film cameras for sitcoms like Cheers, Frasier, Friends etc.)
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Good Morning Britain

jason2016 posted:
Anybody know when the move will happen? I’m wondering if they will do it at the end of April to coincide with their 4 year anniversary?


Wouldn't an Easter changeover make more sense - as they will have more time off-air potentially?
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

deejay posted:

Same can be said for older directors cueing sound effects/music etc by saying ‘Go Grams’


Ironic that 'Go Grams' (from gramophone record) is still a regular command, but 'Go Tape' (which used to be heard every day in News, even though 1/4" had long since ceased to be used) has gone the way of all things.
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How does Film4 work?

Inspector Sands posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Don't ITV Studios own one of the largest British feature film archives? Films from Rank, ITC (a subsidiary of ATV back in the day, which was later sold to Carlton) amongst others.

They own the Rank archive as that was bought by Carlton

They own the ITC archive too, but as the T in the name suggests they were a TV production company, not film (They were a sister company to ATV and made their programmes thus didn't become part of Central. They eventually became owned by Polygram and then the archive was bought by Carlton this reuniting the ATV programmes with Centrals)
james-2001 posted:
I'm sure I read that ITV own the largest film archive outside of Hollywood... but that was about 10 years ago so things might have changed.

That doesn't sound right at all. Doing a bit of googling, apparently the 3rd largest in the world is Studio Canal's and the second is UCLAs (not sure if that's Hollywood?). Then there's Bollywood etc so it doesn't seem very likely


Is that largest as in number of unique movies, or largest as in volume/area/storage capacity?
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FTA TV in the UK- a lot to offer

Rkolsen posted:
Oh to have access to some semi decent programming for free.


It's not free though.

Most countries in Europe have a TV or Media Licence Fee (or a household broadcasting fee) - and the UK's is far from the highest. Switzerland's fee is ~£350/year, Sweden is ~£200, Norway ~£250 etc. However every household with a TV or with anyone who watches TV on a tablet/smartphone/computer (or in some cases every household irrespective of their TV viewing) has to pay. As this is a mandatory payment, and not tied directly as a TV subscription, it does feel as if FTA OTA TV is 'free', just as we forget that commercial FTA channels are paid for by us, as consumers, every time we purchase a product that has been advertised...

France has a lower TV Licence fee for the overseas departments, presumably because they receive fewer channels (even though the channels they receive are the main ones funded by the fee)

In some countries the only FTA channels are those funded by the licence fee. In others there are lots of commercial FTA channels too. The UK has one of the strongest FTA OTA platforms though, and unlike other countries OTA pay-TV hasn't ever really taken off here.
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