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Tube Explosion: 15 September 2017

Critique posted:
I thought they didn't do tours of Broadcasting House anymore?


The official, paid-for, BBC Tours operation at NBH, which offered tours to the general pubilc, closed a while back. Those no longer run at all.

There are still tours for visitors to the BBC - for example from other public service broadcasters etc.
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Tube Explosion: 15 September 2017

nodnirG kraM posted:
Parsons Green station was fine when I passed through this morning ....

Just got back from a rather busy London! Was amazed by the number of ENG cameras that were still HDV though.


I guess SD is being shot on HDV camcorders these days. BBC, ITN, Sky are all using either AVCi or XD Cam 422 HD/MPEG2 Long GOP codecs pretty much (either to SD cards, CF cards, SxS or P2)
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Tube Explosion: 15 September 2017

Rkolsen posted:
nodnirG kraM posted:
That's a 10l trade size tub of emulsion, not a bucket. Seems more like some guy's drill battery exploding than anything else.

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How much is it costing per hour to have G-TAKE circling over West London filming an explosion that happened 6 hours ago?


I'm trying to find the article but I seem to remember cost that an AS350 (G-TAKE is an AS355) in the US costs around $500/hr to fly.

Edit : I'm way off. The cost is about $1000/hr.


The UK news organisations have a buy-out deal for their helicopters - that means they sign a contract (which is no doubt tendered and procured) and this buy out guarantees so many hours per year of use, and then deploy on merit within this quota. To avoid multiple helicopters buzzing around the same location there are agreements to share live pictures from helicopters (though with one broadcaster usually being the senior partner in control of what is covered and when)

It's much more cost-effective than 'by the hour' purchase of helicopter time, and guarantees availability.

(Which also means the 'How much is it costing the BBC to...' questions get very boring very quickly)
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Tube Explosion: 15 September 2017

TellyFan posted:
It doesn't look big enough to be terrorist related.


I'm not sure how you jump to that conclusion. It looks larger than the 21/7 failed devices, and similar order of magnitude to the devices that David Copeland (a domestic terrorist) used. "Fairy light" detonators, which may be what was used today, were part of a previous failed terror attack attempt.
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Tube Explosion: 15 September 2017

AlexS posted:
Sophie Raworth was at the scene at the start of VD for the BBC, with Tina Daheley and some correspondant called Matthew giving updates in the studio.


Probably Matthew Price. He's well known and very experienced - with a mix of TV and radio presentation experience, including standing in as a presenter on The Today Programme I think. (I first remember him as a Newsround reporter)
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Tube Explosion: 15 September 2017

dvboy posted:
Looks like the news summary was ditched to go back to another reporter live, I didn't catch her name, but she's not got as good a connection as Sophie Raworth had. I assume Sophie has left the scene now.


Could well have been Riz Lateef (main BBC London News presenter) who was also there I believe.
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

AxG posted:
It's marginally better, but still OTT.


The 'whooshes' on the animates are a perfect example of 'just because you can, doesn't mean you should'...

(And is there time for any news after that interminable opening sequence?)
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AppleTV 4K and Apple Video Services.

pad posted:
About time too. Head of All4 has said no, calling it a “smallish opportunity”.

We’ll see - when the BBC, ITV and C5 are all on it, along with Amazon Prime and Netflix, as well as 4K content on iTunes from every distributor bar Disney for the price of HD - if he still stands by that misguided sentiment.


C4 - like the BBC - is a PSB. If being on Apple TV costs C4 significant amounts of money in app development I can see why they would find it difficult to justify. AIUI - discussing with people who know - the current Apple TV streaming stats mean it's very much a minor-player compared to Smart TV, Laptop, Tablet and Phone.

That said - if developing an app for Apple TV triggered C4 into encoding content for All4 at higher quality I'm all for it (see what I did there?) Currently there are lots of shows I'd love to watch that aren't available on the Sky version of All4 (which can only carry stuff broadcast on a linear channel apparently), and are All4 app/web only - but the quality of these encodes is awful.
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UKnews, London Lite and bilky asko gave kudos
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World's biggest TV ratings and lies

Rkolsen posted:
I really want to know how the BBC accounts for their 348 million weekly audience reach. How do "dedpuplicate" the data from people who use the web, smartphone, tablet apps and other services?


My guess - and it is only that - is that you use statistically valid surveys to work out audience behaviour and extrapolate - just as you do with audience ratings in general?
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The Sport Thread

Steve in Pudsey posted:
Yes I understand that the studio is hired as required, but with Football Focus/Final Score/MOTD in there on Saturday night and MOTD 2 on Sunday night it would already be booked, paid for and have the set rigged if they wanted to use it on Sunday lunchtime too?


Depends on the deal they've done I suspect.
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The Sport Thread

Steve in Pudsey posted:

I assume those studios need limited staffing unlike the main MOTD studio which I think would be available on Sunday lunchtime (being between MOTD and MOTD2)? Or are the acoustics of the smaller space better for the 5 Live simulcast than a TV production studio? I know TV shows on the radio can sound a little odd.


The main MOTD studio is only paid for by the BBC when it is needed, it isn't bought out in the way that their large studio at TV Centre was, and so additional use can incur significant additional costs. (And it runs at a higher staffing level I believe, so you also may have additional staffing costs)

The smaller studios used by shows like MOTD2 in Salford are more easily used as they only incur an additional staff cost, not a studio hire charge, as they are either BBC-owned or BBC-bought out.
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20 years since the death of Princess Diana

I'm pretty certain that the announcement on the BBC interrupted an Auntie's Bloomers-type show (apparantly 'Dazzling Bloomers') as I remember watching it and thinking 'What's going on? as they faded to black mid-'funny clip'...

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e9c5af4f0cb042188306634688270a38 suggests this was scheduled at 1735 - so the BBC announcement was likely to have been between 1735 and 1805 (assuming the schedule hadn't changed because of sporting events)

Dazzling Bloomers ran after the 1715-1730 News and 1730-1735 Regional News block. My understanding is that most of the newsroom were not aware of anything until the 1715-1730 news was off-air.