noggin's posts, page 256

This is quite a radical idea that I'm expecting will be met with universal disagreement and I'm not even sure I agree with it so hear me out.

This morning it's looking very likely that we've seen another incident of a terrorist nature in the UK and it's hard to see any lives that will have been lost won't have been lost had the previous incidents recently not been reported to the extent they have been.

We know terrorism is fuelled by the idea perpetraters will get publicity after they carry out these evil acts. If the very incentive of these acts is media coverage how can we justify giving such media coverage? After all TV sports broadcasters annoyingly don't show people that run onto the pitch in fixtures for the very reason it would encourage others to do the same to get publicity. And that happening in football is really trivial and just gives most people a bit of a laugh and adds to the spectical and sense of occasion of say a World Cup final. So why do we afford those who want to take lives the oxygen of publicity and do something that will ensure more lives will be lost on future occasions?

There is a problem of planting the ideas into people's head. It only needs a minute percentage of the population to have an idea into their heads for hundreds of lives to be lost in the future.

I don't know what the answer is, if lots of people are killed in a public place it can't go unreported clearly but maybe we now have to have some form of controlled coverage. So I think anyone who carries out an attack of this nature should never have their name published for starters, their background and reasons behind the act also can't be reported when it can only encourage others with the same cause (or lack there of) and retaliations.

Media censorship of this nature is scary territory but I think some kind of 'major incident reporting law needs to be inacted. It's scary and seems very totalitarian but I believe it can save lives and to allow people who would be killed in this incidents to continue living their lives is more important than an idea of a free press or broadcast media. Clearly there is a chance any such law could be abused by people in power so we need to be carefull. But it just seems so obvious something has to be done.

Yes, I understand what a focus group is, but I don't think something like moving the football highlights to 7pm is something you know is going to work for sure without trying it.

2-4/Be have HD DOG's during shows broadcast in HD. SD doesn't.

However, if you subscribe to ITV Hub+ on Amazon Channels, they use what appears to be downconverted feeds without the HD DOG in 720p for the live channels. (Sky also use the downcoverted feeds used for the linear SD channels for NOW TV's 720p live channels).

How would you go about that research then? What would it consist of? You couldn't just ask people I've they'd watch 'Match of the Day at 7pm. You couldn't just give a few hundred people their own ITV 1 schedule for a limited time to work out the figures would be.

The transmissions for Freesat and Sky are the same, however there is a bit of a fudge in the metadata of each multiplex that has channels on for Freesat so they don't have to broadcast duplicates.

As for the uplinks, Sky and the BBC do their own and companies like Arqiva and Globecast uplink for other broadcasters

I'm not sure if this would be the right thread but where are the Freesat channels uplinked? Are they uplinked together in one location or are essentially the broadcasters responsibility.

There appear to be two large uplink dishes in what I think you guys secretly* call W12 for the BBC. And smaller dishes supposedly for News Access.

*Amazing what you can find with a quick google search. They were really going for redundancy with some systems - installing a sewage treatment plant?

North Kensington is one of those many quite vague areas in London - most people I know would call it Ladbroke Grove for a start. And as the tower is south of the Westway, some would say it's in Notting Hill anyway. All anyone can agree on is once you get past the canal it's Kensal Green, and once you're at Wood Lane it's White City.

In other words, "West London" is probably for the best.

I'll hazard a guess. With the exception of STV, which is not part of ITV plc, none of the regional ITV studios insert commercials - the feeds to all ITV transmitters originate at either Chiswick or Leeds. The outputs of all the regional ITV news operations are linked back to Chiswick/Leeds via IP feeds. Chiswick/Leeds simply switches the transmitter feeds between the sources incoming to it as required, including the Daybreak news bulletins which are no different from the regional news except that the timing of the Daybreak bulletins is not precise and has to be under the control of the Daybreak gallery. The Daybreak gallery initiates a 'news opt' with a panel in front of the director/PA which 'stands by' the remote regions that a bulletin is coming up and performs the switch at Chiswick/Leeds at the correct time. Similarly for the insertion of comms - Daybreak panel puts up the cue dot (not really needed now but handy for STV), and when it is removed 5 seconds prior to the break it initiates the comms switch at Chiswick/Leeds too. That's how I'd do it.

(And if I was considering Ch4/ITN News/any other live programming, I'd agree a rough break pattern with the TX controller at Chiswick in advance and let him listen to my open talkback - and deal with Leeds!).

During the recession there were many pool arrangements. But now that stations are bringing in the money most are getting back there helicopters. There are a few large markets off the top of my head where almost all stations still share one helicopter such as Phoenix, Denver, Miami and San Diego.

Salford's got to be better than the makeshift thing outside Broadcasting House. Rip Off Britain is a Salford production so there's already a team working on consumer affairs there

As to the attract complaints - a building was entirely on fire. Wouldn't the lights, sirens and the noise from the fire would wake them up.

No but the helicopter would definitely provide extra angles - over head and all. The stations pay over a million a year for about 100 hours a month. They will use it up regardless if there's news or beauty bump shots. It certainly provides a competitive advantage.

Thanks for the info. But what I was really wondering if their is one network feed plus backup that's routed through the various regions servers for ad insertion, GMB opts and regional news or each regions servers are each simultaneously playing out say Corrie locally?