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noggin
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And Mr Tempah was on the sofa for an engaging chat earlier in the show. Believe it or not Tinie Tempah is the artist with the most UK No.1s this decade! He's now had as many chart-toppers as Michael Jackson, U2, Kylie, Robbie Williams and Elton-effing-John. (If http://www.mtv.co.uk/tinie-tempah/news/guess-which-artist-has-had-the-most-uk-no1-singles-this-decade are to be believed)
So not an insignificant musical guest for the show.
noggin
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The One Show
Nurse, he's out of bed again!
I didn't much care for it either, but the "shouty muppet" was, I'm fairly sure, there with Jake Bugg's blessing. I know we'd all prefer every One Show to be signed off with a Pam Ayres reading, but the BBC has thing about trying to appeal to a diverse audience.
(Context: indie rock singer/songwriter Jake Bugg's end-of-the-show performance included a rapper, who I've subsequently discovered goes by the unlikely moniker of Tinie Tempah)
I didn't much care for it either, but the "shouty muppet" was, I'm fairly sure, there with Jake Bugg's blessing. I know we'd all prefer every One Show to be signed off with a Pam Ayres reading, but the BBC has thing about trying to appeal to a diverse audience.
(Context: indie rock singer/songwriter Jake Bugg's end-of-the-show performance included a rapper, who I've subsequently discovered goes by the unlikely moniker of Tinie Tempah)
And Mr Tempah was on the sofa for an engaging chat earlier in the show. Believe it or not Tinie Tempah is the artist with the most UK No.1s this decade! He's now had as many chart-toppers as Michael Jackson, U2, Kylie, Robbie Williams and Elton-effing-John. (If http://www.mtv.co.uk/tinie-tempah/news/guess-which-artist-has-had-the-most-uk-no1-singles-this-decade are to be believed)
So not an insignificant musical guest for the show.
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Ah - Serbia's 'Lane Moje', Bosnia's 'In the Disco', Malta's 'On again Off again', and Belgium's '1 Life' all rang lots of bells.
noggin
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Eurovision 2017
It was, probably, the most memorable performance of the night and scanning the list of songs on Wikipedia I think it's the only one apart from Shake It from Greece that I can remember. It's not in my list of Eurovision classics though!
Ah - Serbia's 'Lane Moje', Bosnia's 'In the Disco', Malta's 'On again Off again', and Belgium's '1 Life' all rang lots of bells.
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To be fair - unless they've changed the picture, that looks like a DVD player (slot on the left looks too small to take VHS tapes, and more like a disc tray)
More worrying is that they've use a picture with an SD Sky+ box in it to illustrate a story about Freeview Play...
noggin
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The Freeview Thread
The VHS recorder is another sign.
To be fair - unless they've changed the picture, that looks like a DVD player (slot on the left looks too small to take VHS tapes, and more like a disc tray)
More worrying is that they've use a picture with an SD Sky+ box in it to illustrate a story about Freeview Play...
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noggin
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UK General Election
Presumably any broadcasters who often use students in May (when elections are typically held in the UK) will have more issues in June this year, as don't many universities schedule finals or end-of-year exams then?
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Cambridge did full programmes a couple of times a week as a trial for a while I think. It's all possible, just needs money...
noggin
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Anglia/East of England News Discussion
Makes you think that a fully split programme is doable!
Cambridge did full programmes a couple of times a week as a trial for a while I think. It's all possible, just needs money...
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Presumably, we've been (t)here before ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/b60da224c3f0cc0e3947befcf61cad0933422086.jpg
Nope... The One Show came from a temporary studio structure built on the steps at the back of the Mailbox, as others have said. It worked into a Visions OB truck parked in the loading bay of the development, and was almost entirely dependent of the BBC building in live production terms (though a wallbox was installed - I think on the balcony by the canteen - to get connectivity to and from the BBC building and the OB truck)
The Politics Show space inside The Mailbox, currently being used for Midlands Today, was deemed unsuitable for many practical and visual reasons.
Here's a picture of the studio : https://www.flickr.com/photos/87531017@N00/212634785
noggin
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The new NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread
Presumably, we've been (t)here before ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/b60da224c3f0cc0e3947befcf61cad0933422086.jpg
Nope... The One Show came from a temporary studio structure built on the steps at the back of the Mailbox, as others have said. It worked into a Visions OB truck parked in the loading bay of the development, and was almost entirely dependent of the BBC building in live production terms (though a wallbox was installed - I think on the balcony by the canteen - to get connectivity to and from the BBC building and the OB truck)
The Politics Show space inside The Mailbox, currently being used for Midlands Today, was deemed unsuitable for many practical and visual reasons.
Here's a picture of the studio : https://www.flickr.com/photos/87531017@N00/212634785
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I wouldn't be surprised if Astons were replaced by something other than VizRT in the English regions that are still SD.
Salford, Plymouth, London and Cambridge got VizRT as part of a wider upgrade/relocation. The SD Astons that other English regions still have (Greens, Reds - possibly even Motifs or Mottos?) will be upgraded before full refurbs I expect. I wouldn't be surprised to see a much cheaper option being deployed as an SD interim.
Someone told me recently BBC Cardiff are still using an Aston Red for Crimewatch's end credits !
That could well have been the case when it was an SD show from a studio in Cardiff (and may still be the case for the SD Crimewatch Roadshow daytime series) However I think now the show has relaunched as an HD OB (and changed formats) - I suspect something else is used.
That era of Aston was a perfectly good SD CG, and if they'd simply made an HD version of it with slightly improved animation they'd probably still have a business... Pixel Power's Clarity has picked up a lot of HD jobs that Astons did in SD, along with Chyron and Viz. (*)
(*) Aston did make an HD version of the Aston Caption (think it was single channel, unlike the 4) for the Eureka 1250/50 standard (just as Quantel made a 1250/50 Paintbox)
noggin
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Anglia/East of England News Discussion
Not surprising though, it hasn't had a refit since 2009. It's also still using Aston rather than VizRT.
I wouldn't be surprised if Astons were replaced by something other than VizRT in the English regions that are still SD.
Salford, Plymouth, London and Cambridge got VizRT as part of a wider upgrade/relocation. The SD Astons that other English regions still have (Greens, Reds - possibly even Motifs or Mottos?) will be upgraded before full refurbs I expect. I wouldn't be surprised to see a much cheaper option being deployed as an SD interim.
Someone told me recently BBC Cardiff are still using an Aston Red for Crimewatch's end credits !
That could well have been the case when it was an SD show from a studio in Cardiff (and may still be the case for the SD Crimewatch Roadshow daytime series) However I think now the show has relaunched as an HD OB (and changed formats) - I suspect something else is used.
That era of Aston was a perfectly good SD CG, and if they'd simply made an HD version of it with slightly improved animation they'd probably still have a business... Pixel Power's Clarity has picked up a lot of HD jobs that Astons did in SD, along with Chyron and Viz. (*)
(*) Aston did make an HD version of the Aston Caption (think it was single channel, unlike the 4) for the Eureka 1250/50 standard (just as Quantel made a 1250/50 Paintbox)
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Just pointing out that BDA Creative is now only based in Germany. The bit of BDA that was heavily involved in UK (and wider European) set designs in the early 2010s was the Jago design bit of BDA. When BDA closed in the UK, Jago Design started up again as an independent.
noggin
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ABC News Australia
More on the ABC NEWS rebrand:
Here is an article from newscaststudio.com:
http://www.newscaststudio.com/2017/04/11/abc-news-rebrands-flat-design-focused-conveying-information/
BDA Creative of Munich, Germany was in charge of this project.
Here is the link to the project: http://www.bdacreative.com/en/node-550fff5399815/abc-news-rebrand-2017.html
Here is an article from newscaststudio.com:
http://www.newscaststudio.com/2017/04/11/abc-news-rebrands-flat-design-focused-conveying-information/
BDA Creative of Munich, Germany was in charge of this project.
Here is the link to the project: http://www.bdacreative.com/en/node-550fff5399815/abc-news-rebrand-2017.html
Just pointing out that BDA Creative is now only based in Germany. The bit of BDA that was heavily involved in UK (and wider European) set designs in the early 2010s was the Jago design bit of BDA. When BDA closed in the UK, Jago Design started up again as an independent.
NG
I wouldn't be surprised if Astons were replaced by something other than VizRT in the English regions that are still SD.
Salford, Plymouth, London and Cambridge got VizRT as part of a wider upgrade/relocation. The SD Astons that other English regions still have (Greens, Reds - possibly even Motifs or Mottos?) will be upgraded before full refurbs I expect. I wouldn't be surprised to see a much cheaper option being deployed as an SD interim.
noggin
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Anglia/East of England News Discussion
Not surprising though, it hasn't had a refit since 2009. It's also still using Aston rather than VizRT.
I wouldn't be surprised if Astons were replaced by something other than VizRT in the English regions that are still SD.
Salford, Plymouth, London and Cambridge got VizRT as part of a wider upgrade/relocation. The SD Astons that other English regions still have (Greens, Reds - possibly even Motifs or Mottos?) will be upgraded before full refurbs I expect. I wouldn't be surprised to see a much cheaper option being deployed as an SD interim.
NG
That template specified Quantel editing (and playout initially, though this was replaced with ServerPlay), Aston green or higher + BigTed control, GVG Zodiak vision mixer and so on. It set out the principle of having a "media hub" for ingest and lines recording/playout, newsroom based server viewing seats based on qCut, newsroom based basic edit seats using qEdit and 'craft' edit suites using qEdit Plus.
Serverplay was just a replacement for the Quantel playout panel (aka Janice) wasn't it? The actual playout server is still Quantel (just controlled by a different bit of software/hardware) isn't it? One of the cleverist bits of Quantel architecture is the playout bit (where it uses Frame Magic)?.
noggin
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The new NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread
That template specified Quantel editing (and playout initially, though this was replaced with ServerPlay), Aston green or higher + BigTed control, GVG Zodiak vision mixer and so on. It set out the principle of having a "media hub" for ingest and lines recording/playout, newsroom based server viewing seats based on qCut, newsroom based basic edit seats using qEdit and 'craft' edit suites using qEdit Plus.
Serverplay was just a replacement for the Quantel playout panel (aka Janice) wasn't it? The actual playout server is still Quantel (just controlled by a different bit of software/hardware) isn't it? One of the cleverist bits of Quantel architecture is the playout bit (where it uses Frame Magic)?.
NG
That looks like it is in roughly the same place as the old Politics Show set used to be, though it may have been used for other things since then I expect.
I guess that since all network production stopped in Birmingham, there isn't quite such a demand for desk space in The Mailbox (particularly over a Bank Holiday weekend)
noggin
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The new NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread
That looks like it is in roughly the same place as the old Politics Show set used to be, though it may have been used for other things since then I expect.
I guess that since all network production stopped in Birmingham, there isn't quite such a demand for desk space in The Mailbox (particularly over a Bank Holiday weekend)