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Rkolsen posted:
noggin posted:
Charles posted:
"News Director" is the term for the head of the news department in pretty much every market in the US, not just small ones.

I guess I should have been clearer - "News Director" is a term I associate with regional stations, not network news departments, in the US.

In the UK "News Director" usually refers to a live studio/gallery director working on news output and with news-specific skills.
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I think in the US the equivalent of News Director would be the Technical Director (the person operating the vision mixer) if your in one of the few stations that are not automated.

Yep - though here there are news directors who work with separate vision mixers (i.e. people who press the buttons on the vision mixer) too. ITV News, Channel Four News, and for the moment Sky News, and the BBC Persian and Arabic TV services still have a director and separate vision mixer for their main bulletins, but may follow the TD model (with a director pressing their own buttons) for shorter bulletins.


At ITN they even call the combined role used for shorter bulletins a "TD" (which is a relatively rare job title in the UK - though at the BBC the original News 24 gallery positions were described as "Technical Directors" to differentiate them from the existing tradiitonal "Studio Directors" though both roles were combined into the "News Director" role by the early 00s)

The BBC have obviously pursued heavy automation for their domestic output and BBC World News, with News Directors there having to be skilled Mosart operators as well as directors.
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TDs in the US don't really map into a UK gallery role specifically - whether in News or non-News environments. Here the Vision Mixer concentrates purely on cutting the show (and/or screens) whereas in the US a TD is also often involved heavily in crewing and forward planning shows, and in some cases is also responsible for the technical quality of a show, which in the UK an Engineering Manager, Studio Resource Manager or Transmission Manager would do rather than the VM.
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Fountain Studios To Close

Inspector Sands posted:
noggin posted:

Pity BBC OBs - who were based in Kendal Avenue for a long period - are no longer just round the corner..

That OB company that burnt down earlier in the year isn't far away though is it?


It's not exactly close...

NEP Visions were, and are, based in Bracknell I think - so not significantly closer than CTV and Telegenic (who are in High Wycombe)

Kendal Avenue is literally a road away from LH2. Close enough to almost be feasible to cable to the old scanner hall.
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Charles posted:
"News Director" is the term for the head of the news department in pretty much every market in the US, not just small ones.

I guess I should have been clearer - "News Director" is a term I associate with regional stations, not network news departments, in the US.

In the UK "News Director" usually refers to a live studio/gallery director working on news output and with news-specific skills.

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Also, in Buzzfeed's defense, it is pretty difficult to figure out internal information about the hierarchy of RT. RT was one of the news channels I studied in my undergraduate thesis, and it was pretty much impossible to get any detailed information about RT's funding and internal operations without having to go to secondary sources. For example, you will find almost no information about RT staff or its funding sources anywhere on its website, whereas every other English language news channel has information about their board and finances readily available.


True - but the person in question works in the UK, has an imdb entry, and clearly doesn't have the background to be an editorial lead for a UK news operation...
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Charles posted:
"News Director" is the term for the head of the news department in pretty much every market in the US, not just small ones. Also, in Buzzfeed's defense, it is pretty difficult to figure out internal information about the hierarchy of RT. RT was one of the news channels I studied in my undergraduate thesis, and it was pretty much impossible to get any detailed information about RT's funding and internal operations without having to go to secondary sources. For example, you will find almost no information about RT staff or its funding sources anywhere on its website, whereas every other English language news channel has information about their board and finances readily available.


However a quick look at imdb tells you the person in question is a gallery director...
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Fountain Studios To Close

Brekkie posted:
I guess if Fountain is being demolished (has planning gone through on that?) then all their technical facilities would be up for grabs and I suspect Syco/ITV would be in a good position to strike a deal and then kit out LH2 a required.


I'd be surprised if Syco decided to get into the facilities business. More likely for X Factor to be resourced with a scanner parked outside (as X Factor already do for Wembley shows - and they could negotiate a pretty good deal I expect for the run) or they'd partner with a third party to kit-out LH2 if that made business sense (which it might do or might not)

Whether there was any sense in moving second-hand kit from Fountain, which I suspect will be auctioned off, is also questionable.
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Fountain Studios To Close

LCL92 posted:
X Factor is moving to LH2 studios next year. BGT will be the first former-Fountain show to be used in the space.
The Voice live shows will also come from there in March next year. Interesting space and often used to rehearse tours. There are no production facilities there, so everything will have to come from an OB truck.


Pity BBC OBs - who were based in Kendal Avenue for a long period - are no longer just round the corner...
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BBC Wimbledon rights extended to 2024

DVB Cornwall posted:
noggin posted:
Is there any word on whether the BBC have retained host broadcasting responsibilities as well?

The former Wimbledon Exec Producer in BBC Sport (who also used to Exec Produce and Director Sports Personality of the Year) now works for Wimbledon as Head of Broadcast...

This was widely seen as a potential sign that Wimbledon wanted to assume host broadcast duties and relieve the BBC of that task...


The very next para, after I stopped quoting, indicates that the HB role will be shared from 2018 ......

As part of the new agreement, the BBC and the AELTC will collaborate on the production of the host broadcast from 2018, with the BBC concentrating on the domestic output, while the AELTC will take responsibility for providing a best-in-class service to its global media partners and continuing the great work done here by the BBC.


Hmm - in reality I wonder what that actually means... Sounds like the BBC major on domestic presentation and AELTC do the court production? (i.e. AELTC are effectively host, possibly with a handover period or some production talent sharing...)
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BBC One 2016

Inspector Sands posted:

Having a network split between different services isn't new, in the 50s and 60s what is now Radio 3 was 'Network Three' which was several different seperate services


Plus there was the 1980s Radio 1/Radio 2 FM split (one FM slot between both networks) - which when RDS arrived included a neat dynamic RDS label switch between "BBC Radio1/2" (when R1 was on-air) and "BBC Radio 2/1" (when R2 was on-air) or similar - with the first number being the on-air network?

At that point both Radio 1 and Radio 2 were on their own Medium Wave frequencies but shared a single FM slot.
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Best Freeview options?

PDC technically went the way of all things with analogue TV. However it was replaced by a similar system on DVB platforms, often implemented using EIT (Extended Information Tables I think) that offers similar functionality, allowing PVRs on Freeview, Freesat, Sky etc. to properly start and stop recordings based on programme junction triggers and dynamic schedule updates from the broadcaster.

All Freeview +, Freesat + (and HD variants) should include proper EIT triggered recording options.
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gottago posted:
RT's UK news director caught posting a pile of Islamophobic social media posts. Quelle surprise.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/rt-online-comments?utm_term=.ywma0rY21#.due6mgOro


Turns out Buzzfeed got the two different "News Director" roles mixed up... The bloke in question is a gallery director who directs news bulletins for RT, not the Director of News (which would be a far more senior role), which in the US may also be called "News Director" in smaller stations.
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Cue Dots

Markymark posted:

Of course post 1993 for C4, and post 1995 for the BBC, digital video distribution circuits were employed, so that removes any possible impairment as far as the regional centre.

BBC was only digitally distributed to the regional centres wasn't it (140Mbs PAL circuits ISTR)?

Distribution from regional centres to transmitters could be - and often was - analogue microwave still. That was certainly the case well after 1995 in the BBC East region, where analogue microwave circuits linked Tacolnestone, Sudbury and Sandy Heath, though from 1997 there was a digital fibre circuit from BBC Cambridge to Sandy Heath to carry the Look East Close Up sub-opt, the BBC One East dirty feed from Norwich had been through a microwave circuit (and when soft opted more than one microwave circuit and a PAL 4fsc synchroniser...)
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BBC Wimbledon rights extended to 2024

Is there any word on whether the BBC have retained host broadcasting responsibilities as well?

The former Wimbledon Exec Producer in BBC Sport (who also used to Exec Produce and Director Sports Personality of the Year) now works for Wimbledon as Head of Broadcast...

This was widely seen as a potential sign that Wimbledon wanted to assume host broadcast duties and relieve the BBC of that task...