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Loose Women | 21 Years Old - Sept 2020

Andrew posted:
valley posted:
Ne1L C posted:
Oh, I agree with that but it would be a sound safety move imo.


Far more likely is Lorraine and Loose Women sharing a set in TC2, since it would allow rehearsals to take place for This Morning and reduce the need for scenery moves which are challenging whilst social distancing.

I’m surprised they didn’t do a dual set for Lorraine and Loose Women when they moved to TC2

Move the desk, bring in some sofas, change the lighting maybe add or take away some bits of set, and you’d have a Lorraine set and I doubt many viewers would know it’s the same set.


I'm not that surprised they went with two sets. TC2 is a small studio (particularly for an audience show), and if you tried to create a set design that accommodated two very different formats, you'd end up compromising both.

They clearly decided to have TC2 as a set/strike studio (which has allowed them to also accommodate Peston, and other shows at weekends) rather than going for a rigid set-standing approach (like TC3) and were able to allow both shows to make best use of the small amount of space.
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TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

Would that have been TC9 doing the Subtitles DOG key? If so it's most probable that the VM decided to use a PGM/PST transition (with an incorrectly set up transition type like BGND+DSK1 with a DVE or similar on the PST row) to key the DSK over the gfx source, rather than doing it using the separate DSK button? (Either that or they had a very odd key configuration - but that would be less likely in a set-up that routinely keyed a graphics source with a DSK)
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London regional thread

London Lite posted:
Presumably TW were able to opt-out on their own transmitters, but something wasn't right either at BH or Red Bee getting the feed from TW.


I don't think Red Bee would have anything to do with it.

Either the non-originating region was not able to take the originating gallery's output and opt-out with it in their region, or a reroute in Coding and Mux didn't happen? Those are the two routes I could imagine being used - and I'd have expected the former not the latter?
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Nvidia Shield

Do you have to use FTP? I think you may be better off with SMB?
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

valley posted:

Seems to just be the follow camera feed, although we'll find out when the press questions are asked. Edit: Yes, just the follow camera feed, nothing else; probably a straight patch in NOC from the Downing Street OS to the YouTube embedder!


How would you comply that? (Or would Sky News treat a YouTube feed as technically not requiring compliance as it's not Ofcom regulated?)
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

Markymark posted:
How difficult might it be for the broadcaster conference questions be applied via zoom using their DTL studios, and broadcast cameras and mics, feeding the SDI to Web interface boxes the other way round to usual?


It's possible - but it would require a spare studio (BBC studios at NBH are currently mothballed other than those required for core output), and staff to operate it (BBC output operations are running on core staffing too). Currently BBC NBH is running with just three core studios for news output for English language services I believe (one for BBC One/Two/News channel, one for BBC World News and one for BBC London News - and the Downing St press conference is quite close to BBC London's 1800 symbol and headline opts some days)

It would also require a Zoom or similar client that had 'reverse video' functionality, of which there are only a small number within NBH I believe (most Skype/Facetime/Zoom clients output a BBC logo on the reverse vision feed to avoid having to handle reverse vision routing manually - the programme vision and sound feeds FROM the client can be routed automatically - but the reverse vision feeds don't follow this automatic routing)

In the current scheme of things - probably not a priority.
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O2 & Virgin Media To Merge

TVMan posted:
It appears to be something to do with roaming as a new sim applications option has appeared in the mobile data settings on my iPhone which leads to a roaming selector to choose if you are abroad


Ah - I remember Sky's roaming options being far worse than O2 when they launched, which was the major reason I didn't switch from O2 to Sky Mobile. (They didn't have equivalents of O2's £5/day flat rate options for a number of countries I travel to outside of Europe)
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The Sport Thread

thegeek posted:
noggin posted:

It's more Timeline than BT Sport who have the expertise. BT Sport don't have facilities - nor do they really have production teams. Timeline provide BT Sport's production resources, and a lot of BT Sport productions are made by Indies like North One (who have been doing their MotoGP shows).


BT have built up their own in-house production team over the years - they produce Champions League, FA Cup, and National League, plus the European domestic football, and BT Sport Films.

Ah - things have beefed up a bit since I was last across things. I remember there were a lot of dessk for Indies in the BT Sport bit in Stratford. I guess it makes sense to build up some in house football production.
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S+V do the rest of the football and rugby, North One does MotoGP, and there are a bunch of others who've been involved too.

Today's C4 show was a Whisper production, and I believe it was made at Timeline Ealing. Whisper also make their BBC WSL and C4 F1 programmes there.
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The Sport Thread

Jon posted:
Unsurprisingly it was a Whisper Production. I did think it was probably Whisper, but actually thought it might have been BT Sport given their experience in producing these remote productions, although usually to a higher standard, given the graphics were similar to the original BT Sport graphics. There were also similarities to the Football League graphics too.


It's more Timeline than BT Sport who have the expertise. BT Sport don't have facilities - nor do they really have production teams. Timeline provide BT Sport's production resources, and a lot of BT Sport productions are made by Indies like North One (who have been doing their MotoGP shows).

Timeline are also Whisper's partner for Formula 1 and Sail GP Remote Production, so my bet is that Whisper are using Timeline's remote production facilities (which allow significant number of production team and crew to work from home) which the shows BT Sport have commissioned are also using.

Springwatch are also using Timeline's remote facilities.
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BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

Markymark posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:

What’s happening to our world? Crazy stuff.


We're certainly headed for a second devistating wave. Popular opinion is the severity of the first one was mainly the government's fault. For sure the second one will be mainly 'our' fault. Everyone now knows what measures are required to minimise spread, but too many are not bothering. Perhaps it's just Darwinism at play.


The problem is I don't think people DO understand the minimise spread measures. They still them as ways of keeping themselves safe, and are increasingly happy to bend the rules because they don't think they will have a personal result.

The message that every social interaction we don't have is a reduced chance for the infection to spread has not fully cut through I fear - many people are just looking at it from a personal risk standpoint.
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Television News Helicopters

Rkolsen posted:

A lot of stations use backpacks but most use ENG and the band plan as described there is mostly the same (however wireless companies and WiFi device manufacturers are trying to get that spectrum).


What do you mean by ENG in the US context?

In the UK ENG = Electronic News Gathering - and means either :

1. Shoot on video not film (!) - that's where the phrase originally came from. ("TVS switched from film to ENG in the early 80s'") In this context it's pronounced EE-EN-JEE

2. Shoot an interview separately to a down-the-line interview ("Can you ENG him after he's done the down-the-line please?") (i.e. shoot him answering similar questions, but not looking directly to camera). When used as a verb it's pronounced "ENJ".

Are you using ENG to mean 'digital microwave' as opposed to bonded cellular?
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Tim Davie Appointed BBC Director General

another_beauty posted:
I won't go as far as calling it racist but.....


Hmm...