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UTV sell TV business to ITV

Inspector Sands posted:
noggin posted:

I wasn't aware that ITV had move out of Whiteley - so I'm not sure there have been two moves to new buildings.

A few years ago they moved from their original building in Whitley to another on the same Estate, in fact IIRC it was just across the road.

EDIT: here's some more details. Seems the lease ran out and they downsized to one studio:
http://tslsystems.co.uk/tsl-completes-the-relocation-and-hd-upgrade-of-itv-meridians-news-operation/


Ah - I'd totally missed that - probably because they hadn't moved location. Their original Whiteley tin-shed operation had a terrible reputation when it was first built. Many corners cut...
NG
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UTV sell TV business to ITV

JDN posted:
chris posted:
But they could just move the set to the new premises?


Like Meridian done twice with their previous set? Didn't they move it twice to new buildings?


Depends which bit of Meridian you are talking about.

When Meridian was a separate ITV franchise it ran three studio centres - Northam (which was Meridian South and also had general production studios. These were the original Southern/TVS studios), Newbury (North?) and New Hythe (South East).

After a few mergers they closed the studio in Newbury, and I think they then ran two news studios at Northam (operating a bit like Anglia who always worked with two studios in one location serving two different sub-regions), with New Hythe continuing to run separately for the South East bit of the region.

Then they moved the operation out of Northam and New Hythe, closed the general production studios at Northam, and relocated to an operation with three co-sited small news studios for the three sub-regions in a single operation based at Whiteley.

There was then a merger of news areas with Central South, which had previously had a studio centre in Abingdon. This created the ITV Thames Valley programme (which wasn't branded Meridian or Central) which came from one of the three Whiteley studios.

I wasn't aware that ITV had move out of Whiteley - so I'm not sure there have been two moves to new buildings.

*** EDIT - and I had totally missed their move to a second location in Whiteley ! ***
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NG
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Eurovision 2016

By the way - if anyone sees the reports of 205m people watching - that's reach not volume - so not directly comparable with the figures we quote in the UK. (Reach is the total number of people who saw the show for a given duration, not the average number of people watching across the whole duration)
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Eurovision 2016

623058 posted:
Here is the problem, those only count to the per TVs , You have to remember people have EU parties and watch in big groups. So the numbers could be higher. Also the iplayer are those numbers also included because I know of people who watched it LIVE on iplayer.


No - those figures aren't 'per TV' - they are based on the number of people watching in each household surveyed (family members are recorded separately - though not sure how guests are handled). BARB ratings include demographics, so every viewer in a given house is counted as a separate viewer.
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Is extending children's channels to 9PM good for children?

Riaz posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
No, that is the sort of replacement it needs, either that or a some sort of small tax on data tarifs, internet contracts or TV subscriptions


I disagree. People who do not use BBC services should not have to pay for the BBC. I do not want my internet bills 'taxed' to pay for Eastenders.


By that argument, can I say "I don't have kids, therefore I don't want to pay for schools"?

It all depends whether you think public service broadcasting, like education, has benefits for a wider society and should be funded properly, like education. Or whether you believe 'the market will provide'... Personally I think we've seen how well the market provides in other countries...
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Eurovision 2016

Gary McEwan posted:
CN posted:
Does anyone know if the music played as a bed when they announced the winner (and throughout the contest, such as the host's entrances to the semis) is available anywhere?


The composer is Adam Norden and the music is available to download from his Soundcloud account.


Adam Norden also wrote the theme and incidental music for the first 13 part series of the TV4 (Swedish) Wallander series starring Krister Henriksson, as well as a lot of other stuff.

Here's his soundcloud page : https://soundcloud.com/adam-nord-n
NG
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Eurovision 2016

globaltraffic24 posted:
Rob_Schneider posted:
This has been bugging me... who's the covert operative in Nerd Nation Part 2? She looks, and sounds, familiar? I want to say it might be Mel who has an acting background of sorts (she played Frau Schmidt in ITV's production of Sound of Music) but why would she feature in something that wasn't broadcast to UK viewers?

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Lena von Zweigbergk was played by Eva Rose, who is a fairly high profile Swedish actress. Although she is completely unknown outside Scandinavia as she's not a Nordic Noir actress. Her most high profile role was in 'Real Humans' on SVT. The show was a huge hit but was remade for local audiences (including the Channel 4 remake in the UK)

In terms of the Lena reference - it's very Swedish humour! It was a reference to Helena, as someone pointed out earlier, rather than the floor manager. Very in joke in Sweden, but they're always happy to do that, which I quite like. (but, I love Sweden, so I get it!)

Babben Larrsson also appears in the sketch as the priest, which instantly made me chuckle. She's much loved in Scandinavia. Think along the lines of Jo Brand. She hosts a TV chat show and is a comedian.

Loads of other great Swedish TV stars appeared as well. When SVT originally revealed details of the sketch, the broadcaster said it was very much aimed at a Swedish audience but accessible for a global audience by 'poking fun at ourselves'.


Kicking myself. I watched Äkta Människor and have seen Eva in quite a few other shows (though Niska looked very different to Lena!)... I recognised Babben, and Peter Magnusson who was, I think, singing 'Watergate'...
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Euro 2016

scottishtv posted:
623058 posted:
why Cant BBC two take the Big weekend? Im sure people can watch how to bake a cake another day.

Why not BBC TWO, give it some of it's eclectic mix and edge back?


Probably because music (Eurovision apart) rates terribly on television...
NG
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All Time Favourite Theme Tunes

As someone beat me to The Tripods, how about this :


Great theme tune and title sequence for the time (1990)

Yellowthread Street is seldom, if ever repeated, and was ITV's first stereo drama I think. Great titles and actually quite an interesting series from a historical point of view, capturing a 'British' Hong Kong that no longer exists.
NG
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No Such Thing as the News

House posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
The credits listed four camera ops and an offline and online editor.

That surprised me - I'm sure I saw only a single moving camera (the one that infrequently sought audience reaction).

I didn't think it was a bad programme by any means, but didn't get why it was commissioned by BBC News. The editing was pretty rough and abrupt in parts, too, and agree the lighting and camerawork was a little shoddy.


There were re-frames out-of-vision - with the same camera offering more than one framing.
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BBC Breakfast

Markymark posted:

I was surprised last night the end of the FA Cup titles DIDN'T get chopped by Pres. They started then froze, then started from the beginning again, adding about 15 secs to the end time


Not that surprised - BBC Pres would almost always come off a live show on a manual transition rather than an automatic, so will hold for the end even if the shows runs over, rather than cutting away on an auto at a specific time. This is particularly the case for a very high profile event.
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DVB-T2 USB Dongles for Mac

I've not come across any Mac-compatible DVB-T2 USB dongles yet.

I had to use Bootcamp and Windows to get my USB dongles working on my Mac for years.

Now it's often easier to use a Raspberry Pi (running TV Headend under Linux) and a USB DVB-T2 dongle as combo and then connect the Mac to the Pi+T2 combo over IP. There are some T2 networked tuners available - but they are more expensive than my quick-n-dirty Pi solution.

Elgato were the only real game in town for DVB dongles for Macs, but they've now sold that part of their operation to Geniatech, who are marketing a Mac DVB-T2 dongle - but for >€100 which is pretty steep. (Don't know if a current Geniatech non-Mac dongle will work with the latest version of EyeTV - I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the USB IDs between the Mac and non-Mac models to make this tricky)

ALSO - could a Moderator move this to Media & Tech forum?
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