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BBC News: Presenters, correspondent & rotas

JamesWorldNews posted:

We all know about the famous blooper Humphrys and Stuart were involved in back in the day.......the subtitles for the deaf on the BBC SON managed to catch it!


Wasn't the story that lip readers were able to work it out, rather than subtitling putting it on-screen?
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BBC Cymru Wales New HQ

There is always the option that the window won't be featured in-vision, and is there to allow visitors to see a working studio instead. It was common for studios to be built with windows for this purpose in the past - many of the TV Centre studios had viewing galleries.
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Al Jazeera English | Refresh 2020

dosxuk posted:
Justin posted:
noggin posted:

There is more than a basic chroma key going on there - as there are background reflections in the desk that match a realistic desk reflection of the background (rather than seeing more of the background cut through the desk)

Either the backings have all been designed statically but with built in desk reflections that demand precise camera framing - or there is more than just basic chroma key going on.

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No reflections in that desk! Where have his legs gone?!


I've seen other shots where I could have sworn there were environment reflections in the desk (not just physical reflections)
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The Sky News Thread

TMD_24 posted:
Never seen Sky using zooming in and pen tools to identify MP's on the Parliament feed. Wink


I am surprise that is allowed under the rules governing use of Parliamentary TV pictures. They used to say you weren't allowed to modify the feed - so slow motion, zooming in etc. wasn't allowed (this was an issue a while back when a member of the public protested by throwing purple powder into the chamber from a gallery and a number of news outlets slow-mo-ed the pictures to illustrate it).
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AppleTV 4K and Apple Video Services.

bkman1990 posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
So are all the channels distributed via IPTV or are they assuming that the base channels will be being picked up by the users receiver via Saorview? Sounds great if the whole service is being delivered via the internet. The website infers that but isn't precise.


I could assume here that all of the channels, including Irish channels, are being delivered over the internet.

It is no major difference to their old box as that was an IPTV receiver as well. It didn't need Saorview to receive the Irish channels.

There is a detailed video from Eir about the new Apple TV 4K Subscription here. It lasts for nearly 49 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVnBnpfOZYg


I guess they could be IPTV but not internet delivered (in the same way BT Vision works in the UK, and a lot of Nordic IPTV systems operate).

They use a multicast IPTV system (where the video is multicast from the broadband supplier's nodes, rather than over the internet in the way OTT services like iPlayer and Netflix operate). It's not easy to tell without looking at Wireshark I guess. (BT Vision use a specific VLAN for their IPTV system I think)
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Britbox UK - UK SVoD Platform.

DVB Cornwall posted:
I've confirmed my Britbox tvOS 'softness' feel tonight. Playing content I already own via iTunes with the same material on Britbox. Britbox is inferior to the ITunes product BUT not a game changer. I await some content that recent and that I own to appear that's rich in Colour and Contrast to give a full assessment. This Judgement so far is based on the 'Nature's Great Events' series that's ten years old now and was a very early HD production, and was transmitted on the BBC HD Channel in the day, and might be hampered by that.

Judgement still out.


If anyone has the Apple TV app for Britbox, then if they have a Mac and Xcode (which is free) installed on it they can enabled Developer mode on the ATV which allows you to enable a playback HUD (an OSD) which tells you the resolution, frame rate and bit rate of the video stream being played.
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Good Morning Britain

james-2001 posted:
News isn't always boring, but it is thoroughly depressing right now.


And News rates very well still - so there is a large audience for it.
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Channel 4 pre-1993 regional opt outs

Distro is used as an abbreviation in a number of contexts. Power distribution facilities are also often called 'Distros' too.
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BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

m_in_m posted:
noggin posted:
AlexS posted:
Presumably the end of hour weather will be a lengthy out of studio affair in order to give London time to prepare for and rehearse their opt in the six headlines.


Or they do it from a chroma-key studio?

Or London move to A which is their alternate studio.


A is on of the W1 chroma-key studios...
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ITV abandons the South Bank

Andrew posted:
noggin posted:
Andrew posted:
The question is, could TC1 and Studio 1 at TLS have continued to exist together, as most of what is made at TC1, certainly the main 3 weekly chat shows, used to be at The London Studios.


Yes - absolutely. There are shows being made in PQ in Glasgow, Salford HQ1, Elstree D or converted film studios, that could be in TC1, and probably would prefer to be in TC1.

(Elstree D is not as fast a turnaround studio as TC1)

Aren’t the BBC (& ITV for the matter) under pressure to make shows out of London, so stuff at Glasgow and Salford are probably not just there because there is no room in London?


There is an out-of-London quota - but there are still shows that producers would rather make in studios in London, rather than in out-of-London studios, or compromised spaces in London, or near to London. When you talk to people who actually make shows - it's a real problem. Losing Fountain and TLS 1 has meant that you are now in an era of using LH2 (a rehearsal space) or theatres.

Pinewood and Shepperton's TV studios, Elstree Stages 8 and 9 are all TC3/4/6/8 equivalents - but none of them are as good... However with TC3 unavailable, and TC4/6/8 demolished, and the TLS equivalents out-of-action, it really leaves people with no choice.

When Riverside re-opens there will at least be one decent medium-sized studio in London again.
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ITV abandons the South Bank

Andrew posted:
The question is, could TC1 and Studio 1 at TLS have continued to exist together, as most of what is made at TC1, certainly the main 3 weekly chat shows, used to be at The London Studios.


Yes - absolutely. There are shows being made in PQ in Glasgow, Salford HQ1, Elstree D or converted film studios, that could be in TC1, and probably would prefer to be in TC1.

(Elstree D is not as fast a turnaround studio as TC1)
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BBC One English Regions opt outs

Steve in Pudsey posted:

That was kind of my point. Before all of the mergers each ITV company had its own OB facilities so could mount this kind of thing easily enough. If the competition aren't doing it there is less of a "keeping up with Central/Granada/Yorkshire" reason to do it.


Though to be fair only the BBC English network centres in Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester had OB facilities based on-site, Southampton, Norwich, Plymouth, Newcastle and Leeds were all just equipped for news studios, with minimal terrestrial microwave links facilities (short-notice, multicamera OBs would have been a stretch until the 90s)

Bristol and Birmingham then lost their OB facilities - leaving just Manchester - though the English regions gained SNG facilities which often included basic 2-3 ENG camera OB facilities (but not triax/SMPTE system cameras)