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Sky News | General Discussion

Mouseboy33 posted:
Who's to say the bulk entire operation will be based there anyway or any one particular place. NBC may choose to have to main newsroom elsewhere and have small newsrooms and broadcast sites in various places like CNN does.


Plus remote production technology means your presentation spaces and transmission facilities can be on different continents. (50Hz vs 60Hz origination is a thing to consider though)
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BBC News (UK) presentation - Reith launch onwards

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Appreciate what you've got before its gone.


Meanwhile, similarly sized France has four national news channels, one internationally-oriented news channel also available domestically, the French version of Euronews (based in Lyon), a local news channel for Paris (soon to expand to Lyon), and a separate local all-news operation in Lille. When comparing it with France, I can't shake the feeling that the UK is doing something wrong when it comes to its news channels.


Out of interest - what ratings do the FR3 regional news bulletins get? In the UK the BBC One 1830-1900 regional news slot is now sometimes the highest rated slot of the day on BBC One.

I do wonder if the lack of appetite for local TV in the UK is that the main regional news bulletins are on the two most popular channels (BBC One and ITV) in decent time slots, and are widely watched as a result.
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Government to suspend Parliament

JamesWorldNews posted:

BBC News: can’t comment. Did this breaking news occur during a slot produced by World?


No - but it was in the half-hour before the BBC One 10pm News bulletin, so going into rolling mode, on weekend staffing, could have jeopardised that bulletin I fear.
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BBC Oneness - idents and presentation

Markymark posted:
Saw a trailer for BBC1's The Capture last night at the cinema. Never seen a BBC ad at the cinema before, perhaps I don't go to the cinema enough!?

Exactly the same as the trailer that they show on TV, noticeably poor quality (sandwiched between two ads that sparkled in native 4k)

I wonder what process was used to get it from 1080 25p to 'digital cinema'?


It may be that the original trail was in 576i25. BBC Creative still make BBC One and Two trails in SD I believe, or did when I last bothered to look at one critically on an HD channel.
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40th anniversary of the ITV strike

Markymark posted:
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Markymark posted:

To be very pedantic BBC 2 (and it was 2 and not TWO back then) was the national UK version, national/regional versions of BBC 2 didn't appear until the 80s ? Cool


Presumably running national operations in dual standards (405 for BBC One, 625 for BBC Two) was a complication best avoided? (Plus BBC Two was still very new - and I doubt there was any great push to regionalise it)


I think there was also a distribution problem, in North Wales Moel-y-Parc and Llandonna sourced their BBC 2 feeds from Winter Hill for some years into the 70s, and therefore had no feed available from Cardiff. As it was the BBC 1/625 feed from Cardiff was tortious enough, so it was not duplicated for BBC 2 until there was an imperative for BBC 2 Wales to be created


Yes - that makes sense.
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The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

bkman1990 posted:
Clare McNamara's post match interview with James Ryan on RTÉ2 was simulcast on Channel 4 today with the RTÉ Sport microphone cropped out.


Was it simulcast or just turned-round and replayed?
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40th anniversary of the ITV strike

Markymark posted:
JKDerry posted:
Whoops sorry my bad - my mistake - I meant 1966 was when BBC Two Northern Ireland launched on Saturday 11th June 1966. I apologise for my previous error stating 1967.


To be very pedantic BBC 2 (and it was 2 and not TWO back then) was the national UK version, national/regional versions of BBC 2 didn't appear until the 80s ? Cool


Presumably running national operations in dual standards (405 for BBC One, 625 for BBC Two) was a complication best avoided? (Plus BBC Two was still very new - and I doubt there was any great push to regionalise it)
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The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

globaltraffic24 posted:

Ultimately RTE could become the first example of the scaling back of large European public broadcasters. The BBC has needed to take similar action for years but tends to buckle under public pressure. In the long term I believe almost all European PSBs will operate with one TV channel, 1 or 2 radio stations and a small digital offering of some kind. We shall see!


RTE wouldn't be the first. DR (Danmarks Radio in Denmark) have already had to make service cuts due to significant funding changes. Radio stations have closed, TV stations have merged or moved online (c.f. BBC Three) etc.
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The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

Ballyboy posted:
RTE should show some bbc panel show greats like have i got news for you and mock the week and would i lie to you. it would boost the ratings


All those shows are made by Indies though - so RTÉ would have to acquire them from the programme makers (as I think sales to a broadcaster in Ireland would not be covered by the BBC's licensing rights - though broadcast in Ireland by the BBC is), who would no doubt want a reasonable price for them, so they wouldn't neccessarily be that cheap.
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Government to suspend Parliament

JCB posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
noggin posted:
When recent Local and European Election coverage came from a studio in New Broadcasting House, and didn't use Elstree Studio D for presentation, the Elstree Election Hub was still used to co-ordinate and route outside sources.


Does the election really need a huge studio these days?


Not for the 3rd General Election in as many years, no. When they happen once every 5 years or so you can understand the pomp. When it becomes an annual affair the theatrics just aren't needed.


I don't think the main interview area needs to be huge - but you probably need a reasonable amount of space to accommodate a secondary 'drill down' analysis position (Reeta's touch screen) and a big picture presentation area (Jeremy Vine's VR) - though you could compromise and use three, separate, smaller spaces I guess (Jeremy's VR space can be relatively compact).

Plus you need a reasonable amount of available desk and office space (with decent talkback and A/V + IT connectivity to house all the people in the back of shot in the Election studio who are actually working. One of the benefits of the big studio is that it is also a relatively big office...)
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james-2001 posted:
They should go back into the atrium like they did in 1997 and 2001.


AIUI now that ITN don't own their building in Grays Inn Road use of the Atrium is much more tricky (and requires a lot of notice, possibly too much notice to be practical).
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Government to suspend Parliament

Inspector Sands posted:

Studio D at Elstree has the BBCs election hub and multiple connections of various forms to and from the control rooms and infrastructure at BH and elsewhere


Studio D and the Elstree Election Hub are separate operational areas and independent of each other.

When recent Local and European Election coverage came from a studio in New Broadcasting House, and didn't use Elstree Studio D for presentation, the Elstree Election Hub was still used to co-ordinate and route outside sources.

The Election hub and the Election studio don't need to be on the same site, but you do need them to both be in locations with good site-to-site connectivity.
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