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Break Bumper Rules in UK

Si-Co posted:
Just to clarify a couple of things - in the UK, “break bumper” tends to have a different meaning than it does in, for example, the USA. Stateside, “bumpers” are programme-specific graphics, often the title card accompanied by a musical sting. For those who mentioned such graphics or slides, we in the UK would call these “end of part (or EOP) captions”. A “break bumper” over here is something shown as well as the EOP caption (or recently, in the case of multi-channels like E4 or 5-Star, and many Pay-TV channels, instead of them).

Worth pointing out that the term "(break) bumper" is now used in many production galleries in the same way it's used in the US - certainly across Sky live output and a number of other commercial broadcasters.
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The Sky News Thread

Brekkie posted:
Concentrating on what is actually on screen at the moment I've never really been a fan of the web/app scrolling as a TOTH sequence, but just intrigued how is it done. I'm assuming they just take a live snapshot, or do they edit it if the top website story doesn't correspond with the main headline on the channel?

It's fed with data from the website and app, there's no real control over it by the gallery.

In other news, Sky News seems to be on the Plastics in Paradise emergency tape at the moment...


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The Sky News Thread

plymouthbloke1974 posted:
Neil Jones posted:
plymouthbloke1974 posted:
Sky News will be rebranding on March 29th. Let the speculation commence…


Citation needed. Plausible citation needed. "Inside my head" doesn't count.


One of my oldest friends is a director in the gallery there. He’s just told me. It’s going to be a minimal rebrand apparently so I would assume the logo being tweaked to reflect the remaining Sky portfolio and maybe a font tweak here and there. Still red and white base colours apparently. (EDIT: Confirmed as a basic logo/font tweak)

Citation enough for you? Not that I need to justify myself to anyone on here.

For what it’s worth this matches what I’ve been hearing.

New logo with both white and black versions of the “sky” text to match different coloured backgrounds
New, taller title cards featuring the “election” font - also new versions for use on the big screen and in the front of the Millbank desk
Refreshed ticker, I’m told that potentially the logo may be moved to the ticker
New font in full-frame & video wall graphics

I’ve heard nothing about revised music (unlikely I would imagine...) or ident (probably only an update to include the new logo and font).

Source: I work at Osterley and talk to my coworkers.
Last edited by valley on 14 February 2021 10:17pm
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The Sport Thread

robertclark125 posted:
rdd posted:
This season has only Australian and NZ involvement, with their franchises playing in their own competitions, and then a “Trans-Tasman” element at the end. That is likely not the final shape of what will emerge in the long term and although it appears that four of South Africa’s franchises will eventually (but probably not this season) move to the Pro14, they have a problem with what to do with the Cheetahs and there has been talk that they could go back to Super Rugby. None of that has anything to do with television but serves just to underscore that this is a competition that nobody really knows the long term shape of.


Exactly. It's a sort of closed loop. The competition needs the TV deal to settle its structure, but the TV companies aren't going to pay loads of money unless they know the structure. Looking even deeper, if the claim in the Daily Mail is true, and Sky have closed their Rugby union department, then obviously we need to look four years on, and question if there's a Lions tour then, who may cover it? That's a question and answer for another time though.

I think the Daily Mail was doing a bit of oversimplifying when they said that Sky have closed their rugby union department. It is common for staff to be reallocated when you go through quiet spells, and then return to their previous area when you have the rights to show something.
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The Sky News Thread

CraigWills posted:
valley posted:
Of course there might be a valid technical reason why they need 3 hours off tape!


Is this just speculation? Because this is the sort of comment that then fuels ‘rebrand’ rumours then that prompts endless “what if” scenarios that then leads to other members becoming tired of the same stream of comments. Bit of a vicious circle!

It is speculation but not rebrand related; there are many reasons why a long period off-tape is beneficial - software updates, equipment refreshes, playout positions/galleries need deep cleaning (particularly important in COVID times), etc. Not my implication to make it sound like this may be rebrand related, apologies if anyone thought that!
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The Sky News Thread

Of course there might be a valid technical reason why they need 3 hours off tape!
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The Sky News Thread

There currently seems to be an unscheduled replay of Tuesday's Sophy Ridge programme. Wasn't teased going into the 13:57 break, nor is it on the EPG...

A bit infuriatingly the "replay" tag isn't completely covering up the live tag underneath.
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The Sky News Thread

scarbados posted:
This maybe a long shot, and just wishful thinking on my part, but could the delay in introducing the new logo be because they are working on a much bigger refresh? With GB News about to launch, the poaching of one (and maybe more) of their team, do they think it's time to up their game and introduce a much wider new look, perhaps using the half-built studio that NBC Sky World News was to use?

That half built studio is now 0% built, I believe it was turned back into offices.
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.... and finally

Niall Paterson had the same treatment this morning!


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Freeview and Freesat to merge

Is it not the case that Digital UK Ltd still only owns the operational side of Freeview, with DTV Services Ltd (of which Sky is also a shareholder) owning the part handling the marketing?

No mention of Arqiva, presumably because they are stepping down as a shareholder from both companies in March.
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The Sky News Thread

CraigWills posted:
Speaking of sport news, when did they stop doing daytime sport bulletins? From what I can see they run each hour from 5pm each day including the overnights, but then there’s nothing after 6am on weekdays? And it seems at weekends, they have live sport on Breakfast but then there’s nothing after that until 5pm. Seems a bit of an oversight for weekends not to have sport until 5pm; weekdays it’s potentially justified however. I know when Kay Burley took over breakfast there was no sport there, but I thought Sky News Today & The Sarah-Jane Mee Show still had sport?

They stopped early on in the pandemic for fairly obvious reasons (well, one fairly obvious reason). Even when the bulletins came back at the weekend there were still none during the week, at least now we have them after 5pm most of the time.
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GB News Launches on Social Media

Brekkie posted:
I know it's Guido but that little snippet of info reads like a teachers school report. Very strange.

The snippet of info is actually a screenshot from Sky News' John Ryley...
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