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All TV news broadcasters will record a clean of their output, and hang on to some or all of it for a while, if not forever. The archive recordings of BBC and ITV bulletins are kept and they will be 'clean'.
For operational purposes there is no point in keeping anything except a clean, there's nothing you can do with a recording including captions, logos and tickers except watch it. Of course an off air, normally low quality, will be kept for a few months for Ofcom 'compliance' reasons and the BBC keep off-airs for a similar amount of time I think. There's a few exceptions, I remember BBC World used to record it's 'dirty' output on an hourly loop so that if there were problems they had a copy of the last hour to broadcast.
Feeds from other countries is a different case though, if they come in 'clean' then of course they'll be clean on air and in the archive if kept (the channel might not be allowed to use it for more than 24 hours). But when a big news story breaks channels will often just record another off-air in which case of course that won't be clean and on the 'clean' recording of a new programme it will appear as it came in.... you can put captions back on but you can't take them off!
How common is it for BBC and Sky just to record the Clean feeds coming in from places: In this case the USA? I have to ask where along the lines do there slip in the On screens captions? DO There do this to make sure the recorded copy is pure and clean?
All TV news broadcasters will record a clean of their output, and hang on to some or all of it for a while, if not forever. The archive recordings of BBC and ITV bulletins are kept and they will be 'clean'.
For operational purposes there is no point in keeping anything except a clean, there's nothing you can do with a recording including captions, logos and tickers except watch it. Of course an off air, normally low quality, will be kept for a few months for Ofcom 'compliance' reasons and the BBC keep off-airs for a similar amount of time I think. There's a few exceptions, I remember BBC World used to record it's 'dirty' output on an hourly loop so that if there were problems they had a copy of the last hour to broadcast.
Feeds from other countries is a different case though, if they come in 'clean' then of course they'll be clean on air and in the archive if kept (the channel might not be allowed to use it for more than 24 hours). But when a big news story breaks channels will often just record another off-air in which case of course that won't be clean and on the 'clean' recording of a new programme it will appear as it came in.... you can put captions back on but you can't take them off!
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 11 September 2011 2:30am