Do the BBC usually use the web address www.bbcnews.com on N24 as they did today or is it just an address for BBC World. I know it redirects to the main site, but I have never seen it used before.
The BBC News logo was cut off from the sting on Sky News by the ticker - oops...
Do the BBC usually use the web address www.bbcnews.com on N24 as they did today or is it just an address for BBC World. I know it redirects to the main site, but I have never seen it used before.
The BBC News logo was cut off from the sting on Sky News by the ticker - oops...
Do the BBC usually use the web address www.bbcnews.com on N24 as they did today or is it just an address for BBC World. I know it redirects to the main site, but I have never seen it used before.
The BBC News logo was cut off from the sting on Sky News by the ticker - oops...
World always announces the website as bbcnews.com
World use the .com address, bbcnews.com and bbcworld.com (with adverts) whilst N24 use .co.uk/news (for domestic audiences only)
The BBC itself has cut off its own logo so many times...
Not really, not with this looking seeing as the Logo is now above the ticker.. not sure about their slogan though, they never had it one when the titles play anyway.
How is this working on a technical level? Can all of the broadcasters access each others satellite feeds? Or is there a BBC camera crew at the foreign office filming Adam Boulton?
It's really simple - the BBC phone up Sky and ask them for the technical details about their uplink, then they point a dish at that satellite. The same with the Al Jazeera live position. If the Foriegn office truck was a terrestrial link then it would have gone from Sky to the BBC on one of the dedicated lines between the 2.
Sky, the BBC and ITN share facilities all the time, in the form of pool feeds where they share footage. Similarly all will use third party services like those of AP, so all the technical bits are fairly easy as they are all used to linking up with each other
Interesting stuff. Sort of a threadjack:
Does that mean that the news organisations can theoretically steal each others feeds just by pointing their dishes in the right direction? Or is there any sort of encryption or password protection? Sort of answering my own question, I guess, I remember CNN getting annoyed when Fox stole their feed of the Columbia disaster - presumably this is how it was stolen?
Seems a bit odd that Sky News opted out half way...did they really have something so important to show for the next 15 minutes?
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I was disappointed with Sky leaving it early and CNN just not showing it. They could still show it in some late night slot if they wanted to.
Alan's lucky that he has a corporation like the bbc as his employer who will look out for him and can use their considerable facilities in this effort to gain his release. I hope too that this programme will speed Alan Johnson's return back to the uk and to his family.
Does that mean that the news organisations can theoretically steal each others feeds just by pointing their dishes in the right direction?
Doesn't even require that. Many feeds are on time shared unilateral EBU etc links.
Just a case of not recording, or at least Tx'ing the bits that aren't yours.
Does that mean that the news organisations can theoretically steal each others feeds just by pointing their dishes in the right direction?
It depends.
These days almost all uplinks/downlinks use digital compression - and this allows digital encryption. Some distribution links(particularly those used for sports) will use encryption. Others won't.
Many news links use no encryption - so if your dish is pointed at the right satellite, your receiver tuned to the right frequency, and in some cases you know the digital IDs of the video and audio streams (and in some cases you have a receiver capable of coping with 4:2:2 not 4:2:0 video) you can watch if you are in the footprint of the satellite.
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Or is there any sort of encryption or password protection? Sort of answering my own question, I guess, I remember CNN getting annoyed when Fox stole their feed of the Columbia disaster - presumably this is how it was stolen?
Suspect so...
Most broadcasters are grown up enough to differentiate between "being able to receive" and "having the right to re-transmit"... Just because you can access a signal doesn't mean you have the right to broadcast it as your own...
After all - huge numbers of non-BBC satellite broadcasts are downlinked by dishes at BBC TV Centre for non-BBC broadcast. (ITV often use BBC TV Centre dishes for their sports downlinks)
Sort of answering my own question, I guess, I remember CNN getting annoyed when Fox stole their feed of the Columbia disaster - presumably this is how it was stolen?
I think FOX stole the CNN pictures off air as I think CNN realised when they saw their own studio and presenter on FOX for a split second.
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Do the BBC usually use the web address