Could BBC News not create a backup hub in Salford in case NBH goes down? They have got the sports studios and the Breakfast studio and presenters which they could use easily as backup, also Julian Woricker appears to based there on a Monday and Tuesday for You & Yours on BBC Radio 4. Unless Salford is routed via London for Breakfast and sports programmes, isn't this possible?
If WN and NC were simulcasting, could the NC take a wide shot camera and play a sting, whilst the WN keep the middle camera and continue their programme?
If WN and NC were simulcasting, could the NC take a wide shot camera and play a sting, whilst the WN keep the middle camera and continue their programme?
I suspect not. Although I'm sure someone can prove me wrong.
Could be that, or perhaps the way the feed is being routed from Salford to NBH. Sometimes routing can cause a displacement of a few pixels.
It's not the routing so much as any devices it goes through on the way. VT machines for example can move the video up a line when in E-E mode... not that it'll be a VT in this case but probably some encoder or processor set wrongly
The ticker has moved back up the screen today again to the original place so it was Broadcasting House that moved its graphics lower last night.
If WN and NC were simulcasting, could the NC take a wide shot camera and play a sting, whilst the WN keep the middle camera and continue their programme?
I'm sure that would be possible.
Assuming NC is taking WN's output, then the WN gallery could feed the wide shot camera on an ISO feed which the NC gallery would take as an OS in addition to the main WN output.
If WN and NC were simulcasting, could the NC take a wide shot camera and play a sting, whilst the WN keep the middle camera and continue their programme?
I'm sure that would be possible.
Assuming NC is taking WN's output, then the WN gallery could feed the wide shot camera on an ISO feed which the NC gallery would take as an OS in addition to the main WN output.
Would the NC Gallery be taking the feed from the WN gallery?
If WN and NC were simulcasting, could the NC take a wide shot camera and play a sting, whilst the WN keep the middle camera and continue their programme?
I'm sure that would be possible.
Assuming NC is taking WN's output, then the WN gallery could feed the wide shot camera on an ISO feed which the NC gallery would take as an OS in addition to the main WN output.
Would the NC Gallery be taking the feed from the WN gallery?
Essentially yes. The NC Gallery would take the main (or clean) WN output for most of the simulcast and take WN's ISO output for the wide shot when NC splits off to do their own thing.
The ISO output is just another output from the gallery that can be fed with any source available to the vision mixer. In this case it'd be one of the cameras. IIRC all the gallery ISO feeds are avaiable on BNCS (the OS routing system) so can easily be routed to a gallery OS.
Of course, the WN gallery would need to know in advance of NC's intention to do this so they can route the camera to the ISO output.
Could BBC News not create a backup hub in Salford in case NBH goes down? They have got the sports studios and the Breakfast studio and presenters which they could use easily as backup, also Julian Woricker appears to based there on a Monday and Tuesday for You & Yours on BBC Radio 4. Unless Salford is routed via London for Breakfast and sports programmes, isn't this possible?
I believe part of the plans already includes use of Salford's news studio - alongside Birmingham's Broadcast Support role and somewhere near London
If Salford were ever used (which I somehow can't imagine ever happening, but could be proved wrong) surely they'd use the Breakfast/ North West Tonight studio before they'd use the sports studio? As temporary cover before Millbank could get on air, the small NWT Breakfast/ Sunday Politics set would more than suffice, and with the right background most viewers wouldn't even suss they weren't in their usual studios. Contrast this to a black and yellow studio with 'BBC Sport' branding everywhere, and the sports studio would make no sense.
I can't imagine that a plan of action for if/when BH is forced to evacuate isn't in place.
I reckon it'll probably look something like when there's strike action, pre recorded bulletin followed by half hour bulletins presented from, I'd say Westminister that go out on both Domestic ad World, followed by a prerecorded Click or Hardtalk or Meet the Author. All controlled by Red Bee.
