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BBC National News: Presentation

(April 2008)

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MA
Markymark
Mike W posted:
noggin posted:

The problem back then, before analogue switch off, was that the captions would often only go out on analogue (as the digital opt-switch wasn't fired as the network source still had a tally on the vision mixer, and that was what fired the digital opt-switch with the matched delay) OR if you had a secondary network source (as some regions did to force a digital opt with network on the desk) you'd end up with soft 14:9 pillarboxed network sources on the 16:9 digital network (as the analogue network 'leaked' onto digital)

That's really interesting, cheers noggin!

So what's the state of play today, given I understand some regions still have the analogue opt thing working but it just gets nowhere due to transmitters being powered down?


BBC Hull still has ?/had bursts of '14:9 soft PAL analogue' after they had DSO'd, for some reason, or has that stopped now. Surely the 'NET 1 'analogue' distribution circuits have ceased ?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Leeds generally put a cue dot on top of their output, soft opt and then once they're convinced they're in circuit, fade the cue dot out.

Made a right mess of the end of Pointless when their sound desk was playing up a few weeks ago!
JB
JasonB
No sound on the one right now.
PC
Paul Clark
Brief lower third apology caption, and sound now back.
JA
james
Paul Clark posted:
Brief lower third apology caption, and sound now back.


It seems they flicked onto the news channel feed for a few seconds before cutting back. Interestingly the opt-outs had full sound.
CH
chris
james posted:
Paul Clark posted:
Brief lower third apology caption, and sound now back.


It seems they flicked onto the news channel feed for a few seconds before cutting back. Interestingly the opt-outs had full sound.


There were problems at the TOTH too. Images not playing so Sian in vision for much of the somewhat short headline sequence and then the programme didn't start with the story which was top in the headline sequence. Sian also said "the main news this morning".

EDIT:Oh maybe you were talking about the TOTH - I was watching on News 24. Sian just made an apology.
Last edited by chris on 13 December 2012 1:32pm
PC
Paul Clark
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/90636698/BBCNEWS-ONE-PATHE.jpg

What's 'British Pathi', then?
CH
chris
Mistakes again on the one, or was that just the North West? I think we may have opted out too early. Roger had to repeat the NW headlines.
KE
kernow
chris posted:
Mistakes again on the one, or was that just the North West? I think we may have opted out too early. Roger had to repeat the NW headlines.

South Today had the headlines followed by around 15 seconds of an animated South Today slide.
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House
kernow posted:
chris posted:
Mistakes again on the one, or was that just the North West? I think we may have opted out too early. Roger had to repeat the NW headlines.

South Today had the headlines followed by around 15 seconds of an animated South Today slide.


Same for NE&C. Assuming every region didn't opt out early, was there a problem on the NC feed?
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DrewF
House posted:
kernow posted:
chris posted:
Mistakes again on the one, or was that just the North West? I think we may have opted out too early. Roger had to repeat the NW headlines.

South Today had the headlines followed by around 15 seconds of an animated South Today slide.


Same for NE&C. Assuming every region didn't opt out early, was there a problem on the NC feed?


London seemed to opt fine judging by the rewind on BBC iPlayer.
CH
chris
DrewF posted:
House posted:
kernow posted:
chris posted:
Mistakes again on the one, or was that just the North West? I think we may have opted out too early. Roger had to repeat the NW headlines.

South Today had the headlines followed by around 15 seconds of an animated South Today slide.


Same for NE&C. Assuming every region didn't opt out early, was there a problem on the NC feed?


London seemed to opt fine judging by the rewind on BBC iPlayer.


What was the last headline? NWT opted out after the Scottish census story. Sian's intonation did make it sound like the last story.

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