Reuters were refeeding the Eurovision Council feed from Europe by Satellite (EbS), Not sure why BBC go via Reuters rather than direct to EbS.
Maybe Reuters is a permanent “source” in the gallery where EbS isn’t?
Aye that makes most sense
Atleast that’s what’s I would assume, many galleries will have it set up so they don’t have to route it to the control room switcher. You can see the gallery stack in the multiviewer of various outside sources, however the monitor next to it has (in the past) showed various news agencies along with competitors.
Cameras went AWOL at the TOTH just before Sportsday. The cameras went as they usually do to Ben Brown before the cameras turning around to face the desk before going back to the normal position after the pictures were played.
Such a momentous day in terms of news, yet the sorry excuse of the BBC News Channel is just playing pre-recorded puff programmes.
Within the space of an hour, the same edition of The Film Review with Mark Kermode has aired twice! Newswatch has also broadcast, in addition to a sports bulletin.
This means in the space of 75 minutes; we have probably only had 22 minutes worth of live news.
Is it momentous though - once again ultimately nothing has changed.
Agreed ...
Any sensible politician, is making there way back to their constituencies rather than pontificating on TV. Today's chapter was effectively done and dusted by 6pm if not earlier, regurgitating since then only raises the temperature.
Indeed normal programming is precisely what's needed tonight.
Maybe Reuters is a permanent “source” in the gallery where EbS isn’t?
Aye that makes most sense
Atleast that’s what’s I would assume, many galleries will have it set up so they don’t have to route it to the control room switcher. You can see the gallery stack in the multiviewer of various outside sources, however the monitor next to it has (in the past) showed various news agencies along with competitors.
There's a very big distinction between monitoring feeds (i.e. what you can see in a control room) and outside source feeds (i.e. what you can cut to air). There are many feeds you want to monitor but absolutely never want to be able to cut to air on an outside source (like your competitors)
Some agency feeds are permanently downlinked and will have permanent dedicated sources on a station router (EVN, Reuters etc.). Other sources will need to be booked 'ad hoc' and allocated to non-dedicated sources on the station router (in the BBC these are often called News Packages)
Noggin will be able to correct me if I’m wrong - but from what I can remember - in TVC sports channels available on the desktop ringmain had ‘Sports Access Viewing Feed’ added across the bottom of the picture to stop them ending up on air! Incoming feeds of sports events (mostly those the BBC had rights to, but sometimes those that might be ‘passing through’) might end up on unlabelled news packages- so it was always worth a look through them. Far less of that since the move to NBH, especially with Sport (and most of Sports News) being in Salford.
I can’t remember whether EbS is a permanently available feed in NBH. I think it might be, if it isn’t I’d expect it to be booked a lot of the time at the moment. Some events will be carried on EVN too. Possibly the gallery had Reuters selected as a backup feed.
