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I think maybe they just haven't realised that 'BBC Channel Islands' is trying to be it's own region now. Before the re-brand Spotlight CI would do a small promo of what would be coming up 'later in the programme' and they would sign off with 'we're going to hand you over now to (presenters names)' but now they just end with a generic goodbye and give no promo at all. Fair enough if they played an end sting or something, but they don't do that either. It just cuts straight into Plymouth.
Oh, that sounds very poor
Surely they really ought to use a sting.
The beauty of a sting is, of course, that it can cover the seam better.
For example, if the sting takes 3-seconds to animate (?), the Oxford presenter presumably has to stop talking at least 5-seconds before the exact opt-in moment, as it's far better to have a "pregnant pause" at the end of the sting*, rather than either crashing-out of the sting too early, or crashing into Southampton too late/mid-sentence.
(*Seeings as the sting never really "ends" as such, as it continues gently animating indefinately, like a screensaver, with the drumbeat bed audio continuing)
Pesumably, for example, if Plymouth happened to be 7-seconds behind schedule when St Helier are finished, they'd just have to linger on the wideshot of the CI presenter, as their "pregnant pause" until Plymouth are ready for them.
This would leave the poor old CI presenter with egg-on-their-face, having to cover by either smiling vacuously, or shuffling papers or whatever. Hence, a sting would be better.
Mr-Stabby posted:
Inflatable Dartboard posted:
Do the Plymouth presenters say anything like "And at this point we welcome Channel Islands viewers to the programme?". If not, it must seem a bit weird to CI viewers, to get such a firm *end* from St Helier, but for the Plymouth stuff to start in a way that probably feels too obviously *mid-programme* like.
I think maybe they just haven't realised that 'BBC Channel Islands' is trying to be it's own region now. Before the re-brand Spotlight CI would do a small promo of what would be coming up 'later in the programme' and they would sign off with 'we're going to hand you over now to (presenters names)' but now they just end with a generic goodbye and give no promo at all. Fair enough if they played an end sting or something, but they don't do that either. It just cuts straight into Plymouth.
Oh, that sounds very poor
Surely they really ought to use a sting.
The beauty of a sting is, of course, that it can cover the seam better.
For example, if the sting takes 3-seconds to animate (?), the Oxford presenter presumably has to stop talking at least 5-seconds before the exact opt-in moment, as it's far better to have a "pregnant pause" at the end of the sting*, rather than either crashing-out of the sting too early, or crashing into Southampton too late/mid-sentence.
(*Seeings as the sting never really "ends" as such, as it continues gently animating indefinately, like a screensaver, with the drumbeat bed audio continuing)
Pesumably, for example, if Plymouth happened to be 7-seconds behind schedule when St Helier are finished, they'd just have to linger on the wideshot of the CI presenter, as their "pregnant pause" until Plymouth are ready for them.
This would leave the poor old CI presenter with egg-on-their-face, having to cover by either smiling vacuously, or shuffling papers or whatever. Hence, a sting would be better.
