Although I guess there's less need for it to be there now... doesn't the studio at Fremont's output travel several thousand miles to get to the transmitter? (fibre to Plymouth then up to Astra and back down)
I'd hope that NE&C would spin Cumbria off and make a seperate programme or Opt from Carlisle before they start fussing about proper 16:9 broadcasting. It's all very well saying "oh the programme would look MUCH better in full 16:9 but if the programme is hopeless in the first place what's the point?!
Incidentaly, TTTV can broadcast in full 16:9 (and all of their reports are filmed in 16:9 too apparently) so why do they show it in 4:3. The promos for it in the 5pm hour are all in 16:9.
Although I guess there's less need for it to be there now... doesn't the studio at Fremont's output travel several thousand miles to get to the transmitter? (fibre to Plymouth then up to Astra and back down)
Yep - the analogue transmitters on the Channel Islands are now fed via Astra Digital (BBC One Channel Islands feed) - the output of the Jersey studio is fed via a number of digital circuits grouped together to provide a single 8Mbs vision circuit from Jersey to Plymouth. In Plymouth this vision signal is dropped into and out of the BBC One South West digital feed and fed to London to uplink to the transmitter.
However it may still be possible for the Jersey studio to opt-out of the analogue transmitter feed - to cope with a major failure in Plymouth for example.
Seeing as the others are called "BBC Birmingham", "BBC Southampton" etc etc, is it not called "BBC St Helier" then?
Those designations were entirely chosen by me - they aren't typical. I didn't call it BBC St Helier because AIUI the studios aren't in St Helier - they are still in the Fremont Point transmitter garage. I suppose I could have called it BBC Fremont Point (but I don't know how clear that would be...)
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BBC... Norwich... was a vintage [building] and completely failed to meet even the most basic disability legislation - it had no lifts and was on about 15 levels!
Didn't St Catherine's only have two/three actual "storeys" as such? If so, then I presume that the 15 "levels" you've stated includes "split-level" type stuff????
The 15 levels took into account steps up/down between rooms. There were 4 main "storeys" (Basement/Cellar, Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor/Attic) but all of these had bits of various heights and little steps up and down all over the place.
From memory the only place that was directly wheelchair accessible from the outside world was the actual studio floor, accessible via the back door.
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Wherever possible the BBC is trying to locate news operations closer to city centres rather than further away - as they feel the local operations should be part of the community rather than more remote.
Amazing how quickly the BBC seem to have become more regionally committed than ITV.
I've been thinking that for quite a a while! It's basically a complete reversal of how things were (BBC regionality vs ITV regionality) in 1955!
Who in 1955 would have ever predicted this?
Yep - though how much this can continue in the current "belt-tightening" climate of the BBC is unclear. I suspect that a move of some network production to Manchester is inevitable - but I wouldn't expect many more multi-million pound regional centres to be commissioned.
I'd hope that NE&C would spin Cumbria off and make a seperate programme or Opt from Carlisle before they start fussing about proper 16:9 broadcasting. It's all very well saying "oh the programme would look MUCH better in full 16:9 but if the programme is hopeless in the first place what's the point?!
why do they need to spin off Cumbria? Don't you know NOTHING happens up there.
Yep - though how much this can continue in the current "belt-tightening" climate of the BBC is unclear. I suspect that a move of some network production to Manchester is inevitable - but I wouldn't expect many more multi-million pound regional centres to be commissioned.
Although I believe that the actual production systems were bought in one job lot at the start of the refurbishment project. So for most of the regions it's just a case of funding installation, training and the changeover itself
I'd hope that NE&C would spin Cumbria off and make a seperate programme or Opt from Carlisle before they start fussing about proper 16:9 broadcasting. It's all very well saying "oh the programme would look MUCH better in full 16:9 but if the programme is hopeless in the first place what's the point?!
why do they need to spin off Cumbria? Don't you know NOTHING happens up there.
Well perhaps not fully - just an opt or something. Teeside/North Yorkshire certainly should have one.
