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14th January 2013 - The Worlds Newsroom (January 2013)

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LW
LeeWN
bakamann posted:
Interesting, even if there's no simulcast with BBC Two... BBCWN still does two sets of news bulletins every 11am BST.
Why don't they just revert to having WBR, or is it too much of a hassle?


Interesting indeed. Maybe the 1100 newshour is now the norm. But I'm still wondering why. Rolling Eyes
MY
myan
I think BBCWN and BBCN overnight simulcast still isn't free from certain bizarre effects. For instance, on BBCWN, at the bottom of the hour, right a second or two before they recap the headlines, when the commercial stops, it shows shots from the News channel for a second or two, with the orange globe effect flashing, and then the globe effect comes again to mark the actual start of the 'bottom of the hour' news recap. For instance, we get to see a second or two of the Parliament promo wordings from the news channel over at BBCWN. For those outside the UK, who aren't quite aware that it's an unintended effect from the simulcast, may be wondering what's happening, as their news channel seems like it's doctored. Probably they can do better to gauge the timing, and cut at the precise time.
LW
LeeWN
myan posted:
I think BBCWN and BBCN overnight simulcast still isn't free from certain bizarre effects. For instance, on BBCWN, at the bottom of the hour, right a second or two before they recap the headlines, when the commercial stops, it shows shots from the News channel for a second or two, with the orange globe effect flashing, and then the globe effect comes again to mark the actual start of the 'bottom of the hour' news recap. For instance, we get to see a second or two of the Parliament promo wordings from the news channel over at BBCWN. For those outside the UK, who aren't quite aware that it's an unintended effect from the simulcast, may be wondering what's happening, as their news channel seems like it's doctored. Probably they can do better to gauge the timing, and cut at the precise time.


Same goes before the overnight bulletins (and also BBCWN @ 5am) start, after the WN countdown, we see a bit of the NC countdown showing BH façade, which in my mind, World opts in too early.
MU
Muckspreader
LeeWorldNews posted:
myan posted:
I think BBCWN and BBCN overnight simulcast still isn't free from certain bizarre effects. For instance, on BBCWN, at the bottom of the hour, right a second or two before they recap the headlines, when the commercial stops, it shows shots from the News channel for a second or two, with the orange globe effect flashing, and then the globe effect comes again to mark the actual start of the 'bottom of the hour' news recap. For instance, we get to see a second or two of the Parliament promo wordings from the news channel over at BBCWN. For those outside the UK, who aren't quite aware that it's an unintended effect from the simulcast, may be wondering what's happening, as their news channel seems like it's doctored. Probably they can do better to gauge the timing, and cut at the precise time.


Same goes before the overnight bulletins (and also BBCWN @ 5am) start, after the WN countdown, we see a bit of the NC countdown showing BH façade, which in my mind, World opts in too early.


Or, more likely, the sustaining gallery is going too late.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Another slight technical meltdown, coming back from an opt out of GMT. Frozen incorrect images on the Newswall and on the screen. Failed music.
EX
excel99
Gary McEwan posted:
No BBC 2 simulcast today?

The BBC2 schedulers seem to treat it as filler. Rather poor IMO to be cancelling one of only two daytime WN bulletins available to UK viewers when repeats like The Weakest Link remain in the schedule. The films in the WN slot could easily air at 12pm instead and a later repeat cancelled

Though to be fair should point out when GMT was first added to the BBC2 schedule it was always cancelled when there was no Working Lunch/Daily Politics. At least now the WN bulletin now sometimes gets shown when there is no Daily Politics
NS
NickyS Founding member
BBC World News has a new head - he's the current editor of the BBC News at 6 and 10 James Stephenson
http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/24/james-stephenson-bbc-world-news
MY
myan
JamesWorldNews posted:
Another slight technical meltdown, coming back from an opt out of GMT. Frozen incorrect images on the Newswall and on the screen. Failed music.


I heard on news this morning that BBC decided to scrape off their plan of digitization which will cause quite a significant loss to the corporation. Also some senior executive is being put into investigation.

The BBC has scrapped a multimillion-pound attempt to create an internal digital archive after director-general Tony Hall said the scheme had “wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers’ money”.

The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) has cost the corporation £98.4 million [$184.4 million/USD] since it was started in 2008.

Mr Hall said: “The DMI project has wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers’ money and I saw no reason to allow that to continue which is why I have closed it.

At the heart of DMI’s approach was the strategy to link new digital production tools with a central, digital archive that would allow BBC staff and partners to develop, create, share and manage content digitally, from a desktop. DMI’s digital archive system would help production teams find content from the BBC’s vast archive. In addition, new digital production and desktop tools would help ensure future content and data could be captured, edited and made available at each step of the production process. (This, incidentally, is not to be confused with digitising the existing tape archive, which is a huge undertaking and not part of DMI.)

The contract to deliver the technology solution for DMI was originally awarded to Siemens, and was brought back in-house to the BBC by mutual agreement. In 2012, the first parts of DMI were rolled out across the BBC, including the Fabric Archive Database – a system to allow users to search and request access to the BBC’s archive of tapes and other media. In addition, wide ranging technical infrastructure was installed to underpin the move to a digital, tapeless way of working for the future.

See Also: BBC abandons £100m digital project (via BBC News)

In a letter to Margaret Hodge, chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, the BBC Trust’s Anthony Fry revealed the project had generated “little or no assets”.

“It is of utmost concern to us that a project which had already failed to deliver value for money in its early stages has now spent so much more of licence fee payers’ money,” he said.

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John Linwood, the BBC’s chief technology officer, has been suspended.


Is this because of the multiple technical failures that we've seen plaguing the BBC since it's on-air from the new broadcasting house this year?
HA
harshy Founding member
They are using Mosart at new broadcasting house its controlling everything but its been taken to its limits hence we are seeing occasional bleeps and sometimes major ones, majority of the time its ok though, makes it exciting for us tv forumers though.

As for BBC World News Middle East I think it's a refeed sadly of the European version
Last edited by harshy on 25 May 2013 11:30am
NG
noggin Founding member
myan posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
Another slight technical meltdown, coming back from an opt out of GMT. Frozen incorrect images on the Newswall and on the screen. Failed music.


I heard on news this morning that BBC decided to scrape off their plan of digitization which will cause quite a significant loss to the corporation. Also some senior executive is being put into investigation.

Is this because of the multiple technical failures that we've seen plaguing the BBC since it's on-air from the new broadcasting house this year?


No - totally different issue. The scrapped initiative, DMI, was for non-News production, and nothing to do with the BBC News Mosart automation and Jupiter production systems.

The main issue with DMI was that it was trying to be all things to all people using heavy amounts of bespoke technology. When it was kicked off there probably wasn't a 'market' solution available to do it all, but it was ambitious, and massively delayed. This delay allowed the market to catch up and there are now multiple solutions that can deliver much of the functionality various programme and support areas need without having to develop an in-house system.
DT
DTV
Why is there no dog or ticker?
Last edited by DTV on 27 May 2013 10:36am
HA
harshy Founding member
I don't think it's does the branded shows noticed the ticker and dog is currently missing.

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