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

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DT
DTV
Less than a month until Outside Source is launched on BBC World News, have we heard any more about it.
GH
George Hill
DTV posted:
Less than a month until Outside Source is launched on BBC World News, have we heard any more about it.


Ros Atkins says they are filming bits of the radio version today for a promo. How do you know it is less than a month? I thought we only knew it was coming in early 2014.
AN
all new Phil

I understand the people at BBC News responsible for purchasing the Mosart playout system (what were they on ? ) have left the BBC. Did they get a payoff ? If so I would like my licence money back please.

Will BBC News now be looking to a more reliable system or is the department financially broke from purchasing Mosart ?
I also understand nobody likes using the system as it is inflexible when it comes to running order change which you would think would of been the first question to ask about when buying such an important item. The only people I hear saying it is good are the managers but I guess as so much of our money has been spent they have to. I wonder if they will be next to be shown the door,
I doubt it, not at the BBC.
I would not survive 5 minutes in my job if I made such decisions.

I feel sorry for the presenters who are left high and dry each time there is a problem, and can understand why so many are leaving.
Having seen the mistakes that have been uploaded to You Tube why is it the likes of Sky and CNN do not have the amount of problems that the BBC News output seems to be inflicted with.

If people can't cope with the odd camera going the wrong way, then maybe they aren't cut out for working somewhere like the BBC.
GE
thegeek Founding member
A year ago these bulletins were still coming from TVC (and the correct day's bulletin was being shown), three weeks later they'd moved to NBH.

http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/grabs/ba_bbc1.png

well, er, I suppose that would have worked for the old graphics.

Looking at their website, it seems that they're still very tape-based. In fact, there's a hint that they're recording stuff off-air onto Hi-8. Presumably they then need to deliver a tape (or one for every flight?) to Heathrow and Gatwick each morning, though that doesn't explain why programmes can be as much as a week out of date. Last time I flew BA long-haul, I think the programme was only a day or two out of date.

Up until a few years ago, N8 would use some of their back half-hours (possibly 0830 and 1530?) to do a short bulletin for the Heathrow Express, complete with namecheck and 'RECORDED' bug. I think this was delivered by tape too.
HA
harshy Founding member
Yeah it hasn't been great has it to be fair though it probably is reliable but the Beeb trying to push boundaries has probably what's caused the constant technical hiccups. Not a great advert for mosart it has to be said.
HA
harshy Founding member

I understand the people at BBC News responsible for purchasing the Mosart playout system (what were they on ? ) have left the BBC. Did they get a payoff ? If so I would like my licence money back please.

Will BBC News now be looking to a more reliable system or is the department financially broke from purchasing Mosart ?
I also understand nobody likes using the system as it is inflexible when it comes to running order change which you would think would of been the first question to ask about when buying such an important item. The only people I hear saying it is good are the managers but I guess as so much of our money has been spent they have to. I wonder if they will be next to be shown the door,
I doubt it, not at the BBC.
I would not survive 5 minutes in my job if I made such decisions.

I feel sorry for the presenters who are left high and dry each time there is a problem, and can understand why so many are leaving.
Having seen the mistakes that have been uploaded to You Tube why is it the likes of Sky and CNN do not have the amount of problems that the BBC News output seems to be inflicted with.

If people can't cope with the odd camera going the wrong way, then maybe they aren't cut out for working somewhere like the BBC.


I think the point is it keeps on happening with bbc news you don't see it happening at sky and cnn, it's because the Beeb have gone for automation but it only seems to work properly 85% of the time.
DT
DTV
DTV posted:
Less than a month until Outside Source is launched on BBC World News, have we heard any more about it.


Ros Atkins says they are filming bits of the radio version today for a promo. How do you know it is less than a month? I thought we only knew it was coming in early 2014.


The original press release says February 17th
DO
dosxuk
I think the point is it keeps on happening with bbc news you don't see it happening at sky and cnn, it's because the Beeb have gone for automation but it only seems to work properly 85% of the time.


85%? So on average 9 minutes of every hour are disrupted by automation issues? Confused
DT
DTV
I think the point is it keeps on happening with bbc news you don't see it happening at sky and cnn, it's because the Beeb have gone for automation but it only seems to work properly 85% of the time.


85%? So on average 9 minutes of every hour are disrupted by automation issues? Confused


The thing is people on this forum are making out that it happens every couple of minutes, the reality is however that it happens what once maybe twice a day on the News Channel and often has entertaining effects. It's not really much worse than N8 at Television Centre and does not warrant any more money being wasted on a new system. Yes real cameramen don't make mistakes as often as this but the only reason that you didn't get so many camera errors at TVC is that they were practically static in N6 and N8
DO
dosxuk
A rough calculation, of one 20 second automation fault per day, only counting the live broadcasts, gives a correct working time of 99.96%.
HA
harshy Founding member
I think the point is it keeps on happening with bbc news you don't see it happening at sky and cnn, it's because the Beeb have gone for automation but it only seems to work properly 85% of the time.


85%? So on average 9 minutes of every hour are disrupted by automation issues? Confused

I should have said 85% over a 11 month period
DT
DTV
I think the point is it keeps on happening with bbc news you don't see it happening at sky and cnn, it's because the Beeb have gone for automation but it only seems to work properly 85% of the time.


85%? So on average 9 minutes of every hour are disrupted by automation issues? Confused

I should have said 85% over a 11 month period


So the equivalent of about 50 days worth of Broadcasting in the last 11 months were plagued by automation issues

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