BBC World News: Reith look onwards

Are Viz engines not remotely controllable?

With CasparCG you can send commands to the server using its AMCP protocol - any client (web interface, locally built app, even a telnet session) on the same network would be able to fire the command.

Could the gallery in Singapore not have access to the graphics being played out in London?

I think it’s smart to have the sports graphics totally separate from the news ones – it makes the BBC Sport output more standalone and distinctive.

They are. But from what I understand is that because the BOTH overnight is different between the domestic output and international. When ABR is live the UK does something else. ABR is produced locally in Singapore and sent out from there for distribution. I assume they could remotely control VizRT but it would have to go through a different path at NBH as Studio C’s equipment is live for domestic output. It was mentioned when they got the new Singapore studio it wouldn’t be fiscally smart to install their own automation and VizRT system given how little the studio is on air and producing a program by itself.


It’s very nice that they’re using time zones. Before they would pick a a few random cities and you would have to think what time zone it was in. Usually they’d pick an east coast city but not always. I could easily identify US cities but Canadian and the very rare Mexican ones I would have to google.

Latin America is also using the 14:9 feed, despite many of our channels broadcasting in 16:9 (and in HD) for the past decade.

I’ve noticed the generic BBC World News bulletins have the BBC News channel globes on their screens now, not the nice World News orangey ones. Not a fan of the red ones.

At 20:00 BST BBC World News is re-showing Global, with a Recorded banner across the top - in Reith, of course.

The channel briefly stalled at the end of the countdown.

Bad clash of graphics as you can see the recorded ticker and graphics from the peevious hour underneath the current ticker and graphics. Surely the recorded feed should be clean of ticker??

Can't they just simulcast News channel when they have problems like these? Instead of replaying a 2 hour old bulletin.

The Outside Source doors appeared frozen a few moments ago, then the Europe feed showed a trailer featuring the CAT time zone (Africa)?


Now Ros is on. The screen had problems.

Am I right in thinking the News Channel got Outside Source at 20:00 one day this week? I seem to recall Christian Fraser saying it was up next at the end of Beyond 100 Days.

What's the music that now plays over that 'coming up slide' just before the TOTH countdown - it sounds like Lowe and almost as if it's part of a new breakfiller?

Indeed, David Lowe has written new beds for promo and trails.