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FO
FanOfTV99
Brekkie posted:
Is Sky Sports News still going then?


It is but they've pre recorded 30 minutes of news in the morning and they repeat it and then pre record another 30 minutes in the afternoon.
HA
harshy Founding member
Was it on the commercial bbc channels like bbc entertainment, bbc first?
GE
thegeek Founding member
VMPhil posted:
Sky One’s broadcast of The Queen included a short bit at the very start with Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News saying ‘welcome to all our Sky channels’, and briefly fading back to him at the end before being cut off.

I enjoyed how most channels had nice respectful EPG listings like "An Address by Her Majesty The Queen", "HM The Queen", and Channel 4 going slightly off-grid by calling it "The Queen's Speech" - then Sky One went with the shouty "VIRUS PANDEMIC: HM The Queen"
RK
Rkolsen
Ste posted:
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Countdown to the Queen's broadcast as shown on the Huff Post Facebook Live stream.


Was it played out to all broadcasters at once or did Sky, ITV, and others have their own version?
Last edited by Rkolsen on 5 April 2020 8:47pm
DV
DVB Cornwall
Watching the F1 VGP on SSF1 via NOWTV the Queen's broadcast was missing, however there was a 'welcome back to UK viewers' at around 2007, odd. Was it shown across Sky Sports or not?
MA
mapperuo
Rkolsen posted:
Ste posted:
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Countdown to the Queen's broadcast as shown on the Huff Post Facebook Live stream.


Was it played out to all broadcasters at once or did Sky, ITV, and others have their own version?


The Sky Enex feed on 16e was of the same VT card so I believe it was fed from BBC to all media
GE
thegeek Founding member
Rkolsen posted:
Ste posted:
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Countdown to the Queen's broadcast as shown on the Huff Post Facebook Live stream.


Was it played out to all broadcasters at once or did Sky, ITV, and others have their own version?

Usually the Christmas message would be played out to BT Tower by whoever produced it a few days in advance, and also at the TX time for anyone who missed it. I'd imagine this would be the same, perhaps with a DPP file delivery available too.
RK
Rkolsen
mapperuo posted:
Rkolsen posted:
Ste posted:
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Countdown to the Queen's broadcast as shown on the Huff Post Facebook Live stream.


Was it played out to all broadcasters at once or did Sky, ITV, and others have their own version?


The Sky Enex feed on 16e was of the same VT card so I believe it was fed from BBC to all media


Enex? MSNBC also took it, they joined after the title card and the first word was cut off. So I assume they were getting it live from wherever.
IS
Inspector Sands
Markymark posted:
welshkid posted:
mapperuo posted:




Would there normally be backup pool feeds supplied from a central Number 10 feed of something like this?

Appreciate things are far from normal, and even if they were it is a Sunday afternoon


It might have just been simply a broken connector in the wall box. Don't know whether the connection is fibre, or copper there, I'm slightly surprised there wasn't a redundant route either from the same box, or another.

No idea if it was a wallbox outside or one inside number 10 that links to the ones outside. I think that the BBC, ITN and Sky and maybe some others have their own connectivity to/from Downing Street.

No idea which broadcaster was handling the presser feed today but presumably if the issue was in theirs then swapping over to another broadcasters might be possible.... if the type of connection is compatible and the wall box isn't locked!
VM
VMPhil
thegeek posted:
VMPhil posted:
Sky One’s broadcast of The Queen included a short bit at the very start with Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News saying ‘welcome to all our Sky channels’, and briefly fading back to him at the end before being cut off.

I enjoyed how most channels had nice respectful EPG listings like "An Address by Her Majesty The Queen", "HM The Queen", and Channel 4 going slightly off-grid by calling it "The Queen's Speech" - then Sky One went with the shouty "VIRUS PANDEMIC: HM The Queen"

On Virgin they were all ‘An Address by Her Majesty The Queen’ apart from ‘The Queen’s Speech: Channel 4 News Special’.
DV
DVB Cornwall


VA
valley
Rkolsen posted:
mapperuo posted:
Rkolsen posted:

Was it played out to all broadcasters at once or did Sky, ITV, and others have their own version?


The Sky Enex feed on 16e was of the same VT card so I believe it was fed from BBC to all media


Enex? MSNBC also took it, they joined after the title card and the first word was cut off. So I assume they were getting it live from wherever.


ENEX: https://enex.lu/public/

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