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Andrew Founding member
deejay posted:

AFAIK the only regular English regional opt left on BBC TWO is "The Superleague Show", which goes out from Leeds accross the North of England on Sundays. Coincidentally, this opt is often on-air at the same time as The Politics Show, so Leeds' new premises were specifically built with areas designed to be opted on both channels simultaneously.

Which as it happens is airing on BBC ONE tommorow at 12 noon, due to BBC TWO schedulers not scheduling a proper opt-out-able slot.
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Pete Founding member
r2ro posted:
Allan100 posted:
(Bill said something about pressing tv2 what does that mean exactly?).

you would have to press the tv button on your digital remote to switch to the analogue television signal and then press 2 to change to your regional BBC TWO.


well more accurately press TV to put the remote into TV mode so it alters things on the set instead of the digibox, then 2 so it changes to channel 2 on the TV.
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Steve in Pudsey
deejay posted:
AFAIK the only regular English regional opt left on BBC TWO is "The Superleague Show", which goes out from Leeds accross the North of England on Sundays. Coincidentally, this opt is often on-air at the same time as The Politics Show, so Leeds' new premises were specifically built with areas designed to be opted on both channels simultaneously.


I was under the impression that most regions weren't set up be able to opt on both networks simultaneously (something to do with only being able to genlock to one network), did Newcastle and Manchester need some bodging to be able to take a programme from Leeds on BBC2 and do their own thing on BBC1?
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tvmercia Founding member
Steve in Pudsey posted:
deejay posted:
AFAIK the only regular English regional opt left on BBC TWO is "The Superleague Show", which goes out from Leeds accross the North of England on Sundays. Coincidentally, this opt is often on-air at the same time as The Politics Show, so Leeds' new premises were specifically built with areas designed to be opted on both channels simultaneously.


I was under the impression that most regions weren't set up be able to opt on both networks simultaneously (something to do with only being able to genlock to one network), did Newcastle and Manchester need some bodging to be able to take a programme from Leeds on BBC2 and do their own thing on BBC1?

bbc midlands' new set up at the mailbox (apperently) does allow for opting on both networks (analogue only on bbc two, obviously) at the same time by utilising the smaller short bulletin gallery alongside the main gallery. so i guess its fairly easy for newcastle and manchester to opt on both to feed the output of leeds to bbc two and their own thing to bbc one?
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r2ro
Because of the news BBC TWO was therefore running late. Did anyone see the announcement by Peter Offer just before 23.00? I'm not sure if it was deliberate but the announcement went: 'this is BBC TWO where it's all about the timing. Running later than planned containing strong language, Al Paccino (?) stars in [Name of film]'.
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Steve in Pudsey
tvmercia posted:
bbc midlands' new set up at the mailbox (apperently) does allow for opting on both networks (analogue only on bbc two, obviously) at the same time by utilising the smaller short bulletin gallery alongside the main gallery. so i guess its fairly easy for newcastle and manchester to opt on both to feed the output of leeds to bbc two and their own thing to bbc one?


I think most regions have two galleries, the main studio and the self-op pres area, and I think there's also the possibility of putting an edit suite to air if it's simply a case of playing out something from tape.

But in order to do the opt (or at least to opt cleanly) you have to synchronise the gallery with the network you are opting into. In many regions the synch pulse chain applies to the whole building, so you couldn't synch the main gallery with BBC1 and the second gallery with BBC2.

Apparently some of the smaller regions are/were able to feed BBC2 from a larger region which was able to opt simultaneously whilst still doing their own stuff on BBC. South and South West could take BBC2 West's output from Bristol and opt independently on BBC1. I wonder if a similar arrangement happenned for the Superleague Show, particularly as the first series came from BBC Manchester, with Leeds and Newcastle relaying their feed?

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