JA
Continuity for Tyne Tees, Granada, Border and Yorkshire was combined into one operation before being moved to London with the removal of regional branding. They never merged the playout systems, did they? If YTV went down, Tyne Tees, and if they're also KOed, Granada, would pick up the slack. Central would be the last resort if the entire Northern Macro was incapacitated.
If YTV was seriously affected wouldn't the whole of the north of England get Central?
Any news of Radio Aire who are right next to YTV?
Any news of Radio Aire who are right next to YTV?
MA
Continuity for Tyne Tees, Granada, Border and Yorkshire was combined into one operation before being moved to London with the removal of regional branding. They never merged the playout systems, did they? If YTV went down, Tyne Tees, and if they're also KOed, Granada, would pick up the slack. Central would be the last resort if the entire Northern Macro was incapacitated.
Playout of YTV, Granada, TTTV, Border, and Central is all handled by Ericsson's playout centre in Leeds (that started life over 20 years ago performing playout for YTV and TTTV). It's operates as a slave to Chiswick, who under normal circumstances run the ITV network schedule, and provide the continuity (even for the northern regions). There are no playout facilities at Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle or Carlisle, if Leeds were to go down, Chiswick would step in (and vice versa). No ITV regional studio is directly connected to their transmitter(s) either, (except you could argue for YTV).
If YTV was seriously affected wouldn't the whole of the north of England get Central?
Any news of Radio Aire who are right next to YTV?
Any news of Radio Aire who are right next to YTV?
Playout of YTV, Granada, TTTV, Border, and Central is all handled by Ericsson's playout centre in Leeds (that started life over 20 years ago performing playout for YTV and TTTV). It's operates as a slave to Chiswick, who under normal circumstances run the ITV network schedule, and provide the continuity (even for the northern regions). There are no playout facilities at Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle or Carlisle, if Leeds were to go down, Chiswick would step in (and vice versa). No ITV regional studio is directly connected to their transmitter(s) either, (except you could argue for YTV).
AN
Andrew
Founding member
How many 'Leeds' regions would Chiswick have the ability to provide if Leeds went down? There must be at least 8 sub regions coming out of Leeds?
(Does Border still have 2 sub regions? Does Central South still exist for advertising purposes?)
Would everyone get one region either an existing southern one, or a selected northern one?
(Does Border still have 2 sub regions? Does Central South still exist for advertising purposes?)
Would everyone get one region either an existing southern one, or a selected northern one?
SP
Well when the (pre-Chiswick) STC at the South Bank went down the southern regions all got a special joint bulletin from Central.
MA
I've lost track of Central South (aka Oxford Tx) It used to be played out from the STC (while Cen E and W were played out from Leeds). It once carried 'Midlands' ads and non news programming, but carried the Meridian produced local news that Hannington (aka Mer N) also showed. I think in recent years Oxford has completely
transferred over to Meridian, and is now an exact copy of Hannington (aka Meridian Thames Valley) ?
How many 'Leeds' regions would Chiswick have the ability to provide if Leeds went down? There must be at least 8 sub regions coming out of Leeds?
(Does Border still have 2 sub regions? Does Central South still exist for advertising purposes?)
(Does Border still have 2 sub regions? Does Central South still exist for advertising purposes?)
I've lost track of Central South (aka Oxford Tx) It used to be played out from the STC (while Cen E and W were played out from Leeds). It once carried 'Midlands' ads and non news programming, but carried the Meridian produced local news that Hannington (aka Mer N) also showed. I think in recent years Oxford has completely
transferred over to Meridian, and is now an exact copy of Hannington (aka Meridian Thames Valley) ?
RD
I've lost track of Central South (aka Oxford Tx) It used to be played out from the STC (while Cen E and W were played out from Leeds). It once carried 'Midlands' ads and non news programming, but carried the Meridian produced local news that Hannington (aka Mer N) also showed. I think in recent years Oxford has completely
transferred over to Meridian, and is now an exact copy of Hannington (aka Meridian Thames Valley) ?
The only part of the Central region that was played out from the STC after the demise of Central South was the Central SW macro. This carried Central West for News and still carried adverts intended for Central South (Therefore still carried adverts intended for Oxfordshire etc.).
This was only for homes provided by Ridge Hill transmitter that served both Herefordshire and Gloucestershire which is an interesting setup as whereas Herefordshire is classed as in the West Midlands, Gloucestershire is very much in the West of England. The Central spillover affects the largest towns in Gloucestershire of Gloucester and Cheltenham.
When on analogue they tried to convert Gloucester and Cheltenham to ITV West by adding an extra feed to the transmitter but the signal was very weak and not implemented very well. Since DSO I think they've admitted defeat and carried Gloucestershire stories on both Central and ITV West.
The Central South advertising macro region has since been discontinued recently and the former Central SW macro just have ads from Birmingham now.
I've lost track of Central South (aka Oxford Tx) It used to be played out from the STC (while Cen E and W were played out from Leeds). It once carried 'Midlands' ads and non news programming, but carried the Meridian produced local news that Hannington (aka Mer N) also showed. I think in recent years Oxford has completely
transferred over to Meridian, and is now an exact copy of Hannington (aka Meridian Thames Valley) ?
The only part of the Central region that was played out from the STC after the demise of Central South was the Central SW macro. This carried Central West for News and still carried adverts intended for Central South (Therefore still carried adverts intended for Oxfordshire etc.).
This was only for homes provided by Ridge Hill transmitter that served both Herefordshire and Gloucestershire which is an interesting setup as whereas Herefordshire is classed as in the West Midlands, Gloucestershire is very much in the West of England. The Central spillover affects the largest towns in Gloucestershire of Gloucester and Cheltenham.
When on analogue they tried to convert Gloucester and Cheltenham to ITV West by adding an extra feed to the transmitter but the signal was very weak and not implemented very well. Since DSO I think they've admitted defeat and carried Gloucestershire stories on both Central and ITV West.
The Central South advertising macro region has since been discontinued recently and the former Central SW macro just have ads from Birmingham now.
MA
When on analogue they tried to convert Gloucester and Cheltenham to ITV West by adding an extra feed to the transmitter but the signal was very weak and not implemented very well. Since DSO I think they've admitted defeat and carried Gloucestershire stories on both Central and ITV West.
That analogue 'ITV West' signal from Ridge Hill was turned into an additional PSB 2 mux at DSO. It contains just ITV 1, and the rest of the bandwidth is null packets (a pity because there'd be space for BBC 1 West on there too) not sure if its coverage is any better than the old analogue service ?
When on analogue they tried to convert Gloucester and Cheltenham to ITV West by adding an extra feed to the transmitter but the signal was very weak and not implemented very well. Since DSO I think they've admitted defeat and carried Gloucestershire stories on both Central and ITV West.
That analogue 'ITV West' signal from Ridge Hill was turned into an additional PSB 2 mux at DSO. It contains just ITV 1, and the rest of the bandwidth is null packets (a pity because there'd be space for BBC 1 West on there too) not sure if its coverage is any better than the old analogue service ?
JT
John Shires flying solo on Calendar tonight. Humber Bridge background throughout on South/East version apart from the link to the weather and close post weather. Assume the latter live and the majority recorded.
When cut to weather (which is sub regional) then caught end of him linking with Humber Bridge in background! So it seems he linked through on the recorded version as well.
It seems odd to mess around with cutting between versions if the whole Belmont edition was recorded.
Incidentally the pan regional newsroom background is acceptable apart from the fact it looks like there are hundreds of post it notes covering parts of the screens behind. Hard to describe other than that. If any one can capture a pic of that, that would be great.
When cut to weather (which is sub regional) then caught end of him linking with Humber Bridge in background! So it seems he linked through on the recorded version as well.
It seems odd to mess around with cutting between versions if the whole Belmont edition was recorded.
Incidentally the pan regional newsroom background is acceptable apart from the fact it looks like there are hundreds of post it notes covering parts of the screens behind. Hard to describe other than that. If any one can capture a pic of that, that would be great.
