I noticed that a few weeks ago during foot & mouth. Fiona (as Huw calls her) simply announced Panorama and we went straight into the programme. I thought they had simply run out of time so there was no room for an ident, but I noticed it was the same the week after too.
I presume this has been standard since October 2000 when Panorama changed day. Notice they have have animated Panorama astons, similar to the N24 advertising astons at the end of most news bulletins
But we're digressing!!
Yes, they have done it every time Panorama is on with the weather inserted into the programme. And I thought last night's Panorama was very good on the Bulger case.
AJ
Aaron J Tibbett
TVArchive posted:
Does any one know about another BBC power-cut that happened last night? Aparantly it was about 2am and took out BBC2, UKTV Channels, and some flickering on BBC News 24...?
Yep, BBC2 was displaying a Learning Zone apaolgy caption saying that it would continue with the next program advertised as scheduled.
BBC News24 seemed ok from when I saw it, but all the UKTV channels were off, and BBC Choice seemed to be running late and was showing something in 14x9. The UKTV channels all came back about 2.20, but the BBC2 caption would of been there until 4am.
Report in one of the paper's this morning talks of confusion on Saturday - at first they apparently thought it was sabotage but that was ruled out, then a burst water main on Wood Lane where TV Centre is, then just a major power failure - apparently all the backup systems worked in every part of TVC apart from the transmission areas where it was like 'a fuse blowing' and it took engineers minutes to re-root the supply to get the apology captions up. Then, it took another 20 minutes to reboot the computers and get everything working again!
SU
SpiringUnhacked
Steve Naylor posted:
Report in one of the paper's this morning talks of confusion on Saturday - at first they apparently thought it was sabotage but that was ruled out, then a burst water main on Wood Lane where TV Centre is, then just a major power failure - apparently all the backup systems worked in every part of TVC apart from the transmission areas where it was like 'a fuse blowing' and it took engineers minutes to re-root the supply to get the apology captions up. Then, it took another 20 minutes to reboot the computers and get everything working again!
OH NO! You mean it happened again!?! That's 3 times in a year, and twice in one weekend! BBC, you need to switch electric company! (it was a power cut, BTW, an announcer (BBC2, 9.40pm) said that there was 'serious power failure' and that it would need fixing manually.) The second outage probably occured because the backup generator failed.
SN
Steve Naylor
No, sorry! - I was talking about the main power failure on Satuday at 9.20pm - the report in the paper was about that as it didn't seem to make our Sunday papers...
Sorry for the confusion!
SU
SpiringUnhacked
Steve Naylor posted:
No, sorry! - I was talking about the main power failure on Satuday at 9.20pm - the report in the paper was about that as it didn't seem to make our Sunday papers...
Sorry for the confusion!
Maybe in today's papers - Sunday's having already gone to press?
MG
MalachiGW
I saw the trouble that happened last night, I was watching BBC1 (well, News 24) at about 1:50 when the picture was lost completely. I checked BBC2 and it was the same, although they were only showing Ceefax at the time.
After a few seconds the picture returned - no sound - then a flickering picture accompanied flaky sound with no quality whatsoever. There was green flickering and the tone on Ceefax, although both returned to normal after not even a minute.
These were obviously related problems although I don't know if the incident where Learning Zone went off air for 2 hours was anything to do with it. What IS happening at BBC Towers these days?!
SU
SpiringUnhacked
MalachiGW posted:
What IS happening at BBC Towers these days?!
The place is called BBC Television Centre. Good question. Call in the technicians! Digitelly trouble?
BB
BBC Choice
MalachiGW posted:
After a few seconds the picture returned - no sound - then a flickering picture accompanied flaky sound with no quality whatsoever. There was green flickering and the tone on Ceefax, although both returned to normal after not even a minute.
Did anyone notice Ceefax was being broadcast in 14:9 last night? Does this mean perhaps there is going to be widescreen ceefax soon??
Also, the top-left hand number (P150) is in green rather than white for some strange reason
SU
SpiringUnhacked
BBC Choice posted:
MalachiGW posted:
After a few seconds the picture returned - no sound - then a flickering picture accompanied flaky sound with no quality whatsoever. There was green flickering and the tone on Ceefax, although both returned to normal after not even a minute.
Did anyone notice Ceefax was being broadcast in 14:9 last night? Does this mean perhaps there is going to be widescreen ceefax soon??
Also, the top-left hand number (P150) is in green rather than white for some strange reason
Call in Mulder and Scully! Seriously, that's wierd!
(Edited by SpiringUnhacked at 3:35 pm on July 2, 2001)
Does any one know about another BBC power-cut that happened last night? Aparantly it was about 2am and took out BBC2, UKTV Channels, and some flickering on BBC News 24...?
The area which failed on Saturday night had maintenence work on it, and at 0154:30 it came back online, hence the flickering screens.
This time was chosen as so not to interupt too much programming.
Seriously, that's wierd!