BBC One 2015

Here's a little present from Duncan Newmarch that some of us will enjoy! It isn't ident news or anything like that, but it is an enjoyable listen if you want to hear BBC announcers all in the same place! (1hr 59 minutes in):

https://soundcloud.com/duncan-newmarch/duncan-newmarch-the-jingles-i-grew-up-with.

I do love that "the voice of BBC One" is also a jingle geek like the rest of us Much love to you Duncan.

I admire people who can write snappy jingles and understand why people become geeky by them! Jingle creation is an under appreciated art form.

Oh so that who Duncan sounds like.

BBC One Scotland trying to get the words City and River on-screen as many times as possible tonight!:



The Network ECP squeezed in, complete with start of VO, then squashed further by the Scotland ECP jamming it's way in too - pushing the credits right to the left edge there. The Scottish VO lady sounded quite dejected by the mess as she corrected the script for Scotland.

So its still happening then?

Not the first time that's happened!

That explains the *sigh* from the CA!

Given that the CA is also the director, the sigh was probably an expression of "oh bugger, that's my fault".

Presumably it's not that difficult to accidentally put the network feed rather then the clean feed into the running order in the automation. Probably not noticeable when previewing the junction as both feeds would of be identical during the programme.

Failing that they could of put a BBC Two Scotland programme next to the BBC One Scotland programme to cover the network ECP.

Does anyone why (or so it looks to me) none of the promos between programmes are in HD?

For that matter, none of the circles idents look particular sharp, apart from the animated logo - even "Channel of the Year" looks decidedly SD. They date to around the same time as BBC HD, so I'd always assumed they'd been shot in HD.

So - as far as the promos go - is there still some small part of the Beeb that's refusing to go HD? Or is it something to do with playout?

Not a small part of the BBC, a part of a separate company. The promos aren't made by the BBC, they are made by Ericsson (formerly Red Bee) who are contracted to provide creative services to the BBC (a legacy of when BBC Broadcast was in-house before being sold off to become Red bee). The current contract is for SD promos. So the promos are in SD. It's a simple contract issue.

However the BBC are, I believe, bringing creative services back in house at some point soon (they have already advertised for the post production tender for it I believe) so I'd expect promos to go HD when this happens.

You will see occasional HD promos. These are usually short bumper type promos made by the programme themselvess on-the-day for live and close-to-live shows like Watchdog, The One Show, Question Time, Springwatch etc. These are made in HD and fed directly to playout without going via Creative Services.