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AlexEdohHD13
dvboy posted:
davidhorman posted:
Not seen this before - on BBC One HD at 18:55, after the usual promo snippets of Graham Norton and The Night Manager :

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The resized image doesn't show it, but the text quality was terrible - fuzzy and possibly unaligned fields.

So are Party Election Broadcasts randomised around the regions, or something?

This is the third time this has come up on the forum! There are different PPBs in the London region.

The caption is Upscaled SD... Shocking! Shocked
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Neil__
This is an odd error in scheduling for this evening...

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dvboy
Looks like an extended 10 but they've not moved the regional news to 2300
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Been a nice easy couple of days for the BBC One CAs - home early last night and a lie-in this morning!
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Blake Connolly Founding member
James Vertigan posted:
Been a nice easy couple of days for the BBC One CAs - home early last night and a lie-in this morning!


Umm... nope! If anything with live programmes on for so long, I expect it's been more of a "stay in your box and don't nip out for a cup of tea!" couple of days.
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TVMan
Surely a senior CA could get kind of ISDN line in their home to do remote links in case of emergency. The director would just fade up the source, and do continuity like they were in the box, provided soundproofing was adequate.
IS
Inspector Sands
TVMan posted:
Surely a senior CA could get kind of ISDN line in their home to do remote links in case of emergency. The director would just fade up the source, and do continuity like they were in the box, provided soundproofing was adequate.

How would that be any different? The announcer would still have to sit in front of a microphone all day, the only advantage is that they'd be able to do it in their pyjamas and save a tube fare
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Steve in Pudsey
Actually, don't they have two sets of announcers on shift, one at the Broadcast Centre who are on air and another shift at the disaster recovery facility ready to take over if necessary, but also preparing for future shifts (previewing programmes, writing scripts, possibly recording overnight and BBC Four junctions etc).

It might be that they could have dispensed with one of those for the day.

But equally, the contract with the BBC probably pays Ericsson the same if somebody is sitting on their backside all day so making special arrangements would probably cost more in admin time.
IS
Inspector Sands
I'm pretty sure that there's no announcer at the DR facility.

It used to be the case that they did prep shifts too, so for some of the day there'd be one on each channel and someone in the office. Thats without shift overlaps if they still exist
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Markymark
TVMan posted:
Surely a senior CA could get kind of ISDN line in their home to do remote links in case of emergency. The director would just fade up the source, and do continuity like they were in the box, provided soundproofing was adequate.


In this day and age of seconds and seconds worth of latency on links and circuits, cueing and seeing Tx and Preview etc feeds would be a considerable challenge. Far better for the DR centre to have generic announcements and captions pre loaded
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Whataday Founding member


JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Blake Connolly posted:
James Vertigan posted:
Been a nice easy couple of days for the BBC One CAs - home early last night and a lie-in this morning!


Umm... nope! If anything with live programmes on for so long, I expect it's been more of a "stay in your box and don't nip out for a cup of tea!" couple of days.



Really? Even though it was essentially relaying the News Channel for so long they would've had someone on standby? I would've thought a relay of the News Channel would be a lot easier to keep on air than an outside broadcast.

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