A rare opt out for BBC One South West & CI over the next few weeks starting tonight. While the rest of the country gets an episode of Rip Off Britain at 7:30, viewers in the South West and Channel Islands get a programme all about the South West Coastal Path!
Pretty rare indeed. These days, is it technically possible for the CI not to take the SW opt?
A rare opt out for BBC One South West & CI over the next few weeks starting tonight. While the rest of the country gets an episode of Rip Off Britain at 7:30, viewers in the South West and Channel Islands get a programme all about the South West Coastal Path!
Pretty rare indeed. These days, is it technically possible for the CI not to take the SW opt?
Jersey took the BBC News sustaining feed when there were 'problems' in Plymouth that prevented their usual opt (something was lashed together from Bristol, but CI didn't see any of that).
I presume it's theoretically possible for Jersey to stick Net 1 as an outside source on their local vision mixer and opt out of Plymouth (but with the network programme) should the need arise.
Pretty rare indeed. These days, is it technically possible for the CI not to take the SW opt?
There's a clip on TV Ark of a couple of BBC One South West regional closedowns from 1994/1996 when the network schedule was time shifted following a regional programme. Sadly that sort of thing probably wouldn't happen these days.
In this case Leeds added an extra programme reacting to something in the news and network couldn't provide something for them to opt out of, so they had to time shift. Possibly the only example with Christmas idents in recent memory.
A slightly earlier (and less polished) example where Manchester provided timeshifted pres which Leeds and Newcastle also opted back into following their separate regional Sports Personality shows.
I suspect RedBee were quite glad that Manchester went to the trouble of creating a BBC One North red box so it was obvious that the shambles wasn't a network production
It'll be ten years this October since the last major BBC One rebrand, and ten years the following February since the last major BBC Two rebrand. Hopefully they'll do something sooner than later now we're past the the charter renewal, or at least the main worry of what the charter renewal was going to be like.