I was watching The One Show on BBC One South East via DSAT and Graham Norton said 'Nothing'. I then saw and heard him say it again, 'Nothing'. It was as if the feed changed to another one that was slightly behind. Like when you turn over from BBC One analogue to BBC One digital. Did other people on different platforms and in different regions also see this?
One thing that could cause that is if the opt back to network after the regional news hadn't completely worked and the analogue network was being fed to digital.
Usually to get back to network, the local studio (Tunbridge Wells, I think) cuts to a feed of network on its vision mixer. This triggers the opt out on the digital network, but not on analogue. There is a noticeable picture and sound jump when opting on analogue, so they do what is called a "soft opt" - they keep the network feed going through the local studio until they find a suitable point in whatever is coming from network when the effect of the jump will be less noticeable, and then switch the studio out of circuit and feed network directly to the transmitters. The system for opting analogue and digital takes account of the relative delays.
What may have hapened is that the opt back on digital failed and TW studio, carrying analogue network, was shown on digital. Then, when somebody noticed and forced the opt back to happen it was done in a more belt and braces way which doesn't take the relative delays into account, so it went back to the delayed version and you heard a second or two twice.
Interesting junction out of CBBC on BBC One tonight in Scotland. On came the BBC > NOW trailer with background music and no announcer. Then the performing dogs ident came on ( branded as BBC One Scotland ) with no announcer either. Think they were maybe gearing up for the changeover of idents on BBC Two? Interestingly the same junction ( 515pm ) on BBC Two wasn't branded as Scotland.
What would they be preparing exactly? Adding new idents onto the servers is no different to adding a new trail and that's done many times a week.
They can load them on weeks before (and remove old ones weeks afterwards) if they want... which gets shown is all dependent on what's scheduled. At any one time there'll be hundreds of items which aren't correct and only one that is!
That
was
just a joke...
The kind of joke that only becomes a joke when someone calls you out on it?
One thing that could cause that is if the opt back to network after the regional news hadn't completely worked and the analogue network was being fed to digital.
I just watched it back on Sky+ and I didn't notice any change in the picture quality when comparing before the blip to after the blip. It also wasn't in 4:3 or 14:9 before the blip which I imagine it would be if it was fed from analogue.
I checked iPlayer and the blip wasn't on there. Did no one else see this at all?
Following on in part to bbcsport's post in the sport thread, Network BBC One didn't seem to know what it was up to either - the ident introducing Totally Saturday said Casualty would be on at the new time of 9.15pm but it looks like it's started now at 8.45, 5mins later than billed.
And is it that hard to edit the times on trails these days? The one for Casualty before the Lottery gave the original time.
Following on in part to bbcsport's post in the sport thread, Network BBC One didn't seem to know what it was up to either - the ident introducing Totally Saturday said Casualty would be on at the new time of 9.15pm but it looks like it's started now at 8.45, 5mins later than billed.
Was just about to post about this - it seems they took a last minute decision to cut Totally Saturday back from one hour to 45 minutes. Which must be pretty tricky for a live entertainment show of this nature. And its not as if they're now back on time.
There's just been a Torchwood-themed version of Capes on BBC One Wales at 7:30pm, with fake blue screen interference after the formup, someone saying "we are coming" and the "o" of "one" in the logo hollowed out like the one in the Torchwood logo. It's actually quite startling!!
EDIT: 8pm - another one just now, Petals; this time just some analogue-style fuzz and the "we are coming" sound interrupting the announcement.
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The 'Now - Next' slide though doesn't shout Torchwood to me. Could be anything.
I don't know if anyone's seen the Torchwood ad but there was a black shadow on the BBC One logo (when it's at the bottom of the screen). I think this is so it was visible all the way through. Wonder if any other promos will follow suit.
Just found a link for it if you watch the video trailer:
