BBC One Christmas 2009 - Doctor Who ident revealed

And the award for most pathetic moan of the year goes to Chie McChiley.

I have to say I really don't enjoy Delroy when he's on duty. He sounds like a bad parody of a local radio DJ from the 80s and just tends to stress the wrong words in all his announcements. Other announcers at least sound like they're talking to you but Delroy always sounds like he's reading from a script.

I like Delroy. To be honest I like all of the voices but the one thing that annoys the hell out of me is Peter Offer and his microphone levels!! Somebody please do something! To use a DJ analogy it's like when a DJ talks over the record and you can't hear it. I can never hear the music on the idents when he's on duty and it's infuriating!!

Not seen this before: http://www.bbc.co.uk/christmas/schedule/

Don't know what happened elsewhere in the UK, but BBC Scotland attempted to play the full ident in a very short junction after The One Show and it never got to the end.

I take it network used the news ident instead, given that it appears to be quite a serious programme.

Well you could have fooled me. I've often seen the weather forecast chopped with the presenter in mid flow, because they (the presenter) are overrunning by a couple of seconds.

The One Show has got a real Christmas tree It's amazing!

I thought you'd tuned out BBC1.

Or was that just fiction to spice up your post?

iPlayer.

Ok, you've got me there.

On network BBC 1 the Weather is generally taken off air by the automation... mainly because the Weather presenters are generally very reliable at following a count and stopping talking at exactly the right time.

Sometimes the nations will come off the network Weather manually, if the network director has not tidied up the off air time to a full second... or just because some announcer/directors in the nations simply prefer to come off all network Weather forecasts manually, because of that risk of the presenter running over.

Network have also, on occasion, come of Weather manually if they are aware that there is problem and the presenter is going to over or under-run.

However, Weather is the exception... not the rule. All other, unpredictable live content is taken off air manually.

And of course, not all network Weather forecasts are presented live.

The weather is one of the few fixed length live items, the forecaster has to speak to time

No idea if it still works this way but the weather studio had a countdown timer on the wall, controlled by presentation. If the bulletin was 1 minute 30 the director would set that into the automation and the forecaster would see the seconds countdown, if they over ran then they got cut off

EDIT: ooops Denton got there before me

Ah ha, thanks for that (and also Mr Sands). I assume the nations receive a clean feed from the weather studio anyway ?

Seeing Doctor Who's mug is going to get awfully tiresome this Christmas!

I don't watch the series, like tens of million others. Why not choose something more general?