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BBC One Golf Breakdown, 23/05/09

Breakdown in golf coverage; News Channel simulcast (May 2009)

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SP
Steve in Pudsey
Well in the SFTW breakdown it was a matter of when rather than if the programme would return, it probably wouldn't have taken long to establish that somebody had cocked up the circuit booking (forgotten that the clocks had changed, IIRC), and there was quite a lot of the programme left to go, so it was probably pretty clear that the programme would return at some point.

By the time Duncan was saying "will" they could well have had an agreement with BT to reinstate the circuit and were just waiting for it to be re-established.
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Worzel
I'm going to disagree with a lot of posts here.

Firstly, I think opting into BBC News was the obvious thing to do, although they should have had some caption on screen to explain why. Standby programmes are only really suitable if you know you won't be returning to the broadcast at all.


Not really. I don't know what the case is now but for something like live sports coverage they would schedule lots of standbys of varying lengths as well as a full length replacement (in case the event was pulled in advance) and they'd also have some short generic standbys (mostly generic run-anywhere stuff like nature ducumentaries) ready to go. With some standbys they're either short enough to run to a full length even if you might be going back in a few minutes or are suitable for dropping out of.

But going to the news channel is a quite good solution though, as it's easy to get into and out of. For those interested in the golf nothing is a suitable replacement, except perhaps radio commentary if there is some


BBC1 no longer has filler programmes avaliable as channel management don't like them. In this case Pres have nothing to fill with, as was the case when Strictly Come Dancing came off early last year and were forced to fill with trails. There are standby programmes but these would be in blocks of 1/2 an hour or so not 5 minutes so you wouldn't commit to running one of these from a breakdown. You would only run a standby if coverage was going to finish early with some warning. However more often than not a live sporting event on BBC1 are requested to meet their off air time. Also a lot of OB'S these days don't carry a reserve feed due to cost mainly.


Shows just how much Red Bee has become dictated to by channel management and just offering to the client what the client pays for. In years gone by, BBC Presentation would not so much tell the BBC how to run channels, but just do it - no-one argued with them. It was one of the most highly respected departments in the corporation amongst those who knew of its existance and precisely what it (a lot of people in the BBC still don't know what 'pres' is). Not being allowed to run filler programmes and yet no doubt being required to fill is madness. That said, I suppose breakdowns are not that common any more and the audience isn't actually used to seeing filler programmes any more. Unannounced Tom and Jerrys were always a bit of a bonus for me as a kid!


Why don't they just use 'Against the Clock' like they used to (it's off the Universal Production Library)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KnS2rsFJjI
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Steve in Pudsey
BBC Two have just had "Escape to the Country" fail to play - from the ident they faded to black, instead of the programme. Instead of an apology caption, they cut to a menu of tonight's programmes, which the announcer ran through before re-introducing the programme. Which ran for all of three seconds before cutting back to the menu, accompanied by an apology and then the programme ran properly.
BR
Brekkie
More golf, more faults. Don't think it's affected the main coverage, but the interactive score board has been replaced by a "Temporary Fault" holding caption.
JO
Jonny
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/2007TopGearDog/bbcsportfault.jpg

BBC Sport demonstrating to BBC Two what half decent presentation resembles Wink.
DB
dbl
That looks so much better than BBC2's paint jobby.

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