The problems on BBC One East (West) continued during the Ten O'Clock News. We had the top story and then it cut to black, then we had the symbol starting anf stopping and rewinding. Then we had more black, then a selection of stills, then more blak, then the top of a report play. Then it opted back to the Ten. Lost a whole report. Obviously they either forgot to opt back properly or someone pressed the wrong button.
Not necessarily, it would be possible for such a cock up on network to screw things up for the nations. Whilst the black hole should have been avoided the still of the next programme might not have been if that was caused by it not playing when cued
Before the film just now on BBC1 we had an announcerless ident; the ident played and was dipped midway through to allow for him to speak, but continued until the end clean and the audio faded out and the film started.
Obviously someone needs to nip in today and kick the computer ...
Before the film just now on BBC1 we had an announcerless ident; the ident played and was dipped midway through to allow for him to speak, but continued until the end clean and the audio faded out and the film started.
My sources suggest that they had to leave the playout area and it was on automation - hence no announcer.
Before the film just now on BBC1 we had an announcerless ident; the ident played and was dipped midway through to allow for him to speak, but continued until the end clean and the audio faded out and the film started.
My sources suggest that they had to leave the playout area and it was on automation - hence no announcer.
No, they didn't evacuate - it was a fault with the alarm system. However, when they equipped the Broadcast Centre, nobody thought to put beacons in the announcer booths instead of having the full EPAS loudspeaker system. Without annos on server they were unable to open a mic in the booth because of the loud evacuation message going off. In fact it went off again at the start of Eastenders, about a second after the mic was closed. BBC TWO annos were safely on server so it was business as usual.
Before the film just now on BBC1 we had an announcerless ident; the ident played and was dipped midway through to allow for him to speak, but continued until the end clean and the audio faded out and the film started.
My sources suggest that they had to leave the playout area and it was on automation - hence no announcer.
No, they didn't evacuate - it was a fault with the alarm system. However, when they equipped the Broadcast Centre, nobody thought to put beacons in the announcer booths instead of having the full EPAS loudspeaker system. Without annos on server they were unable to open a mic in the booth because of the loud evacuation message going off. In fact it went off again at the start of Eastenders, about a second after the mic was closed. BBC TWO annos were safely on server so it was business as usual.
So if they had opened up a mic in the booth then all we would have heard would be the evacuation message? I was surprised that the announcements were live, I was led to believe that the majority were pre-recorded nowadays.
