At the 8pm junction between Inside Out & EastEnders things went very wierd. There was a still menu of the programmes still to come including some that we already had. The anno was also talking very slow. Then a trail for Superstars. Then a still of the Caporiera ident with no music and then crashed into EastEnders. Very Strange!
EDIT: A Breakdown caption just appeared in the middle of EastEnders!
At the 8pm junction between Inside Out & EastEnders things went very wierd. There was a still menu of the programmes still to come including some that we already had. The anno was also talking very slow.
Presumably because he was making it up as he went along - hence him not sounding too sure what the documentary at 9 was about and having to look it up
BBC Two has also had a few technical problems tonight - but mainly with audio, both the 7pm Fish Ident & 8pm Bounce Ident had no backing audio, but the announcer spoke regarless, albeit without backing audio
I was actually thinking how well that breakdown had been dealt with until I saw the breakdown caption appear during Eastenders! The last thing a transmission controller needs is to have automation problems looming at the end of a regional opt out - so for them to have opted the regions back in (albeit after a longer-than-usual pause), gone to a menu, managed to find a trail and an emergency ident and get cleanly into Eastenders is a relative triumph. Certainly much better than have rewinding stuff, VT clocks or a very long breadown caption with some music... !
"Hurrah" ... but then "Oops" ... caption cut to air during programme ... doh! You win some ... you lose some ...
At the 8pm junction between Inside Out & EastEnders things went very wierd. There was a still menu of the programmes still to come including some that we already had. The anno was also talking very slow.
I commented on this to my wife. When I saw the still ident and later the breakdown caption, I assumed that the announcer's hesitant delivery resulted from him having transmission control yelling in his ear telling him that everything had gone a bit Pete Tong, and asking him to pad it out for a bit.
I was actually thinking how well that breakdown had been dealt with until I saw the breakdown caption appear during Eastenders! The last thing a transmission controller needs is to have automation problems looming at the end of a regional opt out - so for them to have opted the regions back in (albeit after a longer-than-usual pause), gone to a menu,
managed to find a trail
and an emergency ident and get cleanly into Eastenders is a relative triumph. Certainly much better than have rewinding stuff, VT clocks or a very long breadown caption with some music... !
"Hurrah" ... but then "Oops" ... caption cut to air during programme ... doh! You win some ... you lose some ...
Now, that assumes that the trail you saw was deliberately transmitted, and not just the automation randomly putting something on air.
Have to say, the director and announcer in London did handle the whole thing very well. The guy on digital BBC1 NI didn't do too badly either in the circumstances . Was anyone here watching Scotland or Wales at the time?
Now, that assumes that the trail you saw was deliberately transmitted, and not just the automation randomly putting something on air.
Have to say, the director and announcer in London did handle the whole thing very well. The guy on digital BBC1 NI didn't do too badly either in the circumstances . Was anyone here watching Scotland or Wales at the time?
Indeed re the Superstars trail . The Network Director did handle it well and, like you say, it was clean to air in the sense that we didn't get a tour of the matrix. Could have been a lot messier.
A Breakdown caption just appeared in the middle of EastEnders!
I gather that Alfie's boring brown jumper was found to be simply too brown and boring, so a nice bright red apology caption had to be broadcast for a couple of minutes in order to bring the channel back to its normal bright red self.
I was actually thinking how well that breakdown had been dealt with until I saw the breakdown caption appear during Eastenders! The last thing a transmission controller needs is to have automation problems looming at the end of a regional opt out - so for them to have opted the regions back in (albeit after a longer-than-usual pause), gone to a menu, managed to find a trail and an emergency ident and get cleanly into Eastenders is a relative triumph. Certainly much better than have rewinding stuff, VT clocks or a very long breadown caption with some music... !
"Hurrah" ... but then "Oops" ... caption cut to air during programme ... doh! You win some ... you lose some ...
Who said the director cut to a slide? Just because a slide appeared does not mean any person "cut it to air".
. Was anyone here watching Scotland or Wales at the time?
