BBC Two Breakdown

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marksi 11 April 2006 6:53am

tvarksouthwest posted:

The Braid man posted:

I don't think ANY breakdown music can be called "nice"!

Not even "Jitterbug Jive" (Atmosphere ATMOS-CD57)? Once used on BBC1 and also Central Jobfinder.

I pray that BBC2 will not have a breakdown track commissioned next time they rebrand.

Well indeed, preferable to world peace and everything...

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tvarksouthwest 11 April 2006 9:42pm

What happened on Sunday night illistrates perfectly why. The feed was lost for seven minutes and imagine having to endure BBC1's drone for that long! BBC2's music was nothing special, but at least the tune changed after a while.

NH

Nick Harvey Founding member 11 April 2006 9:48pm

tvarksouthwest posted:

The feed was lost for seven minutes and imagine having to endure BBC1's drone for that long!

Or even seven minutes of attack from Israeli helicopter gunships!

PC

p_c_u_k 11 April 2006 10:21pm

I believe the BBC1 effort is used in Guantanamo Bay...

As for BBC2 nations taking the network apology - BBC2 Scotland tends to take the network announcements and idents throughout the night, varying only for the odd promo and for the Newsnight announcement which is exactly the same every night.

I assume that BBC Scotland has one announcer for the two channels, and this is why this happens.

NH

Nick Harvey Founding member 11 April 2006 10:33pm

p_c_u_k posted:

I assume that BBC Scotland has one announcer for the two channels.

Unlikely, I would have thought.

As has been discussed in another thread, it might be possible to pre-record an announcement for when the junctions are at the same time on both channels, but it's damn hard to pre-record the network direction.

SP

Steve in Pudsey 12 April 2006 8:14am

But if the extent of network direction is "opt back to London until Newsnight" then one person handling two channels could be feasible?

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marksi 12 April 2006 9:01am

Steve in Pudsey posted:

But if the extent of network direction is "opt back to London until Newsnight" then one person handling two channels could be feasible?

Not with two reactive channels.

(April 2006)