BBC WORLD Countdown

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BBCPrime 27 September 2001 5:08am

i'll see if i can set my video

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andyrew Founding member 27 September 2001 6:08am

Gary posted:

Will it be the full countdown andy?

(Edited by Gary at 5:15 pm on Sep. 26, 2001)

I doubt it (tomorrows schedule isn't finalised yet so I can't take a look at what is scheduled). I doubt if the whole thing will be used other than in an emergency, due to World having a network director who will fiddle with the schedules to add or loose time with promotional material.

Although, it is possible at the moment due to the lack of promotional material being available to soak up time.

IT

itsrobert Founding member 27 September 2001 6:11am

andyrew, how come the BBC World.com Channel Schedules don't list who'll be presenting BBC NEWS, like the News 24 page does in Whatson? I've e-mailed them several times about this, but no-one bothers to reply!

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harshy Founding member 27 September 2001 6:14am

That's rather typical of BBC Worldwide i'm afraid!

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Dolby Digital 27 September 2001 6:51am

Blimey that is nice it's what i've always been waiting for.....

Oh BTW, did anyone hear just before 0700 BST Today some weird break filler music, it was like nothing I heard before, it was put together with the static coming up caption. They usually use the normal coming up one.

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itsrobert Founding member 27 September 2001 6:55am

Yes, its a low beat isn't it? Thats used if the breakfiller has a problem I think, as its the breakfiller vamp. I like it! It would be a good breakfiller for if the sombre titles are ever used all day long - it sounds quite sad!

DD

Dolby Digital 27 September 2001 6:57am

Certainly Does doesn't it!

Wil they ever over lay a menu on the new world countdown do you think?

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Techy Peep Founding member 27 September 2001 7:22am

It is possible, using the same piece of kit that creates the breakfiller, but we'll have to wait & see.

It's technically more difficult to do the countdown clock in World than it is in N24 though, because of how World Pres's automation system operates, so we'll just have to wait & see

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Pete Founding member 27 September 2001 8:04am

on the download off the first page, at the start there is a bit of doubling in the sound (i.e. echo type thing, gosh am not i technical) anyhow i hink that sounds very BBC World, anyone else agree?

GA

Gary Founding member 27 September 2001 8:35am

I know what you mean, and yes it does sound very 'world' like! But I think it doesn't fit in very well, it sounds awful, but maybe that's because we haven't heard the full thing!!

Gary.

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mdta 27 September 2001 8:47am

People, an mp3 please....

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itsrobert Founding member 27 September 2001 8:47am

We won't get the official one for quite a while!

(September 2001)