BBC WORLD Mistakes

No! We need our ten seconds! Just make the news run a wee bit late or cut off Adrian Finighan in the middle of the announcement :

(This, BTW, from someone who barely ever sees the channel...)

I see!

So its all planned, I thought it must of been being though it joins the countdown late.

I wasn't complaining, its nice enough to receive the channel, when really I shouldn't.

So what happens when major breaking news appears? If you move the planned opt-out times around but say Asia doesn't get this information, is there ever a chance BBC World in Asia suddenly cuts to adverts mid-report?

Cheers, Asa

As Andy has mentioned, News & Pres are in constant communication with one another.

Pres inform News what time Countrys are joining or leaving World, and it's up to News to supply a suitable pause for them to come or go.

There are generally two ways they do this...
1: the Presenter will say something like 'This is BBC World' (pause) (opt-out) 'You are watching live coverage of blah blah..' and the Live Event carrys on
2: A PIDLE (Programme Interuption Device Live Event) is used, where the live event zooms back and the words beneath say 'Some of our viewers now join their own programming' or something like that... Then they opt-out, and the pictures come full frame again.

The biggest headache is when World have to take Ad breaks. Some breaks are compulsary where companys have spent mega bucks buying a particular slot. If this is the case and News insist that they cannot take a break because of the Live Event, it has to be cleared by the Channel Controller as the companys who lose their adverts are quite within their rights to fine BBC Worldwide

How do you recieve it?

Point a 60cm (or larger) dish at 13°E (Hotbird) and plug an analogue receiver to it. Old equipment from Sky analogue will work fine.

Tune in to the frequency (which escapes me at this moment, check lyngsat.com) and then Bob your's Mother's Brother! You have BBC World, but with ads. Although you hardly see them, they only get shown during peak times and then at the most the ad break only usually lasts 1 minute.

Now thats my idea of commerical television.

Sounds really cool, thanks for the info. What other channels can you get from that?

There's not much there in analogue any more.

They are a few Spanish, Italian and French channel, I think BBC World is the only one apart from TBN Europe.

Well, the only reason I moved the dish was because I don't subsribe to Sky analogue any more and as far as I'm concerned there is nothing good watching at Astra 19.2°E so I moved it to 13°E and decided to get something out of the redundant system.

No (unless something has gone wrong) because Asia opt out on a pulse sent from London. Everyone gets informed of change via global talkback, and if there is time we give them a call/fax.