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Some questions about broadcast terminologies/expressions used as well as the industry itself (August 2020)

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bluecortina 17 August 2020 11:22am

That begs the question why the ads went via Dover rather than being cut to air via Pres?

Southampton Pres was quite technically capable of dealing with cutting the Dover ads in (as they did day in day out). But during the Dover local news programme there was a centre break over which they had no real control as to the timing.

The Pres desk could be separately pre-programmed (or manually operated) to deal with Dover and Southampton simultaneously. Most of the weekdays the same early evening local news programme (Day by Day) was transmitted to Dover and Southampton but each had a short news bulletins within it near the start. Either the Dover or Southampton would be pre-recorded on the ACR and switched into/out of the main programme at the appropriate point.

Sub regional switching is not a 21st Century concept!!

bluecortina 17 August 2020 11:26am

commseng posted:

For something that was so important as the adverts, why on earth could a larger speaker be provided for the talkback?
Even at the reduced bandwidth it would help - or even get keyed talkback rather than open.

It sounds like something that wasn't very good was used despite it being known as poor for years!

You'd just be getting a higher level of lo-fi talkback! You were beside the telecine machine - not in a cubicle. Keyed talkback would have involved money, need I say more.

It was a system, it worked so I suppose it was considered fit for purpose. You certainly grew a pair if you hadn't already.