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MA
There wasn't a video link to the islands, they used to take the networked programmes off air via a complicated system of receiving aerials: http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/fremontpoint/fremont-sabre.php
So as far as I know the only way they could have got a programme on air outside of their region was by sending the tape/film to the UK.
I don't know what happened if there was a major news story there, whether there was some sort of connection that could be used for ad hoc feeds.
When ITV went onto satellite there had to be a feed of their output back to the UK and IIRC that was done by sending either a sat truck or similar portable satellite uplink to Jersey. That sent the stations output back to London so it could then be multiplexed and transmitted with the other regions.
Now there's presumably some sort of fibre connection
I do recall one live event from there in the 80s, and the IBA sent their portable earth station, I think it was connected with a WWII commemoration and something ITN mounted ?
Today getting video there and back is simply via MPLS and similar links on fibre
Was the video link to the Channel Islands bi-directional so that Channel could network a programme to the mainland?
There wasn't a video link to the islands, they used to take the networked programmes off air via a complicated system of receiving aerials: http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/fremontpoint/fremont-sabre.php
So as far as I know the only way they could have got a programme on air outside of their region was by sending the tape/film to the UK.
I don't know what happened if there was a major news story there, whether there was some sort of connection that could be used for ad hoc feeds.
When ITV went onto satellite there had to be a feed of their output back to the UK and IIRC that was done by sending either a sat truck or similar portable satellite uplink to Jersey. That sent the stations output back to London so it could then be multiplexed and transmitted with the other regions.
Now there's presumably some sort of fibre connection
I do recall one live event from there in the 80s, and the IBA sent their portable earth station, I think it was connected with a WWII commemoration and something ITN mounted ?
Today getting video there and back is simply via MPLS and similar links on fibre
NJ
Yes you're right, it was indies and it was 5% of the advertising revenue, at least at the time of the infamous British Comedy Awards fiasco of 2004 and 2005, which all came out in the light of the phone in quiz scandal a couple of years later.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/61037/channel_tv_bca.pdf
Neil Jones
Founding member
Weren't they only responsible for compliance for indy productions? Though many of those sort of shows that tended to attract fines are made by indies anyway.
Yes you're right, it was indies and it was 5% of the advertising revenue, at least at the time of the infamous British Comedy Awards fiasco of 2004 and 2005, which all came out in the light of the phone in quiz scandal a couple of years later.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/61037/channel_tv_bca.pdf
SC
It would probably be played out by one of the big five (as I suspect Channel’s editions of Highway, About Britain etc were). It wouldn’t be “presented” by that contractor though - not in the way, for example, Thames’s The Bill was “presented” by YTV or Carlton post-1993 - and the company who networked it on Channel’s behalf wouldn’t receive a credit on air. It was pretty common for an ITV station to network or part-network a programme made by one of the other regions, purely because it was sometimes logistically easier to do so (feeds/lines already in use, for example).
So the question is - who would have played out a networked Channel production? One assumes it would be taken to the mainland and then "presented" by that contractor?
It would probably be played out by one of the big five (as I suspect Channel’s editions of Highway, About Britain etc were). It wouldn’t be “presented” by that contractor though - not in the way, for example, Thames’s The Bill was “presented” by YTV or Carlton post-1993 - and the company who networked it on Channel’s behalf wouldn’t receive a credit on air. It was pretty common for an ITV station to network or part-network a programme made by one of the other regions, purely because it was sometimes logistically easier to do so (feeds/lines already in use, for example).
WW
"Every so often, Channel has done an especially adventurous show based on local interest. The most successful in British national terms was a documentary commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the islands (the only part of Britain to suffer Nazi occupation); entitled
The Bitter Years,
the program was bought and broadcast by nine of the other fourteen ITA [broadcasters].
"
Quote from About Television by Martin Mayer (New York: Harper & Row, 1972). My bolding.
Of course, this doesn't tell us if the broadcast was networked or just played out by the other broadcasters at various times.
Quote from About Television by Martin Mayer (New York: Harper & Row, 1972). My bolding.
Of course, this doesn't tell us if the broadcast was networked or just played out by the other broadcasters at various times.
MA
It would probably be played out by one of the big five (as I suspect Channel’s editions of Highway, About Britain etc were).
They may well have been post produced on the mainland at another ITV company, or in Soho too. I don’t think Channel possessed anything much beyond UMatic/ Betacam news edit sets ?
So the question is - who would have played out a networked Channel production? One assumes it would be taken to the mainland and then "presented" by that contractor?
It would probably be played out by one of the big five (as I suspect Channel’s editions of Highway, About Britain etc were).
They may well have been post produced on the mainland at another ITV company, or in Soho too. I don’t think Channel possessed anything much beyond UMatic/ Betacam news edit sets ?
CO
As mentioned by W W Update Channel does on occasions pull all the stops out for a local interest event, in the fact they are showing the Betway Channel Island Sports Awards on Thursday evening. It appears to be in two parts, may well watch to see how the presentation compares to similar events presented by one of the other mainland contractors.
RO
As I type this, I'm watching London Irish beat Jersey in the 2nd tier of English Rugby Union! Has Channel, or ITV channel, ever shown highlights of any of Jersey's matches?
KE
They've been showing that for a few years now (according to Digiguide, this is the 6th year).
As mentioned by W W Update Channel does on occasions pull all the stops out for a local interest event, in the fact they are showing the Betway Channel Island Sports Awards on Thursday evening. It appears to be in two parts, may well watch to see how the presentation compares to similar events presented by one of the other mainland contractors.
They've been showing that for a few years now (according to Digiguide, this is the 6th year).