Christmas TV 2020 - Page 45

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commseng 1 January 2021 4:34am

With just twenty minutes to the New Year, there are lots of us RF engineers sat here ready to go with the live OB - the biggest in the UK I've done this year.

Looked great - and glad to see you got that uplink clearance sorted

There's one more New Year tradition that's being done a little differently, and that's the Vienna Philharmonic's concert. No audience in the hall this year, and the BBC's presenter will be in London. (Suppose I'd better get some sleep now as I'm getting it on air in the morning. Happy new year, all!)

It was only one of the many issues, which if we are ever able to meet over a beer this year I will tell you all.
Just home and watched my recording of it. As ever with a live show (it was not recorded earlier in the week - there is some rubbish on the internet at times! ) I spent the time looking at the kit and feeds and not the actual on air content.

I have to say it was far more enjoyable than the New Year 21 years ago, as I have explained here previously......
It wasn't until we went on air that I saw what the displays were - all the rehearsals earlier in the day were done looking at empty skies, which didn't give the flavour of what was to follow.

The only disappointment was that we didn't get the helicopter shots, as the weather was against us. However the lasers worked well against the mist.

Good luck with the Vienna Concert today!

IS

Inspector Sands 1 January 2021 10:00am

JKDerry posted:

It was all live from London and it was FANTASTIC! I was not expecting the fireworks. Loved Tower Bridge fireworks, we have always had the London Eye as the focal point for the fireworks, it is great seeing other London landmarks getting to show off. SUPERB!

That's the advantage with having no crowd, the display doesn't have to all happen in the same place. If it's a physical event next year it will probably be back to normal, though it doesn't have to happen around the London Eye, it's just been there because of Big Ben

BR

Brekkie 1 January 2021 10:07am

AlfieMulcahy posted:

That display was so much better than every other year. We saw more than just the London eye.

In an ideal world where the devolved nations didn't hate each other they could work together to do displays in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast and have a combination of all of them produced live.

Loved McCoys little piece about there being no 2020 highlights.

The devolved nations don't hate each other.

JC

JCB 1 January 2021 1:45pm

#DefundTheBBC is trending because the people who constantly complain about people getting offended by everything were offended by "woke" fireworks 🙄

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dosxuk 1 January 2021 1:48pm

What on earth are "woke fireworks"?

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Markymark 1 January 2021 1:50pm

James Vertigan posted:

Philip Cobbold posted:

Was that all live then? The drones were incredibly good, and the fireworks seemed better than normal as well. It was nice to see them using different locations for a change, rather than always just having the on the London Eye.

Talk on social media is that it was pre-recorded in order to stop crowds from gathering - done on Tuesday apparently.

Or, as it's more commonly known, a rehearsal

BR

Brekkie 1 January 2021 1:51pm

dosxuk posted:

What on earth are "woke fireworks"?

Fireworks that disturb your sleep of course.

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Johnr 1 January 2021 2:34pm

I went to the London fireworks a few years ago - never again!

You're basically just crammed into an area at 9pm and erm that is about as exciting as it gets until midnight, apart from some naff DJ! Bring your own booze sounds great until you realize there are about 10 portaloos for 100,000 people

Then you enjoy the 10 minutes of staring at the London Eye for the fireworks to appear, and that is that...you then have to navigate amongst the 100,000 people in Central London to try and get back to your hotel / home / whatever (my friend lived in Surbiton at the time so we had to get to Waterloo station to get a train back, that 10 minute walk took over 2 hours!

JB

JasonB 1 January 2021 2:41pm

I went to the failed river of fire in 2000. They gave us special Capital FM radios to listen to a soundtrack for the display but you couldn’t even hear anything on it due to the loudness of everything. I don’t recall it being over packed but we got home at 01.30 to find the Biggest Breakfast Breakfast Ever on channel 4.

BR

Brekkie 1 January 2021 3:17pm

It was pretty much the Millennium that highlighted how crap London fireworks were on NYE and I think still a few years before they became the more familiar display - possibly 2005 to tie in with the Olympic bid.

IS

Inspector Sands 1 January 2021 3:20pm

Brekkie posted:

It was pretty much the Millennium that highlighted how crap London fireworks were on NYE and I think still a few years before they became the more familiar display - possibly 2005 to tie in with the Olympic bid.

Before the Millennium there were no London New Year Fireworks.

Until then lots of people went to Trafalgar Square* for no real reason, stood there and got cold and wet and once Big Ben chimed in midnight they all wandered off and waited for the night bus home

*despite every year the police saying not to

IS

Inspector Sands 1 January 2021 3:21pm

Markymark posted:

James Vertigan posted:

Philip Cobbold posted:

Was that all live then? The drones were incredibly good, and the fireworks seemed better than normal as well. It was nice to see them using different locations for a change, rather than always just having the on the London Eye.

Talk on social media is that it was pre-recorded in order to stop crowds from gathering - done on Tuesday apparently.

Or, as it's more commonly known, a rehearsal

A plate they filmed the one on Tuesday as a back up just in case the weather or anything else caused issues last night