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Inspector Sands
Steve in Pudsey posted:
There certainly used to be, BBC networks would hand over to Pebble Mill in Birmingham - this is what happenned during the power cut in which the Six o'clock News fell off the air, and Dad's Army and a Michael Palin programme were played out from Brum.


Very diffrent to a radio emergency tape - It was by no means automatic for a start and it wasn't a specific facility sitting there waiting to be used in an emergency

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ITV can run everything from Leeds rather than London if necessary. Channel 4 has a facility at Millbank which it used a few years ago when Horseferry Road was evacuated due to a gas leak.


Not at Millbank any more (if they ever were!). Red Bee maintain emergency facilities for Channel 5
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David
Jugalug posted:
Also, a question - is there a sort of similar system in place for TV? Blank screen with silence for example?


I remember hearing about ITV1 apologising for "the loss of sound" during an episode of Morse(?) with a quiet bit in it.

Not sure if this is true as I only heard about it and didn't see/hear it first hand but if it is ture, then I guess it was triggered automatically.
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Inspector Sands
m_in_m posted:
With regards to the BBC is there a reason why BBC Scotland wasn't used, surely they would have required copies of all output due to the increased level of regional scheduling they have.


Because the old plan was for the presentation staff to put all their tapes into bags, get in a car and drive to Birmingham. Takes a lot longer to get to Glasgow, even before the M40 was finished! Brum is also quite well located in the middle of the country
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Inspector Sands
davidlees posted:
Jugalug posted:
Also, a question - is there a sort of similar system in place for TV? Blank screen with silence for example?


I remember hearing about ITV1 apologising for "the loss of sound" during an episode of Morse(?) with a quiet bit in it.

Not sure if this is true as I only heard about it and didn't see/hear it first hand but if it is ture, then I guess it was triggered automatically.


No that would have been the transmission controller notice that there was no sound and playing an announcement
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Inspector Sands
Jugalug posted:
Also, a question - is there a sort of similar system in place for TV? Blank screen with silence for example?


Not black screen with silence - lack of video (not black, but nothing at all) is far more useful an indicator of a fault. When the transmitter loses its video feed it switches to another - normally an off air reciever pointed at another transmitter.

In the days before 24 hour TV the transmitters were switched off by leaving the video routed to air, but removing the synchronisation. This would cause them to shut down. In the morning they put the sync back and the network would gradually wake up
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p_c_u_k
Inspector Sands posted:
m_in_m posted:
With regards to the BBC is there a reason why BBC Scotland wasn't used, surely they would have required copies of all output due to the increased level of regional scheduling they have.


Because the old plan was for the presentation staff to put all their tapes into bags, get in a car and drive to Birmingham. Takes a lot longer to get to Glasgow, even before the M40 was finished! Brum is also quite well located in the middle of the country


I'm quite sure that, should England be destroyed in a nuclear disaster (or whatever other chaos could cause such a situation), that BBC Scotland would hopefully be prepared to take over if it came to it. Surely the BBC would have a back-up beyond their normal back-up of Birmingham? (Hell, Radio 1's back-up failed spectacularly over the weekend)
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cdukjunkie
p_c_u_k posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
m_in_m posted:
With regards to the BBC is there a reason why BBC Scotland wasn't used, surely they would have required copies of all output due to the increased level of regional scheduling they have.


Because the old plan was for the presentation staff to put all their tapes into bags, get in a car and drive to Birmingham. Takes a lot longer to get to Glasgow, even before the M40 was finished! Brum is also quite well located in the middle of the country


I'm quite sure that, should England be destroyed in a nuclear disaster (or whatever other chaos could cause such a situation), that BBC Scotland would hopefully be prepared to take over if it came to it. Surely the BBC would have a back-up beyond their normal back-up of Birmingham? (Hell, Radio 1's back-up failed spectacularly over the weekend)


If England was hit by a nuclear bomb and the country destroyed, I doubt Scotland would be far behind. That nuclear air does spread fast you know..

And even if they were all still find and dandy, wouldn't it be just a little bit weird having Scotland 'take over' from people who would now be dead in England Shocked
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Inspector Sands
p_c_u_k posted:

I'm quite sure that, should England be destroyed in a nuclear disaster (or whatever other chaos could cause such a situation), that BBC Scotland would hopefully be prepared to take over if it came to it. Surely the BBC would have a back-up beyond their normal back-up of Birmingham?


With that sort of scale of disaster, national TV and Radio would be the least of our worries... not that they'd be many people left to broadcast to!

You can't prepare for every single possible problem or disaster - there's just too many diffrent eventualities. There comes a stage where the plans get thrown out and those involved just have to make do with the best they've got. I'm sure any of the BBC Scotland could cobble together something if the need arose
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Inspector Sands
cdukjunkie posted:

And even if they were all still find and dandy, wouldn't it be just a little bit weird having Scotland 'take over' from people who would now be dead in England Shocked


'more news on the destruction of England in half an hour, but first it's another chance to see a classic episode of Naked Video...' Laughing
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buster
[quote="BBC TV Centre"]
Also, does anyone know when the students will be on R1? usually (around this time of year?) they have the SRA winners on, usually in the wee hours of the morning.

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Last year's winners didn't get on till May Bank Holiday (not that they were worth listening to in the end) although it seems to depend when R1 decide they have a gap in their schedule - in the past it's been on at Easter and also on Christmas Eve.
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Markymark
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Channel 4 has a facility at Millbank which it used a few years ago when Horseferry Road was evacuated due to a gas leak.


Not Millbank, Camden I think ?
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dvboy
Jugalug posted:
I'm surprised that Annie Mac is recorded, actually. She normally seems quite willing to come in, and it is late at night.


She normally is live, but perhaps decided to record it this week as she'd been in for Jo Whiley Wednesday-Friday. Edith Bowman was recorded this week. Presumably the only live shows this week were Scott Mills on Christmas Day, Chappers and Dave on Boxing day, and Nihal and Annie Mac Wednesday to Friday; and possibly Colin Murray, and JK and Joel. I'd bet that every other programme this week was recorded.

Newsbeat on Friday with Adrian Pearce was awful (but hey, he did used to work for Capital's "The Way It Is")
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/profiles/adrian_pearce.shtml

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