SP
Do Channel TV feed Fremont Point analogue directly any more or is it taken from DSat like BBC Channel Islands?
SC
The second episode of Coronation Street on UTV wasn't the clean feed they usually get. It has the Subtitles caption at the start and the IPP graphic towards the end. It also had the ITV1 announcer on the end credits with the UTV announcer talking over the top of her!
SOL posted:
Just noticed an ITV 1 anno on STV followed by the STV announcer making a joke about who was talking 
Anything to do with the fault perhaps?
Anything to do with the fault perhaps?
The second episode of Coronation Street on UTV wasn't the clean feed they usually get. It has the Subtitles caption at the start and the IPP graphic towards the end. It also had the ITV1 announcer on the end credits with the UTV announcer talking over the top of her!
IS
My feeling is that 14:9 was chosen as a compromise. It's a pretty basic assumption that they'd resort to sending out only 1 picture format to everywhere in such a circumstance purely for simplicity. Therefore it's not a case of 'could only'... more 'were only'
For now at least putting out a 4:3/14/9 feed is the most acceptable as it looks fine on the platform that the majority use - analogue (or at least the majority when the contingency plans were drawn up)
harshy posted:
sounds like Leeds could only provide a 14:9 network feed, is this right?
My feeling is that 14:9 was chosen as a compromise. It's a pretty basic assumption that they'd resort to sending out only 1 picture format to everywhere in such a circumstance purely for simplicity. Therefore it's not a case of 'could only'... more 'were only'
For now at least putting out a 4:3/14/9 feed is the most acceptable as it looks fine on the platform that the majority use - analogue (or at least the majority when the contingency plans were drawn up)
WO
Here's a question (both with the BBC and ITV).
If South Bank went down (where I believe ITV1's main feed comes from) and so did Leeds due to sabotage or whatever and the same happened to BBC Red Bee and the back up service from Birmingham (I believe), what would happen then?
Would it be the job of the regions to kick in with their own thing until a solution was set up?
If South Bank went down (where I believe ITV1's main feed comes from) and so did Leeds due to sabotage or whatever and the same happened to BBC Red Bee and the back up service from Birmingham (I believe), what would happen then?
Would it be the job of the regions to kick in with their own thing until a solution was set up?
IS
It would be so unlikely that it wouldn't be something that would be planned for. The obvious answer is that both the BBC and ITV would go off air.
Red Bee do have a back up facility elsewhere (obviously I can't say where) which can take over, AFAIK ITV only has Leeds, but then at a push there's STV and UTV but they most likely wouldn't have copies of any scheduled programmes.
The BBC regions could take over BBC1 if need be but would find it a struggle to broadcast anything useful (they don't hol standby programming). There are no ITV regional playout centres in ITV PLC land except Leeds and Southampton - the guys in the newsrooms in Norwich, Southampton, Birmingham etc couldn't really do anything in such a circumstance
Channel 4 and five both have back up facilities they can evacuate to and play out from, the supplie of five's is fairly well publicised but C4's isn't. I won't say where either is though
Worzel posted:
Here's a question (both with the BBC and ITV).
If ITV London went down and so did Leeds due to sabotage or whatever and the same happened to BBC Red Bee and the back up service from Birmingham (I believe), what would happen then?
Would it be the job of the regions to kick in with their own thing until a solution was set up?
If ITV London went down and so did Leeds due to sabotage or whatever and the same happened to BBC Red Bee and the back up service from Birmingham (I believe), what would happen then?
Would it be the job of the regions to kick in with their own thing until a solution was set up?
It would be so unlikely that it wouldn't be something that would be planned for. The obvious answer is that both the BBC and ITV would go off air.
Red Bee do have a back up facility elsewhere (obviously I can't say where) which can take over, AFAIK ITV only has Leeds, but then at a push there's STV and UTV but they most likely wouldn't have copies of any scheduled programmes.
The BBC regions could take over BBC1 if need be but would find it a struggle to broadcast anything useful (they don't hol standby programming). There are no ITV regional playout centres in ITV PLC land except Leeds and Southampton - the guys in the newsrooms in Norwich, Southampton, Birmingham etc couldn't really do anything in such a circumstance
Channel 4 and five both have back up facilities they can evacuate to and play out from, the supplie of five's is fairly well publicised but C4's isn't. I won't say where either is though
SP
I suspect something could be cobbled together with ITV in an emergency, Arquiva could probably patch almost any studio's output to any transmitter directly, omitting the South Bank and Leeds from the circuit.
I thought the location of Channel 4's emergency facility was reasonably well known, after it was used in that gas leak a few years ago. Channel 5's wouldn't be too much use in this hypothetical scenario!
I thought the location of Channel 4's emergency facility was reasonably well known, after it was used in that gas leak a few years ago. Channel 5's wouldn't be too much use in this hypothetical scenario!
IS
Yes, with a bit of effort any video source could be patched in to replace ITV1, however it would be a very extreme measure and not something that would be done lightly. I doubt it is something they've expressly planned for
Even then I don't remember reading anything identifying it's location, well not correctly anyway!
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I suspect something could be cobbled together with ITV in an emergency, Arquiva could probably patch almost any studio's output to any transmitter directly, omitting the South Bank and Leeds from the circuit.
Yes, with a bit of effort any video source could be patched in to replace ITV1, however it would be a very extreme measure and not something that would be done lightly. I doubt it is something they've expressly planned for
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I thought the location of Channel 4's emergency facility was reasonably well known, after it was used in that gas leak a few years ago.
Even then I don't remember reading anything identifying it's location, well not correctly anyway!