ITV Nightscreen

BP

Big Phil 7 August 2001 11:02pm

itsrobert posted:

I must agree - ITV Nightscreen is much better. It may be an idea to simulcast ITN News Channel instead like BBC One does!

What, BBC One shows the ITN News Channel?

SZ

Sub Zero 8 August 2001 12:25am

b4ne1 posted:

BBC Choice posted:

Techy Peep - http://www.scala.com

Thanks! I'm downloading it now, and I'm gonna try and find a crack for it too.. does anyone know where one is to save me searching Astalavista?

Joe
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Thanks,
Nick

SO

SittingOvation 8 August 2001 12:38am

Isonstine posted:

Thankfully, here in Carlton land we don't get nightscreen.

Instead we get Jobfinder, and we have for ages.

I remember back in the days when it was made on a teletext generator.

Then again, I don't know whether getting Jobfinder is a good thing.

Then again its more use to unemployed people than the cast list of Crossraods.

I'm sure I recall seeing ITV nightscreen here in the Carlton (Central) region once - admittedly it was only on for about 20 mins. Maybe that's the only time it's been on here (and presumably when it happened it was due to a mistake/lost programme etc, because I've never seen ITV nightscreen listed in the midlands variation of TV magazines. Although from the 'regional variations' panel in the mags, one can establish it's existence and the fact that Yorkshire is one region where they get it!)

BP

Big Phil 8 August 2001 1:02am

How come BBC Two don't show digital text after closedown instead of rubbishy Ceefax?

AS

Asa Admin 8 August 2001 1:09am

Big Phil posted:

How come BBC Two don't show digital text after closedown instead of rubbishy Ceefax?

I can answer this one!

It was mentioned on MHP and I think the consensus is that they'd like to, but can't because a machine hasn't been built that rotates sections, in the same way as the system can easily rotate page numbers for Ceefax.

I note they've changed 'Ceefax will be discontinued on satellite tv next month' to 'in the near future'. Maybe my email did help!

Cheers, Asa

TP

Techy Peep Founding member 8 August 2001 5:16am

I think it is still the case, as there would be no reason to change it, but they used to show CEEFAX from a BBC Micro computer.

Very easy to get, as it's output is a standard PAL TV signal.

RD

rdd Founding member 8 August 2001 8:57pm

We had an awful incident on UTV a few months ago when instead of a film one Saturday night (circa 11pm), we got Nightscreen instead! And to cap it, it was from a week previous! (UTV is unmanned overnight, so they wouldn't have noticed...)

7Z

7zark7 10 August 2001 4:24pm

Yes ITV Night Screen does seam pointless.

Its even more mind numbing if you have the sound on.

However it does serve a purpose for ITV...

The regulators specify that a certain amount of programming must have subtitles for the hard of hearing. ITV has to meet these quotas.

Night Screen counts as subtitled programming, thus fullfilling hours of the quota every night with almost no expense.

CO

Conrad 10 August 2001 6:54pm

I remember when the BBC rotated most of its CEEFAX content with funny images... since the Nov 1996 relaunch, they're only airing the boring BBC News & Sports pages... why's this???

(Edited by Conrad at 6:54 pm on Aug. 10, 2001)

(August 2001)