Did anyone catch this? It wasn't a usual fault, basically to set the scene, a report started playing about the last season of Arsenal being at Highbury, then a few seconds into this it cuts to BBC One which is showing the credits of Panorama. For a second I thought my NTL box was playing up or whether the BBC was messing about. But then to make it more strange the presenter; Adrian Childs then appears to apologise for showing Panorama instead of the VT.
Just out of interest how can this happen, I'm not technically minded in TV Transmission (if you can put it like that), but surely wouldn't the control for MOTD only control MOTD and not for it to suddenly flip to BBC One?
I saw the footage from BBC Choice appear on BBC2 on quite a few occasions in 2001/2002. I beleive BBC1 apepared for a few seconds over BBC Four at one time as well. It's certinally something that can happen.
The sources for BBC One presentation may also be available in BBC Two presentation, so it could be the automation in presentation throwing a wobbly and cutting to the wrong source, or even the BBC One director having to use a manual override and chosing the wrong network...
Or it could be a routing issue between the VT area and the MOTD2 gallery - if the Panorama was a late edit and being played in from an edit suite as well.
Well the routing error explanation seems the most likely in this case - I thought it was a presentation error at first, but the fact Adrian Chiles popped up with that priceless expression on his face would point to the programme. If I recall correctly he was mixed in as well - whether this makes any difference, or even if I do remember correctly, I know not.
Most likely a routing problem. There are a number of playout 'suites' - the one playing out BBC1 will be routed out to BBC1's transmission stream BBC2 to BBC2's etc. There are and always have been more suites than channels so that there's a spare. At certain times they have to switch suites - and this is when this sort of problem can happen: the wrong channel is put onto the wrong tx stream.
It's the equivalent of a radio station changing studios, expect with radio it's done frequently sometimes after every programe
As it's happened at that time before (IIRC it happened around the time of Jerry Springer The Opera) there's presumably some sort of regular event such as a shift change .
The sources for BBC One presentation may also be available in BBC Two presentation, so it could be the automation in presentation throwing a wobbly and cutting to the wrong source, or even the BBC One director having to use a manual override and chosing the wrong network....
Sometimes the true explanation can turn out to be quite bizarre. I recall an incident where Grandstand on BBC1 suddenly cut to bars. The cause? A bored person at one end of the gallery was asked by another bored person at the other end of the gallery to chuck the newspaper over. The paper was duly rolled up and thrown. As it passed over the tx mixer, it unrolled and fell down, neatly hitting the Bars button on the on-air bank. You couldn't have done it if you'd tried!
.... As it passed over the tx mixer, it unrolled and fell down, neatly hitting the Bars button on the on-air bank. You couldn't have done it if you'd tried!
Recall an interesting instance of bars instead of live sport during Wimbledon in 2003.
At a critical stage in the second week when Henman was playing for this life. This is of-course at 1802 Hrs during one of those rare occasions when the Six O' Clock News is dumped onto BBC2. BBC1 D-SAT and DTT: Henman and co get replaced with bars and tone - with the word "NORWICH" clearly prominent below the bars. This lasted for a minute or so.
BBC2 Analogue - this at the precise time that Look East opt-out to do their insert into the headlines.
Someone must have realised by 1830.
: BTW - have the BBC now ended this annoying summer ritual of asserting that tennis pre-empts news
The problem was in TC5 (the Sport studio) and not BBC 2's Pres area. A wrong source was cut up on the desk in the gallery (or the wrong thing was routed to what should have been the correct source on the desk).
: BTW - have the BBC now ended this annoying summer ritual of asserting that tennis pre-empts news