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(January 2010)

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Inspector Sands
The reason the National Television Awards have a slight broadcast delay (wasn't that long) is in case anybody accidently swears and they can bleep it out quickly - just like they do on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, Big Brother, The ONE Show, Loose Women, Paul O'Grady Show, Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill Live and in Februrary, EastEnders Live.

The only programme which is broadcast live, and not 'as-live', which has to be by law, are the National Lottery Draws.

I'm sorry but that's rubbish. use of a delay system is very uncommon in the UK.

If The One Show was time delayed then this wouldn't have happened the other day: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/01/22/buffoon-patrick-kielty-shows-off-christine-bleakley-s-mobile-number-on-tv-115875-21985720/

Do not confuse it with a tape delay to shift something to a more convenient time or last minute post production such as a quick turn around award ceremony

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You can find out more about broadcast delays here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_delay#United_Kingdom

Yes and as you'll see, that article mentions only two programmes that have a live delay - Big Brother and one of the Brit Awards. The Baftas are recorded and played back at a better time and are edited to tighten them up and remove some awards

That UFC 105 thing doesn't sound right, the page about it says it was on tape delay in the US (for obvious reasons) - no mention that it was even on TV in the UK.

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The reason for the delay is to comply with OFCOM's Broadcasting Code. In 2005 the BBC said that as part of their editorial guidelines there would also be a delay on sensitive news (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4121406.stm ).

That's not the same either. What that means is just that they won't some feeds straight to air, usually those from a third party like an agency (if it's your own crew you can control what they film more). In those cases everything goes through a journalist/editor and is clipped up to make sure that nothing too grisly gets to air. Quite sensible really, some of the stuff that comes in live from the likes of AP or Reuters can be a bit graphic and you don't know exactly what you're going to get

All news programmes are live and there have been a few occasions of swearing etc on press conferences and the like shown by all channels in recent times to prove this

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Even GMTV has a broadcast delay of around seven seconds!

Does it? *Citation please*
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 22 January 2010 10:12am - 4 times in total
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A former member
I think we would only ever know if something goes wrong. GMTV is pure live, as we've seen countless times when breaking news, swearing, falling off air and so on. Big Brother Live on E4 is 15min delay, or could be 20mins. When i was there in the summer they started recording at 10.20 to go out at 10.35
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A former member
Isn't I'm a celeb 10 sec delay coming from land of oz anyway?
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noggin Founding member
Isn't I'm a celeb 10 sec delay coming from land of oz anyway?


10 seconds is quite a long time for pure incoming satellite and digital compression delay. However combined with the ITV1 distribution and digital compression delays it could get to that figure. (News lives during the Sydney Olympics - which were a double-hop and involved two satellites - had a very significant delay on them - 3 or 4 seconds ISTR)

This is all inherent distribution and broadcast delay - and nothing to do with a production compliance delay.
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DVB Cornwall
AFAIK IACGMOOH isn't via satellite, it's via subsea fibre cable so the delay is insignificant.
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Westy2


(Hope I've quoted the right person on this!)

Wonder how many messages were along the lines of 'Dump Lampard & go out with Adrian instead!' Laughing
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Roger Mellie
just like they do on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, Big Brother, The ONE Show, Loose Women , Paul O'Grady Show, Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill Live and in Februrary, EastEnders Live.


What about Joan Rivers-- or Lynda Bellingham's slip-not so long ago?
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David
just like they do on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, Big Brother, The ONE Show, Loose Women , Paul O'Grady Show, Alan Titchmarsh Show, The Bill Live and in Februrary, EastEnders Live.


What about Joan Rivers-- or Lynda Bellingham's slip-not so long ago?


Or these from less than two months ago...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFqjaAYiXCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwp1WqMfi4
RM
Roger Mellie
LOSSE Woman won! that is a SHOCKER! Shocked


Not especially, considering they've pocketed three TV Quick awards at least Smile As for the NTAs as a whole, I think there could have been more references to the X Factor Wink

PS: Wasn't it on Paul O'Grady, where Elton John said: "Reg Dwight made me sound like a banker... or a w_nker" Laughing
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Critique
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Even GMTV has a broadcast delay of around seven seconds!


You may be referring to ITV's handover a few seconds early, when the clock shows 5:59, which doesn't mean it is a delay show, as it is completely live. Hence on links to reporters, the word LIVE.
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Put The Telly On
LOSSE Woman won! that is a SHOCKER! Shocked


Not especially, considering they've pocketed three TV Quick awards at least Smile As for the NTAs as a whole, I think there could have been more references to the X Factor Wink

PS: Wasn't it on Paul O'Grady, where Elton John said: "Reg Dwight made me sound like a banker... or a w_nker" Laughing


I heard a 'sh*t' from a contestant on The Crystal Maze the other day. I'm presuming that was never bleeped out in original C4 broadcast. Dickie apologised, said it was a family show. as the game continued.
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newsatten
I think there should be another thread about "delays" Laughing

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