BBC Oneness - idents and presentation

Should be just a case of copy and pasting the programmes into BBC 2's schedule, or just copying the whole schedule over and changing the idents.

So all the programmes are just on a server now or some other sort of non-physical media?

...and, I presume, removing any trails that include inappropriate content e.g. gunfire, cars out of control etc etc.

Yes all on server. Although when they did come off tape it was just a case of copy and pasting and then getting the tapes from the BBC2 trolley rather than the BBC1 trolley on the other side of the room

Yes but you'd need to do that regardless of programmes changing channels

Having said that, when I worked in Presentation it was largely server based but there were lots of video servers, a few for each channel, which were connected by fibre channel. If BBC2 wanted to play a programme and it wasn't on one of their servers - which it wouldn't be as they were only in the appropriate ones - then it would have to transfer across. Which being the beginning of the century wasn't that fast.

There were ways round it though, such as just using the tape. All different now

Maybe BBC2 is just playing off the BBC one server? with Idents just being inserted? Since BBC one is clearly getting its feed from BBC news Channel.

Looks like ITV broke into the schedule too. Anybody know if this was during a junction or mid-programme?

As I say it's almost certainly different now. There won't be a 'BBC1 server' it'll just be a server


Idents aren't really anything special, they're just bits of video like any other. Doesn't take long just to copy and paste or drag promos, programmes or idents into the automation

There is a video of a very brief newsflash sometime after 3pm (presumably during a break?) before they went to rolling news from 4pm following the regional weather update

It was during a commerical break at about 3.14pm.