LL
Surely they're gonna realise how screwed they are if they show anything with a title more than three lines long.
LL
I'd like to think more people would be offended by the text alignment than any profanities.
VM
I'm More Put Out That They've Started Every Word With A Capital Letter.
I'd like to think more people would be offended by the text alignment than any profanities.
I'm More Put Out That They've Started Every Word With A Capital Letter.
LL
You did ask...
You did ask...
SC
scottishtv
Founding member
Clearly they put it out on network as the continuity announcer couldn't warn, for whatever reason.
We seem to be getting normal continuity in Scotland tonight, as the strong language warning was part of the announcer's script over the ident. We therefore didn't get the on-screen banner.
We seem to be getting normal continuity in Scotland tonight, as the strong language warning was part of the announcer's script over the ident. We therefore didn't get the on-screen banner.
WA
It's a shame that what passes as presentation for the UK's flagship TV channel is a poor imitation of their commercial rival. Except, they somehow managed to make it look infinitely worse than ITV, who at least give each endboard a bit of variation colour-wise. Why couldn't the endboards currently being used for BBC Two (the ones with the black banner across the bottom) have been adapted for BBC One? At least they've had some sort of thought put into them, other than "ITV have changed theirs, so we must recycle our template but make everything twice the size".
MM
What's the story with live versus pre-recorded announcements on BBC One and BBC Two these days? Is the junction in the 10.30pm - 10.45pm window usually the last "live" announcement of the day? If so, the 10.40pm cock-up on BBC One sounds like yet another one of those issues with the "not fit for purpose" continuity booths that went live recently - as referenced by someone on here not that long ago - where they are unable to get the live continuity announcement to air. One would think that a fundamental flaw like this would have come up during testing.
Generic “This is BBC One” into Graham Norton with a “programme contains strong language” strap across the bottom of the titles. Yet the network announcement into the news was fine?
Silent Lottery caption too, unfortunate night for them to be having problems.
Silent Lottery caption too, unfortunate night for them to be having problems.
What's the story with live versus pre-recorded announcements on BBC One and BBC Two these days? Is the junction in the 10.30pm - 10.45pm window usually the last "live" announcement of the day? If so, the 10.40pm cock-up on BBC One sounds like yet another one of those issues with the "not fit for purpose" continuity booths that went live recently - as referenced by someone on here not that long ago - where they are unable to get the live continuity announcement to air. One would think that a fundamental flaw like this would have come up during testing.
MA
What's the story with live versus pre-recorded announcements on BBC One and BBC Two these days? Is the junction in the 10.30pm - 10.45pm window usually the last "live" announcement of the day? If so, the 10.40pm cock-up on BBC One sounds like yet another one of those issues with the "not fit for purpose" continuity booths that went live recently - as referenced by someone on here not that long ago - where they are unable to get the live continuity announcement to air. One would think that a fundamental flaw like this would have come up during testing.
Without knowing the details and history of the new booths etc, it’s impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions. I’ve been in the SI game for almost 30 years. The faults may well have appeared in testing, but things do (for a multitude of engineering, political, operational and/or financial reasons) get pressed into service with problems still unresolved. It’s worse now than 30 years ago. Timescales are shorter, systems are more complex, and also rely on <cough> cutting edge techniques and technology.
There’s a prime example of all of that at present with the TSB internet banking disaster. If I were a betting man, I’d say pressure was applied to roll that out before it was ready.
What's the story with live versus pre-recorded announcements on BBC One and BBC Two these days? Is the junction in the 10.30pm - 10.45pm window usually the last "live" announcement of the day? If so, the 10.40pm cock-up on BBC One sounds like yet another one of those issues with the "not fit for purpose" continuity booths that went live recently - as referenced by someone on here not that long ago - where they are unable to get the live continuity announcement to air. One would think that a fundamental flaw like this would have come up during testing.
Without knowing the details and history of the new booths etc, it’s impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions. I’ve been in the SI game for almost 30 years. The faults may well have appeared in testing, but things do (for a multitude of engineering, political, operational and/or financial reasons) get pressed into service with problems still unresolved. It’s worse now than 30 years ago. Timescales are shorter, systems are more complex, and also rely on <cough> cutting edge techniques and technology.
There’s a prime example of all of that at present with the TSB internet banking disaster. If I were a betting man, I’d say pressure was applied to roll that out before it was ready.