MA
10 years ago was before DSO started, so there was about 20-25% of the population out of Freeview range, and even some of those that were covered were still using analogue.
I think it was some attempt to give ' EPG style' functionality to analogue during its swan-song era !
Ten years ago? Wouldn't that be redundant thanks to EPGs? Could've understood if it was 20 years ago, i.e. before digital TV.
10 years ago was before DSO started, so there was about 20-25% of the population out of Freeview range, and even some of those that were covered were still using analogue.
I think it was some attempt to give ' EPG style' functionality to analogue during its swan-song era !
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JV
There's no RDS on Radio 5 Live
Unless he means the DLS text on DAB....
James Vertigan
Founding member
On BBC LR (possibly also R5L) it's also used to display headlines, weather and traffic.
There's no RDS on Radio 5 Live
Unless he means the DLS text on DAB....
DV
There's no RDS on Radio 5 Live
Unless he means the DLS text on DAB....
Yes we were talking about both FM and DAB.
On BBC LR (possibly also R5L) it's also used to display headlines, weather and traffic.
There's no RDS on Radio 5 Live
Unless he means the DLS text on DAB....
Yes we were talking about both FM and DAB.
SD
It's a great discussion!
In all seriousness, on the original topic - surely "the Queen is badly ill" would itself be "we interrupt this programme" territory? If that news comes a little while before her death is announced, then I would imagine BBC One might be simulcasting News Channel at the time, so there is no new interruption. Though would BBC One want an "official announcement" to be made by a high-profile anchor (Huw Edwards, say) rather than whoever happens to be on the News Channel shift at that point? (Presumably this would be preceded by the National Anthem.)
In all seriousness, on the original topic - surely "the Queen is badly ill" would itself be "we interrupt this programme" territory? If that news comes a little while before her death is announced, then I would imagine BBC One might be simulcasting News Channel at the time, so there is no new interruption. Though would BBC One want an "official announcement" to be made by a high-profile anchor (Huw Edwards, say) rather than whoever happens to be on the News Channel shift at that point? (Presumably this would be preceded by the National Anthem.)
BR
I don't think so - "badly ill" due to her age is something that could wait until the end of the programme, if not the next scheduled bulletin, and I suspect she'd be afforded quite a bit of privacy in that situation rather than having hourly medical reports fed to the media. I'd like to think the BBC have more taste than to go on rolling death watch, though given some of their latest buzzfeed style articles online I'm beginning to doubt that.
Although I agree the network presenter should break such news I think all likelihood is they'll break into the BBC News Channel, especially if it's during the day the news breaks. In the evening they might use the likes of Huw Edwards, but on the otherhand this is the organisation who thinks a 60-second primetime summary needs to be read by a young female rather than their senior newscaster.
Although I agree the network presenter should break such news I think all likelihood is they'll break into the BBC News Channel, especially if it's during the day the news breaks. In the evening they might use the likes of Huw Edwards, but on the otherhand this is the organisation who thinks a 60-second primetime summary needs to be read by a young female rather than their senior newscaster.
IS
It is still extremely interesting, so please don't stop. It just tickled me that a thread about how media will respond to the passing of HMQ has become a quite technical discussion on RDS
I'm surprised RDS's Early Warning System hasn't been mentioned yet, though that's more for major disasters than royal deaths. I'm not sure if it's in use in the UK, except for some pirates who have been known to activate it in order to snare passing motorists onto their signal
It is still extremely interesting, so please don't stop. It just tickled me that a thread about how media will respond to the passing of HMQ has become a quite technical discussion on RDS
I'm surprised RDS's Early Warning System hasn't been mentioned yet, though that's more for major disasters than royal deaths. I'm not sure if it's in use in the UK, except for some pirates who have been known to activate it in order to snare passing motorists onto their signal
SD
Yeah, all of this makes sense. The Queen Mother certainly went out with some privacy, so it was a legitimate sudden story when she died from the broadcasting perspective with no "rolling death watch."
Of course, BBC One broadcast from the main studio with Peter Sissons rather than cutting to News 24 even though the protocol had been softened not long before, so that's the precedent to go to a network presenter (and the last one of these Bridge articles, from the Daily Beast in 2015, implied that it'd be Huw at the ready for the official announcement).
Then again, surely the very fact that all the newsreaders have an Emergency Obit Outfit at the ready would be consistent with going straight to the News Channel?
Of course, BBC One broadcast from the main studio with Peter Sissons rather than cutting to News 24 even though the protocol had been softened not long before, so that's the precedent to go to a network presenter (and the last one of these Bridge articles, from the Daily Beast in 2015, implied that it'd be Huw at the ready for the official announcement).
Then again, surely the very fact that all the newsreaders have an Emergency Obit Outfit at the ready would be consistent with going straight to the News Channel?
IS
It would be followed by the national anthem, as happened with Diana and the Queen mum
Yes I think the idea is to get a well known presenter to announce it but of course that might well not be possible. Who it is will presumably depend on who lives nearest and can get in the quickest. Iirc this is why Dermot Murgnahan ended up being the newsreader who announced Diana's death on ITV.
Going back to the anthem, playing these this was traditionally the job of presentation, they had a box of tapes in each to suite with various flags and the national anthem (different flags depending on who had snuffed it). This responsibility gradually moved to news and presumably they do that now in these days where they just cut the news channel and leave them to it
Though would BBC One want an "official announcement" to be made by a high-profile anchor (Huw Edwards, say) rather than whoever happens to be on the News Channel shift at that point? (Presumably this would be preceded by the National Anthem.)
It would be followed by the national anthem, as happened with Diana and the Queen mum
Yes I think the idea is to get a well known presenter to announce it but of course that might well not be possible. Who it is will presumably depend on who lives nearest and can get in the quickest. Iirc this is why Dermot Murgnahan ended up being the newsreader who announced Diana's death on ITV.
Going back to the anthem, playing these this was traditionally the job of presentation, they had a box of tapes in each to suite with various flags and the national anthem (different flags depending on who had snuffed it). This responsibility gradually moved to news and presumably they do that now in these days where they just cut the news channel and leave them to it