I live in Scotland and have noticed that the English regions all appear to be shortened, eg BBC London = BBC LDN | BBC Manchester = BBC MCR or something.
Just wondering why BBC Scotland :
1) Uses BBC Scotland
2) has a different news name from everywhere else - everywhere else is like Midlands Today - we have Reporting Scotland as Scotland Today is Scottish Televisions news service (ITV1 in England)
Also I have noticed mocks of ITV1 Scottish idents - just to clarify, Scottish TV NEVER uses ITV Branding except:
1) ITV News
2) ITV Nightscreen
At no other time will you see "ITV1" or "ITV" on the air.
I think the BBC names have something to do with the Nationwide days for the names of regional news programmes, this when most of the BBC regions were very new, it's where they got Look North, Look East, Points West and others came from, assuming they've been using Reporting Scotland for a while and assuming that STV have been using Scotland Today for a while too.
Though BBC MCR never appears on screen, it's just a thing used by the BBC Manchester website. Though I think The City of Manchester use MCR from time to time aswell, meaning it isn't the BBC only. LDN, was going to be London Live it never happened.
I suggest you click on the "TV FAQ" link at the top this page.
DAS, have you clicked the link recently...?
Ah.
Well a DOG is a digital on-screen graphic or digitally orientated graphic, basically it's a permanent channel logo that sits in the corner of the screen. An ident is the channel identification - for BBC One it would be the dancers, for ITV 1 the gormless celebrities. CSO stands for Colour Separation Overlay and is the posh word for blue or green screen - the substitution of a single colour with a picture, as used in weather forecasts.
Cheers for that and for god sake I hope i havent caused a mass fallout ha ha
I get enough of that at School
By the way - does anyone know if the BBC is going to release their Ident music for the nightclub - i could really do with it, or if anyone has a non-spoken over one of the 10-20 seconds that it is displayed its be really helpfull.
Cheers for that and for god sake I hope i havent caused a mass fallout ha ha
I get enough of that at School
By the way - does anyone know if the BBC is going to release their Ident music for the nightclub - i could really do with it, or if anyone has a non-spoken over one of the 10-20 seconds that it is displayed its be really helpfull.
Cheers
That "nightclub" ident is called Festival...it used to be available on the BBC website (although I think it was with a voice-over) but only the new idents now seem to be on there, and not any of the original set, though they're still used on screen.
Generally the BBC don't release "clean" versions of their idents, apperentally for copyright reasons.
As for the DOG confusion, I've always understood it to be "digital on-screen graphic"...but I've understood a lot of things and turned out to be wrong!
By the way - does anyone know if the BBC is going to release their Ident music for the nightclub - i could really do with it, or if anyone has a non-spoken over one of the 10-20 seconds that it is displayed its be really helpfull.
It was released, I'm sure of it, or a remix of it. I've heard it on Dave Pearce's Radio 1 show before. A long tedious browse through the requests forum should find it's name.
