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ST
Ste Founding member
Australian channels are live in London for their breakfast programmes which are just starting for Wednesday morning (Australia time). This is from satellite feeds currently FTA on 1W (PM me for frequencies).

Channel 9 Today:

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Channel 7 Sunrise:

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Last edited by Ste on 15 May 2018 9:27pm
AS
Asa Admin
Ste posted:
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Do they think it's winter over here or something? Bunch of wusses, it's a lovely evening Very Happy

Let's hope they've got some well-behaved members of the public there.
DB
dbl
'We're in London' *cue Serif font*. Rolling Eyes
ST
Ste Founding member
Couple more screenshots:

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Piers Morgan apparently live on Channel 9 in 15 minutes.
London Lite and harshy gave kudos
WA
watchingtv
It was noisy when they were outside the Anchor




Here is the week for Sunrise


LL
London Lite Founding member
Did they manage to find the whole of Earl's Court to turn up to stand behind the presenters for a couple of tinnies?
AN
Andrew Founding member
Of course Windsor isn’t actually in London, but I bet most international broadcasters will say it is.
HA
harshy Founding member
The Piers Morgan interview was a recorded with the Aussie Male Channel9 Host in a Newsroom environment, as usual he was his controversial self.

They have struggled with the cold air as they put it.
TM
tmorgan96
Asa posted:
Ste posted:
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Do they think it's winter over here or something? Bunch of wusses, it's a lovely evening Very Happy
Erm yeah, but there's a big difference between the average climate in the two countries. 30C is a normal day in Sydney; in London it's a heatwave.

As an Australian who lived in Europe for a while, I can tell you Australians take a while to adjust to temperatures in Europe. Likewise it's almost a running joke that Brits come here and get melanoma because they have no idea how to sun protect in a place which still has a hole in the ozone layer.
RK
Rkolsen
Oh here’s a better video showing how close NBC is.





It’s coming from an NBC Washington anchor. I wonder if there’s any word on whether they are building the “Hollywood Squares” on the roof for affiliates.

I imagine they got spaces further back as well.

In Spanish in the US Telemundo is airing coverage from 5-9AM and repeats until 1PM and Univision runs from 5-10AM and at 10AM they transition to E/I fare (even though they likely could get a dispensation as it’s a news event).


Out of curiosity is this position better than the official one a mile or so away. I don't known if it's near anything significant in the castle but you can see the lawn outside the fence. I imagine the cameras and set will show some of that.

I imagine NBC and MSNBC will be side by side. I know Telemundo is doing their own coverage but I'm not sure if it will be "at bome" based or a hybrid like MSNBC where one host is stateside and the other two are based on site.

Now imagine since it looks like it's ontop of homes or a garage I doubt there's fiber connectivity. Which piques my interest if they'll uplink everycamera (they have multiple transponders covering Europe, downlink it and send it back via fiber and produce the show as they would as if they were in studio.

Now if that's the case I wonder about syncing the signals. So you don't cut to one camera where theres a delay in audio and there's lip issues. But I assume it all works out they've done it with 20+ cameras of their own via satellite for political conventions and by fiber for the Olympics.

Sorry for getting off topic about transmission issues. If you want to talk you can PM me.

Back to the wedding do you think there will be the option for the big three BBC, ITV/ITN and Sky News to hook up to the master router and take ISO feeds?
NG
noggin Founding member


Back to the wedding do you think there will be the option for the big three BBC, ITV/ITN and Sky News to hook up to the master router and take ISO feeds?


If you mean ISO feeds from St George's Chapel of the wedding service - I'd think that would be very unlikely.

I can't imagine that the BBC (who I think are providing the host feed) would want to provide cameras that aren't on talkback and don't have tallies from a third party (too many chances of hitting a re-frame, crash zoom for re-focus etc.) I'm pretty sure the only feed available will be the final mix, and it's likely that the BBC will have the only cameras in the chapel. This isn't a football match after all - it's likely to be a tightly camera scripted event for key sequences, and cutting away from that would be tricky to manage cleanly (particularly to cameras who are only working to the script.

I suspect the Palace would only want the agreed coverage to leave the chapel, and trust the BBC to provide that, whereas other broadcasters taking ISOs would not be across what has been agreed.

Also as the service is being covered in UHD HDR I believe, you'd have to put downconverters and HDR->SDR converters on every output (and in the case of HDR->SDR conversion probably have someone keeping an eye on the tone mapping)

Apart from a potential beauty shot or two - I doubt anything else would be provided.
JO
Jonwo
I wonder why the Australian networks want to use Outside Broadcasting rather than use a studio? The scenery is a bit redundant when it's mostly dark.

Interesting that the Today interview with Piers was done at the Daily Mail Offices and not at GMB

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