Talking Telephone Numbers

Yes but they chose TK.

TX is a universal term for transmission not just the BBC.

RX is reception (or a chemist!)

DX is distant reception


Probably more to distinguish them from record ports. I've seen that naming convention elsewhere.

I stand corrected about RX. Reception does make complete sense now that I come to think about it.

I remember the Find A Fortune breakdown was covered in depth in a "It Shouldn't happen to a Live TV Presenter" such programme with Rory McGrath.

It shown that the vision mixer completely froze up and had shots of a concerned Carol Vorderman and audio of the talkback with genuine concerns they won't be coming back on air at all.

I reckon they were filming behind the scenes anyway and as if by luck the breakdown occurred.

Anyway... back on topic and in the numerous threads this video has created, one reoccurring niggle is how can people listen to it. So I've fixed that so that the left and right audio channels are isolated.

The video first starts with the audio as per transmission. Then the video plays again but that time with the talkback audio. This starts at approx. 15:00.

And do be aware as there is strong language which is even more stronger now that you can hear it clearer!

Reuploaded a couple of months ago.

I’m guessing they ask the callers their answers before going to air, so they knew the first two were wrong and the third was right.

There is nothing stopping the callers changing their answers before going to air I expect.

Also regarding the gamble card being lower, as it was picked at random, it would still be fair, but the gallery could still have a list of what card was in what position, I expect this would be useful on some shows, if being a winner or a loser would involve cueing up different music or graphics.

Thank you for doing this. It makes a lot of things, such as the calls from presentation, and Philip’s “strop” much clearer. As for the latter, it seems perfectly reasonable to ask for a few minutes to regain his composure before recording trails for the following week!

I also heard the warm up guy addressing the audience at the end, after the director says “Warm-up mic up” (not “warm up my cup” which I originally heard!)

Some minor questions:

Why at 24 seconds in is the time listed as 12.55 a.m. right before the 1:00 p.m. / 13:00 newscast? Is that normal practice in the U.K. for that? When I first saw it I thought it was after midnight. Or was it a production error?

Finally at 9:55 p.m. the studio lights say NRM ON AIR. I get what on air, I assume NRM means newsroom?

Yes NRM was newsroom - as opposed to N1 or N2 which were the studios.

I think the 12:55am thing was simply a mistake in the caption.

There's still a notable number of people who argue that noon-1300 is still AM and midnight-0100 is PM. Same thing as those who argue that 0000 and 2400 don't exist and that midnight is part of the previous day, with 1201 being the first minute of a day.

Considering how long our current understanding of time has been held, it's amazing the number of confusions people have. Just don't get me started on people who use mm/dd/yy format dates

It's also quite an easy mistake to make if you're not really thinking about it when constructing a timeline series of captions - one might sensibly (but wrongly) adjust only the hour when doing a 10, 11, 12 sequence, and not think about the AM/PM indicator until the number series becomes discontinuous at 1 - especially if you are more used to using the 24hr clock.

Americans

I assume that one of the games/features of Talking Telephone Numbers was called Fast Forward - quite apt considering the mishaps with the broadcast!