This is why we miss BBC Three. It's a shame that the news on BBC Four meant that coverage couldn't have started there on 19.28 or so, with an overlap, so that the only tennis missed was the time it took to type in the BBC Four LCN on your remote.
But the Beeb were in between a rock and a hard place tonight - I understand why pres wouldn't have wanted to mess around with the junction. Although, dropping from a court feed straight into Silk introducing the Somme services would have been the better solution given the circumstances.
But equally lots of trailers on BBC Four, plus it was off the back of live news who could have given a clean point to leave a little earlier than planned if necessary.
Although would there need to be a few minutes to line up with BBC4, sort out talkback etc which couldn't be done until off the air on BBC2?
Not sure what difference having BBC three would have made. Something would still have to have been displaced.
They could have changed the schedule to put on a 25-minute show rather than a 30-minute show in the run-up to 7.30pm, so that we had a 5 minute overlap and no tennis would have been missed in the handover between channels.
They could have changed the schedule to put on a 25-minute show rather than a 30-minute show in the run-up to 7.30pm, so that we had a 5 minute overlap and no tennis would have been missed in the handover between channels.
If it was as simple as that, World News could have provided an opt point for them to get out cleanly at 19:25 or whenever. The fact that BBC Four played out several minutes' worth of trailers after the news suggests that they couldn't just go straight to Wimbledon.
They could have changed the schedule to put on a 25-minute show rather than a 30-minute show in the run-up to 7.30pm, so that we had a 5 minute overlap and no tennis would have been missed in the handover between channels.
If it was as simple as that, World News could have provided an opt point for them to get out cleanly at 19:25 or whenever. The fact that BBC Four played out several minutes' worth of trailers after the news suggests that they couldn't just go straight to Wimbledon.
Good point well made. Although, Wimbledon is on BBC One and BBC Two simultaneously, so lining up two channels etc, is a regular occurrence - having said that, obviously going into the BBC Four gallery would be a new one. I do recall from conversations on here in previous years that there is just one pres truck which is switched into and out of the court feeds - whether that complicates things, I don't know...
Probably a tricky one to put the captions and voiceover on BBC Two, close the programme, switch to BBC Four and open the programme there.
Also explains why yesterday BBC Two couldn't do much when their match was suspended for rain while Barker was presenting features between matches on BBC One.
Is there something preventing BBC Two from just fading out of the court feed or BBC Four from joining it direct like BBC Two Scotland did yesterday?
When you are trying to make pres look good at the expense of missing crucial point of the action, there's an issue of priorities.
The red button must have a more simple setup as all continuity is done out of vision, and they simple cut from one court to the next.
In those last minute Murray switch overs, Sue has simultaneously opened and closed two channels at once taking to both channels together, so it's not unheard of.
In those last minute Murray switch overs, Sue has simultaneously opened and closed two channels at once taking to both channels together, so it's not unheard of.
Two reactive channels with live announcers and dedicated directors. A late schedule change on 4 is much less common and possibly not something they are really set up for.
In those last minute Murray switch overs, Sue has simultaneously opened and closed two channels at once taking to both channels together, so it's not unheard of.
Yes - the paradigm used tonight was to broadcast to BBC Two and BBC Four separately with two separate shows. For whatever reason (technical or editorial or scheduling) an overlap wasn't used, which would have been the best scenario tonight, and what I was trying to describe above - so Sue would welcome BBC Four viewers, with her voice going out on both BBC Four and BBC Two, instruct viewers to switch, then say goodbye to BBC Two. I recall BBC F1 doing this at very short notice (although this is going back a bit) at the Brazilian GP in 2009, when a rain delay to the qualifying session meant that the coverage had to be punted onto BBC Two. There's no way that this could have been planned for, but an overlap was used, with Jake Humphrey welcoming the BBC Two viewers first, a bit of coverage on both, before BBC One went off to Strictly Come Dancing.
Clearly there was a compelling reason for no overlap tonight.