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The latest Matthew Hall series (April 2013)

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Whataday Founding member
Markymark posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

Incidentally, did GMTV go through the regional companies at the weekend or was there a line switch like in TV-am days? As there were no regional opts having an opportunity to take the regional companies' MCR/pres areas out of circuit for maintenance etc might have been useful.


There was certainly a 'splat' at 09:25 weekends here in Meridianland, until playout transferred to LNN in the early 00s


The switchover here isn't exactly seamless:

GO
gottago
On the subject of Promise sites, last year I found three outdoor benches at the National Archives in Kew with a load of promises transcribed into the wooden seat back. Should've taken pictures.
BB
bbcfan2014
I saw a park bench in Higginson Park, Marlow last year that had promises on. No pledges were quite as bonkers as the ones on that East India Dock monstrosity
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nwtv2003
623058 posted:
Where are the other locations again?



There are some promise plaques at Land's End from memory, they were still there when I visited it in 2014.
BL
bluecortina
Markymark posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

Incidentally, did GMTV go through the regional companies at the weekend or was there a line switch like in TV-am days? As there were no regional opts having an opportunity to take the regional companies' MCR/pres areas out of circuit for maintenance etc might have been useful.


There was certainly a 'splat' at 09:25 weekends here in Meridianland, until playout transferred to LNN in the early 00s

Could be a red herring though, because LNN had macro regions for GMTV ads, and there was a custom switching box that reconfigured the network line out feeds at 06:00 and 09:25. I know, because I moved that box (and its standby one) from one bay to another in 2000


GMTV's request for macro regions came quite late in the day and was not part of their original spec, I'm thinking, although it was a long time ago and I might be mis-remembering, that it might not have even been working on day one.

As you say, the box switched some of the outgoing circuits over to LNN - otherwise they were under the control of TLS. All of these circuits went through the TLS Lines section. Did the Macro feeds 'fade and take' to the ads or was it a simple switch? I'm trying to remember how sophisticated it was.
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Markymark
bluecortina posted:
Markymark posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

Incidentally, did GMTV go through the regional companies at the weekend or was there a line switch like in TV-am days? As there were no regional opts having an opportunity to take the regional companies' MCR/pres areas out of circuit for maintenance etc might have been useful.


There was certainly a 'splat' at 09:25 weekends here in Meridianland, until playout transferred to LNN in the early 00s

Could be a red herring though, because LNN had macro regions for GMTV ads, and there was a custom switching box that reconfigured the network line out feeds at 06:00 and 09:25. I know, because I moved that box (and its standby one) from one bay to another in 2000


GMTV's request for macro regions came quite late in the day and was not part of their original spec, I'm thinking, although it was a long time ago and I might be mis-remembering, that it might not have even been working on day one.

As you say, the box switched some of the outgoing circuits over to LNN - otherwise they were under the control of TLS. All of these circuits went through the TLS Lines section. Did the Macro feeds 'fade and take' to the ads or was it a simple switch? I'm trying to remember how sophisticated it was.


It was a simple switch box, with relays switching the SDI feeds, so rather basic ! I can't remember how it was controlled, it couldn't have lasted long once the other southern regions had 'moved in', replaced by
station router salvos I'm sure ?
BL
bluecortina
Ah, I was referring to the original analogue system. Not to worry.
EL
elmarko
Asa posted:
Critique posted:
Thought this might be of interest to some members:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_6kLLKoEc

It look almost the entirety of that video to work out why I recognised him...turns out I watched him explaining the chaos of computing time and timezones a few months back. Shocked

Just wanted to say that Tom Scott is a legit legend and you should all look at his fascinating videos on YouTube. So much cool stuff to learn.
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A former member
Talk about stupidity ITV has two Murder she wrotes this morning... yet there had one odd episode from at 09.25 , yet at 10.20 there had PART 2 of a two parter... why not broadcast part one at 09.25
GM
GMc
623058 posted:
Talk about stupidity ITV has two Murder she wrotes this morning... yet there had one odd episode from at 09.25 , yet at 10.20 there had PART 2 of a two parter... why not broadcast part one at 09.25


Because the schedulers at ITV are stupid - why even schedule a programme like Murder, She Wrote on a Saturday morning?
Does anyone know how it rates?
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Jon
Yes the schedulers at ITV.
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A former member
Jon posted:
Yes the schedulers at ITV.


Do there pick the episodes? or is it some person he just pick something of the shelf?

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