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noggin Founding member
commseng posted:
noggin posted:
commseng posted:
If I am on site in an uplink truck then I am not monitoring too many sources compared to an MCR.
Therefore the freeze is a better option for incoming feeds that will be used on air.
If there is a sudden problem it is less objectionable and bear in mind that I will be receiving on a small dish, either 2.4m or 1.8m, not the same as the teleports will be using.


I've heard a production argument that black or 'incoming garbage passed through' are both preferable to freezes on IRDs and Frame synchronisers on live shows - as audience that see a freeze frame will think the show is recorded and 'the tape has been paused' if something that they think is live then freezes on-air.

I had heard that when radio cameras were first put through syncronisers and would freeze rather display noise as they faded, this caused issues with horse racing coverage.
Viewers, and especially those who were betting on the races saw the CRE freeze as it broke up, with horses midway over a jump.
There were accusations that the race had been recorded, and was not live........


Hence the popularity of Quantel 1751s I believe (which would run in a GIGO mode)
CU
Curto21
Quite a bad one for Sky Sports News today.

Sky Sports News was taken off the air due to a fire alarm at 6:25pm this evening and the report that was playing was interrupted with this.
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Then at 6:26pm they went to an advert break returning at 6:30pm however instead of going to The Players Countdown Show the station repeated what was shown at 6pm with an apology at the near bottom of the screen.
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This stayed the same until the next ad break at around 6:43pm and then after that ad break they crossed over to The Players Championship countdown show which was due on at 6:30pm but instead went on at 6:45pm which led to the host apologizing for the start being delayed which he explained was due to a fire alarm in the studios in London.

And just for the note at the end of the program, they crashed into an ad break at 6:56pm. Let's just say for Sky Sports it's been quite an evening.
DV
DVB Cornwall
BT Sport had minor graphics issues before the start of tonights RBLTOT match, which delayed the display of the line-ups in the build up phase, before crossing to the host broadcaster feed from Germany,
NE
newsnet
As it's around 20 years since the launch of the UK's first (analogue) local tv stations, here's a reminder of how the very first of them all - TV 12 on the Isle of Wight - apologised for being off the air for a few days:-



In 2002 TV12 was also, alas, the first local tv station not to have its licence renewed by the Independent Television Commission but, before it sank without trace, for at least two years it had provided the Isle of Wight with local news and local programming - albeit on a shoestring budget.
Last edited by newsnet on 11 March 2020 4:23pm - 2 times in total
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Ne1L C
newsnet posted:
As it's around 20 years since the launch of the UK's first (analogue) local tv stations, here's a reminder of how the very first of them all - TV 12 on the Isle of Wight - apologised for being off the air for a few days:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw8h9f51gE


In 2002 TV12 was also, alas, the first local tv station not to have its licence renewed by the Independent Television Commission but, before it sank without trace, for at least two years it had provided the Isle of Wight with local news and local programming - albeit on a shoestring budget.


In a way its a shame that the hyper-local stations didn't have a bigger impact.
MA
Markymark
newsnet posted:
As it's around 20 years since the launch of the UK's first (analogue) local tv stations, here's a reminder of how the very first of them all - TV 12 on the Isle of Wight - apologised for being off the air for a few days:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw8h9f51gE


In 2002 TV12 was also, alas, the first local tv station not to have its licence renewed by the Independent Television Commission but, before it sank without trace, for at least two years it had provided the Isle of Wight with local news and local programming - albeit on a shoestring budget.


I can't remember the chronology of mishaps now. Its playout system was located at the transmitter, at Rowridge. It was a Miranda 'channel in a box', style thing that they leased, possibly also using a second hand Sony Flexicart. Later they were also on Sky, can't remember who uplinked them, or how the feed got from Rowridge to there. They were knocked off the air (on analogue terrestrial) for months and months after their tx antenna was damaged by lightning. They couldn't afford to get NGW (who later where bought by Arqiva) to repair it.

I remember watching them, better than That's TV by a long way
BE
Ben Founding member
I think at least part of that description refers to TV12's successor, Solent TV.
NL
Ne1L C
newsnet posted:
As it's around 20 years since the launch of the UK's first (analogue) local tv stations, here's a reminder of how the very first of them all - TV 12 on the Isle of Wight - apologised for being off the air for a few days:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw8h9f51gE


In 2002 TV12 was also, alas, the first local tv station not to have its licence renewed by the Independent Television Commission but, before it sank without trace, for at least two years it had provided the Isle of Wight with local news and local programming - albeit on a shoestring budget.


In a way its a shame that the hyper-local stations didn't have a bigger impact.
MA
Markymark
Ben posted:
I think at least part of that description refers to TV12's successor, Solent TV.


Yes, you're right. Didn’t TV12 also simulcast programmes with IoW Radio?
And didn’t IoWR's Alex Dyke (lately with BBC Solent) present on TV12, or was that Solent TV?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Markymark posted:
They were knocked off the air (on analogue terrestrial) for months and months after their tx antenna was damaged by lightning. They couldn't afford to get NGW (who later where bought by Arqiva) to repair it.


That seems remarkable. I would have expected that they would be paying a fee to NGW for the transmission service which would include provision of the relevant kit?
MA
Markymark
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Markymark posted:
They were knocked off the air (on analogue terrestrial) for months and months after their tx antenna was damaged by lightning. They couldn't afford to get NGW (who later where bought by Arqiva) to repair it.


That seems remarkable. I would have expected that they would be paying a fee to NGW for the transmission service which would include provision of the relevant kit?


Support contracts come at all sorts of levels. I suspect an 'act of god' clause in TV12's
DA
davidhorman
The One Show had a cheeky fake breakdown tonight as part of their introduction to a piece on the interrupted 1970 Miss World broadcast.

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