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31 Jul 11
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Watching the news on bbc 24 - They've had this countdown clock running for years now.
60 seconds of the bbc advertising their star reporters in foreign countries. Jostling with up to date communication equipment on their laps as they report.
LOOK AT THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK.... ITS DIVIDED INTO TWENTIETHS OF A SECOND.
when did any clock do that. In sports its a 100th of a second.
and why do they need dead time anyway - just go to the newsreader?
i'll end my petty peeve - the bbc is the greatest institution the world has ever known.
I'm sorry for questioning the wisdom of the bbc.
They sold off the railways, electric and gas board, bt, BP and everything else - but the bbc is a sacred institution and will not be touched.
They have a budget of 4,500 million and they can't afford 30 million for formula one. They're cost cutting. cutting away some of the dead dead wood.
There's Steak and there's mince. There's a lot of mince at the BBC.
Drama is appalling. morning tv is atrocious - designed for the brain dead.
example - Auction program where an item bought for ten pounds at a market gets eight at auction. At least go up market and view auctions with decent prices.
The budget allowed for each half hour of tv is between £25,000 - £50,000. if its repeatable it makes a nice profit. Decorating a house in birmingham or cardiff is nothing tv - who'll want to view this again and again. its trash. no other explanation. profitable trash but trash. BBC trust? executors? Guys in suits protecting their jobs and a heap of trash.
here's what the bbc should focus on
1. making good drama - see plays. Does Henry VIII have red hair?
2. live events - music, sport, etc.
3. good comedy - not teen comedy.
4. news thats not looped but updated.
5. less fearmongering. yes its noticeable.
6. less of the poor bbc is under threat from the chancellors massive slashing cuts.
7. more cinema spanning 1930- 1980, a lot has vanished.
8. merge channels with the same content.
9. ch4 has it - a movie channel. Their budget is nothing to the bbc's.
10. adverts for three minutes at the end of programs, not through the programs, this would generate revenue. Carlton cinema did this. Less face it you need a bathroom break or a cup of tea.
11. cut ceefax from the schedule - it was on bbc2 latenight? can't they show something?
12. jeez i could keep doing this all day, but my fury is subsiding - the monolithic BBC and their compulsory tax for watching tv. You can encrypt tv channels now. So why not give people the choice - do you want to pay the license fee? freeview is out there.
but it ain't free. its £154 a year. for the same stuff on the free channels.
the bbc loves you - ya muggs
60 seconds of the bbc advertising their star reporters in foreign countries. Jostling with up to date communication equipment on their laps as they report.
LOOK AT THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK.... ITS DIVIDED INTO TWENTIETHS OF A SECOND.
when did any clock do that. In sports its a 100th of a second.
and why do they need dead time anyway - just go to the newsreader?
i'll end my petty peeve - the bbc is the greatest institution the world has ever known.
I'm sorry for questioning the wisdom of the bbc.
They sold off the railways, electric and gas board, bt, BP and everything else - but the bbc is a sacred institution and will not be touched.
They have a budget of 4,500 million and they can't afford 30 million for formula one. They're cost cutting. cutting away some of the dead dead wood.
There's Steak and there's mince. There's a lot of mince at the BBC.
Drama is appalling. morning tv is atrocious - designed for the brain dead.
example - Auction program where an item bought for ten pounds at a market gets eight at auction. At least go up market and view auctions with decent prices.
The budget allowed for each half hour of tv is between £25,000 - £50,000. if its repeatable it makes a nice profit. Decorating a house in birmingham or cardiff is nothing tv - who'll want to view this again and again. its trash. no other explanation. profitable trash but trash. BBC trust? executors? Guys in suits protecting their jobs and a heap of trash.
here's what the bbc should focus on
1. making good drama - see plays. Does Henry VIII have red hair?
2. live events - music, sport, etc.
3. good comedy - not teen comedy.
4. news thats not looped but updated.
5. less fearmongering. yes its noticeable.
6. less of the poor bbc is under threat from the chancellors massive slashing cuts.
7. more cinema spanning 1930- 1980, a lot has vanished.
8. merge channels with the same content.
9. ch4 has it - a movie channel. Their budget is nothing to the bbc's.
10. adverts for three minutes at the end of programs, not through the programs, this would generate revenue. Carlton cinema did this. Less face it you need a bathroom break or a cup of tea.
11. cut ceefax from the schedule - it was on bbc2 latenight? can't they show something?
12. jeez i could keep doing this all day, but my fury is subsiding - the monolithic BBC and their compulsory tax for watching tv. You can encrypt tv channels now. So why not give people the choice - do you want to pay the license fee? freeview is out there.
but it ain't free. its £154 a year. for the same stuff on the free channels.
the bbc loves you - ya muggs
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and why do they need dead time anyway - just go to the newsreader?
I can probably answer this one for you. My only experience is of independent radio and IRN News but I assume it works the same for TV. The News is probably being fed to local BBC stations and/or BBC/other TV stations in other countries. Those stations HAVE to know EXACTLY what time the news bulletin will start so they can backtime their own programme and bring in the news at exactly the right time. They all use radio-controlled clocks which keep perfect time and the presenters know that when that second hand hits the hour (or half-hour or whatever), the News will start, whether you're ready for it or not. |
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What I forgot to add is that that countdown BBC clock doesn't necessarily run for 60 seconds. It's probably two to three minutes long and the graphics and the music track are both designed in such a way that they can launch it whenever they're ready and it'll look and sound perfectly natural. So whoever's presenting the item before the main news starts doesn't have to finish at an exact time, just roughly somewhere about 60 to 30 seconds before the news comes in. It's a good system.
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I think the seconds are divided in to 1/25ths which represent each frame (TV is output at 25 frames per second).
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