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BBC News report: extra second of time
"Woody" wrote in message ... "Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message ... Jay wrote: I see the BBC has got hold of the fact that to bring UK time in line with global timing, we are to have an extra second added to the end of the year tonight (New Years Eve). What a pity the BBC cannot seem to get its own ship in order when it comes to timing?. On Christmas Day 2008 the 'BBC One' schedule ran 7 minutes 21 seconds late, which resulted in almost every programme being recorded that night, missing the last 5 or 6 minutes. Pathetic when you consider the technology they have at their disposal to time programmes these days! Absolutely agree. There is nothing that infuriates me more about the BBC. Actually it is nothing to do with the BBC. Nobody said it was anything to do with the BBC. I just said that the BBC had reported the story on BBC News. Who said anything about it being anything to do with the BBC? What is the BBC's fault is the lack of time keeping on its TV channels. |
BBC News report: extra second of time
"Mark Carver" wrote in message ... wrote: What caused the delay ?. The Queen would have gone out on time and someone else on another group says it was for the full 10 minutes, so did the news at 5.45 pm over run ? AIUI the delay was mostly caused by Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special overrunning. This programme was pre recorded on the afternoon of Monday 22nd December, so why they couldn't edit it down to the allotted timeslot, Probably for the same reason that no-one seemed to listen to the Ross's recorded radio show that caused such an uproar a few weeks ago after it was allowed to be broadcast. |
BBC News report: extra second of time
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message m... I made my comments on this earlier, suffice to say, that if the recording system worked on a unique ID on program content, rather than time, it would really not matter. Brian Come on Brian, if the BBC can't tell the bloody time, how are they gonna work out ID codes? Time is simple enough and if they can't get that right they are obviously behind the door. Obviously some t*at at the BBC overlooked the overun of Strictly Con Dancing. I am sure I could have done a good enough edit of it myself to fit it into the alloted time slot. So why didn't they do it? Had they shut up the edit shop for Christmas? The Big finger is pointing to 12 and the little finger is pointing to the 3... Oh it must be 9 o'clock! |
BBC News report: extra second of time
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:18:42 +0000, Mike O'Sullivan
wrote: Absolutely agree. There is nothing that infuriates me more about the BBC. Well, that's not too bad then! The "Today" programme followed up (and rather trumped) that news at 8.30 this morning by giving a time-check that was 2 hours wrong. |
BBC News report: extra second of time
Brian Gaff wrote:
Well, pdc was invented yonks ago, and has been said on here, it appears not all the broadcasters will support it...Cannot think why...So iits not just the bbc is it. Nobody is going to go overboard with a system unless everyone supports it. It's all a very long story:- http://625.uk.com/pdc/index.htm -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. |
BBC News report: extra second of time
Mark Carver wrote:
wrote: What caused the delay ?. The Queen would have gone out on time and someone else on another group says it was for the full 10 minutes, so did the news at 5.45 pm over run ? AIUI the delay was mostly caused by Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special overrunning. This programme was pre recorded on the afternoon of Monday 22nd December, so why they couldn't edit it down to the allotted timeslot, when they had 72 hours to do so is puzzling. In fact even more puzzling is this programme was repeated on the BBC HD channel on Sunday evening, and ran for its originally allocated timeslot of 60 mins ! The BBC/Red Bee could have eased the situation by ditching all subsequent trailers, to move the schedule back towards the original timings. They didn't. They even gave W&G a 35 second continuity announcement, FFS, just say " And now, later than billed, Wallace and Grommet." I'm afraid the whole sad state of affairs highlights the Beeb's attitude that trailers and presentation are more important than the programmes themselves. The apparent incomplete control of PDC, Freeview AR, and Sky+ triggers displays technical incompetence, because those features are supposed to safeguard situations like this, and whoever *deliberately* scheduled the evening with those timings, just displayed utter contempt for the viewer. In short a total disgrace. Some years ago, whilst still working for the BBC, I asked a Presentation contact why a certain trail (The Cliffhanger one) hadn't been pulled. He said they weren't allowed to overrule marketing decisions, and that they had to follow what ads - sorry trails - had been listed. Also, this particular trail had been queried by Pres with marketing who said it should go out. I think it resulted in something like 288 complaints. marketing still rule though. Richard |
BBC News report: extra second of time
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wrote: On 31 Dec, Laurence Payne wrote: The "Today" programme followed up (and rather trumped) that news at 8.30 this morning by giving a time-check that was 2 hours wrong. Jack Demaneu (SP?) lives on! De Manio -- From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey" Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11 |
BBC News report: extra second of time
Jay wrote:
I see the BBC..........................On Christmas Day 2008 the 'BBC One' schedule ran 7 minutes 21 seconds late, which resulted in almost every programme being recorded that night, missing the last 5 or 6 minutes. Pathetic when you consider the technology they have at their disposal to time programmes these days! Luckily I pad my recordings off Freeview with -1 +10 on my PVR so I didn't miss anything. But I was wondering, how on earth did they get that late? Was there some massive news breaking on Christmas Day that I was and remain unaware of, or did they suffer some hicup in playout of an "unmissable" programme? -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" |
BBC News report: extra second of time
"Phil Cook" wrote in message ... Jay wrote: I see the BBC..........................On Christmas Day 2008 the 'BBC One' schedule ran 7 minutes 21 seconds late, which resulted in almost every programme being recorded that night, missing the last 5 or 6 minutes. Pathetic when you consider the technology they have at their disposal to time programmes these days! Luckily I pad my recordings off Freeview with -1 +10 on my PVR so I didn't miss anything. But I was wondering, how on earth did they get that late? Was there some massive news breaking on Christmas Day that I was and remain unaware of, or did they suffer some hicup in playout of an "unmissable" programme? -- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks" The general consensus is that Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special overan its allocated time slot. Thus leaving everything else after it running by about seven minutes late. |
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