BBC News report: extra second of time

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:07:28 -0000, Jay wrote:

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.

It didn't overrun. It was 59 minutes exactly in a 60 minute slot.
Other things did though.

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?

Haven't you heard?
http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/12/01/b...rces-job-cuts/

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:25:38 -0000, Max Demian wrote:

The fact that the Humax 9200T
apparently has a software bug that will occasionally miss the start,
record for only a second or chop the end. Hopefully Humax will work on
this in the new year.

Mine misses the start of almost everything, the end of the majority of
things and occasionally fails to record at all. It also has a habit of
just deleting series link timer entries of its own accord. F annoying.

I don't think they have any plans to update the 9200T software - probably
they'll just fix the 9150T and 9300T.

Have you got any evidence of this? My 9200 is less than a year old and it's
not fit for purpose especially as it was sold on the basis of having an
"Accurate Record" facility, which it patently does not.

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,


What infuriates me even more is that they continue to air plugs for
their own programmes even when they're running late instead of trying to
catch up.

Another Dave

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:48:49 +0000, Another Dave wrote:

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,


What infuriates me even more is that they continue to air plugs for
their own programmes even when they're running late instead of trying to
catch up.

On the other hand, the BBC News Channel (used to be News 24) sticks rigidly to
its schedule even if it has interesting live events to show.

For instance in September 2004 the NASA Genesis spacecraft returned to Earth.
It was supposed to deploy a parachute and slow down so that it could be caught
in net carried by a helicopter. BBC News 24 was covering this live. Just
before the excitement was due the BBC went back to the studio for the hourly
news bulletin. By the time they returned to the live coverage the spacecraft
had crashed.

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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:48:49 +0000, Another Dave wrote:

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,


What infuriates me even more is that they continue to air plugs for
their own programmes even when they're running late instead of trying to
catch up.

On the other hand, the BBC News Channel (used to be News 24) sticks
rigidly to
its schedule even if it has interesting live events to show.

Not true. Click is often shortened or cancelled if there is news to report -
you have to pick up a repeat.

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In article , Another Dave wrote:
What infuriates me even more is that they continue to air plugs for
their own programmes even when they're running late instead of trying to
catch up.

I think the problem may be that the BBC is fragmented into so many
different departments that don't communicate and don't care what the others
are doing that to each department the material is effectively someone
else's and not their own.

There's also the common problem with top-heavy paranoid hierarchies where
the further up you go the more concern there is for maintaining authority
rather than anything useful that might be achieved by wielding it, so none
of the minions in a position to get something done has been delegated the
authority to do it and nobody wants to bother the bosses.

Rod.
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Kay Robinson wrote:

I do find programmes about cars interesting. Unhappily that particular
one shows more consideration to those with the deepest, throatiest
exhausts and emphasises the speed and power above all else. IMHO all
testing should be done on the highway under normal traffic conditions.
Most of the vehicles tested are far beyond the purse of most drives.
Definitely a 'boys toys' programme. I often think that if JC were to
be given an all electric car that could cruise at 180mph without a
sound he wouldn't be seen dead in it. I also think, from comments I
overhear, that most of the female viewers tune in to see his pixie'ish
side-kick. As for fast cars, I did own a scarlet Porche in the early
70s and we did have an XJS for a short while :-)

Top Gear only uses motoring as a platform, it is quite simply an entertainment
show, and an extremely well produced one at that. Amazingly in this day and
age it is still allowed to be politically incorrect, which IMHO is A Good
Thing. Although at times I do find Clarkson to be an irritating pig-headed
****, I enjoy the show. Curiously it's about the only BBC programme my 71 year
old mother-in-law watches.


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Kay Robinson wrote:

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:05:31 +0000, Peter Duncanson
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

Apparently Top Gear attracts female viewers.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student...gs-421897.html

Top Gear: The Race For Ratings
Friday, 27 October 2006
....
The show can currently claim a 32 per cent share of the 16- to 34-year-old
male viewing figures. But it also manages to attract 40 per cent of female
viewers - quite an achievement for a programme claming to be an "oasis for
motorists".

Definitely a 'boys toys' programme. I often think that if JC were to
be given an all electric car that could cruise at 180mph without a
sound he wouldn't be seen dead in it.

Well he gushed rather about that electric elise thing (Tesla Roadster)
that he drove in the latest series. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, top speed
125mph, pfooooooar!

But then the battery went flat......

Pft!
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On 2009-01-04, Phil Cook wrote:

Well he gushed rather about that electric elise thing (Tesla Roadster)
that he drove in the latest series. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, top speed
125mph, pfooooooar!

But then the battery went flat......

Actually Top Gear apparently faked the battery going flat.

e.g. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12...op_gear_tesla/

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David Taylor

David Taylor wrote:

On 2009-01-04, Phil Cook wrote:

Well he gushed rather about that electric elise thing (Tesla Roadster)
that he drove in the latest series. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, top speed
125mph, pfooooooar!

But then the battery went flat......

Actually Top Gear apparently faked the battery going flat.

e.g. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12...op_gear_tesla/

Like somebody may have said, why let the facts get in the way of
entertainment :-)
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