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PATV Scunthorpe
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
ohdearme posted:
It's amazing that this Lorraine programme has got on air really - what you're watching is being played out live from ITN! Apparently the tape got there with only minutes to go and transmission were only able to see and hear it within 60 seconds of the programme's on air time.

Lucky someone thought to grab the tape on the way out the building.... lucky it's still on tape!

Surprised it's not played out from Chiswick to be honest. Guess it's done from London because of the clock?

If your talking about Lorraine, the clock wasn't present on the pre-record. The logo and the yellow clock circle faded off after they animated on.
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Custard56
Another GMB thread is just what TV Forum needs.
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chris
Inspector Sands posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Isn't the This Morning studio in a completely separate building? Surprised there isn't a contingency plan to use that in this kind of scenario.

Not sure how seperate it is, probably not enough to be not evacuated too in such a circumstance. Also with fires there's the likelyhood of power being cut. Even if the studio stayed powered, would the rest the the buildings infrastructure such as the MCR the outgoing lines pass through?


Besides, it takes a while to get a studio up and running alone being in a position to do a show. With a minute or two notice it's not gonna happen


It is quite separate with just a shoddy first floor corridor linking it to the tower. There have been cases where the This Morning section has evacuated and the tower hasn't, so I assume it would be the same vice versa. But for a real fire? I suspect they'll evacuate everyone.
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bluecortina
Steve in Pudsey posted:
bluecortina posted:
In my day the regional news opts were controlled from the GMTV/GMB gallery - the gallery 'panel' controlled a 2by1 switch at each local news inject point so it wasn't actually that easy for a local news inject point to insert itself into the incoming GMTV/GMB feed without physical cross patching etc. I suspect not much has changed. So if there's no-one in the gallery ... Chiswick never had panel.


So does that mean that during ITV Breakfast the network reverts to how it used to be, each region gets a feed from the South Bank which it opts into (controlled from London) rather than being a contribution into Chiswick/Leeds?


I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question (or Inspectors Sands) hence why I said 'in my day'. I suspect it is still the same though - with the GMB gallery controlling the local opt outs via remote signalling. Chiswick is the tx centre and that is its function, I did not think they would want to get involved with production decisions and I don't think the GMB staff would want them to.
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noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
bluecortina posted:
In my day the regional news opts were controlled from the GMTV/GMB gallery - the gallery 'panel' controlled a 2by1 switch at each local news inject point so it wasn't actually that easy for a local news inject point to insert itself into the incoming GMTV/GMB feed without physical cross patching etc. I suspect not much has changed. So if there's no-one in the gallery ... Chiswick never had panel.

It would seem odd if Chiswick couldn't just do it how they do it the rest of the day. Or even in these days when the seperate breakfast license is mostly irrelevant, is it still a significant reconfiguration of the network every morning?


I'm not sure it's that odd. The GMB opts are not scheduled programmes with predetermined start time like the full regional news bulletins, they are slots within a live show that are called remotely by the gallery at a precise time dictated by the running order, and need to be slick and quick.

Putting a playout area in the way may not be a great solution unless the playout switch is still controlled remotely by the gallery, unless the playout area itself is remotely triggered?
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harshy Founding member
There was me thinking opts out were controlled from Chiswick and Leeds Sad
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Inspector Sands
They'll almost certainly still activate it themselves from the gallery as the timings are flexible (in the same way as the BBCs headline opt outs during their news are cued from the news gallery, not pres). But whether it can be overridden is another matter.


As you say it's an editorial decision, and not one that Ericsson can make even if it's possible
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Inspector Sands
noggin posted:

I'm not sure it's that odd. The GMB opts are not scheduled programmes with predetermined start time like the full regional news bulletins, they are slots within a live show that are called remotely by the gallery at a precise time dictated by the running order, and need to be slick and quick.

Yes I get that, and it's kinda how it's done on the BBC (although for a long while it was pres who cued the regions at breakfast)

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Putting a playout area in the way may not be a great solution unless the playout switch is still controlled remotely by the gallery, unless the playout area itself is remotely triggered?

Yes but surely Chiswick don't get totally locked out of certain functionality at 6am? I can understand in the old days that the entire network would get reconfigured and rerouted. But the days of an operationally seperate breakfast license have all but gone
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Steve in Pudsey
PATV Scunthorpe posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Lucky someone thought to grab the tape on the way out the building.... lucky it's still on tape!

Surprised it's not played out from Chiswick to be honest. Guess it's done from London because of the clock?

If your talking about Lorraine, the clock wasn't present on the pre-record. The logo and the yellow clock circle faded off after they animated on.

Yes I was suggesting that it's surprising that in normal circumstances a pre recorded Lorraine isn't played out from Chiswick. Paying for the services of a playout company then doing your own playout sounds a lot like having a dog and barking yourself.

Ericsson manage to put BBC World News's ticker on their output at times, so I'm sure they could manage Lorraine's clock.
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TV Archive
Here's part of the standby programme which aired, i'm sure its the same one as last time as someone has already mentioned.
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bazinga
Good morning Britain is Trending on twitter at the moment.
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thegeek Founding member
Curious that the standby tape doesn't make any mention of the fact that it's not a normal programme. Do ITV assume that their viewers won't notice, so feel no need to mention it?

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