BBC News Channel General Discussion

I'm a Celebrity had one this year during the interviews (during the live bit, not the break pre-record).

Profanity delays are not standard on TV here. You certainly wouldn't expect any news channel to go through one, nor any mainstream news bulletin. The only major uses of a delay to allow for profanity/content avoidance would be on a live reality or entertainment show.

There is a proportion of the UK audience who would find "pi**ing off" offensive.

It's certainly unusual here - hence the UK catchphrase of yesteryear : "Big Brother house, this is Davina. You are live on Channel Four, please do not swear".

Rules and penalties on swearing are a lot harsher in the USA.

Here OfCom will not rule a breach of the broadcasting code if the swearing could not have been anticipated and was immediately apologised for.

Though aren't the US rules only for OTA terrestrial channels ? ISTR that cable and satellite services have far looser regulation - unlike the level playing field in the UK (where PIN protection is a caveat)

The BBC's coverage of Tim Peake's launch on Tuedsay ran 30 seconds behind NASA TV's native feed (comparing off air BBC with NASA via the webstream, so the real delay was possibly closer to a minute ?) Some sort of 'natural latency' or a deliberate delay in case of mishap ?

Is NASA TV carried in the UK?

Not on any broadcast platform, but widely available on connected devices.

News at Five from Studio A this week as Studio C is in use for BBC World this week

Could the time difference could be attributed to the BBC receiving the NASA TV signal here in the US and then transferring it to NBH? I timed the difference between the 0 at TOTH countdown to the US NIST clock over the phone and there is about a 13 second difference between the two.

Edit : NASA TV is on C-Band on AMC-18 whose signal mainly covers North America. So it likely would have to be down linked or reuplinked or fibered to The UK.

Could the BBC have been taking Nasa TV off an Internet stream?

For live pictures on a news event there's usually a preference for taking video like this from one of the picture agencies: usually Reuters, APTN or EVN. On some events, the BBC arranges a bespoke feed and for this event, there were several, mainly from the European Space Agency. This was also similar to what appeared on NASA TV. Reuters and AP had mixed footage, taken from the same sources. So in the end, all the feeds showed more or less the same stuff, just in a slightly different mixed form. The BBC also had a dual path uplink at the launch site, one path providing the OB for Stargazing Live, the other was doing news two-ways.

Didn't know where to post this but BBC Breakfast did a 360° behind the scenes video. I'm on my iPad and could only get it to work fully in the YouTube app either by moving the device or using your finger to move the angle. If you open it up outside YouTube app (at least on my iPad on both the mobile version and when you open the "desktop" version of the site) you get a panoramic version of the video where say the camera jib may appear on both sides of the screen. I imagine it works the way it was intended on a regular computer.



Does anyone know what camera were they using?

Over here in the US a couple of the ABC O&O's did something similar but they put the camera on say their "storm tracker" SUV or one station put it on the helicopter. Some made a big fuss about it for a little bit but then it fell by the wayside and wasn't supported or mentioned after a month or two. It turned out the company (IM 360) paid ABC to use the cameras and once the period was over they stopped using it.