BBC/ITV Midlands News - Printable Version

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Mike - 06-02-2024

Does anyone with a technical mind know why, when Midlands Today opt out for the national headlines and are soft-opted, there's ghosting around the headline text on Network. Almost like PAL artefacts, it doesn't happen to anything originating from their studio, only Network.
https://up.metropol247.co.uk/Beep/Softopt%20headline.png 

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - IanJRedman - 07-02-2024

To my eyes, that just looks like an HD>SD>HD upscale footprint?

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Superman1986 - 17-02-2024

Tonight’s ITV News Central for the East Midlands had a fire alarm tonight

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Deejay - 17-02-2024

(17-02-2024, 10:17 PM)Superman1986 Wrote:  Tonight’s ITV News Central for the East Midlands had a fire alarm tonight

Handled with aplomb I should think, given who it happened to!:
https://x.com/wesleysmithtv/status/1758944154292240458?s=46&t=Ucq8HPAqP28gB-ZMuLVPNg 

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Brekkie - 17-02-2024

How unlucky for it to go off during their 5 minutes of the day they're on air. Did they just cut to a breakdown or switch to the presumably pre-recorded West version?

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Andrew - 17-02-2024

(17-02-2024, 10:45 PM)Brekkie Wrote:  How unlucky for it to go off during their 5 minutes of the day they're on air. Did they just cut to a breakdown or switch to the presumably pre-recorded West version?

You can watch it here

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catch-up-on-itv-news-central-east-midlands-from-saturday-17th-february/092jtqf 

It was going off during the throw to the weather, so all they didn’t come back after the weather and therefore finished very slightly early

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Mike - 18-02-2024

Did they just air black for a couple of minutes before crashing into the ITV News slide? I assume ITV's playout would've detected or stepped in black going to air.

What's interesting is the blip of studio sound when it goes to the ITV News sting, the alarm still going off.

Saved to YouTube for posterity:

https://youtu.be/Io2XA93U_FM 

I wonder if they still have a two stage alarm at Gas Street, or if when the building was sold to Cube and gutted and ITV moved people out/made people redundant, they reinstalled the fire alarm system?

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - Mike - 06-03-2024

A slight interruption to proceedings on the 1330 Midlands Today, Shefali walked across the screen and seemed to throw Nicola Beckford off a bit.

The end of the bulletin included Nicola giving Shefali a 'telling off'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyTosjwskMI 

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RE: BBC/ITV Midlands News - lookoutwales - 30-04-2024

Ample reminder from the breakfast shift at EMT - scripts are always printed out in A4, not A3.

https://x.com/emmasnowtv/status/1785294920418210236?s=46&t=SVvb3TMVq7XsaTLBJxqOLA 

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