[Technologist]

(Also last time I looked into it, there wasn't anything commercially available which could generate the AD control track live, but perhaps they've got something custom made.)

Go back say almost 25 years ITV were always keen on doing Live AD .. so the AD Police unit which monitored the output of playout
and did L-R channel swap if the fade/pan warble tone was on the wrong leg - and could add Apology etc ... the ITC said you had to have one! .....

It was not only made to work AES3 for ITV and Embedded Audio (for BBC and others) and had a Broadcasters Mix output (for DSAT)
but also could take AD audio in and a Footswitch plus fade/pan? byte to do Live AD for itv

It was a 1 U box made by MRG Systems (better known for clever Teletext)
But I dont think the Live feature was in the Card based version done years later by AXON

The BBC view was that Live AD was too complex - but work was done to get major event Comentators aware of those that would benefit from AD and be a bit more descriptive - something the general audience found useful (by Audience research not quite focus groups!) Or to look for a Red button Alternative
- at the same time we got EastEnders and others programmes aware that you need a gap to drop the AD in "so don't do wall to wall dialogue"

[RhysJR]

Can anyone explain what is wrong with this highlights video? It appears to me that the scoreboard is 'flickering' throughout the video? The rest of the picture appears fine. I've tried it on multiple devies and the problem remains, and it wasn't visible on my live broadcast.

www.youtube.com 

[RhysJR]

Not great from ITV to quote an incorrect law at half-time of their coverage of England v. Wales this afternoon. The correct wording was shown in the full time discussion of the same incident.

x.com 

[Brekkie]

To be fair knowing rugby the rule probably changed between half time and full time.

[thegeek]

Can anyone explain what is wrong with this highlights video? It appears to me that the scoreboard is 'flickering' throughout the video? The rest of the picture appears fine. I've tried it on multiple devies and the problem remains, and it wasn't visible on my live broadcast.

www.youtube.com 

I'm not quite sure exactly what's happened, but the twitching on the graphics looks like the field order may be reversed. Either the live broadcast didn't have the issue, or your TV's deinterlacer dealt with it more gracefully than whatever they used to export it for YouTube.

[RhysJR]

I'm not quite sure exactly what's happened, but the twitching on the graphics looks like the field order may be reversed. Either the live broadcast didn't have the issue, or your TV's deinterlacer dealt with it more gracefully than whatever they used to export it for YouTube.

Thanks. It looks like it's an issue with the Sky Sports upload, as the league's highlights pacakage is fine.

youtu.be 

[TMD_24]

ITV presenting from pitchside again at Twickenham, so it looks like they have ditched all types of studios for their Six Nations coverage.

Following my note that Rugby Special was using out of date graphics, ITV have likewise done similar with their AR graphics in the style of their old Six Nations graphics style.

ITV are back in the green screen studio for Ireland V Italy today!

[RhysJR]

ITV are back in the green screen studio for Ireland V Italy today!

I know it probably is on the paper the least competitive match of the tournament this year, but it looks a little poor they can travel to Marseille and Rome, but not Dublin.

[NI92]

ITV are back in the green screen studio for Ireland V Italy today!

Very poor considering Rome & Marseille last week from ITV Sport, they flew Brian O'Driscoll & Rory Best to London as well to work on the match. Surprisingly Virgin Media One in Ireland covering the match today from the studio rather than the ground, RTE have been doing their Ireland away matches since they regained the rights and poor for Virgin not to be pitchside or in a studio in the ground.

[RhysJR]

Very poor considering Rome & Marseille last week from ITV Sport, they flew Brian O'Driscoll & Rory Best to London as well to work on the match. Surprisingly Virgin Media One in Ireland covering the match today from the studio rather than the ground, RTE have been doing their Ireland away matches since they regained the rights and poor for Virgin not to be pitchside or in a studio in the ground.

Yep, and Jill Douglas was in Dubai in the week, and I doubt Sergio Parisse is England based, so the whole studio team had to fly to London, when they all could have been in Dublin for two less flight passengers (of course there are more people involved behind the cameras that probably means it makes a little bit more sense for them to be in London).

Shame for Brian to miss his children being mascots by being in a studio in London as well.