05-03-2023, 06:14 PM
I'm almost certain that caption was generated at TimeLine, with audio from C4 themselves. On SD the announcer didn't necessarily go to air the same way as HD, so I guess there was some other issue at play there.
The interviews usually would come through in that form down the line for assembly into the Channel 4 News or similar, so I would presume that package was quickly loaded in to play as a makeweight to get them back to the top of the hour.
Not being able to switch away from an outside source is a bit of a serious problem, isn't it? I thought Red Bee were running this now, and presumably that comes with some better spec kit than this, unless there's some value brand option that Channel 4 took to try to keep costs down.
The interviews usually would come through in that form down the line for assembly into the Channel 4 News or similar, so I would presume that package was quickly loaded in to play as a makeweight to get them back to the top of the hour.
Not being able to switch away from an outside source is a bit of a serious problem, isn't it? I thought Red Bee were running this now, and presumably that comes with some better spec kit than this, unless there's some value brand option that Channel 4 took to try to keep costs down.