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Interesting fact: Eamonn Holmes was a studio anchorman at the age of 21! Never realized he started in news so young. Clip:

https://youtu.be/c6z_dZ9sDaM

A random question but does anyone know how the BBC cues it's countdowns at the TOTH, every hour? Like, is there an automated system which starts the countdown on the backend while commercials are playing on BBC News and BBC World News before it goes live on air at whichever point the commercials end?

NBC NEWS TODAY Behind the scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfNjc2QDaE

Behind the Scenes -Storm Coverage KWTV 9 -Oklahoma City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqNzQbpUMYM

CNA post_id=51207 time= user_id=1203 Wrote:A random question but does anyone know how the BBC cues it's countdowns at the TOTH, every hour? Like, is there an automated system which starts the countdown on the backend while commercials are playing on BBC News and BBC World News before it goes live on air at whichever point the commercials end?

Yes, though it’s a slightly different arrangement for BBC News Channel and BBC World News,

In BBC News Channel, the gallery goes straight to air, and at xx:58:30 or xx:59:00 the automation cues the countdown. The director will mix to it at the end of the weather and any trails that have been scheduled.

BBC World News goes to air via a presentation gallery and their automation runs the countdown with the various regional versions of the channel joining it following playout of commercial break, weathers, etc.

There’s also a numberless countdown loop which you’ll see the news channel use occasionally when it has to meet BBC One at a non-top-of-the-hour time for a national bulletin.

CameronYoung post_id=10838 time= user_id=1509 Wrote:This rather interesting film from 1997 keeps popping up in my recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoX6HeVVJ1s

This is fascinating - right on the cusp of digital taking over! The website only getting a tiny mention..

With a cameo of yours truly!

https://youtu.be/u4FyMl1DMHs

I'm also trying to dig out a Swahili language one which includes me.

Is the music a Lowe creation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plm5ATSjPQY
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It's called 'Apollo' by Alan Parsons.

bbctvtechop post_id=53594 time=1636964892 user_id=1746 Wrote:With a cameo of yours truly!

https://youtu.be/u4FyMl1DMHs

I'm also trying to dig out a Swahili language one which includes me.

At which point in the video you appear?

deejay post_id=51283 time= user_id=880 Wrote:

CNA post_id=51207 time= user_id=1203 Wrote:A random question but does anyone know how the BBC cues it's countdowns at the TOTH, every hour? Like, is there an automated system which starts the countdown on the backend while commercials are playing on BBC News and BBC World News before it goes live on air at whichever point the commercials end?

Yes, though it’s a slightly different arrangement for BBC News Channel and BBC World News,

In BBC News Channel, the gallery goes straight to air, and at xx:58:30 or xx:59:00 the automation cues the countdown. The director will mix to it at the end of the weather and any trails that have been scheduled.

BBC World News goes to air via a presentation gallery and their automation runs the countdown with the various regional versions of the channel joining it following playout of commercial break, weathers, etc.

There’s also a numberless countdown loop which you’ll see the news channel use occasionally when it has to meet BBC One at a non-top-of-the-hour time for a national bulletin.

There’s that that scenic loop on the core feed leading up to the 59 sec countdown which we only recently discovered on bbc world news.

Always found this one quite interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdovEP6G2I

Roger Darthwell post_id=53627 time= user_id=1160 Wrote:

bbctvtechop post_id=53594 time=1636964892 user_id=1746 Wrote:With a cameo of yours truly!

https://youtu.be/u4FyMl1DMHs

I'm also trying to dig out a Swahili language one which includes me.

At which point in the video you appear?

That would be telling!

If anybody has access to The Day Today DVD, it has a documentary labelled 'po-faced analysis' that includes a good bit of behind the scenes footage of BBC News from the mid-1990s (focussing on the BBC trainee programme) and some good shots of N2. Unfortunately, I have no ability to cap or rip it.

Old school regional ITV - back in the days when these were two separate regions!

https://youtu.be/Z_3KH-pJ2YE

The making of the local news at WCVB in Boston, 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llSK2ZLyzEc

DTV post_id=59149 time=1639875469 user_id=1056 Wrote:If anybody has access to The Day Today DVD, it has a documentary labelled 'po-faced analysis' that includes a good bit of behind the scenes footage of BBC News from the mid-1990s (focussing on the BBC trainee programme) and some good shots of N2. Unfortunately, I have no ability to cap or rip it.

This is the documentary you mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UNXOfe9pEg