Pat Heigham

I was interested last night on TV – BBC was broadcasting extended News on 1 & 2, while several channels were suspended. UK TV ran several scheduled programmes,
but without commercials, showing just a station logo with a daft electronic audio, in the gap. It hit home at just how long the ad breaks are!

I guess the OB crews are going to be mighty busy in the next few months – a State Funeral and a Coronation!

Mike Jordan

That’s why so many people now watch catchup or record on their sky/Freeview box and spool through commercial breaks or even record on a ‘puter (as I do often) and spool through.

 

Well at least one can know that most programmes are 43 mins to comply with regulations and the first break is always shorter to make people hang around to see if things get better later.

Geoff Hawkes

I watched the King give his first tv address this evening and wondered how they achieved the shot change from loose MS at the desk to an MCU, apparently on the same axis. I assume it was a continuous recording, rather than having pauses with an edit to cover it. Perhaps those of you OB people who’ve been there and done it can answer?

Graham Maunder

Great job by whoever was in the helicopter following our new King from Northolt to Buckingham Palace on BBC just now.

Dave Newbitt

Indeed Graham and what an organizational triumph of traffic control by the Met. At the palace I think Charles, in greeting the front line of the gathered crowd, came across as a genuinely warm person.