[backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their feeds?
I had a idea about BBC News's channel using these feeds... Where should I post it? I was watching BBC News 24 this week and there was a feature about sudden snow on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. One woman said there was nothing on the news about it, and it occurred to me that if she was watching News 24, she was probably right. News 24 has a variety of Astons (graphics), but I was thinking about the scrolling bar at the bottom of the screen. I don't know how integrated News 24 and BBC Online are I don't know if the scroller is driven from one of the backstage RSS feeds, but it should be! This grey/blue visual bar with white text is added somewhere to the studio output by some box of tricks - usually a PC. News 24 doesn't have the regional variations that BBC ONE does - it has always been distributed identically to satellite, cable and Freeview. Sadly, as all dishes point at the same satellite, regionalisation is unfeasible. On Freeview, the channel's programs are transmitted in the same digital terrestrial multiplex that has a national or regional versions of BBC ONE on Freeview. It the similar on cable. So, my idea is to program a box of tricks to overlay a customized RSS-fed scroller for each of the nations (Wales, Scotland, NI) and English regional variations (for Birmingham, Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Cambridge, Bristol, Tunbridge Wells, Southampton, Plymouth, Newcastle, Oxford, London and the Channel Islands). So you would see your own local news, sport and weather in vision. Then follow with the current headlines, sport etc. So the 6 million Freeview homes could get their local news first - with snow warnings where necessary! Where can I suggest this? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their feeds?
This is already happening, kind of... http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds23575.html The data for this works in a similar fashion to how your describing it, except a BBCNewsFeed XML format is used instead of RSS and it feeds an Interactive TV platform. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride - Bill Hicks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 28 November 2005 18:08 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their feeds? snip So, my idea is to program a box of tricks to overlay a customized RSS-fed scroller for each of the nations (Wales, Scotland, NI) and English regional variations (for Birmingham, Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Cambridge, Bristol, Tunbridge Wells, Southampton, Plymouth, Newcastle, Oxford, London and the Channel Islands). So you would see your own local news, sport and weather in vision. Then follow with the current headlines, sport etc. So the 6 million Freeview homes could get their local news first - with snow warnings where necessary! snip - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their feeds?
GENIUS idea. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 28 November 2005 18:08 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Where should I suggest that the BBC could their feeds? I had a idea about BBC News's channel using these feeds... Where should I post it? I was watching BBC News 24 this week and there was a feature about sudden snow on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. One woman said there was nothing on the news about it, and it occurred to me that if she was watching News 24, she was probably right. News 24 has a variety of Astons (graphics), but I was thinking about the scrolling bar at the bottom of the screen. I don't know how integrated News 24 and BBC Online are I don't know if the scroller is driven from one of the backstage RSS feeds, but it should be! This grey/blue visual bar with white text is added somewhere to the studio output by some box of tricks - usually a PC. News 24 doesn't have the regional variations that BBC ONE does - it has always been distributed identically to satellite, cable and Freeview. Sadly, as all dishes point at the same satellite, regionalisation is unfeasible. On Freeview, the channel's programs are transmitted in the same digital terrestrial multiplex that has a national or regional versions of BBC ONE on Freeview. It the similar on cable. So, my idea is to program a box of tricks to overlay a customized RSS-fed scroller for each of the nations (Wales, Scotland, NI) and English regional variations (for Birmingham, Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Nottingham, Norwich, Cambridge, Bristol, Tunbridge Wells, Southampton, Plymouth, Newcastle, Oxford, London and the Channel Islands). So you would see your own local news, sport and weather in vision. Then follow with the current headlines, sport etc. So the 6 million Freeview homes could get their local news first - with snow warnings where necessary! Where can I suggest this? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] RSS feeds for what's on now/next
On 11/29/05, Michael Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd seen the same thing on the backstage site and submitted a comment to point to my now next feed builder @ http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/nn.php Yes, comment moderation (and prototype submission) on the backstage site seem to be a little on the slow side... hint hint :-) e.g for channels bbc1,bbc2,itv1,c4,five you get http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/feeds/rss/nnp/1+2+32+33+30There is a feed builder at the top of the page, or individual feeds for each channel. I've got mine to work on google.com/ig but occasionally get the same error message but can't get it to work on yahoo or live.com. Again any suggestions welcomed. Cool - now we have rss2 feeds that work on Google, and Atom feeds that work on yahoo and live.com... I'll have a closer look over the next few days, would be nice to get everything to work everywhere. Talking of Google, strangely my Atom feeds work perfectlly well in the Google RSS reader (reader.google.com), but not on the google personalised home page.. Cheers, Mario.
Re: [backstage] RSS feeds for what's on now/next
On 11/29/05, Jem Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mario. This is great stuff. In response to someone's Idea posted on the backstage site, I've made some very simple Atom RSS feeds available that show what's on now/next on BBC TV channels. I've got em working in a number of places on live.com etc but you'reright. No luck on google/ig/ Also. The nownext complete feed doesn't seem to be picking up the data for cbbc and cbeebies ?? nice one.Jem, backstage team Thanks Jem, are you sure the last issue (not picking up cbcc/cbeebies) isn't just down to the number of items the aggregator displays? All entries have the same created timestamp (the time the feed xml was generated), so I guess if an aggregator was to display the last 5 items in a feed, it would just pick the top 5 entries in the feed. Re. google/ig, as I just mentioned in the previous post, the feeds work fine with the google rss reader (reader.google.com). I even copied the xml content from a blogger atom feed that works in my personalised home page, copied it into a static xml file on my menti.name server, and tried to add that same file to google.com/ig, and it didn't work. So there must be something server-side (content-type or other headers? etc.) rather than the actual xml format that makes a difference.. Thanks, Mario.
