Re: [backstage] regional news - footage available online?

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Christopher Woods wrote: > player accompanying the Online articles about the album launch. > (Interestingly the audio was dual mono - ambient sound on L channel and > overdubbed narrator on R channel? Not sure if that was a snafu by the > offline editor, but it was

Re: [backstage] F1 not appearing in iPlayer?

Just guessing here, but perhaps because it's not been broadcast on a BBC TV channel (and just on Red Button), therefore doesn't have a listing in /programmes? I realise this is a semantic difference which won't make a blind bit of difference to the casual viewer... I guess we'll see tomorrow whet

Re: [backstage] Press Association API?

Just dug this out to have a quick look at it, and it seems that api.welcomebackstage.com doesn't exist - any clues about where we could find the data? Thanks, Martin On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Ian Forrester wrote: > Ok ok, > > It does exist, the delay has mainly been on our behalf due to wa

Re: [backstage] DOGs on the BBC TV online streams?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > > Congratulations on not putting a DOG on BBC HD during the presidential > inauguration, even though there was one (saying LIVE Washington) on BBC > One! An unusual but welcome reversal. > > It was a bit strange that at the end, when t

Re: [backstage] Windows 7 beta can be downloaded now!

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Brian Butterworth wrote: > If you want to have a look at Windows 7, you can download the beta now (it's > really is working) from here: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx > I've heard there's a caveat, though... http://xkcd.com/528/ - Se

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00704hg/upcoming ? :) On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Sam Mbale wrote: > Another wish,if you may allow me. Bring back "Top of the Pops." > Happy holidays > > Sam Mbale > Mpelembe Network > http://www.mpelembe.net > > Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe > >

[backstage] not quite in the Backstage spirit?

Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated 26th Dec)... Andy Alcorn is a student whose hobby is computer programming. Three years ago he designed a desktop "widget" for Apple Macs which allowed users to tune in directly to the full range of BBC radio stations and have them on in the backg

Re: [backstage] So Long and Thanks For All The Fish?

When Ronnie Barker died, the BBC set up a nice tribute to him in the foyer of TV Centre - a portrait of him, with four candles in front of it. I'd been walking past it for several days before I got the significance. - martin On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Richard P Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [backstage] XML feeds for local radio stations

It didn't seem to have such witty banter between presenters, either. It seems to get an annual outing, with Ben Fogle doing the honours: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pn5q On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > OM&HD didn't have, as I recall, a Thras

Re: [backstage] BBC Job

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Dave Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know if anyone has seen this? > > > https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=jsUrXCzMkBNsPpBkh&jobid=23636,5625368752&key=12595845&c=867186564065&pagestamp=selqlfxswflcdthils > Probably not - unfortunately the BBC

Re: [backstage] Video recordings of the House of Commons on TheyWorkForYou.com

On 6/4/08, Etienne Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Brian Butterworth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I was saying was that the old Freeview version of BBC Parliament used > > to have a quarter-screen picture and the information that is now in the > > Asto

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As others have already said BHX is the extension to London Broadcasting > House, apologies for the lapse into BBC TLAs. No idea what the site code is > for the Mailbox, if any does know then feel free to email me it - bec

Re: [backstage] New BBC News site

Have I just been rickrolled? I can't quite tell. On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Stephen Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trry looking at the 'Astley Prank storms web' link - > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_732/newsid_7323500?redirect=7323544.stm&news=1&bbw

Re: [backstage] Runners needed for Over the Air

On 3/28/08, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian^H^H^H^H^HMatthew Cashmore wrote: > > Hi Brian - received :-) > > > > Brian makes a lot of posts to this list, but that doesn't imply that all > posters to the list are called Brian, Matt... ;-) > I'm Brian, and so's my wife! - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] BBC Home Page broken

Isn't this where a 303 See Other would be handy? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.4 On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM, James Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those pages are as designed, incidentally: nobody will link to them that way > (unlike a relocation). > >

Re: [backstage] Is it just me, or is some stereo audio on BBC chans (Freeview) out of phase?

I've been emailing Christopher off-list about this - I suspect it may well be a reciever issue. Most of the services on mux 1 are coded in London, and are the same across much of the country on DTT -- and I'm not seeing any phase issues on our monitoring here, with a couple of different set-top-box

[backstage] Mark Thompson on the iPlayer and platform neutrality

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/iplayer_choices.html *lights blue touch paper and retires to a safe distance* - 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:

[backstage] BBC Reporters mashed

Where are BBC correspondents around the world? There's now a map to tell you: http://www.stuart-pinfold.co.uk/bits/corrmap/ (via http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/bbc_reporters_mashed.html ) - martin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visi

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consequently I went to look at the schedule feeds again, and I built a TV > Anytime feed from: > > http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/bbc.schedule.getProgrammes.html > > And then I had a look at the feed: > > htt

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

On Jan 24, 2008 3:31 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > "broadcasters - don't publish the exact start times of programmes anywhere", > which is not quite Can I assume the word missing from the end of your sentence was "true"? If you can show me a broadcast schedule for a maj

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

On Jan 24, 2008 10:31 AM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > *I* know I can do this, I just wanted to know why the BBC was providing > > > poisoned information. Why should people who have paid for Windows Vista > > > Ultimate Edition have a poor service on purpose? > > > > Wh

Re: [backstage] BBC TWO Programme timings

On Jan 22, 2008 1:59 PM, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A small question. > > There are a number of occasions where the schedule on channels is NEVER as > published! > > A good example the 10pm-10:30pm slot on BBC TWO. Programmes in this slot > actually start never earlier than 10:

Re: [backstage] London Underground service status XML feed - coming soon, hopefully

On 1/19/08, Martin Deutsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/21/07, frankie roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone out there who's screen-scraping the TfL website for the tube > > status information (or using a third-party feed) may be interested to >

Re: [backstage] London Underground service status XML feed - coming soon, hopefully

On 12/21/07, frankie roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone out there who's screen-scraping the TfL website for the tube > status information (or using a third-party feed) may be interested to > read the following response that I've received to a query I sent in to > TfL... [snip] > TfL: > "Th

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

Ooh, very nice work, I like it! It works pretty seamlessly here on my work PC - except the work proxy has prevented the last.fm images from loading, because that site's blocked. I did consider (but didn't quite get around to making) something similar for my last office, where we were big 6 Music l

Re: [backstage] 403 Forbidden on http://www.bbc.co.uk/technology/

It appears to be a slightly iffy redirect - bbc.co.uk/technology points to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm - the 404 you're getting is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm/ On 1/9/08, Melissa Packer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 404 for me here inside the firewal

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

On 1/4/08, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Deutsch wrote: > > > > > > On 1/4/08, *Ian Forrester* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Just in case anyone missed it, there's a b

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

On 1/4/08, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just in case anyone missed it, there's a bunch of developers trying to > bring BBC iPlayer content to the Xbox1 and Wii. The main thread can be found > here - http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27063 [...] This is possibly

[backstage] Programme Catalogue offline

Hi folks, The Progamme Catalogue has been "experiencing some technical difficulties" and unavailable for a couple of weeks now. Much as I'm enjoying the testcard, does anyone know when it might be back online? Thanks, - Martin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.c

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at iPlayer now and 'Strictly Come Dancing' is th > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Deutsch > Sent: 24 December 2007 10:29 > To: back

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

hoping to kill some time watching some things on the streaming iPlayer, but they're all unavailable. I'm presuming they're being served from a non-bbc.co.uk domain - is it Akamai? I can listen to streaming radio though - so could just spend the next few hours listening to 6 Music...

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

On 11/21/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just as an aside, I have a collection of BBC Sound Effects records on > vinyl, can I use 30 second snippets of these on a future podcast? > > For example: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sound_Effects_No._19_-_Doctor_Who_Sound_E

Re: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

On 11/19/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ha :D > > Anyway, the cameras they were using had the holographic BBC logo > plastered along the side of them, so things are looking up - unless they're > just old skool SD cameras with a chavlike shopping list down the side of > them

Re: [backstage] What's going on with the News 24 live stream?

On Nov 18, 2007 11:43 PM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Butterworth wrote: > > Givem the original is at 25fps, why not encode at that in fact? > > 50fps. ;-) (Pedantic, but important...) Surely that just depends on whether your f stands for fields or frames? - martin

Re: [backstage] Freesat and backstage?

On 11/9/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would propose that Freesat and backstage could provide some special > services for Freesat upon the commencement of the service in Springtime of > the year ultimate. An interesting proposition - however, extra datacasting services would

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

On 11/9/07, Matthew Cashmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hitler A rather crude invocation of Godwin's Law - but does that mean this discussion is now closed? - martin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/

Re: [backstage] BBC tech chief: You Freetards don't matter

On 11/6/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a good reason that my posting on the > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/open_standards.html > page has not appeared. As the initial post says, the blog is premoderated. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/10/

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

On 11/6/07, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 13:34, Brian Butterworth wrote: > > I suspect that I would personally make them: > > > > go.bbc.co.uk/shortcode > > The shortcode could then also be embedded in any advertising as a 2D barcode > meaning someone coul

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

On 11/5/07, George Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:52 +, Tom Loosemore wrote: > > Using TinyUrl is a symptom of poorly designed urls... > > It is? Lots of sites use URLs to pass data, on top of pointing at files > on servers. > > The more complex the data, the mo

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

Let's not forget: http://www.GiganticURL.com/ On 11/5/07, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/11/2007, Tim Dobson wrote: > > Tinyurl.com isn't even that good. > > http://tiny.pl gives 4 digit ids to it's links and is shorter. > > Personally I prefer this. > > I once did little bit of res

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

On 10/23/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And here's the problem in a nutshell. Also, BBC1 has 17 UK regions on > satellite. BBC2 has four, ITV1 has 24, C4 has six (used for advertising > only), so it would be impossible to do a matrix for these channels. > > There are, I'm

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

On 10/23/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some broadcasters pay Sky to playout their channels and they'll monitor > those I'm sure. Many broadcasters go through 3rd parties or do it > themselves. Who knows what the exact proportions are, but given how > many channels there are,

Re: [backstage] What is to happen to Backstage?

I've never quite been able to work out the specifics of the deal ("see Eyes *passim*", as they say), but Television Centre (and several other BBC buildings) passed back into BBC hands a few years after that deal, and the facilities management contract with Land Securities has ended. While it's goo

Re: [backstage] iPhone SDK news

I'd say that Apple have a good track record of releasing things, generally when they say they will. The only major product I can recall not seeing the light of day was Copland, over 10 years ago. - martin On 10/17/07, Brian Butter

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

If I'm abroad and watch BBC World, I see advertising next to BBC content. I don't see this as being any different. On 10/17/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17/10/2007, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Abroad a lot BBC content (including the news) already

Re: [backstage] Interesting iPlayer news

This appears to have gone live already - I've just connected to The Cloud hotspot in the pub across the road, and it's happy to let me on to *.bbc.co.uk and watch streaming video. The Cloud's login page (which appears when you try to access non-free sites) also has links to t3.co.uk and channel4ra

Re: [backstage] New TV Listing Design

I fear we're veering rapidly off topic here, but... On 10/10/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/10/2007, Duncan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately nobody as yet has come up with > > a way of doing a seamless (ie no macro blocking/breaks in > > transmiss

Re: [backstage] New TV Listing Design

On 10/9/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't see a broadcaster wanting this kind of EPG on their system, as it > removes the channel identities. > As a viewer, do you really need to know which channel a programme is on before you decide to watch it? I suppose there are a few

Re: [backstage] the economics of BBC content

Oddly enough, someone sent me the following link the other day, wondering if it was the BBC's cost-cutting measures going a little too far by asking the public to send in royalty-free images... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6993603.stm (Is this about to open a massive can of UGC worms?) -

Re: [backstage] iPod touch // iPhone development

The new Apple Store in Glasgow also had some demo units when I was in yesterday. I really wanted to like it, but found the interface a little bit too sluggish; the accelerometer didn't always recognise me turning it over, and I found typing to be a right pain. It is very shiny though... (Also, t

Re: [backstage] Mobile Developer Un/Conference/Camp

It's probably worth mentioning that the Java versions of the Google Maps and Google Mail apps get a fair bit of use on my phone (a Sony Ericsson k800i), as does Opera Mini. But as Mark says, they're the kind of app which really need a good data bundle. (It's a bit tricky to find the right menu op