Jeff Bartrop

Media IT Specialist @abc London. Formerly: 15 years engineer @BBCNews. Views my own.

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@ascottreid I thought the highest - but top song in public votes in 2022, 2023, 2024 were all higher.

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RUN THE ROLLER #Eurovision

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Song 9, as always, for Sir Terry #Eurovision #Eurovision2026

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@HamzahAbbasBBC @scottygb I believe you’ll have to go via HBO Max to watch TNT Sports, because you’re linking HBO Max with your phone account for that bit, there’s no connection to Now TV.

For the entertainment part there would be a connection between HBO Max and Now TV, so you can watch in either place.

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@LiberalSoppy @RonChak @BBCSport Whilst a lot of those games were late night and overnight, 2002 Women’s Cuing gold medal was won at about 11pm UK time, live on BBC Two.

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And a little @BBCSport broadcasting footnote - Ed Leigh becomes the 6th commentator to call a Summer & Winter GB Gold (Charlotte Worthington & Beth Shriever 2020, Toby Roberts 2024), joining David Coleman, Alan Weeks, Paul Dickenson, Dougie Donnelly & Steve Cram. @snowedleigh 👏

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The greatest challenge for any sports broadcaster is dealing with the most difficult moments.

Hazel Irvine and Chemmy Alcott delivered a masterclass in sensitively handling the Lindsey Vonn crash.

(The sound and pictures from the course are controlled by OBS)

#WinterOlympics

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#TheMuppetShow

It deserves all the praise it’s getting.

It’s mad, joyus and so funny. A triumph. Everything you’d hope it would be. I absolutely loved it.

It’ll be a crime if it doesn’t get a series.

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@SonnyCorry @neilreynoldsnfl Apart from scheduled drills, alarms happen in any building when they’re needed!

You really are massively overthinking this and trying to see something that isn’t there.

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@SonnyCorry @neilreynoldsnfl In some studios you will hear alarms on air.

Some buildings (especially those with multiple zones) have a two stage alarm - an alert, which if it’s not cleared, goes into an evacuation.

That gives time to go to a break and run the standby material, or leave a raw feed on air.

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@SonnyCorry @neilreynoldsnfl It’s not suspicious, it’s by design.

Those in the studio will be alerted by other means (flashing lights / screens) and by their colleagues in the gallery.

If there is time, emergency material (a break / trailers) is set to run and everyone leaves.

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@SonnyCorry @neilreynoldsnfl It’s not a fire drill if it’s taking live on air teams away from the studios. It’ll be a suspected or real fire. (During a drill, critical staff on live shows are allowed to stay in the building.)

It doesn’t ‘happen during ad breaks’ - those are run to keep something on air.

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@Michael67642144 @neilreynoldsnfl It’s ‘safe’ for them to leave on air - no US sponsorship or commercials that would break OFCOM rules.

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Is everyone at @BlackpoolFC called Steve / Steven / Stephen?

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@Nick___Collins Quick note on this - those microphones are directional and mostly to pick up sound from the pitch (ball kicks etc), they’ll get much less from the rear.

Crowd noise is mostly from mics up in the stands pointing down.

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That’s the spirit! #F1

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@jordandias @DuncanNewmarch @BBCOne If a BBC Genome search is giving correct information, that might be the first showing on the BBC since April 2004. (From it’s 1988 premiere until then it always seemed to be a ‘BBC’ film.)

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“What started in beautiful rooms,
Ends with meetings at Coldplay concerts”

‘Illicit Affairs’, Taylor Swift (slightly adapted)

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@VideotapeFTW @UKPRES1 To be clear - ABC here is, did ABC Australia wipe their tapes.

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@VideotapeFTW @UKPRES1 Not sure on that one.

From the segment I’ve seen of Aus coverage, seems like they may have got the US syndicated broadcast, is it on there? If so, then it’s did ABC wipe tapes?

If Philadelphia > London link failed, it won’t have made it to Europe, as that was BBC > Eurovision

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@VideotapeFTW @UKPRES1 Hadn’t realised there was a different mix of Dancing In The Streets - could be rights reasons, or they asked for the video from the record company and that’s what turned up.

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@VideotapeFTW @UKPRES1 I think they did a fairly good job of recreating the technical breakdowns

The biggest change was using the Chevy Chase link and not Bill Graham trying to calm the crowd, maybe not enough of it is clean on MTV tapes, could be something BBC don’t have, or just an editorial choice.