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Sloppy editing at the BBC?
eti:
I find it exceptionally sloppy & lazy of the BBC to have some episodes of programmes on iPlayer, where the continuity announcer from the live broadcast of the programme you're watching (the voiceover person who tells you "... and in ten mins on BBC2, is Newsnight" etc, etc...) is left on the soundtrack, either just before the opening titles or just after the end credits.
It's not on ALL programmes, and even then, not on ALL episodes; it's seemingly random.
Imagine it to be the difference between buying a DVD of a series or recording it off the TV with a VCR; had you bought the DVD, you'd have no continuity announcer blabbering all over the soundtrack telling you the news is beginning on BBC2 in ten mins! It's not like they can't fix this - prerecorded programmes come on separate disks/tapes and are "clean" (only contain the soundtrack for that programme).
Imagine buying a pack of postcards that had already been written, stamped/franked and posted...
Lazy! Lazy!!... or is there A GOOD reason?
Halcyon:
Hi ETI, welcome to the forum. I notice you just recently joined us. We try to keep non-EE/tech related talk to a minimum. Happy to let this one go, but just something to keep in mind, otherwise people just fill the forum up with all kinds of off-topic stuff.
Also, maybe the BBC are getting their episodes from torrent sites? ;-)
Simon:
iplayer is literally a non stop "recorder" of the various channels automatically cut. It's not a presentation service, it is literally a "this is what you missed" service, it's not meant to be amazon prime or netflix. The now separate sounds site because "radio" is too old a word to use is the same, program episodes end and then there is quite some length of another following program or the intro to the program was cut. Yes it's sloppy but it not and online record and DVD store, it's literally "here's what we made earlier" probably cut on the fly by a minimum crew that have to do the editing as the stuff goes out and be ready for the next program.
tom66:
I've wondered for a long time why the continuity announcers are live (you can hear them occasionally muck up) rather than pre-recording all program announcements the previous day.
steve30:
I haven't used iPlayer in years, but when I used to use it, I noticed some programmes didn't have continuity announcements, and some did. I guess it could be that the programmes that went out live had the announcements on, and other programmes didn't.
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