Bl**dy Beeb Truncations on iPlayer

[Chris Woods]

Yep my apologies, should have clarified. I was referring to the recording 
(capture) of the TXed content for encoding, not the original studio / 
location session. :)

You'll know this Dave, but for sake of others if they're curious: 
programmes require editorial and compliance sign-off before TX so can't 
just be arbitrarily edited (for iPlayer or anything else). There are a few 
programmes for which edited "reversions" are done and AIUI those are 
sometimes delivered retrospectively.

Aside from that, an edit of a TXed programme will only be republished if 
there's a proper howler (like someone swearing live, a potentially libelous 
statement or factual inaccuracy).


On 1 July 2016 1:20:04 a.m. "Dave Liquorice" <allsorts at howhill.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:30:51 +0100, Chris Woods wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, programmes are recorded with buffer time then may be
>> manually reviewed and trimmed if there's too much cruft.
>
> Several ways to interperet that.
>
> It's a good few years since I was engineering BBC radio programmes but
> generally speaking shows with "people gathered around a microphone" were
> made to time. If there is fluff in a read a stopwatch comes in handy,
> stopped and started as appropiate. There was little to no "buffer time".
> Shows with prerecorded sections would have the links written so the total
> duration was within ten of seconds or so of the required duration. The
> editing of the prerecorded sections would of course be done taking into
> account the required overall duration. And considerable amounts of material
> could be "out takes" or not...
>
> I doubt that the BBC has substanially changed it's operating procedures. The
> programmes producer would listen to the finished programme and sign it off
> as "ready for transmission". A programme tape not signed off would not be
> transmitted. Network would request a duration at the commissioning stage and
> generally speaking that duration was stuck to +/- a loose 10 seconds. If a
> programme ran 28'45" that is the time it would occupy, if it *had* to be
> adjusted it *had* to go back to the producer, the changes made and signed
> off again. The producer is where the buck stops, only they can make
> decisions about what can or can't be cut. No one in continuity has the
> authority to make changes.
>
> IIRC 28'30" was (is..) the requested duration of a 1/2 hour radio a show.
> The durations quoted are 28'30" +/- "a loose ten seconds"
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave.
>
>
>
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