Test Cards and Other Internal Content

[Dj_Cazzah]

Test Card combined with the Starting Soon graphic?

[cdowning22]

Graphics fighting against one another? I’d pay to see that.

Picking up where I left off…

[Techster]

When Nine stations had locally-based presentation, was there ever a clean network feed? I remember TCN news updates and ads creeping in if QTQ didn’t break in time for local ads.

[Dj_Cazzah]

If it’s a war you want it’s a war you’ll get!

[cdowning22]

It was just a comment about that “starting soon” over test card thing, not really a post war.

Random NBC skycom slate.

[shadowmask]

Yes, the normal feed was clean videotape machine or studio feed, switched to black during the commercial breaks so you couldn’t see the tape spooling or studio banter. The switch to black actually occurred 1 second after TCN had entered their break, to allow stations a little slack to prevent a hard chop if there wasn’t a natural fade on the program. The news breaks were made available on the feed, by a quick switch from the clean feed to a dirty feed for the benefit of any Station who didn’t have their own news break at that point. The electronic countdown cue counted from the end of the news break, so Pres coordinators avoiding the update had to guess their own cue, which is probably why you saw them slip through.
Around 2 am, depending on what night it was, a dirty feed was put on line for the benefit of GTV, whose Pres was unattended until 6 am. TCN had to make sure content was ok to air elsewhere, such as not running NRL/Footy show promos etc, and to air generic id’s instead of a harbour bridge back-grounded one’s (back when those existed) I think QTQ manned their Pres through the whole night. Not 100% sure how NWS and STW we’re handling things.

[tvcl]

@Dj_Cazzah

On one of Nine’s Live Stream feeds

Here’s the video version of this I recorded off a satellite feed:

AussieTVHistory - STW - Stop and Check

And the test card that preceded it:

[lexington]

QTQ was manned all night. and while GTV and QTQ used to ‘live switch’ from the pres feed (even on delay) STW used to clip up each program segment using a variant of an EVS.

Each segment was then available in the local server for playback whenever (Friday night footy for instance.)

This enabled STW (an independent operation at that time) to schedule their own break lengths, programming etc.

[cdowning22]

My countdown dump for tonight.

[theGradyConnell]

[cdowning22]

@tvcl

Here’s a clip I recorded from a clean feed from 7 that gives an interesting insight into the production of live sporting events. I’ve recorded the feed with the studio track so you can hear the director giving the camera operators and graphics people, etc. instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmBYIMnpDU

Do you have any more studio track examples from sporting events or newscasts?

Also, my countdown dump for tonight.

[cdowning22]

Christmas version of the above

[Dj_Cazzah]

[Fox]

9 Event Stream C Sunday Afternoon

9 Event Stream A Sunday Afternoon

[cdowning22]

Not really “Internal”, but nice to see the SSTV hobby represented in a way, so I might as well drop another one in here.

http://dxinfocentre.com/pix/sstv/N0DZQ.JPG

Back on subject…

[TV.Cynic]

1994 Northridge earthquake

[cdowning22]

If there are direct urls for these Nine news streams, they would be pretty useful to me to grab more of these.

Right now, some catching up…

[cdowning22]

Back to business… (despite having 2 questions unanswered…)

[cdowning22]

Next batch…