tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035010336535558578.post1755599643786980946..comments2024-03-29T05:34:00.060+00:00Comments on Radio Moments : What the hell is an 'earlier accident'?Davidlloydradiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13020918919770051596noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035010336535558578.post-23356035202866011072020-12-03T08:11:15.130+00:002020-12-03T08:11:15.130+00:00Thanks for sharing, nice post! Post really provice...Thanks for sharing, nice post! Post really provice useful information!<br /><br />Giaonhan247 chuyên dịch vụ <a href="http://www.google.es/url?q=https://giaonhan247.vn/bang-gia-cuoc-ship-van-chuyen-gui-hang-tu-viet-nam-di-uc-gia-re.html" rel="nofollow">gửi hàng đi Úc</a>, mua hộ vòng tay <a href="https://images.google.pl/url?q=https://giaonhan247.vn/nhan-order-dat-mua-trang-suc-tren-web-pandora-uc.html" rel="nofollow">pandora úc</a> ship về Việt Nam uy tín và dịch vụ <a href="http://www.google.com.tw/url?q=https://giaonhan247.vn/bang-gia-cuoc-gui-van-chuyen-hang-tu-viet-nam-di-campuchia-gia-re.html" rel="nofollow">vận chuyển hàng đi campuchia</a> uy tín.giaonhan247https://www.blogger.com/profile/13959680401612184470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035010336535558578.post-34106544489629339052014-04-24T11:26:21.564+01:002014-04-24T11:26:21.564+01:00Quentin, your comment about 'cribbing' tra...Quentin, your comment about 'cribbing' travel news from other sources made me smile, especially as I did a stint in 'The Flying Eye' when I was between radio jobs, and would be fed the travel from the ground base, as you said, because you couldn't really see what was going on, unless it was a large motorway beneath you, and even at that it was still hard to tell which one it was if you were in an area with more than the one.icehockeyboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557912642571974843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035010336535558578.post-85945911642029773272014-04-22T11:47:58.042+01:002014-04-22T11:47:58.042+01:00Um - RDS signalling via TP and TA delivers Traffic...Um - RDS signalling via TP and TA delivers Traffic and Travel Information spoken content to listeners, still dependent on the vagueness of human delivery...<br /><br />Having spent a large amount of my working career developing RDS/TMC/TPEG I would have to agree that spoken content is often not great. <br /><br />However I would contend that data delivered TTI (e.g. TMC and TPEG) requires an additional analytical step and gives Navigation Systems their "insight" to better routing suggestions to a driver. For example using TPEG-RTM it is even necessary to go beyond "incident" and determine if the event is a "gas leak" (rtm36/09) or a "risk of explosion" (rtm36/16).<br /><br />Maybe we developed a better solution than spoken annos?<br /><br />Bev MARKSbevmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07226942832549912565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035010336535558578.post-83872449264530570322014-04-22T10:37:56.716+01:002014-04-22T10:37:56.716+01:00I always enjoy the phrase 'following an incide...I always enjoy the phrase 'following an incident'. Nuclear bomb? Squashed pedestrian? Traffic Light failure? No value at all<br />TTrevor Dannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468461646691075484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6035010336535558578.post-23135468404037268022014-04-22T07:47:14.992+01:002014-04-22T07:47:14.992+01:00Quentin Howard writes:
You didn't mention Fl...Quentin Howard writes: <br /><br />You didn't mention Flying Eyes which were all the rage once. As we all know, you can't spot a thing from up there. When I did it ( I was GWR's relief presenter) I'd listen in to the AA reporting on BBC Radio Bristol 5 minutes before my live report and crib it mercilessly. The regular GWR Flying Eye reporter didn't bother to do that - he was interested only in using the flight time to get his PPL - he made his reports up. <br /><br /><br />I have great difficulty taking my BBC local travel news seriously, both as a listener but originally ( some years ago ) as a freelance presenter. Starting out on a few weeks of swing shifts, the ME told me in no uncertain terms that the regional boss decreed all his stations "must own local travel news". Really? Why? It's a rural station. There is no travel news to speak of. Maybe the odd tractor here, a combine harvester there. The odd motorway hold up. It was obviously about competition with some perceived threat from the commercial stations, more appropriate to a city station (perhaps) but utterly pointless on this rural Shire station. Nevertheless, "owning travel" meant broadcasting 3 live travel bulletins per hour, every hour, 11 hours a day, each one scheduled for 2 minutes. A turgid sequence of jingles, ISDN crosses to the outsourced travel service, a minimum 75 seconds telling the audience the roads, rail network (sic) and airports (what airports?) were "all running smoothly" and desperately reading out lists of county council temporary traffic lights to fill for time. 20 minutes later, same again. <br />During a couple of weeks freelancing I kept a tally of all the travel bulletins in my show that contained any news at all. Out of 90 travel bulletins I had to broadcast, two had something worthwhile to say. The rest were devoid of value, there to keep a nameless BBC Middle manager happy, helping him to "own the travel news". In theory, 6 minutes per hour was supposed to be spent on "owning the local travel news". That's more time than the real news, enough time for two more records (or three Sinatra/Nat King Cole/Doris Day records from the '50s). <br />Of course, I suggested this travel overkill was perhaps not ideal, fragmented the programmes, caused the producers to build the shows entirely around these 20 minute travel breaks and delivered little or no useful listener information. The ME listened, agreed but said he didn't think he should put that to the regional manager. <br />In that moment I understood for the first time what working for the BBC actually means for their staff. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cheers. <br /><br /><br />Quentin. <br />Davidlloydradiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020918919770051596noreply@blogger.com