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Does anyone know why BBC News sometimes omits the TOTH countdown timer? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have this on most of the day, I've seen this a few times.

I can only assume it's because they don't actually know how long they'll be, so they can't start a real timer, but an official answer would be nice

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The holy grail is when the countdown starts in the 80 second range. The soundtrack is an absolute banger.

That, and Euronews countdown ident, absolute tunes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Agreed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Lol. Upvote for clown enthusiasm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TOTH?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

TOTH means top of the hour

Its the countdown timer the bbc uses to introduce new segments at the start of a new hour.

I assume its not included because sometimes the previous hour overran and there isn't time to have it in the intro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is because of localisation. The BBC does not show the same content in all regions. The BBC supports 12 individual regions in the UK. News programmes being the most prevalent. This is how they realign from local content back to national content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is BBC news channel localised internally? I thought it was just on the mainline channels for things like the evening news.

I'm a little rusty on regions/nations stuff, but there are a lot of opt-out/opt-in points for the evening news, and something like countdown runs on network in case a region/nation fails to switch to studio.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks.

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