Comments on: Time Wipe http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/comment-page-1/#comment-16009 doctorvee Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:49:55 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/#comment-16009 Yeah, I had always assumed that they deliberately scheduled those programmes next to each other for that reason. Time Trumpet finishes very close to 10:30 for my liking -- I was a bit worried that I was missing the start of Screen Wipe. But Screen Wipe (usually) starts a bit after 10:30. I thought that was intentional, so that people flicking over from BBC Two wouldn't miss it. I heard a few years ago that the BBC was considering employing people whose job it was to make sure that clashes like this didn't take place. I assume they decided against it in the end. No doubt it would be criticised for being too typically bureaucratic-Beeb, but if it could avoid howlers like the Time Trumpet / Screen Wipe clash it surely would be a good thing. Yeah, I had always assumed that they deliberately scheduled those programmes next to each other for that reason. Time Trumpet finishes very close to 10:30 for my liking — I was a bit worried that I was missing the start of Screen Wipe. But Screen Wipe (usually) starts a bit after 10:30. I thought that was intentional, so that people flicking over from BBC Two wouldn’t miss it.

I heard a few years ago that the BBC was considering employing people whose job it was to make sure that clashes like this didn’t take place. I assume they decided against it in the end. No doubt it would be criticised for being too typically bureaucratic-Beeb, but if it could avoid howlers like the Time Trumpet / Screen Wipe clash it surely would be a good thing.

]]> By: Prolix http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/comment-page-1/#comment-16004 Prolix Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:49:32 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/#comment-16004 I spotted this in the TV guide (paper version, I don't get on with DigiGuide) on Saturday, it does seem somewhat harebrained. As you suggest, and as both our situations highlight - the audience of Time Trumpet is highly likely to be the same audience that watch Screenwipe. I'll be joining you in watching the repeat then. I spotted this in the TV guide (paper version, I don’t get on with DigiGuide) on Saturday, it does seem somewhat harebrained. As you suggest, and as both our situations highlight – the audience of Time Trumpet is highly likely to be the same audience that watch Screenwipe. I’ll be joining you in watching the repeat then.

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/comment-page-1/#comment-16003 doctorvee Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:30:39 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/#comment-16003 I think it was to do with coComment (which I've started using again). The 'Submit' button simply wasn't working. I should have just turned coComment off for that page; that would have been the clever thing to do. I think it was to do with coComment (which I’ve started using again). The ‘Submit’ button simply wasn’t working. I should have just turned coComment off for that page; that would have been the clever thing to do.

]]> By: Will http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/comment-page-1/#comment-16002 Will Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:26:23 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/08/14/time-wipe/#comment-16002 Were you getting blocked for spam, or something else? Were you getting blocked for spam, or something else?

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