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In broadcasting, continuity or presentation (or station break in the U.S. and Canada) is announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes. It typically includes programme schedules, announcement of the programme immediately following and trailers or descriptions of forthcoming programmes.
A transmission control room (TCR), transmission suite, Tx room, or presentation suite is a room at broadcast facilities and television stations around the world. [1] Compared to a master control room , it is usually smaller in size and is a scaled-down version of centralcasting .
In broadcasting, a commercial bumper, ident bumper, or break-bumper (often shortened to bump) is a brief announcement, usually two to fifteen seconds in length that can contain a voice over, placed between a pause in the program and its commercial break, and vice versa.
Broadcasting of the resulting BBC Television Service from its Alexandra Palace site began in November 1936, at first time-sharing broadcasts with the 240-line Baird system; however, in January 1937, after three months of trials, the Baird system was abandoned in favour of exclusive broadcasting with the 405-line Marconi-EMI system on VHF.
1980s video channel based out of Texas, aired on some broadcast channels during overnight periods. International Music Feed: Universal Music Group: March 31, 2008: Launched on January 20, 2005. Aired music videos from various artists from around the world; purchased and shut down by Hubbard Broadcasting in 2008 to expand distribution for ...
In the United Kingdom, continuity announcers are people who are employed to introduce programmes on radio and television networks, to promote forthcoming programmes on the station, to cross-promote programmes on the broadcaster's other stations where applicable and, sometimes, to provide information relating to the programme that was being broadcast.
Prior to the launch of Children's BBC on 9 September 1985, BBC1 used some specialist branding for its children's strand. The origins of CBBC can be found in the "Children's Hour" of the original BBC Television Service, but prior to 1984, children's programmes received no special idents and continuity was done out of vision by the duty continuity announcer.
From its launch in 1985 until 1994, Children's BBC was presented from the regular continuity announcer's booth in the BBC1 network control area (NC1), which had a fixed camera so that the presenter could appear in vision; as it remained an operational continuity booth, the presenter would partly direct their own links by way of vision and sound mixers built into the studio desk.