[Spud_Nic]

yo

does anyone know anything about this thing chris was on about, where he keeps forgetting to do the outcue so someone in another building can press something, that means ppl in diff parts of the country get diff trailers????

taking scotland was funny! lol

how does it work?

[David]

I know to an extent how it works - but I would get slagged as being a geek again.

The trailer in Scotland was for T IN THE PARK, which is live on Radio One Scotland this weekend.

[Bridgie]

explain please david.

i get the idea, theres 2 different outputs so each receive the right trailer but i dont know the tech involved

[David]

right - this is probably how it roughly works. And no one slag me off for being a geek - I have done weeks of work expirence and I want to be involved in radio when I am older. I know this like some people know about car engines.

there'll be 4 different circuits each controlled from London. there'll be a England, Wales, Scotland and Northan Ireland circuit. When Chris normally goes on air, his studio will be opt'ed into all four circuits, yet when the Scotland trailer needs to be played he will be opt'ed out of the Scotland circuit and the person at Broadcasting House will be opt'ed into the Scotland circuit. Then when the Scotland trailer is finished Chris will be opt'ed back into the Scotland circuit. And obviously there needs to be a key word so the person controlling the Scotland trailer knows when to play it at the same time as Chris plays the trailer for the rest of the country.

You'll all be bored by now..

And by the way - that may not be exactly how it works but thats what I am guessing from the hardware they have at radio shetland. Aled would be able to tell you. It will be the same principle just on a smaller scale at Lerwick where they Opt into to Lerwick and Kirkwall for the news programme so Shetland and Orkney both get the news but they only Opt into the Lerwick circuit for the late programme so only Shetland gets it.

Lerwick = Captial Of Shetland, Kirkwall = Captial of Orkney btw.

now, I am off to go and find my binoculours and go trainspotting.

oh no wait, there aint no trains in Shetland.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

er isnt this the whole reason they can do that sessions in the nations stuff? being but an ignorant pleb even i understand there has to be a way of separating em...

[Dopey]

They do a similar thing with the local stations in my area on the mix network where the areas indavidual adverts, But I think that is automated so that they can all save money

[David]

er isnt this the whole reason they can do that sessions in the nations stuff? being but an ignorant pleb even i understand there has to be a way of separating em...

yeah. each studio will opt into their own regions circuit. not difficult to understand at all.

[Jonny Hoare]

Indeed - its very easy to do. Local radio stations tend to pitch advertsiing like it

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