Month: July 2006

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ABC1 Videos: Promos

Radio on the television. The launch of jtv.

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I love triple j, its an incredible radio station, it has great talent, plays great music and was the former workplace of Chris and Craig from the Chaser. And now its becoming a line up of shows across ABC and ABC2. The shows will include:

> jtv (friday nights before rage)
“What does triple j look like? Get into the studio and watch interviews and songs performed live by bands. You’ll see profiles on your fav presenters – Jay & The Doctor, Robbie Buck, Myf Warhurst, Zan Rowe, Andrew Haug, Scott Dooley, Caroline Tran, Mel Bampton and Richard Kingsmill. Fridays will also include a Hack segment with Steve Cannane.”

> jtv saturday (9am-11am saturdays)
“Rosie Beaton counts down the top 20 most popular triple j songs of the week, as requested by you guys on Super Request. jtv saturday will also play special video requests, new releases and highlights from the Friday night show.”

> jtv XL (9pm tuesday on ABC2)
“It’s a bumper edition of jtv! Tune in for extended versions of jtv interviews, live music, concerts, docos, short films and animations.”

Along with jtv live, jtv docs and jtv comedy, and the pre-existing jmag its quite the brand extension. I’m sure my age has something to do with it, but I have such a connection with the radio station, I get almost all of my music from it, I get most of my current affairs from Hack, and my ringtone is their news theme. I’m really looking to forward to this.

To watch a trailer and read more check out jtv.com.au

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SBS Videos: Idents

Lived the passion.

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Sorry I didn’t get around to grabbing more of these, but here is what SBS ran for a bit during the World Cup as their idents. To see the more extensive SBS World Cup themed idents click here.

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BBC One Videos: Idents

More of the BBC Brand

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The BBC started running brand promos back in March, they’re created by Fallon I believe. The first video here is about their golf coverage, and the second is about Radio 1.

The earlier ones I think are better, check out the Liberation of Kabul, Ricky Gervais and Iraqi Cameraman.

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Web Misc

I’m a BBC runner-up! My web 2.0 design came 11th.

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The BBC ran a competition in April/May of this year called Reboot asking for submissions to redesign bbc.co.uk for the new web 2.0 world. I submitted a design on the last day of the competition, and quickly forgot about it… Until yesterday when I got an email informing me that I was one of the ten runners-up!

I’m pretty sure they weren’t too jazzed with my design (heck, I wasn’t), but they did seem to like some of my ideas, the judges said about my submission:

It was the 2 fascinating “social media” ideas here that swung it. The promos for Project: Planet Earth (“six billion volunteers required”). Eat that myspace! And the idea of a collaborative wiki based EastEnders script also stood out.

I’ve been told I win an iPod nano, which is cool, but I’m just excited that my ideas got recognised, it feels good! See my design in all its grainy-jpeg glory here, and of course check out the actual winning design here.

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ABC1 Videos: TV

The lissajous goes aitch-dee

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Well, that wasn’t too shabby was it? A night of Planet Earth and Bleak House. Outside of the actual content of the shows I found it interesting to see a watermark on the ABC’s HD channel.

Admittedly I don’t flick onto the high definition stream too often but last time I did I remember there being no watermarks at all. The “HD” is probably a little big but apart from that I don’t mind the ABC branding this burgeoning television experience.

(I don’t think my computer was quite up for recording both the HD and SD streams of the ABC simultaneously so forgive me if the video jumps a bit).

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ABC1 Videos: Promos

Planet earth is not so bleak after all.

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Just in case you needed anymore reminding Planet Earth and Bleak House start on ABC tonight from 7.30pm (as in a few minutes from now AEST).

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

This week in current affairs shows: Part 12

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This weeks lesson: re-enactments + celebrity fluff

The Chaser looks at some of ACA and TT’s better renactments, including a man having a stroke, a boss firing an employee and some very realistic fighting.

Along with James Thomas from A Current Affair and his efforts in producing five entire reports about the Urban/Kidman wedding with no actual facts.

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

The world’s first single entendre comedy.

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Sorry I’m late everyone, my heater broke and my pussy was frozen solid. And by that I mean my vagina.

Hilarious skit from the Chaser parodying the humor employed by Are You Being Served?, in their own creation, Are You Being Shagged?

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ABC1 Videos: Chaser's War

Jonestown: The Magic and Myth of the Chaser.

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The Chaser’s take on the ABC, Alan Jones’ biography and a lot of him swearing.

As I’m sure most of you know by now ABC Books, the publishing arm of the national broadcaster has decided not to publish a book it commissioned about conservative radio personality Alan Jones. The book has been deemed “legally defensible” from defamation, nonetheless the ABC won’t be publishing it, for what they call “commercial reasons”, but what everyone else see’s as pressure from the government appointed board.

I know there will be people who’ll defend the way Jones’ behaves in the video bloopers, of course they are selective, but it says a lot about a persons character, its not like there are tapes of Ramona Koval swearing her head off and yelling at her staff.

For more on the whole issue visit the Crikey media section or read the Media Watch transcript.

(And for more Alan Jones being a jerk check out his closet recordings here)

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Nine Network Videos: Broadcast News Videos: Openings

News through 4:3 eyes

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The opening of Canberra’s other full length local news, Win. I don’t know enough about the technical side of things, but they must be filming it with handycams because the quality is just horrible.