Does anyone know why BBC News sometimes omits the TOTH countdown timer? - eviltoast
BBC News Channel: Clean New Countdown, No Timer (9AM TOTH) - April 3rd, 2023
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A new countdown is revealed on the UK feed of the BBC News Channel coming out of Breakfast. The timer is notably absent, unknown whether this is a one-off or...

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

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • MrNesser@lemmy.world
      4·
      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

  • Syldon@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukMEnglish
      1·
      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.