Stephen Neal

Add “AI is not a person” to all newspaper style guides asap

GNAT Live Stream New Year's Eve YouTube video by Richard Russell

Fellow TV nerds may appreciate this live stream from a BBC GNAT clock generator www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0M9... (It's the prototype - hence the funky artwork demonstrating all the features)

I think the answer is probably yes. I think there are many people who won't know that ChatGPT and CoPilot are AI specifically.

Language models are terrible at counting (part 12381...)

It's concerning how many workflows/copilots etc. these tools are now creeping into, despite making small numerical errors all over the place (which a causal eye might not catch).

Below from GPT-5 and Sonnet-4.5:

Calum Scott on The One Show piazza performing 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' as a duet with LED screens showing Whitney Houston, and beautiful lighting.

Busy little day - I may sound like a scratched record but I love our team. The One Show Production Management, Editorial, Guest Producers, Presenters and just as importantly our amazing crew always pull it out of the bag.

Lecture theatre with screen saying 100 Years of Television on it

Fascinating joint talk by the IET and the RTS on 100 years of TV. John Logie Baird’s grandson gave a fascinating talk, amongst others.

Proms is shot using the same cameras as when it was i25 (aka 50i) - they've just decided to flip the psf switch on them. They're a mix of HDC-4300s and FR7s I think. (PTZs are great for unobtrusive 'in orchestra' shots)

Has anyone backed up the EPROMs from COW do you know?

Biddy joined Blue Peter in 1962, after it was started in 1958 by John Hunter Blair (though initially it may not have had an Editor role) She revolutionised it - but she wasn't involved in the earliest days?

TVS Coast To Coast Intro With ITV South Logos YouTube video by MrSean64

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8l...

I remember the first time I saw this. When the TVS Ident turned seamlessly into the C2C opening titles it blew my little teenage mind!

The OG menu font is still the best.

When I first used QEdit in the newsroom it was like going back in time to when I worked at Quantel in R&D! (They sponsored me through Uni 1990-1993 and I worked for them after I graduated)

And iPlayer's picture quality.

Thanks for your service. (I hit 32 years in Jan...)

Sorry to hear you're leaving Alistair.

I just held up the rotating tea-stirrer next to the camera when I was FMing!

Crikey. Just realised that this month marks the 30th anniversary of me getting my first job directing live TV… (Look East BBC Regional News in Norwich - the best possible place I could have started!)

Not just me then.

Looks like DuoLingo is out as a language learning tool...

Lots of news from US, and this is especially significant.

The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions.

This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise.

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Pre-ordered!

Lots of terrible & misinformed takes on Poland tonight, proving once again how shallow the coverage of Poland by most international media is: this time based on an out of context misreading of Tusk’s remark on nuclear & a misunderstanding of his comments on military training. 🫠

I believe as Apple devices don't support DASH there are no 2160p25 or 2160p50 UHD HDR streams on iPlayer on Apple platforms (as the BBC is DASH-only for these?) (Not sure whether the iPlayer 1080p50 SDR streams are HLS and DASH or just DASH)

SVT and BBC both run 720p50 HLS streams to Apple TV with no issues. (The show in question has 50Hz archive and graphics in it - it's just the live cameras that are either p50 to p25 decimated, or running psf25)

After watching 2 hours of #Melodifestivalen in 25p it's SO nice to watch the Brits at 50i... #EmperorsNewClothes

'Not one step back': Spain responds to Trump's anti-diversity demands Several Spanish ministers have voiced their opposition to the news that the US embassy in Madrid is demanding that its Spanish suppliers prove they don't have DEI policies.

I've heard anecdotally that the US Embassy in Paris is attempting to make similar demands of its partners/suppliers. Which sounds like it might be tricky in a country where Equality is literally the second word of the national motto?
#LibertéEgalitéFraternité

I failed my test multiple times in Henley. They have since closed the test centre there. I like to think it wasn't just because of me...

Whenever I hear Sanne's amazing performance of 'Undo' I always wonder what would have happened if the lyrics had been better. "Undo my sad"...

When Malou Prytz went out... "First Truss, then Trump, now this..."

She's the youngest person to have a No. 1 in Sweden (and is the best performer of the night - Sanne ❤️)
Doesn't the interlaced archive look nice. (For the second week)