Tuesday 4 August 2009

Strange days: Tecky bit for Europe's got space talent

[This is another creative writing bit that goes with my blog entry a few days ago - Europe's got space talent.]

This was going to be the big one to broadcast - a live feed from SPACESAT* to TVs, mobes, black and red berries and humac** devices. This presented many tecky challenges with there only being a window of opportunity of 7 minutes every 24 hours within which they broadcast from SPACESAT could occur and a time lag of 4 minutes for the signal to reach the earth. Any demand for an encore would have to be covered by rescreening parts of the original broadcast necessitating their editing in read time. Such a task was not beyond the skills of IBEEB*** technicians but unfortunately this was a freelance show. However, the audience did not seem to mind the rather abrupt switching between words and music in the encore. In fact it had a certain and was posted on WeeTube****.

* SPAESAT - global space station launched in i2012 with Chinese, Liberian and Euro funding.
** Humac - small digital receptors embedded in human tissues - usually forearms but sometimes thighs
*** IBEEB Iona government sponsored media corporation, launched in i2010 loosely based on the earlier BBC.
**** WeeTube Scots video web site.

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