Radio On Television

[James Martin]

Gold’s studio has been updated.

The monitors and microphones are new.

There’s also an illuminated ‘gold’ logo in the studio window.

Just out of curiosity, do you know what the LBC News studio is like. I've seen photos of the others before, but I'm yet to see any of LBC News.

Unless it's changed since, it's a shoebox studio that is in the newsroom.

There's quite a large number of small studios dotted throughout LSq. I imagine a lot are now used on the shows for the brand extensions, I know they've put Radio X mids in a different studio so the main one can be sanitised after Moyles.

[Sky303]

In the US , having Radio shows on TV is quite common
Don Imus' show aired on MSNBC , later on some farming channel called RFD and finally at Fox Business network in the mornings.
If streaming TV counts then some political radio hosts also simulcast video streams.


Sports Networks do it a lot.
ESPN 2 and ESPNews aired Mike and Mike in the Morning for a couple decades , and later ESPNews used to simulcast ESPN radio from 6AM Eastern to 6pm Eastern until last year when all those shows were moved to ESPN Plus. CBS Sports Network simulcast a couple shows through the day.

Peacock, the streaming service , simulcasts Dan Patrick's sports talk show and Rich Eisen's show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_jyj-_NbSU
Imus used TV station's studios, MSNBC in New Jersey, Fox News studio D and the Fox Business Studio




Mike and Mike used a TV studio in the later part of their history on TV

[Col87]

Hi first post on here. I believe the first radio and TV simulcast was actually on Teesside. Boro TV broadcast the TFM breakfast show in 1997 beating Sky and Chris Evans virgin show by a few month. They then did it again several years later in 2003. Not counting BBC Scotland attempts of course.

Of course these days it’s quite regular. 5Live final score is often shown on the red button and Iplayer. Match of the day 2 extra was also simulcast on 5live and BBC Two. The first program made especially for TV and radio as well as online was at the 2002 World Cup when Ray Stubbs presented a discussion show most evenings talking about the days matches.

[James2001]

Don Imus' show aired on MSNBC , later on some farming channel called RFD and finally at Fox Business network in the mornings.

Going from MSNBC to Fox Business, that's quite a shift!

[news727]

Bloomberg Television has been simulcasting radio-based "Surveillance" in the mornings and special coverage of U.S. elections for quite a while now, both dating back to 2012 IIRC.

[Steve in Pudsey]

A slight tangent, but how about this from 1937 as possibly the earliest simulcast?

The 154th Renewal of the Derby Stakes
Viewers will hear the sound commentary in the National programme by Geoffrey Gilbey and Quintin Gilbey from the Grandstand, Epsom Racecourse, and will see a plan of the course.
Readers are particularly requested to note that in order to allow adequate time before the start of the race the transmission today starts five minutes earlier than usual. This programme will be a repetition of the successful experiment carried out on the occasion of the Grand National: that is to say, still photographs of scenes connected with the race will be accompanied by a commentary

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7648ddc0f5d8...85dbae172b

The TV Service was also regularly taking news bulletins from the National Service in sound only at this time.

[AndrewP]

Just a Minute had a short stint on TV, I don't think it was too successful, though.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zu-2eNYmMM]here[url]

[James2001]

Not sure if that counts entirely, as it was a version made especially for TV, rather than putting in cameras and broadcasting the radio version.

[commseng]

There are a few times when radio has featured on TV - the Arena Radio Night had a live reading of the Shipping Forecast, Nationwide was in the London Control Room when the MW / LW changes happened, and also briefly was in the various continuity suites for the 4 networks too.
Why there is so little of it done I suspect is that radio is often an intimate experience whereas TV is demanding and requires a reasonable number of people.
A late-night presenter in a darkened studio huddled over a mic would lose that style with the lights turned up and bright screens around them. TV also moves in and assumes it is in control. The radio programme can suffer as a result, sometimes it is us technical folks who have to remind production that we are just observers and cannot disrupt their output.

There is also an issue of there are things that you don't want the public to see. When webcasting was coming in, it was suggested that a camera could be fitted in the Control Room. The idea of having us all being constantly observed was one major issue, and the other was if something could be seen that affected security. It never happened.
One of our customers recently did a behind the scenes of remote production and managed to capture a shot of his screen listing information that gave away streaming details for a feed of what is a paid for channel. That caused some disruption and embarrassment.

[Keith]

Breaking the News is shown on both BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Scotland (TV channel). I think that's made for radio from what I've seen of it.

[Chinamug]

In Ireland, RTE has been at this sort of thing for decades, about once a year from the mid-eighties there were shows both on RTE Radio One and on RTE TV at the same time. (usually, the news based Pat Kenny Show if memory is correct) From 1989 it became a weekly occurrence with the Beat Box, which was 2 hours on Sunday between 11.30 and 1.30 on RTE 2FM and RTE Network 2. Showing Pop Videos and interviews with news at 12 and 1. This show also appeared on Bank Holidays, Easter Week and sometimes around Christmas. It usually came from a TV Studio, but Special shows did come from the Radio Centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOElsYdyNyA&t=4s

There was also the reverse of TV on the Radio. When the third National FM network came on air around 1985, it carried nothing after the Irish Language radio service went off the air at approx 8 pm. On Several occasions when they were showing a blockbuster on RTE 1 or 2 they broadcast a stereo soundtrack on this Network. This stopped about 18 months later when a classical music service started using the frequency.

[XIII]

A good example of TV shows on the radio is BBC Northern Ireland's The Blame Game which also broadcasts on BBC Radio Ulster although I think that started on the radio,

[madmusician]

For a long time (right through to the early-2000s) the last night of the BBC Proms shared a presenter between radio and TV, so the TV presenter was heard on the Radio 3 broadcast at the same time they appeared in vision on the TV broadcast. I’m not sure if that practice was carried out on other proms concerts in the season - it may well have been.

[rkolsen]

Locally here in Baltimore WBAL-TV has an FM sister station 98 Rock (97.9 FM really) WIYY that has a morning show, Justin Scott and Spiegel. It is highly rated morning show from 5-10AM. They usually get whatever celebrities and (d listers too) to come on their show. About two years ago it was pitched that they make five 30 minute episodes using their best segments in a pop up video style segment (remember that?). Anyway the show has come back for several more “miniseries”. It airs after Saturday Night Live and is supposedly one of the higher rated shows after Saturday Night Live.

The morning show isn’t rated outside of Baltimore but is known to have an audience in the Washington DC market and parts of Virginia.

The show using their live-streaming equipment for which the PTZ cameras would make some mid market stations jealous.

[Inspector Sands]

Just a Minute had a short stint on TV, I don't think it was too successful, though.

It's had three TV versions - first on Carlton in 1994/5 then BBC1 daytimes in 1999 and then that version at teatime on BBC2 in 2012.

Not sure how successful they were, the last version was the best though, more true to the radio version