SATFACTS: Live Cinema Broadcast Transmission Information

Sunday 8th October: ENCORE BROADCAST. The feed for this broadcast is due to start with a Test period at 1300BST. The main content starts at 1400. The Schedule is:

13:00 SATELLITES LIVE – TEST TAPE
13:40 A ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IMAGE ON SCREEN, WITH A COUNTDOWN CLOCK AND LOW LEVEL 5.1 AUDIO

14:00 START OF RELAY
14:00 INTRODUCTION WITH ELLE OSILI-WOOD
14:02 TRAILERS AND PROMOTIONS
14:06 INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN HARDEN
14:12 INTRODUCTORY FILM
14:18 L’ELISIR D’AMORE ACT I.i.
14:51 SHORT PAUSE (THIS IS NOT AN INTERVAL)
14:54 L’ELISIR D’AMORE ACT I.ii.
15:34 CINEMA INTERVAL (18 MIN)
15:55 INTERVIEW WITH SUSANNA STRANDERS
16:00 NADINE SIERRA FILM
16:04 L’ELISIR D’AMORE ACT II
17:04 CURTAIN CALLS

THE SATELLITE RELAY WILL END AT APPROXIMATELY 17:30 BST

Thursday 5th October: The test period for this evening’s broadcast is at 1000-1100BST (1100-1200CEST). From 1100-1145BST there is an additional 45 mins of satellite time being used for ROH internal testing purposes. although this may be of use to you, the content will be random and discontinuous.

UPDATE@1740BST. The feed is now available again ahead of tonight’s transmission

There is a 60′ Pre-Broadcast Test today (28th Sept) at 1100BST/1200CEST ahead of the broadcast from the ROH on the 5th October . Please make best-use of this opportunity and report any issues via your usual channels.

UPDATE@1745BST: The feed from the ROH is now available ahead of tonight’s relay.

UPDATE@1008BST: Unfortunately there are issues with the satellite feed. These issues are at the uplink and if you are seeing freezing/dropping these are endemic on the feed. Apologies for this.

Wednesday 20th Sept: The test period for this evening’s broadcast is at 1000-1100BST (1100-1200CEST). From 1100-1145BST there is an additional 45 mins of satellite time being used for ROH internal testing purposes. although this may be of use to you, the content will be random and discontinuous.

There is a 60′ Pre-Broadcast Test today (13th Sept) at 1100BST/1200CEST ahead of the broadcast from the ROH on the 20th . Please make best-use of this opportunity and report any issues via your usual channels.

There is a 60′ Pre-Season Test today at 1100BST/1200CEST ahead of the 2023-24 Season of broadcasts from the ROH. Please make best-use of this opportunity and report any issues via your usual channels.

SUNDAY 18th June: the feed fr this afternoon’s Encore broadcast is now available. the Schedule for this afternoon will be:

PLEASE ENSURE SUBTITLES ARE SWITCHED ON FOR THIS OPERA
13:00 SATELLITES LIVE – TEST TAPE
13:40 A ROYAL OPERA HOUSE IMAGE ON SCREEN, WITH A COUNTDOWN CLOCK AND LOW LEVEL 5.1 AUDIO.
14:00 START OF RELAY
14:01 INTRODUCTION WITH ELLE OSILI-WOOD
14:02 TRAILERS AND PROMOTIONS
14:06 INTERVIEW WITH OLIVER MEARS
14:11 INTRODUCTORY FILM
14:18 ACTS I & II OF IL TROVATORE
15:34 CINEMA INTERVAL I WITH COUNTDOWN
15:47 INTERVIEW WITH FLORA WILLSON
15:54 INTERVAL FILM
16:01 ACTS III & IV OF IL TROVATORE
17:08 CURTAIN CALLS
THE SATELLITE RELAY WILL END AT APPROXIMATELY 17:30 BST

Tuesday 13th June: The Test period ahead of tonight’s broadcast is at 1000-1100BST / 1100-1200CEST. The satellite feed will be live for an additional 45 mins for ROH’s internal testing. This is not part of the supported cinema test but it might be of some use if you are having tuning issues.

UPDATE@1800BST The feed is now available again ahead of this evening’s broadcast. The 20′ countdown commences at 1855BST and the mian performance at 1915BST.

The Test ahead of next week’s broadcast (on 13th June) is today, 6th June at 1100-1200BST (1200-1300CEST).