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Kieron Moore

2013-02-24T03:00:00Z

Mikechislett:

[[File:Kieron Moore - Production Director.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Summer 2012]]
Kieron joined YSTV in the autumn term of 2011 not long after the Freshers' Fair and by the end of his first term had ran for [[Assistant Production Director]] whilst sat on the lap of [[Steven Perring]]. Within a year, Kieron had thoroughly signed his soul away to YSTV, having gone through all the necessary induction rituals such as embarrassing himself at NaSTA by kissing [[Mark Friend]] live on NUTS, presenting Woodstock with a rainbow and butterfly on his face, and becoming elected to a major committee position.

Armed with a studio key, a hidden reserve of red wine for when times get tough, and a slightly not-quick-enough wit, Kieron is currently struggling to hold the world of YSTV production and his own mental stability together. Demanding that a station meeting be co-chaired by [[Morrissey the YSTV stuffed rabbit]] was a sign that it's going well.

Pioneered the Production Team slogan of "realitate your imagispheres". Kieron has also been present on YSTV's unofficial trips to IKEA - on which he's been described by [[Alex Williams]] as "''like holding onto a slinky in the M.C. Escher room"''.

Posts Held:
*[[Assistant Production Director]] (Nov 2011 - May 2012)
*[[Production Director]] (May 2012 - )

Shows Produced:
*[[People Are Strange]] Episode 2 - with [[Dan Marshall]] and [[Marie Mills]] (February 2012)
*[[The Ultimate Challenge]] (January 2012 - )
*[[YSTV Reports]]: Big D 2012 - with [[Alex Buckley]] (June 2012)
*[[The Scone Identity]] - a one-off comedy short that only became a YSTV production when Kieron realised he could spend his surplus budget on it (September 2012)
*[[YSTV's Guide to York: Food]] - this was more of a group production, but Kieron became YSTV's official food critic for a day due to his ability to drink a milkshake in the style of a children's TV presenter
*[[The End of the World]] - a comedy drama devised on the initial pitch of "something better than [[Checkmate]] that we can do over summer" which ended up being filmed the week after summer camp 2012
*[[FreshersTV]] - with [[Chris Wall]] (October 2012)
*[[YSTV Reports]]: Aesthetica Short Film Festival (November 2012)
*[[Monday Evening Live]] Pilot - the notorious episode which caused political discomfort for YSTV when YUSU President Kallum Taylor acknowledged on air that he'd be re-running, despite YUSU regulations forbidding any such public statements before nominations were open. On an unrelated note, Kieron did not produce the second episode of Monday Evening Live.

Outside of producing shows, Kieron's achievements include naming the [[Christmas Imbroglio]], though he had to make a title sequence to be allowed that honour, and appearing on [[Front Row]] after making [[Tom Woffenden]] sit through the tedious drivel that is David Lynch's Dune.

[[Category:People|Moore]]

Soldering with Adrian

2013-02-24T02:23:41Z

Mikechislett:

A little clip from this appears in the [[Closure]] compilation. The Adrian of the title is [[Adrian Jones]]. [[Image:Solderingwithadrian.jpg|thumb|left|Still from [[Closure]]]]
[[Image:Soldering.jpg|thumb|right|"Soldering with Ed", Jan 2004]]

This was not a programme or a short spoof. Sometime circa 1992/3, a number of techies were fixing things in [[P/X/002]] on a Wednesday afternoon, and due to lack of space in the office/workshop, Adrian took whatever he was fixing into the studio to work on it. Some bright spark switched on a camera, pointed it at Adrian, and then went live to network...

The caption simply says "Soldering With Adrian" and the picture shows Adrian sat at a table, soldering. A scrolling caption invites viewers to ring YSTV on 2460 (amazingly still the same internal number as today) for soldering advice.

This acquired somewhat legendary status during the early 2000s at YSTV and in tribute a short segment of [[Off The Cuff]] in January 2004 was dedicated to "Soldering With [[Ed Jellard| Ed]]".

Soldering with has been commissioned for a third series, Presented by [[Elizabeth Pascoe]], due to air on YUSU Election Night 2013 as a full 30+ second VT. ''Why?''[[Mike Chislett]] foolishly agreed to provide food for Liz and Rob on Election night, provided this series airs.

{{YSTV Productions}}
[[Category:Productions]]

AutoDerp

2012-08-10T20:03:20Z

Mikechislett:

The AutoDerp teleprompter head was conceived in Summer 2012, using some production budget. The principle behind it, was that unlike the previous [[NaffoCue]], which relied on resting the assembly on-top of a static stool, the whole teleprompter would move with the camera head. The AutoDerp also had a few other specifications:
* Able to withstand potentially decades of abuse
* 16:9 friendly
* To use one of the numerous spare NEC 17" monitors donated by Computer science...
** Hence able to withstand a heavy weight hung a distance from the tripod's mounting point, without it falling out
* Provide a mounting point for the cameras (rather than use two tripods - for the head & camera)
** Hence and adjustable mount would be needed, to stop the whole thing tilting at the will of gravity.

The AutoDerp used one of the "camlink TP1" tripods acquired earlier in 2012, and featured an adjustable mounting rail. When in use, tripod's top-plate is removed, attached to the AutoDerp's camera mount point. The AutoDerp is then bolted to the plate-less tripod. When not in use, the AutoDerp could be removed, with the Tripod top-plate and camera shoe returned to the tripod. This meant we didn't have to waste a tripod permanently (2012 saw a massive shortage of tripods, as so many broke!).

AutoDerp

2012-08-10T20:02:57Z

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The AutoDerp teleprompter head was conceived in Summer 2012, using some production budget. The principle behind it, was that unlike the previous [[Naffocue]], which relied on resting the assembly on-top of a static stool, the whole teleprompter would move with the camera head. The AutoDerp also had a few other specifications:
* Able to withstand potentially decades of abuse
* 16:9 friendly
* To use one of the numerous spare NEC 17" monitors donated by Computer science...
** Hence able to withstand a heavy weight hung a distance from the tripod's mounting point, without it falling out
* Provide a mounting point for the cameras (rather than use two tripods - for the head & camera)
** Hence and adjustable mount would be needed, to stop the whole thing tilting at the will of gravity.

The AutoDerp used one of the "camlink TP1" tripods acquired earlier in 2012, and featured an adjustable mounting rail. When in use, tripod's top-plate is removed, attached to the AutoDerp's camera mount point. The AutoDerp is then bolted to the plate-less tripod. When not in use, the AutoDerp could be removed, with the Tripod top-plate and camera shoe returned to the tripod. This meant we didn't have to waste a tripod permanently (2012 saw a massive shortage of tripods, as so many broke!).

NaffoCue

2012-08-10T19:46:30Z

Mikechislett:

Our solution to Autocue for programs.

Originally conceived by [[Dominic Plunkett]] the system comprised a BBC micro strapped to a spare TV trolley, driving a 22" television set with the horizontal scan coils reversed. For best image the original system ROM was discarded and a replacement one written to squeeze every last cycle out of the processor.

This system suffered from being large and unwieldy, and as there was only (room for) one could not be used with multiple camera set-ups. Additionally the controller had a rather noisy switch to advance the display making it difficult to be operated from close proximity to microphones.

When the monitor rack was overhauled for [[Cub Conversion]] a spare set of [[Cotron]] B&W monitors became free. This, coupled with some Acorns and a spare PC, allowed three much smaller NaffoCues to be made by [[John Biltcliffe]] (hardware) and [[Matt Hammond]] (software).

Still in use in 2007, after a glitch when the serial port stopped working at Christmas 2006 due to a Windows wierdness.

In 2009, the NaffoCue software was replaced with [[FaffoCue]], wrote by [[Simon Harris]] The software worked, but never truly exited Beta testing. In Summer 2012, with some production budget spare, Michael Chislett built a new head for the Teleprompter, dubbed the [[AutoDerp]].

[[Category:Equipment]]

Station Video Mux

2012-08-06T11:23:49Z

Mikechislett: /* Today */

==Breaker 88==
The mammouth broadcast of [[Breaker 88]] was responsible for several new pieces of YSTV equipment being designed and built, a sync pulse generator (SPG) in a 2U rack, and a video multiplexor.

The video mux had 4 buses: Auxilliary, Tape, Record, Network. By the mid 1990's various bits of the original circuitry had failed and no replacement parts were obtainable, so the mux had some rotting limbs amputated to reduce it to only 3 buses. A separate 1U mux switched network video under the control of [[BBC Schedula]].

Motivation to design a new video mux was severalfold:
* Only 3 terrestrial tuners remained from the original Rediffusion system, these had to be manually changed over by the [[Scheduling Manager]] to match the schedule depending on which of the 5 terrestrial channels were required, and some of these buttons were jammed too
* An explosion of video equipment within the larger [[G/046]] station meant all of the remaining working inputs were now in use
* The black controller box would 'crash' occasionally when the state machine inside made out of logic chips got stuck
* A desire to simplify the video setup so that any video source could be routed to and from anywhere

==32 x 4 replacement==
A replacement mux was first explored in 1997 by [[Rob Sprowson]], though not built straight away due to other pressing projects and budget constraints. Instead the parts were accumulated slowly and design work done during the university holidays. Finally in April 2001 the new layout was sent off to be made, and finally the parts could be pieced together.

[[Image:MuxRear.png|left|thumb|320px|The backpanel wiring diagram]]
An increase was made to 32 inputs and 4 outputs, along with controller box.

It included two [http://www.distel.co.uk/data_my00.htm NICAM stereo terrestrial tuners] from [http://www.distel.co.uk/ Display Electronics] which could be retuned under computer control, this was key to the scheduling system and was also intended to make use of the recently upgraded AV network which was stereo capable.

The new mux was briefly installed for a weekend for testing in {{unsure|2002}} and later withdrawn for minor hardware alterations - it was carried back to Cambridge by train, which included a brief section sliding round in the back of a coach as a derailment had meant trains had to skip part of the journey to Peterborough, making it the most travelled mux in history.

All the parts were sourced as free samples from [http://www.maxim-ic.com/ Maxim] under various psuedonyms since the MAX458 crosspoints were actually worth about £40 each.

To avoid the obsolescence problem that the Breaker 88 unit suffered, there were two muxes. One live, then a spare circuit board and set of 7 chips were in storage in case of failure, the controller made using a cheap reprogrammable micro controller. Some 885 lines of assembler code are all that were required in the micro to perform all of its control functions.

==Today==
The outputs originally drove 8 copies of each bus to avoid the need for seperate distribution amplifiers, however in a heavily loaded system some crosstalk was observed. This was misdiagnosed as due to electric fields (!) and the integrated amplifiers chopped out, despite the MAX497 buffers being socketted. It is believed simply increasing the decoupling to the power supply would have resolved the problem and left the unit at its full specification.

In 2006 the original PIC within the controller was replaced with a PIC18F2455. This was the first step towards giving [[Spider and SchedSeven]] control of the Mux, although currently the USB side of the firmware is still under development.

After a dramatic hardware failure at Roses 2011 (late summer), the Mux controller begin to get 'picky' about if it liked working on certain days of the week. It was later discovered that some rather large capacitance had bridged across a pair of control lines, making the system purport to work (the Main unit has no way of communicating back to the controller). With no documentation available, it was decided that replacing the controller with a serial interface was the way to go. By 2012, the new control system was implanted into the main unit, making the old external box redundant. As of March 2012, the machine now conforms to the YVP protocol. Several easter eggs have been programmed into the device - please don't go looking for them during a live show...
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More [[YSTV Technicals]]

Station Video Mux

2012-08-06T11:22:53Z

Mikechislett: /* 32 x 4 replacement */

Station Video Mux

2012-08-06T11:21:33Z

Mikechislett: /* 32 x 4 replacement */

==Breaker 88==
The mammouth broadcast of [[Breaker 88]] was responsible for several new pieces of YSTV equipment being designed and built, a sync pulse generator (SPG) in a 2U rack, and a video multiplexor.

The video mux had 4 buses: Auxilliary, Tape, Record, Network. By the mid 1990's various bits of the original circuitry had failed and no replacement parts were obtainable, so the mux had some rotting limbs amputated to reduce it to only 3 buses. A separate 1U mux switched network video under the control of [[BBC Schedula]].

Motivation to design a new video mux was severalfold:
* Only 3 terrestrial tuners remained from the original Rediffusion system, these had to be manually changed over by the [[Scheduling Manager]] to match the schedule depending on which of the 5 terrestrial channels were required, and some of these buttons were jammed too
* An explosion of video equipment within the larger [[G/046]] station meant all of the remaining working inputs were now in use
* The black controller box would 'crash' occasionally when the state machine inside made out of logic chips got stuck
* A desire to simplify the video setup so that any video source could be routed to and from anywhere

==32 x 4 replacement==
A replacement mux was first explored in 1997 by [[Rob Sprowson]], though not built straight away due to other pressing projects and budget constraints. Instead the parts were accumulated slowly and design work done during the university holidays. Finally in April 2001 the new layout was sent off to be made, and finally the parts could be pieced together.

[[Image:MuxRear.png|left|thumb|320px|The backpanel wiring diagram]]
An increase was made to 32 inputs and 4 outputs, along with controller box.

It included two [http://www.distel.co.uk/data_my00.htm NICAM stereo terrestrial tuners] from [http://www.distel.co.uk/ Display Electronics] which could be retuned under computer control, this was key to the scheduling system and was also intended to make use of the recently upgraded AV network which was stereo capable.

The new mux was briefly installed for a weekend for testing in {{unsure|2002}} and later withdrawn for minor hardware alterations - it was carried back to Cambridge by train, which included a brief section sliding round in the back of a coach as a derailment had meant trains had to skip part of the journey to Peterborough, making it the most travelled mux in history.

All the parts were sourced as free samples from [http://www.maxim-ic.com/ Maxim] under various psuedonyms since the MAX458 crosspoints were actually worth about £40 each.

To avoid the obsolescence problem that the Breaker 88 unit suffered, there were two muxes. A spare circuit board and set of 7 chips are in storage in case of failure, and the controller is made using a cheap reprogrammable micro controller. Some 885 lines of assembler code are all that were required in the micro to perform all of its control functions.

After a dramatic hardware failure at Roses 2010 (late summer), the Mux controller begin to get 'picky' about if it liked working on certain days of the week. It was later discovered that some rather large capacitance had bridged across a pair of control lines, making the system purport to work (the Main unit has no way of communicating back to the controller). With no documentation available, it was decided that replacing the controller with a serial interface was the way to go. By 2012, the new control system was implanted into the main unit, making the old external box redundant. As of March 2012, the machine now conforms to the YVP protocol. Several easter eggs have been programmed into the device - please don't go looking for them during a live show.

==Today==
The outputs originally drove 8 copies of each bus to avoid the need for seperate distribution amplifiers, however in a heavily loaded system some crosstalk was observed. This was misdiagnosed as due to electric fields (!) and the integrated amplifiers chopped out, despite the MAX497 buffers being socketted. It is believed simply increasing the decoupling to the power supply would have resolved the problem and left the unit at its full specification.

In 2006 the original PIC within the controller was replaced with a PIC18F2455. This was the first step towards giving [[Spider and SchedSeven]] control of the Mux, although currently the USB side of the firmware is still under development.
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More [[YSTV Technicals]]

Spider and SchedSeven

2012-08-06T11:04:19Z

Mikechislett: /* Spider Hardware */

Built by [[Dave Baker]] and [[Rob Humphrey]] in summer 2005 to replace the [[BBC Schedula]] system, this now handles YSTV's 24/7 output to both the campus network and the internet.

SchedSeven monitors a MySQL data base of scheduled programs, and sends commands to Spider when programmes are due to go out. SchedSeven also implements automatic filling of short gaps in the schedules and addition of idents before programs.

Spider is a priority-aware clearing house for control of anything and everything in the station that is capable of remote control. Currently it drives the [[Video Server]] and network video mux to schedule repeats of YSTV's programming.

Around 2009, SchedSeven was ditched in favour of skedular, with more bells, whistles, sticks...and a lot less gap filling, not sure what happened to that feature.
Just two short years later, in the Summer of 2011, a project named [[docs:Tarantula]] was hatched, on account of the Video Server's software packing up and Spider being generally naff, to replace Skedular and the ageing Spider with an all singing, all dancing new scheduling and automation system ([[Michael Cullen]]'s new job in broadcast automation probably had something to do with it too).

== Spider Software ==
This has been ripped out of the old docswiki page and preserved for posterity, since Spider is (not especially) sadly defunct.

This is the heart of the computer control systems in the station, accepting requests from various control sources and feeding them out to the hardware depending on priority.
Command Line Interface

If you need to "speak spider" to find out what's going on in the system, then you can telnet into port 5091 on ystvspider and query the status of devices and which are connected. You need to be logged in to the machine to do this if you're outside James Nucleus because port 5091 is blocked at the firewall.

Possible commands are:

* marco - this just does echo and returns "polo"
* help - prints this list of possible commands
* listdevices - list all devices connected to the system, giving the plugin used to control them, the device name and the current status. The mapping of device types (and hence driver plugins) to device names is done in /etc/spider.xml
* getparams <device> - get all parameters for a device. The device name is the second field above (which has to be unique, where as drivers don't becuase multiple devices can speak the same protocol.
* get <device>:<param> - query current value of a parameter. This seems to be broken for the net mux, and hangs up the interface so you have to quit and log back in.
* set <device>:<param>=<value> - set a parameter to certain value (=* to clear). Not heavily error checked, so be careful about spaces, quotes and the like. Note that this won't get cleared until you do so, so if you force a programme out this way, you need to unset the video form vidserv after it finishes to make scheduling keep working.
* poss <device>:<param> - returns <devicename>:<parametername> followed by a coma-separated list of possible values.
* help - displays this help text
* quit - closes the connection

"

There are two user accounts:

* user
* sched

user is a higher priority than sched. Sched is what [[skedular]] logs in as,and if any controls have not been set to * by user, sched can do nothing. (interesting side note: if user tells it to play a video, then sched tells it to play a video, it plays the video user told it to, but restarts it when sched tells it to.)

Also if user does a set vidserv:video= which should be a stop command, scheduling breaks - big time. Needs to be video=*

-- Installing the software --
As with many ystv utilities, it's in SVN (https://ystv.co.uk/svn/oldsvn/spider/). Installation is mostly straight forward, however the following kernel module is required:
* Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Modem (CDC ACM) Support
(setup instructions are WIP - nearly got it working right now!)

== Spider Hardware ==
Again, another one from the docswiki:
The main scheduling hardware is provided by the Hedco network mux - the NetMux.

This provides two 16 input, single output video muxes, and the same for stereo audio. Currently both video boards are fed from the same video sources from the distribution amplifier. Audio comes from the NetMuxBreakout, and currently only uses the campus network audio layer to feed both stream and network outputs via the compressor. For more details of the wiring see NetMuxWiring.

The network mux is controlled over a serial port from the custom NetMuxController built by Rob. This has a series of preset manual settings (to send live shows, vidserv, clock and inform to net / stream) and the Obey switch that gives the computer control system authority over the system. To cut other sources to net, use the mux front panel (for how, see the NetMux page).

The desk controller is plugged into a USB port on the old office PC which is now used to run SpiDer - the heart of the network control system. This accepts command requests from all the possible control sources (a command line interface and SchedSeven currently), and sets the highest priority requests onto the hardware.

The firmware within the NetMuxController is currently being updated to move away from using serial emulation over USB to communicating using a lower level access to the USB and a custom protocol. This custom protocol is defined in SpiderUSBProtocol.

== 2011/2012 Replacement ==
With the rebuild of the videoserver in 2011, it was yet again time to change automation system. As the Network Audio Mux no-longer existed, this part of the system was axed. Audio switching would become balanced, via DB-25 to XLR fan-out panels, for the first time in history, YSTV would become fully balanced, and in stereo. In early 2011, some datasheet digging had taken place, and we finally knew what mythical protocol controlled the Leitch/HEDCO NetMux. This whole replacement system was to be branded [[Tarantula]].

Michael Chislett

2012-08-06T10:53:20Z

Mikechislett: /* things */

[[File:Mikw_wiki.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Mike Chislett with long hair... (Now short)]]
==Simple Facts about Mike==
*Mike joined in 2009 at Freshers Fair.
*Mike has a slight hate of MAC OSX, due to it being left hand drive. - prefers window controls on the right.
*Likes lighting rigs. far too much.
*Invented [[windowvision]] 2010/2011.
*Won NaSTA Tech for chainable video matrixes
*Won YUMA for first piece of 3d student television

==things==
* Fast food. A show about food that is fast. takeaways, quizzes, and some bloke who has a strange habit of blending/liquidising cheap meals. Fast food's first episode was a complete disaster, and the only interesting thing was apparently Chris Young's choice of clothing. For some unknown reason, people insisted on watching it. As a result, Mike hid the episode from the website's view, in the hope that it would sink down the search results! Series 2 will not happen, as Mike spent too long fixing Comms and the Main Mux...

* Create YSTV "big logo" idents. Go round campus projecting logo all over the place.
** It works.

* Infinite loop idents / stings
**done (LOGOcutout, and TVloops)

* GD set.
** A glowing pulsating monstrous set, requiring over 400 foot of jigsawing. The GD set is wheeled out almost every year now. The sets feature a TRON-esque series of channels cut from the 8'x4' boards, filled with grease-proof paper, then back-lit with a suitably "electric blue" or other colour. The grease-proof paper's imperfections make for a somewhat "bio-mechanical" feel, and when a chase is applied to the back lighting many people note that it makes the room feel alive.

* Chainable video matrixes
** Over 2010 - 2011, Mike set about building the "better than standard" video matirx system. Built as two 8 in, 8 out matrixes, they can also join together to make a larger 16x8 system. They conform to Mike's standard "YVP".

* YVP (Ystv Vision Path)
** Because Having everything talk to everything else is so cool.
** YVP is pretty much butchered xml, with the driving principle being that machines can be used to create a mass routing table: this can then be read off to various other bits of kit, which can then display and react on the fly. For example, Someone connects up three cameras, and isn't familiar with how the vision path works. All they do is open the YVP program, tell it they want those three cameras from those plugs in the studio, to go on those vision mixer inputs. The system then arranges itself, complete with matching tally lights. The Vision Mixer then reports back which inputs are live, and the YVP machine activates the tally lights accordingly.

== Posts ==
[[File:Mike Chislett - Deputy Technical Director.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Summer 2012]]
*2009/2010 [[Scheduling Manager]]
*2010/2011 [[Technical Director]]
*2011/2012 Still the [[Technical Director]]
*2012/-present [[Deputy Technical Director]], because I just can't leave!

[[Category:People|Chislett,Michael]]

Michael Chislett

2012-06-27T18:04:40Z

Mikechislett: /* Simple Facts about Mike */

[[File:Mikw_wiki.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Mike Chislett with long hair... (Now short)]]
==Simple Facts about Mike==
*Mike joined in 2009 at Freshers Fair.
*Mike has a slight hate of MAC OSX, due to it being left hand drive. - prefers window controls on the right.
*Likes lighting rigs. far too much.
*Invented [[windowvision]] 2010/2011.
*Won NaSTA Tech for chainable video matrixes
*Won YUMA for first piece of 3d student television

==things==
* Fast food. A show about food that is fast. takeaways, quizzes, and some bloke who has a strange habit of blending/liquidising cheap meals. Fast food's first episode was a complete disaster, and the only interesting thing was apparently Chris Young's choice of clothing. For some unknown reason, people insisted on watching it. As a result, Mike hid the episode from the website's view, in the hope that it would sink down the search results! Series 2 will not happen, as Mike spent too long fixing Comms and the Main Mux...

* Create YSTV "big logo" idents. Go round campus projecting logo all over the place.
** It works. But will need many more lumens to make a big enough impression...

* Infinite loop idents / stings

* GD set.
** A glowing pulsating monstrous set, requiring over 400 foot of jigsawing. The most epic YSTV set to date.

* Chainable video matrixes
** Over 2010 - 2011, Mike set about building the "better than standard" video matirx system. Built as two 8 in, 8 out matrixes, they can also join together to make a larger 16x8 system. At the moment, Mike can't find another system in the industry is capable of out of box linking. Ontop of this, they conform to Mike's standard "YVP".

* YVP (Ystv Vision Path)
** Because Having everything talk to everything else is so cool.
** YVP is pretty much butchered xml, with the driving principle being that machines can be used to create a mass routing table: this can then be read off to various other bits of kit, which can then display and react on the fly. For example, Someone connects up three cameras, and can't switch matrixes themselves. All they do is call up the YVP machine, tell it they want those three cameras on the vision mixer. The system then arranges itself, complete with matching tally lights. The Vision Mixer can also have a YVP addon, which then indicates what tally lights to activate...

== Posts ==
*2009/2010 [[Scheduling Manager]]
*2010/2011 [[Technical Director]]
*2011/2012 Still the [[Technical Director]]
*2012/-present [[Deputy Technical Director]], because I just can't leave!

[[Category:People|Chislett,Michael]]

Michael Chislett

2012-06-27T18:03:30Z

Mikechislett:

[[File:Mikw_wiki.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Mike Chislett with long hair... (Now short)]]
==Simple Facts about Mike==
*Mike joined in 2009 at Freshers Fair.
*Mike has a slight hate of MAC OSX, due to it being left hand drive. - prefers window controls on the right.
*Likes lighting rigs. far too much.
*Invented [[windowvision]]2010/2011.
*Won NaSTA Tech for chainable video matrixes
*Won YUMA for first piece of 3d student television

==things==
* Fast food. A show about food that is fast. takeaways, quizzes, and some bloke who has a strange habit of blending/liquidising cheap meals. Fast food's first episode was a complete disaster, and the only interesting thing was apparently Chris Young's choice of clothing. For some unknown reason, people insisted on watching it. As a result, Mike hid the episode from the website's view, in the hope that it would sink down the search results! Series 2 will not happen, as Mike spent too long fixing Comms and the Main Mux...

* Create YSTV "big logo" idents. Go round campus projecting logo all over the place.
** It works. But will need many more lumens to make a big enough impression...

* Infinite loop idents / stings

* GD set.
** A glowing pulsating monstrous set, requiring over 400 foot of jigsawing. The most epic YSTV set to date.

* Chainable video matrixes
** Over 2010 - 2011, Mike set about building the "better than standard" video matirx system. Built as two 8 in, 8 out matrixes, they can also join together to make a larger 16x8 system. At the moment, Mike can't find another system in the industry is capable of out of box linking. Ontop of this, they conform to Mike's standard "YVP".

* YVP (Ystv Vision Path)
** Because Having everything talk to everything else is so cool.
** YVP is pretty much butchered xml, with the driving principle being that machines can be used to create a mass routing table: this can then be read off to various other bits of kit, which can then display and react on the fly. For example, Someone connects up three cameras, and can't switch matrixes themselves. All they do is call up the YVP machine, tell it they want those three cameras on the vision mixer. The system then arranges itself, complete with matching tally lights. The Vision Mixer can also have a YVP addon, which then indicates what tally lights to activate...

== Posts ==
*2009/2010 [[Scheduling Manager]]
*2010/2011 [[Technical Director]]
*2011/2012 Still the [[Technical Director]]
*2012/-present [[Deputy Technical Director]], because I just can't leave!

[[Category:People|Chislett,Michael]]

Michael Chislett

2012-06-27T18:01:35Z

Mikechislett: /* Posts */

[[File:Mikw_wiki.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Mike Chislett]]
==Simple Facts about Mike==
*Mike joined in 2009 at Freshers Fair.
*Mike has a slight hate of MAC OSX, due to it being left hand drive. - prefers window controls on the right.
*Likes lighting rigs. far too much.
*Invented [[windowvision]]2010/2011.
*Won NaSTA Tech for chainable video matrixes
*Won YUMA for first piece of 3d student television

==things==
* Fast food. A show about food that is fast. takeaways, quizzes, and some bloke who has a strange habit of blending/liquidising cheap meals. Fast food's first episode was a complete disaster, and the only interesting thing was apparently Chris Young's choice of clothing. For some unknown reason, people insisted on watching it. As a result, Mike hid the episode from the website's view, in the hope that it would sink down the search results! Series 2 will not happen, as Mike spent too long fixing Comms and the Main Mux...

* Create YSTV "big logo" idents. Go round campus projecting logo all over the place.
** It works. But will need many more lumens to make a big enough impression...

* Infinite loop idents / stings

* GD set.
** A glowing pulsating monstrous set, requiring over 400 foot of jigsawing. The most epic YSTV set to date.

* Chainable video matrixes
** Over 2010 - 2011, Mike set about building the "better than standard" video matirx system. Built as two 8 in, 8 out matrixes, they can also join together to make a larger 16x8 system. At the moment, Mike can't find another system in the industry is capable of out of box linking. Ontop of this, they conform to Mike's standard "YVP".

* YVP
** Because Having everything talk to everything else is so cool.
** YVP is pretty much butchered xml, with the driving principle being that machines can be used to create a mass routing table: this can then be read off to various other bits of kit, which can then display and react on the fly. For example, Someone connects up three cameras, and can't switch matrixes themselves. All they do is call up the YVP machine, tell it they want those three cameras on the vision mixer. The system then arranges itself, complete with matching tally lights. The Vision Mixer can also have a YVP addon, which then indicates what tally lights to activate...

== Posts ==
*2009/2010 [[Scheduling Manager]]
*2010/2011 [[Technical Director]]
*2011/2012 Still the [[Technical Director]]
*2012/-present [[Deputy Technical Director]], because I just can't leave!

[[Category:People|Chislett,Michael]]

Michael Chislett

2012-06-27T18:00:11Z

Mikechislett: /* things */

[[File:Mikw_wiki.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Mike Chislett]]
==Simple Facts about Mike==
*Mike joined in 2009 at Freshers Fair.
*Mike has a slight hate of MAC OSX, due to it being left hand drive. - prefers window controls on the right.
*Likes lighting rigs. far too much.
*Invented [[windowvision]]2010/2011.
*Won NaSTA Tech for chainable video matrixes
*Won YUMA for first piece of 3d student television

==things==
* Fast food. A show about food that is fast. takeaways, quizzes, and some bloke who has a strange habit of blending/liquidising cheap meals. Fast food's first episode was a complete disaster, and the only interesting thing was apparently Chris Young's choice of clothing. For some unknown reason, people insisted on watching it. As a result, Mike hid the episode from the website's view, in the hope that it would sink down the search results! Series 2 will not happen, as Mike spent too long fixing Comms and the Main Mux...

* Create YSTV "big logo" idents. Go round campus projecting logo all over the place.
** It works. But will need many more lumens to make a big enough impression...

* Infinite loop idents / stings

* GD set.
** A glowing pulsating monstrous set, requiring over 400 foot of jigsawing. The most epic YSTV set to date.

* Chainable video matrixes
** Over 2010 - 2011, Mike set about building the "better than standard" video matirx system. Built as two 8 in, 8 out matrixes, they can also join together to make a larger 16x8 system. At the moment, Mike can't find another system in the industry is capable of out of box linking. Ontop of this, they conform to Mike's standard "YVP".

* YVP
** Because Having everything talk to everything else is so cool.
** YVP is pretty much butchered xml, with the driving principle being that machines can be used to create a mass routing table: this can then be read off to various other bits of kit, which can then display and react on the fly. For example, Someone connects up three cameras, and can't switch matrixes themselves. All they do is call up the YVP machine, tell it they want those three cameras on the vision mixer. The system then arranges itself, complete with matching tally lights. The Vision Mixer can also have a YVP addon, which then indicates what tally lights to activate...

== Posts ==
*2009/2010 [[Scheduling Manager]]
*2010/2011 [[Technical Director]]
*2011/2012 Still [[Technical Director]]

[[Category:People|Chislett,Michael]]

Sarah Pickles

2012-06-14T14:05:11Z

Mikechislett:

Arguably YSTV's most caring person since 2009, Sarah has earned the nickname "YSTV Mum". In YSTV folklore, she tragically died at Roses 2010, after discovering LUTUBE (Lancaster student TV) had stolen her evil twin (or clone) sister, Rachael.

Sarah just couldn't get enough of YSTV available from one degree, so she came back in 2011 to attempt a Masters and run the station.

Posts held:
* Commercial Director (2010)
* [[Station_Director| Station Director]] (2011)

Shows:
* [[The_York_Sport_Show|York Sport]]
* [[Roses 2011]]

[[Category:People|Pickles,Sarah]]

YSTV Programmes

2012-04-24T22:04:47Z

Mikechislett: /* Video to Music / Compilations / Fillers etc */

YSTV has had some incredibly varied programmes over the years. Add information to this timeline for an overview. There is an "official" YSTV [http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/browse/ productions page] with links to our watch online section and so on, but it only lists the recent shows we know about. This page aims to collect a much more extensive list, more information on the shows and links to off-site video and the like. If you'd like to add more information about a particular programme, make a page for it.

Note that this page is for ''regular programmes''. See the separate pages for [[One-offs]] and [[Events Coverage]].

'''Where only one date is listed, this is the year of first broadcast'''

== News ==
* 1967 [[Newsround]]
* 1989 [[Bulletin]]
* 1991 [[Network]]
* {{unsure|1992}}-1993 [[Campus Today]]
* 1994-1997 [[Week by Week]]
* 1997-2003 [[Bulletin (again)|Bulletin]]
* 2003 [[YSTV News (2003)|YSTV News]]
* 2003-2006 [[YSTV Week]]
* 2006-2008 [[YSTV News]]
* 2008 [[York Eye]]
* 2009-2010 [[roundup]]

== Sport ==
* 2005-2006 [[YSTV Sport]]
* 2008-2009 [[The York Sport Show]]

== Politics / Current Affairs ==
* {{unsure|1975}} [[Focus on Politics]]
* {{unsure|early 1980s}} [[Hacks Fax]]
* 1989-1990 [[002]]
* 1994 [[SU, Lies and Videotape]]
* 1996 [[The Panel]]
* 1997-2007 [[Bona Dicta]]

== Music ==
* 1998-2000 [[Sound Space]]
* 2003-2005 [[The Music Show]]
* 2005-2006 [[Acoustic Treatment]]
* 2006-2007 [[YSTV Live]]
* 2006-2007 [[Elevator Music]]
* 2007- [[YSTV Presents]]

== Quizzes / Game Shows ==
* 1989 [[Rhubarb]]
* 1993 [[Trivial]]
* 1996 [[Up The Garden Path]]
* 1998-2000 [[Never Mind The Rip-Off]]
* 1998-1999 [[50%]]
* 1999 [[The Hand Job]]
* 1998-1999 [[Too Clever by Half]]
* 1999-2003 [[Games Disaster]]
* 2004- [[LipSync]]
* 2006-2007 [[FourPlay]]
* 2007- [[Your Answer's Rubbish]]
* 2008 [[Have I Got News for York]]
* 2010 [[Fast Food]]

== Light Entertainment ==
* 1973-74 [[The Anne Duffy Show]]
* 1984 [[Late before you arrive]]
* {{unsure|1992-1993}} 1994-1996 [[Campus Today]]
* {{unsure|1986}}-1995 [[Lack of Talent]]
* 1994-1996 [[Soapwatch]]
* 1995 [[Good Morning Campus (1995)|Good Morning Campus]]
* 1996 [[Deucy Balls]]
* 2001 [[Zipango]]
* 2003 [[Magic Hands]]
* 2003-2004 [[Off The Cuff]]
* 2003-2005 [[Small Screen]]
* 2005-2006 [[The Sofa Show]]
* 2006-2007 [[Limited Edition]]
* 2006- [[Welcome to Venus]]
* 2007- [[Friday Night Live]]
* 2008 [[Late Nights and 9:15s]]

== Comedy ==
* 1994 [[Real Blood]]
* 2004 [[Solipsism]]
* 2004-2005 [[24/7]]
* [[Man Man]]
* [[People Are Strange]]

== Factual / Educational ==
* 1994-1995 [[Cooking with Chris]]
* 1994-1995 [[The International Show]]
* 1996 [[Footlights]]
* 1997-1998 [[Cooking With|Cooking With...]]
* 1997-{{unsure|1998}} [[Reel 2 Reel]]
* 2000-2004 [[WoodenSpoon]]
* 2000-2005 [[The Review]]
* 2000 [[Red Braces]]
* 2002-2003 [[Movie Moment]]
* 2004-2006 [[This Is YOUR: Manifesto]]
* 2009 [[Eating Europe]]
* 2011 - Present [[Past to Present]]

==Unknown==
* 1992 [[Breakfast in Edinburgh]]

==Video to Music / Compilations / Fillers etc==
There is a long tradition of editing together highlights (or occasionally low-lights) of YSTV's output, usually over music. These have then been used as trailers and to promote the station at various points. There have also been a series of edits rounding up the previous 12 months programming, starting with the [[Review of the Year]] edits and more recently with edits done for the [[Best Broadcaster]] category at the [[NaSTA]] awards.
* 1995 [[Breakthru]]
* 1995 [[Merry Christmas from YSTV]]
* 1995 [[Men of YSTV 1995]] - a tribute.
* 1995 [[Zombie]]
* 1996 [[Fergus sings the Blues]]
* 1996 [[Evita]]
* 1997 [[That's The Way I Like It]]
* 1998 [[Fame]]
* 1998 [[Breakthru (digital remaster)]]
* 1999 [[Mmmbop]]
* 1999 [[The Winner Takes It All]]
* 1999 [[What's new in 1999]]
* 2000 [[Nony nony nah]]
* 2010 [[MegaPimp Enters]]
* 2012 [[Dance Commander]]

==Presentation / Off-Air Filler==
* 1987 onwards [[Grapevine]], later [[Inform]]
* 1999 onwards [[Clock]]
* [[Idents]]

{{YSTV Productions}}

YSTV Programmes

2012-04-24T22:03:26Z

Mikechislett: /* Factual / Educational */

YSTV has had some incredibly varied programmes over the years. Add information to this timeline for an overview. There is an "official" YSTV [http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/browse/ productions page] with links to our watch online section and so on, but it only lists the recent shows we know about. This page aims to collect a much more extensive list, more information on the shows and links to off-site video and the like. If you'd like to add more information about a particular programme, make a page for it.

Note that this page is for ''regular programmes''. See the separate pages for [[One-offs]] and [[Events Coverage]].

'''Where only one date is listed, this is the year of first broadcast'''

== News ==
* 1967 [[Newsround]]
* 1989 [[Bulletin]]
* 1991 [[Network]]
* {{unsure|1992}}-1993 [[Campus Today]]
* 1994-1997 [[Week by Week]]
* 1997-2003 [[Bulletin (again)|Bulletin]]
* 2003 [[YSTV News (2003)|YSTV News]]
* 2003-2006 [[YSTV Week]]
* 2006-2008 [[YSTV News]]
* 2008 [[York Eye]]
* 2009-2010 [[roundup]]

== Sport ==
* 2005-2006 [[YSTV Sport]]
* 2008-2009 [[The York Sport Show]]

== Politics / Current Affairs ==
* {{unsure|1975}} [[Focus on Politics]]
* {{unsure|early 1980s}} [[Hacks Fax]]
* 1989-1990 [[002]]
* 1994 [[SU, Lies and Videotape]]
* 1996 [[The Panel]]
* 1997-2007 [[Bona Dicta]]

== Music ==
* 1998-2000 [[Sound Space]]
* 2003-2005 [[The Music Show]]
* 2005-2006 [[Acoustic Treatment]]
* 2006-2007 [[YSTV Live]]
* 2006-2007 [[Elevator Music]]
* 2007- [[YSTV Presents]]

== Quizzes / Game Shows ==
* 1989 [[Rhubarb]]
* 1993 [[Trivial]]
* 1996 [[Up The Garden Path]]
* 1998-2000 [[Never Mind The Rip-Off]]
* 1998-1999 [[50%]]
* 1999 [[The Hand Job]]
* 1998-1999 [[Too Clever by Half]]
* 1999-2003 [[Games Disaster]]
* 2004- [[LipSync]]
* 2006-2007 [[FourPlay]]
* 2007- [[Your Answer's Rubbish]]
* 2008 [[Have I Got News for York]]
* 2010 [[Fast Food]]

== Light Entertainment ==
* 1973-74 [[The Anne Duffy Show]]
* 1984 [[Late before you arrive]]
* {{unsure|1992-1993}} 1994-1996 [[Campus Today]]
* {{unsure|1986}}-1995 [[Lack of Talent]]
* 1994-1996 [[Soapwatch]]
* 1995 [[Good Morning Campus (1995)|Good Morning Campus]]
* 1996 [[Deucy Balls]]
* 2001 [[Zipango]]
* 2003 [[Magic Hands]]
* 2003-2004 [[Off The Cuff]]
* 2003-2005 [[Small Screen]]
* 2005-2006 [[The Sofa Show]]
* 2006-2007 [[Limited Edition]]
* 2006- [[Welcome to Venus]]
* 2007- [[Friday Night Live]]
* 2008 [[Late Nights and 9:15s]]

== Comedy ==
* 1994 [[Real Blood]]
* 2004 [[Solipsism]]
* 2004-2005 [[24/7]]
* [[Man Man]]
* [[People Are Strange]]

== Factual / Educational ==
* 1994-1995 [[Cooking with Chris]]
* 1994-1995 [[The International Show]]
* 1996 [[Footlights]]
* 1997-1998 [[Cooking With|Cooking With...]]
* 1997-{{unsure|1998}} [[Reel 2 Reel]]
* 2000-2004 [[WoodenSpoon]]
* 2000-2005 [[The Review]]
* 2000 [[Red Braces]]
* 2002-2003 [[Movie Moment]]
* 2004-2006 [[This Is YOUR: Manifesto]]
* 2009 [[Eating Europe]]
* 2011 - Present [[Past to Present]]

==Unknown==
* 1992 [[Breakfast in Edinburgh]]

==Video to Music / Compilations / Fillers etc==
There is a long tradition of editing together highlights (or occasionally low-lights) of YSTV's output, usually over music. These have then been used as trailers and to promote the station at various points. There have also been a series of edits rounding up the previous 12 months programming, starting with the [[Review of the Year]] edits and more recently with edits done for the [[Best Broadcaster]] category at the [[NaSTA]] awards.
* 1995 [[Breakthru]]
* 1995 [[Merry Christmas from YSTV]]
* 1995 [[Men of YSTV 1995]] - a tribute.
* 1995 [[Zombie]]
* 1996 [[Fergus sings the Blues]]
* 1996 [[Evita]]
* 1997 [[That's The Way I Like It]]
* 1998 [[Fame]]
* 1998 [[Breakthru (digital remaster)]]
* 1999 [[Mmmbop]]
* 1999 [[The Winner Takes It All]]
* 1999 [[What's new in 1999]]
* 2000 [[Nony nony nah]]

==Presentation / Off-Air Filler==
* 1987 onwards [[Grapevine]], later [[Inform]]
* 1999 onwards [[Clock]]
* [[Idents]]

{{YSTV Productions}}

Best Broadcaster

2012-04-24T22:01:39Z

Mikechislett: /* 2012 */

The only category at the annual [[NaSTA]] awards which is created specifically for the awards rather than taken from our broadcast output. In a maximum of ten minutes of video, each station has to sell it's claim to be the best student television station in the country. This is normally done by cutting together excerpts from every production made in the previous year, with a mixture of live sound and music used to glue the whole lot together.

The edits produced have subsequently been used to promote the station at many other events, although the use of copyrighted music has prevented their being released on the website or broadcast regularly. In this role they are successors to the previous [[Review of the Year]] edits. Best Broadcaster edits exist for every year from 1999 to 2010.

=== 1999 ===
Oldest Best Broadcaster currently listed on Tapelog. Introduced in person by [[Production Director]] [[Helen Rix]] if memory serves me correctly.

=== 2000 ===
Introduced various elements of the station's output under their different genres, using a voice-over and the revolving cube ident.

=== 2001 ===
Edited by {{unsure|[[Michael Prior-Jones]]}}.

=== 2002 ===
Edited by [[Peter Bowles]], main soundtack "So Lonely" by Jakatta.

=== 2003 ===
Edited by [[Michael Prior-Jones]], main soundtrack "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits. Very similar in style to 2001.

=== 2004 ===
Edited by [[Rowan de Pomerai]] and [[Jonathan Bufton]], main soundtrack "Gangster Tripping" by Fatboy Slim.

=== 2005 ===
Edited by [[Rowan de Pomerai]], [[Richard Ash]] and [[Jonathan Bufton]]. Main soundtrack "Right Here, Right Now" by Fatboy Slim.
Won Highly Commended.

=== 2006 ===
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3181069513197202064# Watch it on Google Video]

Edited by [[Rowan de Pomerai]], [[Sarah Cheyne]] and [[Matthew Tole]]. Main soundtrack "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim.
Won Highly Commended.

=== 2007 ===
[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1335755847676343235# Watch it on Google Video]

Edited by [[Rowan de Pomerai]], [[Sarah Cheyne]], [[Iain Cooke]], [[Matthew Tole]] and [[Richard Ash]]. It was noteable for using the [[Try Something You Thought You Couldn't Do]] promotions as well as YSTV shows, to try to portray the society aspects of the station as well as our output.
Music used was:
* Insomnia by Faithless
* The [[LipSync]] theme
* The [[YSTV News]] theme
* Do Your Thing by Basement Jaxx
* Phwarming by campus band Vudu Guru
* Porcelain by Moby
* Praise You by Fatboy Slim
* [[Elections 2005]] theme (as used in [[Elections 2006]]) by Rob Humphrey
* {{unsure|A song}} by campus band The Morning Thieves

=== 2009 ===
Edited by [[Iain Cooke]], [[Neil Brehon]], [[Anna Bucks]] and [[Roxanne Benson-Mackey]]. This year it was split into five sections prefixed with "YSTV does" - Entertainment, Music, News, Comedy and Live. This allowed each section to be edited independently rather than everyone working on one timeline.

Soundtrack:
*Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
*Stuck in the Sound - Nevermind the Living Dead
*Kanye West - Stronger
*Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
*MGMT - Kids
*Bloc Party - Helicopter
*The Jam - News of the World
*The Slip - The Original Blue Air
*Nova Express - Walk Away
*Theme from "Gladiators"
*Magic P and the Innuendos - The Clown Set

=== 2010 ===
[http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=335545386330 Watch it on Facebook] or [http://open.spotify.com/user/alexmuller/playlist/7JZKsW2n9Y4IwZNSyVMkw1 listen to the Spotify playlist]

Edited by [[Iain Cooke]], [[Mark Friend]], [[Simon Harris]] and [[Alex Balmer]].

Soundtrack:
*Spoon - My Mathematical Mind
*Motion City Soundtrack - A Life Less Ordinary (Need A Little Help)
*The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
*Magnapow! - Voices in the Dark
*Little Boots - Remedy
*We Are Scientists - After Hours
*Magic P and the Innuendos - The Clown Set
*Pixies - Cecilia Ann
*Biffy Clyro - Many of Horror

=== 2011 ===

[http://ystv.co.uk/watch/Best-Broadcaster/2011/ Watch it on YSTV]

Edited by [[Alex Balmer]], [[Michael Miller]], [[Steven Perring]] and [[Chris Young]] with help from [[Mark Friend]] and [[Simon Harris]]. It won highly commended at the 2011 [[NaSTA]] Awards.

Soundtrack:
*Arcade Fire - Empty Room
*The Yeah You's - 15 Minutes
*Owl City - Fireflies
*Jimmy Eat World - Movielike
*Plan B - Stay too Long
*3 Doors Down - Kyrptonite
*Paulo Nutini - Pencil Full of Lead
*We Are Scientists - Rules Don't Stop Me
*Train - Parachute
*Mika - We Are Golden

=== 2012 ===

Edited by [[Michael Miller]], [[Steven Perring]], [[Sarah Pickles]], and [[Chris Wall]] again with input from [[Mark Friend]] and [[Simon Harris]]. It won the award, which now sits proudly in the G/046 studio complex.

Soundtrack:
*New Radicals - Get What You Give
*Owl City - Deer in the Headlights
*Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
*The King's Parade (Campus Band from [[The Sound Lab]]) - Take me to the River
*Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks
*The Subways - Rock and Roll Queen
*Matchbox 20 - How Far We've Come
*Train - Brick by Brick
*Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing

{{YSTV Productions}}
[[Category: Productions]]

NaSTA

2012-04-24T22:00:16Z

Mikechislett: /* 2010's */

==The National Student Television Association ==
YSTV has had a long and productive history as a key player in NaSTA. We hosted or co-hosted the annual Conference and Awards Ceremony three times in 10 years (1997, 2002 and 2006). We've been "Highly Commended" in the [[Best Broadcaster]] award three times (2002, 2005, 2006 and 2011) and even joinly won it in 1998. We have also managed to bring back at least one award every year since 2001.
For more information see the [http://www.nasta.tv/ NaSTA Website].
==1980's==
* [[NaSTA 1987|1987]] YSTV hosted NaSTA
* 1989 YSTV won "Freestyle" category (we still have the trophy!).

==1990's==
* 1990 won News ([[Bulletin]])
* 1994 Hosted by Guild TV in Birmingham - [[Sarah Davies]] attended but we didn't enter any of the award categories on account of the [[Interregnum]].
* [[NaSTA 1996|1996]] Hosted by Nexus in Norwich
* [[NaSTA 1997|1997]] Hosted by YSTV in York
* [[NaSTA 1998|1998]] Hosted by Guild TV in Birmingham - won Best Broadcaster joint with GUST.
* [[NaSTA 1999|1999]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow - won News and Current Affairs ([[Bona Dicta]]) and Title Sequence ([[Bona Dicta]]). Highly Commended Station Ident ([[Naturally YSTV]]).

==2000's==
* [[NaSTA 2000|2000]] Hosted by C6 in Bournemouth - 'nuff said. This was the first year with "professional" judges rather than the Eurovision-style voting system that had existed before.
* [[NaSTA 2001|2001]] Hosted by STOIC and BTV in London - Won Title Sequence ([[Red Braces]])
* [[NaSTA 2002|2002]] Hosted by YSTV in York, won Best Ident ([[Pigeons]]), Highly Commended Best Broadcaster
* [[NaSTA 2003|2003]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow, won Best Ident ([[Snow]]), Highly Commended Drama ([[Reader of the Road]]), Highly Commended Music ([[Battle of the Bands]]).
* [[NaSTA 2004|2004]] Hosted by NEXUS UTV in Norwich, won Music ([[The Music Show]]) and Light Entertainment ([[Small Screen]]). Highly Commended Ident ([[Ocean]]) and Title Sequence ([[Elections 2003]]).
* [[NaSTA 2005|2005]] Hosted by LSUTV in Loughborough, won Highly Commended Ident ([[Terrain]]), Highly Commended Title Sequence ([[The Review]]) and Highly Commended [[Best Broadcaster]].
* [[NaSTA 2006|2006]] YSTV joint hosting with LS:TV in Leeds, won Best Ident ([[Ducks]]) and Highly Commended [[Best Broadcaster]]
* [[NaSTA 2007|2007]] Hosted by WTV and Guild TV in Warwick, won Open ([[Welcome to Venus]]), Documentary ([[Dead York]]) and Highly Commended Drama
* [[NaSTA 2008|2008]] Hosted by LUST in Leicester, won Best Live Programme ([[40th/Children In Need Show 2007]]), and Highly Commended Title Sequence
* [[NaSTA 2009|2009]] Hosted by SUSU in Southampton, won Highly Commended Live Programme ([[Battle of the Bands 2008]]) and the Golden Bodge (along witn Demon TV and SSTV)

==2010's==
* [[NaSTA 2010|2010]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow, won Highly Commended Comedy with [[Man Man]] and Highly Commended Best Male with [[Mark Friend]]
* [[NaSTA 2011|2011]] Hosted by LSUTV in Loughbrough, won Technical achievement with [[P169 Replacement|Chainable video matrixes]] and Highly commended Best Brodcaster
* [[NaSTA 2012|2012]] Hosted by NUTStv in Nottingham, won [[Best Broadcaster]], [[Best Female]] with [[Emma Bennett]] and Highly commended Light entertainment with [[Pushing the senses]] produced by [[Chris wall]].

NaSTA

2012-04-24T21:58:10Z

Mikechislett: in 2012, we were EPIC

==The National Student Television Association ==
YSTV has had a long and productive history as a key player in NaSTA. We hosted or co-hosted the annual Conference and Awards Ceremony three times in 10 years (1997, 2002 and 2006). We've been "Highly Commended" in the [[Best Broadcaster]] award three times (2002, 2005, 2006 and 2011) and even joinly won it in 1998. We have also managed to bring back at least one award every year since 2001.
For more information see the [http://www.nasta.tv/ NaSTA Website].
==1980's==
* [[NaSTA 1987|1987]] YSTV hosted NaSTA
* 1989 YSTV won "Freestyle" category (we still have the trophy!).

==1990's==
* 1990 won News ([[Bulletin]])
* 1994 Hosted by Guild TV in Birmingham - [[Sarah Davies]] attended but we didn't enter any of the award categories on account of the [[Interregnum]].
* [[NaSTA 1996|1996]] Hosted by Nexus in Norwich
* [[NaSTA 1997|1997]] Hosted by YSTV in York
* [[NaSTA 1998|1998]] Hosted by Guild TV in Birmingham - won Best Broadcaster joint with GUST.
* [[NaSTA 1999|1999]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow - won News and Current Affairs ([[Bona Dicta]]) and Title Sequence ([[Bona Dicta]]). Highly Commended Station Ident ([[Naturally YSTV]]).

==2000's==
* [[NaSTA 2000|2000]] Hosted by C6 in Bournemouth - 'nuff said. This was the first year with "professional" judges rather than the Eurovision-style voting system that had existed before.
* [[NaSTA 2001|2001]] Hosted by STOIC and BTV in London - Won Title Sequence ([[Red Braces]])
* [[NaSTA 2002|2002]] Hosted by YSTV in York, won Best Ident ([[Pigeons]]), Highly Commended Best Broadcaster
* [[NaSTA 2003|2003]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow, won Best Ident ([[Snow]]), Highly Commended Drama ([[Reader of the Road]]), Highly Commended Music ([[Battle of the Bands]]).
* [[NaSTA 2004|2004]] Hosted by NEXUS UTV in Norwich, won Music ([[The Music Show]]) and Light Entertainment ([[Small Screen]]). Highly Commended Ident ([[Ocean]]) and Title Sequence ([[Elections 2003]]).
* [[NaSTA 2005|2005]] Hosted by LSUTV in Loughborough, won Highly Commended Ident ([[Terrain]]), Highly Commended Title Sequence ([[The Review]]) and Highly Commended [[Best Broadcaster]].
* [[NaSTA 2006|2006]] YSTV joint hosting with LS:TV in Leeds, won Best Ident ([[Ducks]]) and Highly Commended [[Best Broadcaster]]
* [[NaSTA 2007|2007]] Hosted by WTV and Guild TV in Warwick, won Open ([[Welcome to Venus]]), Documentary ([[Dead York]]) and Highly Commended Drama
* [[NaSTA 2008|2008]] Hosted by LUST in Leicester, won Best Live Programme ([[40th/Children In Need Show 2007]]), and Highly Commended Title Sequence
* [[NaSTA 2009|2009]] Hosted by SUSU in Southampton, won Highly Commended Live Programme ([[Battle of the Bands 2008]]) and the Golden Bodge (along witn Demon TV and SSTV)

==2010's==
* [[NaSTA 2010|2010]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow, won Highly Commended Comedy with [[Man Man]] and Highly Commended Best Male with [[Mark Friend]]
* [[NaSTA 2011|2011]] Hosted by LSUTV in Loughbrough, won Technical achievement with [[P169 Replacement|Chainable video matrixes]] and Highly commended Best Brodcaster
* [[NaSTA 2012|2012]] Hosted by NUTStv in Nottingham, won Best Broadcaster, Best Female with [[Emma Bennett]] and Highly commended Light entertainment with [[Pushing the senses]] produced by [[Chris wall]].

Timothy Neate

2011-12-27T15:50:43Z

Mikechislett:

* Joined in 2009, with [[Vivan Jayant]] after being dragged along by [[Michael Chislett]]
* Deputy Technical Director 2010-11

Vivien Chung

2011-12-27T15:49:20Z

Mikechislett:

* Joined after being egged on by [[Vivan Jayant]]
* PR Manager 2010-11
* Production Manager 2011-12

Vivan Jayant

2011-12-27T15:48:29Z

Mikechislett:

* Joined after being egged on by [[Michael Chislett]]
* Treasurer 2010-12
* If you ever meet him, be prepared for the phrase "I got Goldman Sachs".

Greg Ebdon

2011-11-27T21:10:30Z

Mikechislett:

Lover of musicals and such. Will find this eventually and write something interesting.

''Commercial Team, Photographer'' <br />
''2009-2012 BSc Physics with Astrophysics''

Sarah Pickles

2011-10-13T23:16:53Z

Mikechislett:

Arguably YSTV's most caring person since 2009, Sarah has earned the nickname "YSTV Mum". In YSTV folklore, she tragically died at Roses 2010, after discovering LUTUBE (Lancaster student TV) had stole her evil (we aren't sure which one actually is the evil one) twin sister, Rachael.

Sarah just couldn't get enough of YSTV available from one degree, so she came back in 2011 to attempt a Masters and run the station.

Posts held:
* Commercial Director (2010)
* [[Station_Director| station director]] (2011)

Shows:
* [[The_York_Sport_Show|York Sport]]
* [[Roses 2011]]

[[Category:People|Pickles,Sarah]]

Sarah Pickles

2011-10-13T23:15:54Z

Mikechislett:

Arguably YSTV's most caring person since 2009, Sarah has earned the nickname "YSTV Mum". In YSTV folklore, she tragically died at Roses 2010, after discovering LUTUBE (Lancaster student TV) had stole her evil (we aren't sure which one actually is the evil one) twin sister, Rachael.

Sarah just couldn't get enough of YSTV available from one degree, so she came back in 2011 to attempt a Masters and run the station.

Posts held:
* Commercial Director (2010)
* [[Station_Director| station director]] (2011)

Shows:
* [[York Sport]]
* [[Roses 2011]]

[[Category:People|Pickles,Sarah]]

Rowan de Pomerai

2011-10-04T11:00:01Z

Mikechislett:

Rowan de Pomerai was an active member of YSTV between 2003 and 2007. Having missed the welcome meeting in his first year due to another commitment, he timidly wandered in to the station one day (those who know him now may find this hard to believe) where he met the [[Station Director]], [[Dave Baker]]. Being back in the days of paper signup sheets, he was coerced into signing up for [[Games Disaster]] there and then. Despite crewing the odd show, Rowan didn't get properly involved with YSTV until he volunteered to edit [[Best Broadcaster]] for [[NaSTA 2004]], along with [[Jonathan Bufton]]. This was the start of a beautiful friendship, not to mention a string of 4 Best Broadcasters which had Rowan as one of the main editors.

He held the following officerships:
* [[Station Director]] 2004-05
* [[Studio Manager]] 2005-06
* [[Head of Presentation]] and [[Treasurer]] 2006-07

He was a producer of 2 shows:
* [[LipSync]] 2004-06
* [[Limited Edition]] (along with [[Sarah Cheyne]]), 2006-07

He was involved with organising some of YSTV's big events:
* YSTV's co-ordinator for [[NaSTA 2006]]
* One of the team behind [[Birthday Party|YSTV40]]
* Also the man behind [[Big Gay Sunday]].

Rowan left YSTV in the summer of 2007, and in the following September joined the illustrious ranks of YSTV alumni who work at the [[BBC]], with a job in Future Media & Technology. He now lives in Battersea with [[Dave Baker|Dave]], who probably regrets that fateful day that Rowan walked in and met him in YSTV.

Rowan likes to think he is sadly missed by all, but he is probably mistaken.

Rowan made another unexpected contribution to YSTV in early 2011, when he judged NaSTA's Technical category, and chose YSTV's chainable matrixes as the winning project.

Website: [http://rowan.depomerai.com/ rowan.depomerai.com]

[[Category:People|De Pomerai]]

Main Page

2011-10-04T10:56:46Z

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*[[History Wiki:News|Information about changes on this wiki]]</div>

'''Welcome to the YSTV History Wiki!'''

This site is an attempt to gather as much information about YSTV's history as we can, by throwing it open to you the members, ex-members, friends and admirers! Please do add information, images and stories, please do read and enjoy and please do get in touch. It was started on our [[40th Birthday]].

The usual rules of a wiki apply (I'm sure you've all used [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]). Basically, no untruths, no slander, no nastiness. If you're not sure about something (hazy memory?!) mark it clearly and someone else might be able to confirm for you. If you have particular information requests, make a page with a request and someone might just help you out. Most of all, enjoy!

== Getting started ==

Never been to a wiki before? See our [[Help:QuickStart|quickstart guide]], or read about how to write [[History Wiki:Your First Article|your first article]].

Requests and related information…

* We have lots of photos from the station, but most of them don't say what or who they are of. [[Unknown Photos|Have a look]]!
* Want to know something? '''[[Information Requests|Ask away…]]'''
* Introduce links pointing to any '''[[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]]'''.

== Current Productions ==

At the moment, we’re dealing with [[Man Man]], [[The sound Lab]], [[The Ultimate Challenge]], [[Past to Present]] and [[The York Link]].

P169 Replacement

2011-07-28T22:23:11Z

Mikechislett:

This was a project initiated by [[Michael Cullen]] aiming to replace the old slowly dying [[P169]]s with something a little more modern.

The plan was to construct an 8x8 version of the [[Station Video Mux]] using the newer equivalent of the Maxim chips acquired using the same method. This is complicated somewhat as the op-amps needed by these maxim chips are only available as surface mount devices.

The circuit would be controlled by an Atmel AVR because [[Michael Cullen]] likes these.

[[Michael Chislett]] somehow ended up with the project, and couldn't resist adding some awesome features to the list: not only would the matrixes be 8x8, but they could now team up to be 16x8 machines, by linking two units together to create a bussed output, using clever disabling of different chips output lines. They'd also sport shiny blue LCD's, because they make them usable, and were conveniently cheap via a supplier who had no idea of their value! (Mike acquired them for around a fifth of their wholesale value). They would also use Mike's pipe-dream protocol called yvp, (YstvVisionPath) so that they could in future communicate via butchered xml over serial ports to the rest of the vision path, to route things like tally lights... It still remains to be seen whether yvp will catch on.

In 2011, two prototypes were made on veraboard, and surprisingly, after a few hours of tweaks, they worked! and in 16x8 mode too! Shortly after, Mike Submitted them as NaSTA 2010 technical projects, these then went on to win (the only actual 100% win in the last 3 years, i.e. not "highly commended" etc) the NaSTA, as judged by Ex-member and now BBC Tehcnologist, [[Rowan de Pomerai]].

Despite actually being in a box (CPC cardboard style!), and functioning, Mike then destroyed the matrixes, in the hope that one-day, he would get round to making them in a decent case, on PCB's that didn't experience interesting EMC issues. as of the start of the 2011/2012 academic year, the matrixes will be finished, having been given the finishing touches over the summer.

After the final build, the whole project will be open sourced, as various NaSTA stations have shown great interest in the project, and Mike blindly agreeing to do so.

We should probably point out that the matrixes do also support some unusual 'Easter Eggs', having been planted by Mike at the beginning of the project's coding. You are encouraged to find them, but not during or preceding a broadcast! Easter eggs vary in complexity and degree of randomness. In some of the more interesting eggs, the matrixes will dance, flash lights and anything else the YVP mainframe can find, and ask the YVP mainframe to remap the entire vision path and tally system!

Elections 2010

2011-07-22T13:18:11Z

Mikechislett:

{{Production Info
| name=Elections 2010
| logofile=Elections2010 draft1.png
| genre=Events Coverage
| broadcast=13/14 March 2010
| producers=[[Anna Bucks]]<br />[[Fionna Tod]]
| url=http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/Election-Night/2010/
}}
'''Elections 2010''' was produced by [[Anna Bucks]] and [[Fionna Tod]], and took place in Langwith College.

As with [[Elections 2009]], L/N/003 was used as the control room with the studio in L/N/002 and a camera in the corridor. YSTV was broadcast in [[The Courtyard]] and L/N/028. This year we were given the results PowerPoint from YUSU and the announcing of results was worked around our schedule making the broadcast run more smoothly.

The set was 3 pairs of 2 flats hinged together, joined with copious amounts of any tape [[Mike Chislett]] could get his hands on, uplit by 4 PAR cans (borrowed!) with gels on, but no gel frames. The gels easily got wafted around and one landed in a PAR, producing the fresh smell of Lee fern green, and a melted green patch... Hence the colour change to purple for the presidential results!

It looked absolutely amazing.
<gallery widths="280px" heights="200px">
File:En10set1.jpg
File:En10set2.jpg
</gallery>

{{Elections}}
{{YSTV Productions}}

Vivan Jayant

2011-07-21T14:43:44Z

Mikechislett:

* Treasurer 2010-12
* If you ever meet him, be prepared for the phrase "I got Goldman Sachs".

84 Thief Lane

2011-07-21T14:42:40Z

Mikechislett:

In the Summer of 2010, 84 Thief Lane joined the list of significant [[YSTV Residences]]. During the 2010-11 academic year, six of its seven inhabitants were members of YSTV. The set was complete for 2011-12, as the replacement inhabitant was also a member making a full seven YSTV person house. For 2011-12, frequent visits were also made by [[Alena Denisova]] (Tim's other half), Station Director [[Sarah Pickles]] and Head of Presentation [[Steven Perring]], as they lived 100 yards away in nearby Norman Street.

* [[Timothy Neate]], 2010-12
* [[Vivien Chung]], 2010-12
* [[Michael Chislett]], 2010-12
* [[Vivan Jayant]], 2010-12
* [[Greg Ebdon]], 2010-12
* [[Matt Johnson]], 2010-12
* [[Marie Mills]], 2011-12

DENIS

2011-07-21T14:33:13Z

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[[Image:PieChartEN90.png|right|thumb|160px|Animations by DENIS]]
[[Image:BarChartEN90.png|right|thumb|160px|Typical bar chart from EN90]]
DENIS stands for 'Dynamic erroring and narking information system', and for a number of years was the brains behind the [[YUSU Election Nights|YUSU elections]] coverage on screen graphics until it was superceded by the higher resolution and colour depth [[Commodore Amiga]].

Originally conceived in 1987 by [[Simon Barton]], it was later revised in 1994 by [[Chris Kwouk]], and unusually for YSTV home grown software included detailed program design notes - some 50,000 characters worth.

[[Image:DenisMenu.png|left|thumb|160px|Main system menu]]
It featured a menu driven interface which launched a number of smaller programs, mainly because any colour graphics consumed over 60% of the BBC Micro's memory leaving very little room for software to generate it. It was conceptually split into editor/display/administrator, with final output including animated bar charts and pie charts.

Man Man

2011-07-18T01:16:56Z

Mikechislett: /* Episode 2 */

{{Production Info
|name=Man Man
|logofile=Man-Man.jpg
|genre=Comedy
|start date=2009
|producers=[[Mark Friend]]<br />[[Simon Harris]]
|url=http://ystv.co.uk/watch/Man-Man/
}}

A fucking awesome show (patent pending). Man Man is a comedy superhero drama created by [[Mark Friend]] concerning a superhero with the power of two men. The 3-episode series was produced for YSTV by Mark and [[Simon Harris]].

A shortened edit of Episode 1 won Highly Commended Comedy at [[NaSTA]] 2010.

==No Children - Children in Need 2009 special==
A special episode was done for [[Children In Need 2009]] with a Dr Seuss style poem. This promoted that the first episode would be ready by Christmas (it wasn't).

Written, starring, filmed, edited and produced by [[Mark Friend]] and [[Simon Harris]] with filming assistance from [[Alex Muller]].

==Episode 1: Breaking Convention==

A deadly attack decimating the world's superheroes throws Man Man into a sudden state of responsibility, including retrieving an old lady's precious <s>cake</s>gateau. Newsreader Edwin Swyft gets more than he bargained for when things turn sour at the local TV station.

[[File:Man Man and Gateau Lady 2009-11-10.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mark Friend]] & [[Madeleine Brown]]]]
Filming began 10th November 2009 in the Quiet Place by Heslington Hall. It didn't finish until the end of March 2010 due to a number of things holding the producers up - degrees, [[Children In Need 2009]], NaSTA editing, and that goshdarn Christmas. However, Episode 1 was finally released to the masses on 16th April 2010.

==Episode 2==

Was written and filmed alongside Episode 3 between May and September 2010. Currently being edited by [[Simon Harris]] from a small bunker in the Arctic Circle. Rumours suggest a key role by YUM Chair [[Chris Young]], and the return of a familiar foe.
A full episode was promised for christmas, but...

Then:

A teaser was promised for Christmas, but...

Then:

The teaser arrived, but...

Then:

The Episode didn't arrive until after the NaSTA's it was submitted for...

Then:

It arrived, as an April fools joke on April 1st (no really!, it went up at 11:58, but nobody believed it).

==Episode 3==

Written and filmed alongside Episode 2, and also waiting in line at the Artic Editing Bunker.

===Cast===

See [[Man Man cast]].

{{YSTV Productions}}
[[Category:Productions]]

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2011-07-18T01:03:37Z

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*Common delete reason
** Spammage
** By request
** Unnecessary page
** Copyright violation
** Vandalism

Michael Miller

2011-07-11T12:28:44Z

Mikechislett:

Is awesome

[[Category:People|Miller]]

Michael Miller

2011-07-11T12:28:14Z

Mikechislett:

Is awesome {{Citation needed}}

[[Category:People|Miller]]

YSTV 3D

2011-07-11T00:31:50Z

Mikechislett: Created page with "In 2011, ystv became the first student station in the world to broadcast in three whole dimensions. Having been lamenting over the death of HD1 (one of our first 3 HD cameras), ..."

In 2011, ystv became the first student station in the world to broadcast in three whole dimensions.

Having been lamenting over the death of HD1 (one of our first 3 HD cameras), [[Michael Chislett]] had the crazy idea of going 3D. As usual, there would be no reason for this random idea.

At roughly 2:30am, With no-one willing to stop him, Michael, egged on by [[Marcus Tibbits]] (who had been up long enough to begin stroking the "skycam", having used it for the first time) began work:

By combining two of our identical High definition cameras to a rig on some old manfrotto tripods, so that 1 would function as the ‘left eye’ and one as the right, we had a 3D camera (total saving ~£22K). We soon noticed that the matte boxes made the rig too wide, which would make a viewer sick, so these had to be removed...
The tricky part with 3d camera rigs we found, was that with even the slightest inequality between the two would result in the viewers feeling sick! With cameras that sampled less light than a pair of peanuts, we relied on some simple, bright test patterns made from LX tape marked off on the walls of our studio to adjust focus, rotation, zoom, light levels....etc.
Lastly, the position of the cameras relative to the “target” was vital: too close, and the target would pop out of the screen so far that when edited, it would break out into left and right eye images, thus loosing the illusion. Too far, and the 3d effect would be minimal, and wasted!

Next step is to put some content infront of the lense, and simultaneously record on both cameras, with the trusty clapperboard providing the sync points for editing later.

Ironically, Mike and Marie then played a 2D game of naughts and crosses... Which was actually LX based forward and back slashes... Towards the end of the footage, Mike realises he has lost, and in a desperate attempt at winning, he floats a slash in the air, having won in 3 dimensions. To this day, both Marie and Mike insist they won, Marie having won the 2D game, and Mike insisting that the game was 3d from the start.

The two cameras were then rendered together in anaglyph mode, with rotation adjusted to the nearest 0.1 degrees, as anything worse gave Mike dimensional headaches. Had there have been a 3d colour screen to watch on, we would have used colour. A note for the future: watch out! render times are 4x their 2d equivalent!

Having edited the footage, playout occurred at 6:00am, making YSTV the first 3D student TV station.

YUMAs

2011-07-11T00:11:54Z

Mikechislett: /* 2011 */

The York University Media Awards, or YUMAs, is the campus media's annual booze filled backslap-athon, first held in 2001. [[Nouse]], [[URY]], [[Vision]], [[Cinematography Society]] and YSTV traditionally took it turns to arrange an awards evening, in which each society gave out their own awards rather than compete against other societies. In YSTV's case, this involved voting on old favourites, such as Best Show, Best Female and the like. Unlike other societies, YSTV members all have a vote on their categories (and indeed the categories chosen), rather than winners being chosen by a select group. In this respect the cermeony is a light-hearted way to end the year often including joke categories, unlike [[NaSTA]].

===2001===
The first YUMAs, held at {{unsure|Merchant Adventurer's Hall}}.

*Outstanding Production - [[SU Elections 2001]] (beating [[Lazy Lunch]] and [[YSTV-am]]).
*Best Contribution to News and Current Affairs - [[Thea Darricotte]] (beating [[Kerry Beadling]]).
*Outstanding Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] and [[Kevin Bowman]] for [[SU Elections 2001|Election Night]] graphics system (beating [[Polar vision mixer|Polarvision]] and [[Jenny Gordon]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Chris Thornton]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] (beating [[Peter Bowles]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*YSTV also won in the inter-society catergory of "Most Glamorous Girls", with [[Nouse]] winning Tidiest Office, [[URY]] winning Best Quotes, [[Cinematography Society]] winning Best Blagging and [[Vision]] inevitably winning Most Controversial.

===2002===
Held at Merchant Adventurer's Hall. Photos can be seen on URY's [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2002/yuma2002/yuma2002_photoindex.php website]].

*Best On-Screen Personality - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Michael Prior-Jones]], [[Rupert Clifford]] and [[Nick Oldham]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Rob Humphrey]] (beating [[Giles Burdett]]).
*Devotion to YSTV - [[Kevin Bowman]] (beating [[Jenny Gordon]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Jenny Gordon]] (beating [[Thea Darricotte]] and [[Maurice]] the effects unit).

===2003===
Held at The Hilton near Clifford's Tower. After initial discussion in meetings YSTV pulled out after it was realised most of the active members would be immersed in final year exams and practical work the day after the ceremony, and the few who could attend would most probably be ridiculed for the minimal turnout and having to pick up most awards on behalf of others. [[Jonathan Bufton]] did however attend after being nominated for his [[URY]] show.

===2004===
Held at Next Generation Gym, with guest speaker former student and Daily Mail journalist Peter Hitchens. Photos are on YSTV's [[https://ystv.york.ac.uk/fun/archive/yumas04/ website]].

*Best Technical Innovation - [[YSTV Week]] graphics (beating [[Edit PC]], [[Elections 2005|Election Night graphics]], [[Green Screen]] and tally lights).
*Best Presenter - [[Pete Nichols]].
*Best Programme - [[Elections 2004]].
*Best New Programme - [[Solipsism]].
*Overall Contribution - [[Jonathan Bufton]].
*Media Personality Of The Year - [[James Gallagher]] for his work at [[URY]],YSTV and [[Nouse]].

===2005===
Held again at Next Generation Gym. Has a page over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2005/yumas/index.php URY]] but as you'd expect is mainly centred around their people.

*Best Presenter - [[Kat Sutton]] (beating [[Pete Nichols]], [[Sarah Richards]], [[Kate Rushworth]] and [[Ben Tattersall-Smith]]).
*Best Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - [[Richard Ash]].
*Best Newcomer - [[Lucy Watkins]].
*Best Show - [[YSTV Week]].
*Best Technical Innovation - ????

===2006===
A "picnic" held at the Quiet Place (and then a Derwent lecture theatre when the rain began) due to late organisation. Has a page of photos including one of the YSTV group over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2006/yumas06/index.php URY]]. As a result of the awfulness of that year's event YSTV held their own spoof awards ceremony, the [[FLOPPYs]].

===2007===
Held somewhere in town.
Best Show
Best Newcomer
Best Presenter
Best Behind The Scenes Work
Best Technical Innovation

===2011===
Held in the Ron Cooke Hub, because of [[CENSORED]] and [[CENSORED]] doing [[CENSORED]] in YUSU's "the Courtyard" after 2010's YUMA's.
* Best Technical achievement for First ever 3D student television in the world.
This greatly upset URY's technical team, as they had just spent a whole holiday creating a new digital studio with touchscreens and other shiny things. What made this worse, was knowing that we had only put around 3 hours of work into making the 3d test footage.
*Best animation / graphics with Chris Young's Roses overlay.

YSTV famously campaigned against "best slut" with great moral upstanding, as this was not what we believed the YUMA's should be brought to.

YUMAs

2011-07-11T00:08:25Z

Mikechislett: /* 2011 */

The York University Media Awards, or YUMAs, is the campus media's annual booze filled backslap-athon, first held in 2001. [[Nouse]], [[URY]], [[Vision]], [[Cinematography Society]] and YSTV traditionally took it turns to arrange an awards evening, in which each society gave out their own awards rather than compete against other societies. In YSTV's case, this involved voting on old favourites, such as Best Show, Best Female and the like. Unlike other societies, YSTV members all have a vote on their categories (and indeed the categories chosen), rather than winners being chosen by a select group. In this respect the cermeony is a light-hearted way to end the year often including joke categories, unlike [[NaSTA]].

===2001===
The first YUMAs, held at {{unsure|Merchant Adventurer's Hall}}.

*Outstanding Production - [[SU Elections 2001]] (beating [[Lazy Lunch]] and [[YSTV-am]]).
*Best Contribution to News and Current Affairs - [[Thea Darricotte]] (beating [[Kerry Beadling]]).
*Outstanding Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] and [[Kevin Bowman]] for [[SU Elections 2001|Election Night]] graphics system (beating [[Polar vision mixer|Polarvision]] and [[Jenny Gordon]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Chris Thornton]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] (beating [[Peter Bowles]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*YSTV also won in the inter-society catergory of "Most Glamorous Girls", with [[Nouse]] winning Tidiest Office, [[URY]] winning Best Quotes, [[Cinematography Society]] winning Best Blagging and [[Vision]] inevitably winning Most Controversial.

===2002===
Held at Merchant Adventurer's Hall. Photos can be seen on URY's [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2002/yuma2002/yuma2002_photoindex.php website]].

*Best On-Screen Personality - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Michael Prior-Jones]], [[Rupert Clifford]] and [[Nick Oldham]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Rob Humphrey]] (beating [[Giles Burdett]]).
*Devotion to YSTV - [[Kevin Bowman]] (beating [[Jenny Gordon]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Jenny Gordon]] (beating [[Thea Darricotte]] and [[Maurice]] the effects unit).

===2003===
Held at The Hilton near Clifford's Tower. After initial discussion in meetings YSTV pulled out after it was realised most of the active members would be immersed in final year exams and practical work the day after the ceremony, and the few who could attend would most probably be ridiculed for the minimal turnout and having to pick up most awards on behalf of others. [[Jonathan Bufton]] did however attend after being nominated for his [[URY]] show.

===2004===
Held at Next Generation Gym, with guest speaker former student and Daily Mail journalist Peter Hitchens. Photos are on YSTV's [[https://ystv.york.ac.uk/fun/archive/yumas04/ website]].

*Best Technical Innovation - [[YSTV Week]] graphics (beating [[Edit PC]], [[Elections 2005|Election Night graphics]], [[Green Screen]] and tally lights).
*Best Presenter - [[Pete Nichols]].
*Best Programme - [[Elections 2004]].
*Best New Programme - [[Solipsism]].
*Overall Contribution - [[Jonathan Bufton]].
*Media Personality Of The Year - [[James Gallagher]] for his work at [[URY]],YSTV and [[Nouse]].

===2005===
Held again at Next Generation Gym. Has a page over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2005/yumas/index.php URY]] but as you'd expect is mainly centred around their people.

*Best Presenter - [[Kat Sutton]] (beating [[Pete Nichols]], [[Sarah Richards]], [[Kate Rushworth]] and [[Ben Tattersall-Smith]]).
*Best Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - [[Richard Ash]].
*Best Newcomer - [[Lucy Watkins]].
*Best Show - [[YSTV Week]].
*Best Technical Innovation - ????

===2006===
A "picnic" held at the Quiet Place (and then a Derwent lecture theatre when the rain began) due to late organisation. Has a page of photos including one of the YSTV group over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2006/yumas06/index.php URY]]. As a result of the awfulness of that year's event YSTV held their own spoof awards ceremony, the [[FLOPPYs]].

===2007===
Held somewhere in town.
Best Show
Best Newcomer
Best Presenter
Best Behind The Scenes Work
Best Technical Innovation

===2011===
Held in the Ron Cooke Hub, because of [[CENSORED]] and [[CENSORED]] doing [[CENSORED]] in YUSU's "the Courtyard" after 2010's YUMA's.
* Best Technical achievement for First ever 3D student television in the world.
*Best animation / graphics with Chris Young's Roses overlay.

YSTV famously campaigned against "best slut" with great moral upstanding, as this was not what we believed the YUMA's should be brought to.

YUMAs

2011-07-11T00:07:54Z

Mikechislett: /* 2007 */

The York University Media Awards, or YUMAs, is the campus media's annual booze filled backslap-athon, first held in 2001. [[Nouse]], [[URY]], [[Vision]], [[Cinematography Society]] and YSTV traditionally took it turns to arrange an awards evening, in which each society gave out their own awards rather than compete against other societies. In YSTV's case, this involved voting on old favourites, such as Best Show, Best Female and the like. Unlike other societies, YSTV members all have a vote on their categories (and indeed the categories chosen), rather than winners being chosen by a select group. In this respect the cermeony is a light-hearted way to end the year often including joke categories, unlike [[NaSTA]].

===2001===
The first YUMAs, held at {{unsure|Merchant Adventurer's Hall}}.

*Outstanding Production - [[SU Elections 2001]] (beating [[Lazy Lunch]] and [[YSTV-am]]).
*Best Contribution to News and Current Affairs - [[Thea Darricotte]] (beating [[Kerry Beadling]]).
*Outstanding Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] and [[Kevin Bowman]] for [[SU Elections 2001|Election Night]] graphics system (beating [[Polar vision mixer|Polarvision]] and [[Jenny Gordon]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Chris Thornton]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] (beating [[Peter Bowles]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*YSTV also won in the inter-society catergory of "Most Glamorous Girls", with [[Nouse]] winning Tidiest Office, [[URY]] winning Best Quotes, [[Cinematography Society]] winning Best Blagging and [[Vision]] inevitably winning Most Controversial.

===2002===
Held at Merchant Adventurer's Hall. Photos can be seen on URY's [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2002/yuma2002/yuma2002_photoindex.php website]].

*Best On-Screen Personality - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Michael Prior-Jones]], [[Rupert Clifford]] and [[Nick Oldham]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Rob Humphrey]] (beating [[Giles Burdett]]).
*Devotion to YSTV - [[Kevin Bowman]] (beating [[Jenny Gordon]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Jenny Gordon]] (beating [[Thea Darricotte]] and [[Maurice]] the effects unit).

===2003===
Held at The Hilton near Clifford's Tower. After initial discussion in meetings YSTV pulled out after it was realised most of the active members would be immersed in final year exams and practical work the day after the ceremony, and the few who could attend would most probably be ridiculed for the minimal turnout and having to pick up most awards on behalf of others. [[Jonathan Bufton]] did however attend after being nominated for his [[URY]] show.

===2004===
Held at Next Generation Gym, with guest speaker former student and Daily Mail journalist Peter Hitchens. Photos are on YSTV's [[https://ystv.york.ac.uk/fun/archive/yumas04/ website]].

*Best Technical Innovation - [[YSTV Week]] graphics (beating [[Edit PC]], [[Elections 2005|Election Night graphics]], [[Green Screen]] and tally lights).
*Best Presenter - [[Pete Nichols]].
*Best Programme - [[Elections 2004]].
*Best New Programme - [[Solipsism]].
*Overall Contribution - [[Jonathan Bufton]].
*Media Personality Of The Year - [[James Gallagher]] for his work at [[URY]],YSTV and [[Nouse]].

===2005===
Held again at Next Generation Gym. Has a page over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2005/yumas/index.php URY]] but as you'd expect is mainly centred around their people.

*Best Presenter - [[Kat Sutton]] (beating [[Pete Nichols]], [[Sarah Richards]], [[Kate Rushworth]] and [[Ben Tattersall-Smith]]).
*Best Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - [[Richard Ash]].
*Best Newcomer - [[Lucy Watkins]].
*Best Show - [[YSTV Week]].
*Best Technical Innovation - ????

===2006===
A "picnic" held at the Quiet Place (and then a Derwent lecture theatre when the rain began) due to late organisation. Has a page of photos including one of the YSTV group over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2006/yumas06/index.php URY]]. As a result of the awfulness of that year's event YSTV held their own spoof awards ceremony, the [[FLOPPYs]].

===2007===
Held somewhere in town.
Best Show
Best Newcomer
Best Presenter
Best Behind The Scenes Work
Best Technical Innovation

===2011===
Held in the Ron Cooke Hub, because of [[CENSORED]] and [[CENSORED]] doing [[CENSORED]] in YUSU's "the Courtyard" after 2010's YUMA's.
Best Technical achievement for First ever 3D student television in the world.
Best animation / graphics with Chris Young's Roses overlay.
YSTV famously campaigned against "best slut" with great moral upstanding, as this was not what we believed the YUMA's should be brought to.

YUMAs

2011-07-11T00:07:43Z

Mikechislett: /* 2007 */

The York University Media Awards, or YUMAs, is the campus media's annual booze filled backslap-athon, first held in 2001. [[Nouse]], [[URY]], [[Vision]], [[Cinematography Society]] and YSTV traditionally took it turns to arrange an awards evening, in which each society gave out their own awards rather than compete against other societies. In YSTV's case, this involved voting on old favourites, such as Best Show, Best Female and the like. Unlike other societies, YSTV members all have a vote on their categories (and indeed the categories chosen), rather than winners being chosen by a select group. In this respect the cermeony is a light-hearted way to end the year often including joke categories, unlike [[NaSTA]].

===2001===
The first YUMAs, held at {{unsure|Merchant Adventurer's Hall}}.

*Outstanding Production - [[SU Elections 2001]] (beating [[Lazy Lunch]] and [[YSTV-am]]).
*Best Contribution to News and Current Affairs - [[Thea Darricotte]] (beating [[Kerry Beadling]]).
*Outstanding Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] and [[Kevin Bowman]] for [[SU Elections 2001|Election Night]] graphics system (beating [[Polar vision mixer|Polarvision]] and [[Jenny Gordon]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Chris Thornton]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Matt Hammond]] (beating [[Peter Bowles]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*YSTV also won in the inter-society catergory of "Most Glamorous Girls", with [[Nouse]] winning Tidiest Office, [[URY]] winning Best Quotes, [[Cinematography Society]] winning Best Blagging and [[Vision]] inevitably winning Most Controversial.

===2002===
Held at Merchant Adventurer's Hall. Photos can be seen on URY's [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2002/yuma2002/yuma2002_photoindex.php website]].

*Best On-Screen Personality - [[Adam Dymond]] (beating [[Michael Prior-Jones]], [[Rupert Clifford]] and [[Nick Oldham]]).
*Best Newcomer - [[Rob Humphrey]] (beating [[Giles Burdett]]).
*Devotion to YSTV - [[Kevin Bowman]] (beating [[Jenny Gordon]] and [[Michael Prior-Jones]]).
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Jenny Gordon]] (beating [[Thea Darricotte]] and [[Maurice]] the effects unit).

===2003===
Held at The Hilton near Clifford's Tower. After initial discussion in meetings YSTV pulled out after it was realised most of the active members would be immersed in final year exams and practical work the day after the ceremony, and the few who could attend would most probably be ridiculed for the minimal turnout and having to pick up most awards on behalf of others. [[Jonathan Bufton]] did however attend after being nominated for his [[URY]] show.

===2004===
Held at Next Generation Gym, with guest speaker former student and Daily Mail journalist Peter Hitchens. Photos are on YSTV's [[https://ystv.york.ac.uk/fun/archive/yumas04/ website]].

*Best Technical Innovation - [[YSTV Week]] graphics (beating [[Edit PC]], [[Elections 2005|Election Night graphics]], [[Green Screen]] and tally lights).
*Best Presenter - [[Pete Nichols]].
*Best Programme - [[Elections 2004]].
*Best New Programme - [[Solipsism]].
*Overall Contribution - [[Jonathan Bufton]].
*Media Personality Of The Year - [[James Gallagher]] for his work at [[URY]],YSTV and [[Nouse]].

===2005===
Held again at Next Generation Gym. Has a page over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2005/yumas/index.php URY]] but as you'd expect is mainly centred around their people.

*Best Presenter - [[Kat Sutton]] (beating [[Pete Nichols]], [[Sarah Richards]], [[Kate Rushworth]] and [[Ben Tattersall-Smith]]).
*Best Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - [[Richard Ash]].
*Best Newcomer - [[Lucy Watkins]].
*Best Show - [[YSTV Week]].
*Best Technical Innovation - ????

===2006===
A "picnic" held at the Quiet Place (and then a Derwent lecture theatre when the rain began) due to late organisation. Has a page of photos including one of the YSTV group over at [[http://ury.york.ac.uk/events/2006/yumas06/index.php URY]]. As a result of the awfulness of that year's event YSTV held their own spoof awards ceremony, the [[FLOPPYs]].

===2007===
Held somewhere in town.
Best Show
Best Newcomer
Best Presenter
Best Behind The Scenes Work
Best Technical Innovation

===2011===
Held in the Ron Cooke Hub, because of [[CENSORED]] and [[CENSORED]] doing [[CENSORED]] in YUSU's "the Courtyard" after 2010's YUMA's.
Best Technical achievement for First ever 3D student television in the world.
Best animation / graphics with Chris Young's Roses overlay.
YSTV famously campaigned against "best slut" with great moral upstanding, as this was not what we believed the YUMA's should be brought to.

NaSTA

2011-07-11T00:01:47Z

Mikechislett: /* 2010's */

==The National Student Television Association ==
YSTV has had a long and productive history as a key player in NaSTA. We hosted or co-hosted the annual Conference and Awards Ceremony three times in 10 years (1997, 2002 and 2006). We've been "Highly Commended" in the [[Best Broadcaster]] award three times (2002, 2005 and 2006) and even joinly won it in 1998. We have also managed to bring back at least one award every year since 2001.
For more information see the [http://www.nasta.tv/ NaSTA Website].
==1980's==
* [[NaSTA 1987|1987]] YSTV hosted NaSTA
* 1989 YSTV won "Freestyle" category (we still have the trophy!).

==1990's==
* 1990 won News ([[Bulletin]])
* 1994 Hosted by Guild TV in Birmingham - [[Sarah Davies]] attended but we didn't enter any of the award categories on account of the [[Interregnum]].
* [[NaSTA 1996|1996]] Hosted by Nexus in Norwich
* [[NaSTA 1997|1997]] Hosted by YSTV in York
* [[NaSTA 1998|1998]] Hosted by Guild TV in Birmingham - won Best Broadcaster joint with GUST.
* [[NaSTA 1999|1999]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow - won News and Current Affairs ([[Bona Dicta]]) and Title Sequence ([[Bona Dicta]]). Highly Commended Station Ident ([[Naturally YSTV]]).

==2000's==
* [[NaSTA 2000|2000]] Hosted by C6 in Bournemouth - 'nuff said. This was the first year with "professional" judges rather than the Eurovision-style voting system that had existed before.
* [[NaSTA 2001|2001]] Hosted by STOIC and BTV in London - Won Title Sequence ([[Red Braces]])
* [[NaSTA 2002|2002]] Hosted by YSTV in York, won Best Ident ([[Pigeons]]), Highly Commended Best Broadcaster
* [[NaSTA 2003|2003]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow, won Best Ident ([[Snow]]), Highly Commended Drama ([[Reader of the Road]]), Highly Commended Music ([[Battle of the Bands]]).
* [[NaSTA 2004|2004]] Hosted by NEXUS UTV in Norwich, won Music ([[The Music Show]]) and Light Entertainment ([[Small Screen]]). Highly Commended Ident ([[Ocean]]) and Title Sequence ([[Elections 2003]]).
* [[NaSTA 2005|2005]] Hosted by LSUTV in Loughborough, won Highly Commended Ident ([[Terrain]]), Highly Commended Title Sequence ([[The Review]]) and Highly Commended [[Best Broadcaster]].
* [[NaSTA 2006|2006]] YSTV joint hosting with LS:TV in Leeds, won Best Ident ([[Ducks]]) and Highly Commended [[Best Broadcaster]]
* [[NaSTA 2007|2007]] Hosted by WTV and Guild TV in Warwick, won Open ([[Welcome to Venus]]), Documentary ([[Dead York]]) and Highly Commended Drama
* [[NaSTA 2008|2008]] Hosted by LUST in Leicester, won Best Live Programme ([[40th/Children In Need Show 2007]]), and Highly Commended Title Sequence
* [[NaSTA 2009|2009]] Hosted by SUSU in Southampton, won Highly Commended Live Programme ([[Battle of the Bands 2008]]) and the Golden Bodge (along witn Demon TV and SSTV)

==2010's==
* [[NaSTA 2010|2010]] Hosted by GUST in Glasgow, won Highly Commended Comedy with [[Man Man]] and Highly Commended Best Male with [[Mark Friend]]
* [[NaSTA 2011|2011]] Hosted by LSUTV in Loughbrough, WON Technical achievement with [[P169 Replacement|Chainable video matrixes]] and Highly commended Best Brodcaster

Main Page

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Michael Chislett

2011-07-09T02:01:21Z

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[[File:Mikw_wiki.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Mike Chislett]]
==Simple Facts about Mike==
*Mike joined in 2009 at Freshers Fair.
*Mike has a slight hate of MAC OSX, due to it being left hand drive. - prefers window controls on the right.
*Likes lighting rigs. far too much.
*Invented [[windowvision]]2010/2011.
*Won NaSTA Tech for chainable video matrixes
*Won YUMA for first piece of 3d student television

==things==
* Fast food. A show about food that is fast. takeaways, quizzes, and some bloke who has a strange habit of blending/liquidising cheap meals. Fast food's first episode was a complete disaster, and the only interesting thing was apparently Chris Young's choice of clothing. For some unknown reason, people insisted on watching it. As a result, Mike hid the episode from the website's view, in the hope that it would sink down the search results! Series 2 will happen, with some drastic changes: this time, It's not going to get toned down atall. There will be blending, there will be takeaway races, and there will be cooking races. The episode will end as soon as the takeaway arrives.

* Live On the Lawn (LOL). Acoustic and quieter acts live outside the YSTV windows, and other places around campus. Kind of like Joules Holland.

* Create YSTV "big logo" idents. Go round campus projecting logo all over the place.
** It works. but needs more lumens ...

* Create infinite loop idents / stings
** filming of idea 1 complete, 1st draft ready, finishing touches to make.

* GD set.
** A glowing pulsating monstrous set, requiring over 400 foot of jigsawing. The most epic YSTV set to date.

* Chainable video matrixes
** Over 2010 - 2011, Mike set about building the "better than industry standard" video matirx system. Built as two 8 in, 8 out matrixes, they can also join together to make a larger 16x8 system. At the moment, no other system in the industry is capable of "intelligent linking". Ontop of this, they conform to Mike's brand new standard "YVP".

* YVP
** Because Having everything talk to everything else is so cool.
** YVP is pretty much butchered xml, with the driving principle being that machines can be used to create a mass routing table: this can then be read off to various other bits of kit, which can then display and react on the fly. For example, Someone connects up three cameras, and can't switch matrixes themselves. All they do is call up the YVP creator, tell it they want those three cameras on the vision mixer. The system then arranges itself, complete with matching tally lights. The Vision Mixer can also have a YVP addon, which then indicates what tally lights to activate... (coincidentally, tally lights will oneday be run through a new comms system, which will ofcourse, be YVP compatible...)

== Posts ==
*2009/2010 [[Scheduling Manager]]
*2010/2011 [[Technical Director]]
*2011/2012 Still [[Technical Director]]

[[Category:People|Chislett,Michael]]

P169 Replacement

2011-07-09T02:00:07Z

Mikechislett:

P169 Replacement

2011-07-09T01:57:41Z

Mikechislett:

P169 Replacement

2011-07-09T01:57:23Z

Mikechislett:

This was a project initiated by [[Michael Cullen]] aiming to replace the old slowly dying [[P169]]s with something a little more modern.

The plan was to construct an 8x8 version of the [[Station Video Mux]] using the newer equivalent of the Maxim chips acquired using the same method. This is complicated somewhat as the op-amps needed by these maxim chips are only available as surface mount devices.

The circuit would be controlled by an Atmel AVR because [[Michael Cullen]] likes these.

[[Michael Chislett]] somehow ended up with the project, and couldn't resist adding some awesome features to the list: not only would the matrixes be 8x8, but they could now team up to be 16x8 machines, by linking two units together to create a bussed output, using clever disabling of different chips output lines. They'd also sport shiny blue LCD's, because they make them usable, and were conveniently cheap via a supplier who had no idea of their value! (Mike acquired them for around a fifth of their wholesale value). They would also use Mike's pipe-dream protocol called yvp, (YstvVisionPath) so that they could in future communicate via butchered xml over serial ports to the rest of the vision path, to route things like tally lights... It still remains to be seen whether yvp will catch on.

In 2011, two prototypes were made on veraboard, and surprisingly, after a few hours of tweaks, they worked! and in 16x8 mode too! Shortly after, Mike Submitted them as NaSTA 2010 technical projects, these then went on to win (the only actual 100% win in the last 3 years, i.e. not "highly commended" etc) the NaSTA, as judged by Ex-member BBC Tehcnologist, [[Rowan de Pomerai]].

Despite actually being in a box (CPC cardboard style!), and functioning, Mike then destroyed the matrixes, in the hope that one-day, he would get round to making them in a decent case, on PCB's that didn't experience interesting EMC issues. as of the start of the 2011/2012 academic year, the matrixes will be finished, having been given the finishing touches over the summer.

After the final build, the whole project will be open sourced, as various NaSTA stations have shown great interest in the project, and Mike blindly agreeing to do so.

P169 Replacement

2011-07-09T01:56:24Z

Mikechislett:

This was a project initiated by [[Michael Cullen]] aiming to replace the old slowly dying [[P169]]s with something a little more modern.

The plan was to construct an 8x8 version of the [[Station Video Mux]] using the newer equivalent of the Maxim chips acquired using the same method. This is complicated somewhat as the op-amps needed by these maxim chips are only available as surface mount devices.

The circuit would be controlled by an Atmel AVR because [[Michael Cullen]] likes these.

[[Michael Chislett]] somehow ended up with the project, and couldn't resist adding some awesome features to the list: not only would the matrixes be 8x8, but they could now team up to be 16x8 machines, by linking two units together to create a bussed output, using clever disabling of different chips output lines. They'd also sport shiny blue LCD's, because they make them usable, and were conveniently cheap via a supplier who had no idea of their value! (Mike acquired them for around a fifth of their wholesale value). They would also use Mike's pipe-dream protocol called yvp, (YstvVisionPath) so that they could in future communicate via butchered xml over serial ports to the rest of the vision path, to route things like tally lights... It still remains to be seen whether yvp will catch on.

In 2011, two prototypes were made on veraboard, and surprisingly, after a few hours of tweaks, they worked! and in 16x8 mode too! Shortly after, Mike Submitted them as NaSTA 2010 technical projects, these then went on to win (the only actual 100% win in the last 3 years, i.e. not "highly commended" etc) the NaSTA, as judged by Ex-member BBC Tehcnologist, [[Rowan Depomerai]].

Despite actually being in a box (CPC cardboard style!), and functioning, Mike then destroyed the matrixes, in the hope that one-day, he would get round to making them in a decent case, on PCB's that didn't experience interesting EMC issues. as of the start of the 2011/2012 academic year, the matrixes will be finished, having been given the finishing touches over the summer.

After the final build, the whole project will be open sourced, as various NaSTA stations have shown great interest in the project, and Mike blindly agreeing to do so.