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Thursday, July 8, 2021

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Back inwards 2011 Norwegian Public Service broadcaster NRK broadcast non-stop for 134 hours the voyage of the cruise liner Hurtigruten roughly the Kingdom of Norway coastline. As good equally amazing alive footage of the cruise you lot could too larn out along runway of the put of the cruise liner on a alive real-time Google Map.

Slow television receiver is the term used for these types of alive 'marathon' television receiver shows roofing an ordinary number inwards its consummate length. The Hurtigruten cruise wasn't the commencement 'slow television' broadcast past times NRK (it had previously broadcast a number of films of consummate develop journeys). However the Hurtigruten broadcast received a big international next on the NRK website.

This had led many other broadcasters inwards other countries to broadcast their ain 'slow television' events. For example, this twelvemonth inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland the BBC broadcast iii particular tedious TV events, including 'The Canal Trip', broadcasting the journeying of a barge along the Kennet as well as Avon canal. Unfortunately the BBC missed a play tricks past times non using a map to runway the put of the barge on its journey.

Czech online broadcasters Playtvak.cz has a number of slow TV broadcasts. One of these is Planespotting, a alive broadcast from Václav Havel Airport inwards Prague. Planespotting allows you lot to lookout adult man a alive broadcast of planes landing as well as taking off from the airport, from a photographic tv camera positioned on the roof of the multi-story auto green adjacent to the runway.

The alive footage is accompanied past times the alive good feed from the command tower, as well as thence you lot tin too psyche to the pilots talking to the air traffic controllers. Beneath the alive broadcast current is a alive Flightradar24 Google Map. The map shows the alive put of the planes inwards the airport. This way that you lot tin genuinely discovery out all kinds of details near the planes you lot are watching inwards the alive stream, including the aircraft type, flying number as well as flying details.