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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 approximately the Kingdom of Norway coastline. As good every bit amazing alive footage of the cruise y'all could likewise expire on runway of the position 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 final result inwards its consummate length. The Hurtigruten cruise wasn't the source 'slow television' broadcast yesteryear NRK (it had previously broadcast a publish of films of consummate prepare 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 Great Britain the BBC broadcast iii exceptional wearisome TV events, including 'The Canal Trip', broadcasting the journeying of a barge along the Kennet in addition to Avon canal. Unfortunately the BBC missed a play a joke on yesteryear non using a map to runway the position of the barge on its journey.
Czech online broadcasters Playtvak.cz has a publish of slow TV broadcasts. One of these is Planespotting, a alive broadcast from Václav Havel Airport inwards Prague. Planespotting allows y'all to scout a alive broadcast of planes landing in addition to taking off from the airport, from a photographic tv camera positioned on the roof of the multi-story auto commons side yesteryear side to the runway.
The alive footage is accompanied yesteryear the alive good feed from the command tower, in addition to hence y'all tin likewise brain 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 position of the planes inwards the airport. This way that y'all tin genuinely honour out all kinds of details close the planes y'all are watching inwards the alive stream, including the aircraft type, flying publish in addition to flying details.
