The practicalities of BBC Three’s move back to linear TV
The return of BBC Three as a linear channel is one of the biggest u-turns ever made by the corporation.
The return of BBC Three as a linear channel is one of the biggest u-turns ever made by the corporation.
The webmaster of the TV presentation website, TV Forum, tonight announced that the site will close at the end of March.
The closing credits for tonight’s edition of BBC Newsnight failed to appear.
Occasionally inconsequential things offer a window into another world and another time. Last year I mentioned how a Sunday morning closedown from 1974 “filled” by black screen was a reminder of how Sundays were not working days.
The return of BBC Three as a linear channel is one of the biggest u-turns ever made by the corporation.
The webmaster of the TV presentation website, TV Forum, tonight announced that the site will close at the end of March.
The closing credits for tonight’s edition of BBC Newsnight failed to appear.
Occasionally inconsequential things offer a window into another world and another time. Last year I mentioned how a Sunday morning closedown from 1974 “filled” by black screen was a reminder of how Sundays were not working days.
BBC Reporting Scotland experienced technical issues during last night’s 6.30pm programme. Autocue failures and an absence of on-screen name straps were among the problems that some viewers may have spotted.
Friday evening’s 7pm BBC One junction got off to a bad start with a trail for BBC Headroom cued in from the wrong point, causing a VT clock to appear on air, counting down from 10.
At the start of the year, BBC Two added ‘Channel of the Year’ text on many of its idents. It looks as though the new versions were created using the original masters. And that’s a problem in some cases.
Revised article published: 20th February 2021. Back in December, the new BBC Select website went live, in advance of the formal launch of the new streaming service. The BBC Select logo included an odd looking version of the BBC blocks …
It was the day when everything changed but everything stayed the same.
A report from BBC Two’s financial series The Money Programme provides a great insight into the launch of Channel 4. It also provides a few nuggets for Pres fans.