Fondly remembered BBC TV idents turn 30
It was the day when everything changed but everything stayed the same.
1982 BBC business programme provides useful insights into the launch of Channel 4
A report from BBC Two’s financial series The Money Programme provides a great insight into the …
Clean BBC One handover to BBC News Channel still the exception
Possibly the untidiest junction on UK TV – and it’s on BBC One: the nightly handover to …
BBC News Channel TOTH titles go AWOL
The BBC News Channel’s top-of-the-hour headlines and title sequence didn’t go quite as …
The demise of BBC Schools and Colleges branding
The return of a form of schools broadcasting next week has provoked inevitable nostalgia – and …
Martin Lambie-Nairn: a giant of TV branding
Martin Lambie-Nairn will go down in media history as the inventor of modern television branding.
From Thames “In Colour” – in 1989?
In an age when branding is taken so seriously, it’s interesting to look back on a time when it …
Playout issue disrupts start of Final Score on BBC One
There was a playout issue at the start of today’s Final Score on BBC One.
BBC Four Christmas 2020 OSP launches
Something new and something familiar from BBC Four this year.
BBC Two Christmas 2020 OSP launches
On BBC Two, it’s as you were. No new idents this year. But there is the addition of a …
BBC One launches Christmas 2020 OSP
The BBC this year collaborated with Magic Light Pictures to create a set of animated idents for BBC …
The time when Christmas branding meant a new mechanical model
For some of us, recording and archiving BBC TV Christmas symbols has been an annual ritual for many …