Test card and tone – a window into the bleak world of the 70s
Occasionally inconsequential things offer a window into another world and another time. Last year I …
BBC Reporting Scotland blooper makes headline news
BBC Reporting Scotland experienced technical issues during last night’s 6.30pm programme. …
VT clock aired in network BBC One prime time junction
Friday evening’s 7pm BBC One junction got off to a bad start with a trail for BBC Headroom …
BBC Two Visceral ident reverts to original state
At the start of the year, BBC Two added ‘Channel of the Year’ text on many of its …
More to the BBC Select logo than meets the eye?
Revised article published: 20th February 2021. Back in December, the new BBC Select website went …
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 …