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NOW TV

London Lite posted:
NOW TV is fully replacing TalkTalk TV's boost options next year and won't be offered to new customers from 2nd November, customers will be offered Now TV passes at discounted prices instead.

It appears from reading elsewhere that TT may also be dumping YouView for a new streaming box.


Not surprised, given BT has all but taken over with regards YouView.

Does YouView even have a future outside of BT TV? Freeview Play TVs with optional extra paid-for streaming services seem to suit many people who aren't inclined to use Sky or Virgin.

Some ISPs offer a Netgem box which combines Freeview with streaming services - but beyond recording facilities, I can't see the advantage over a Freeview Play TV that also has access to additional players (like LG TVs that support Now TV).
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The BBC World News Thread

Gary McEwan posted:
TheMike posted:
Katty Kay was on the BBC News Channel at 9pm?



It's due to the clocks going back in the UK. All will be back to normal hopefully when the clocks in the US go back on Sunday the 1st.


Yes, I know that.

Affi_85 claimed Katty and Christian were on World but not NC at 9pm. But Katty was doing WNA at that time, so that would be impossible.
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The BBC World News Thread

Affi_85 posted:
Question... why was Katty and Christian on world at 9pm Uk time. But not shown on the Uk news channel? I would have thought even due to the time difference as it’s an hour of news they could still simulcast both anyways.



Katty Kay was on the BBC News Channel at 9pm presenting WNA. Katty and Christian are 9:30pm on both channels as explained upthread.
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BBC Regional Redundancies

Brekkie posted:
Broadcast proving what good value their £300+ annual subscription is with exclusives such as they "understand" each region becoming single headed.

It's as if there wasn't a BBC press release explicitly saying that was happening...

As for comments about them following the same format: they already have surrendered much of their individuality. Arguably that started when the regions adopted the first corporate look and has since progressed behind the scenes as well.
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Dominic Heale to leave East Midlands Today

Reaction from former BBC and ITV Central colleagues:











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Dominic Heale to leave East Midlands Today

And viewers in the East Midlands got to see a TSW ident as well!

Great send off, although admittedly very bittersweet given the circumstances.
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Dominic Heale to leave East Midlands Today

TV Ark has one of his early appearances on East Midlands Today, captured just months after moving over from Central.

Lisa Dransfield is the co-presenter.
https://www.tvark.org/?page=media&mediaid=83729
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Dominic Heale to leave East Midlands Today

Long-serving BBC East Midlands Today presenter Dominic Heale has announced his final programme on the EMT red sofa will be this Friday, 23rd October.





Dominic Heale arrived on East Midlands Today in Autumn 2000, where he replaced Nick Thatcher as lead male presenter on the main 6:30pm programme. His on-screen partner Anne Davies arrived at EMT in 2001, replacing Kathy Rochford. Anne will continue presenting EMT as part of the BBC's new single presenter policy on regional news programmes.

Dominic Heale previously worked for Central News East and prior to that appeared on TSW.

He's the latest long serving regional news presenter to announce their departure from the BBC following a recent voluntary redundancy exercise.


( Note: Posted this elsewhere, but realised that since Harry Gration and Justin Leigh have threads of their own, Dominic Heale deserved one as well).
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BBC Regional Redundancies

Meridian AM posted:
TheMike posted:
Dominic Heale from EMT is leaving:





Has Marie Ashby left the BBC now too, considering her Inside Out programme was axed and she is no longer on the Sunday politics show?
She and Dominic were a very popular newsreading duo on Central News until he left to join the BBC in 2000.

No, she has not (so far) left the BBC.
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BBC Regional Redundancies

Dominic Heale from East Midlands Today is leaving:

Edit: given him his own thread, as Harry Gration and Justin Leigh got their own threads!!!
https://tvforum.uk/thenewsroom/dominic-heale-leave-east-midlands-today-46179?msg=101
Last edited by TheMike on 19 October 2020 6:11pm
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ITV HD Regions on Freeview

And it's about providing the minimum possible service for the few SD only viewers on satellite based on commercial rather than PSB considerations - keeping C5 SD going still, but reducing it down to a single service to match HD and changing ITV to a "new" watered-down SD service based on macro ad regions.

Bringing us back to ITV HD regions on Freeview, the same also applies - as long as viewers are getting the right macro ads, local news is a secondary concern.
Last edited by TheMike on 18 October 2020 9:30pm
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ITV HD Regions on Freeview

gottago posted:
I'd love to know how many people still have SD only Sky boxes these days. Presumably still a sizeable number given that C5 for example, which has been a non-regionalised service for years, hasn't switched off its SD stream.

Unlike ITV, who are reducing the number of SD regions on satellite, but can still offer viewers a service from a neighbouring region, importantly one within the macro region for advertising purposes, if C5 pulled their SD service, there would be no alternative at all.

SD-only sat households must be dwindling fast though, and even those cheap SD-only Freesat boxes given to viewers in some regions at digital switchover must be about dead now.

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As for ITV HD on Freeview, Ofcom was very proactive in the beginning getting HD TV on Freeview in the first place. I suspect intervention will be needed if we are to get beyond the technical block of mux BBC-B's regional restrictions.

It would have been nice if the income the BBC has been receiving from third-party broadcasters for carriage on BBC-B was going into pot of money to improve HD provision, in the same way income the BBC receives from programme sales goes back to programme making.
Last edited by TheMike on 18 October 2020 7:20pm
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