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BBC annouces new teen brand (September 2007)

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JO
Joe
I know what you mean about the photos, they do get boring after a while.

I think they might do some soon, they need some for Kelly Osbourne (well, there's plenty of her around, but you know) and a proper one for Greg James. Does anybody know when the last lot were taken?

As far as I know, the Retro is staying.
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TV Monkey
I believe they're having a photoshoot this week for the DJ's, i'm not sure how this works with the pages have been designed and updated already
GR
gregmc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/

Websites launched. Bit weird if you ask me! Especialy with the tags on Radio 1 'This is BBC Switch, on Radio 1'.
JO
Joe
Yeah, launched a few days ago, and was mentioned.

Switch ain't that bad, missed the TV stuff, and I have to be honest Radio 1 is pretty good. I normally listen to Annie's Sunday Show, and it's fairly similar, but with more guests.
AB
ashley b Founding member
Ouch, and people complain about the fiveUS DOG.

BBC switchs' is a little oversized, no?
BR
Brekkie
No surprise the first complaint is about the DOG - even worse than when BBC Three changes theirs.


Also, surely a DOG saying "switch" is just sub-consciously telling people to do just that - though with this Falcon Beach trash, I don't think any subliminal messages is necessary.
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ashley b Founding member
As demonstrated here:

http://www.thisisfive.co.uk/switch.jpg

and incase anyone's interested, here's some of the presentation for BBC Switch:


BBC Switch presentaion - Youtube
NG
noggin Founding member
This Is Granada posted:
tvarksouthwest posted:
they just choose to waste it on administrative non-essentials.

...........And Peter Fincham! .....oh Yeah, he's gone! Maybe if Channel controllers were on minimum wage struggling to pay their TV tax like Thousands of us in the UK, they might think more carefully before opening their mouth, oh and about commissioning yet MORE singing/dancing/reality show living on an island c**p, and the less the BBC pay them lot, the more money they have for decent programmes.


Though to be fair Peter Fincham wasn't doing it for the money. He made millions (10s of millions I believe) when Talkback was sold a few years back.

The truth is that quite a few of the people in senior positions at the BBC would earn more elsewhere (they aren't there because they can't get jobs in other companies - many have and then have chosen to return. Jana Bennett, Peter Salmon etc.) The jobs at the BBC may pay less - but they are more enjoyable to do.
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tvarksouthwest
Damn you BBC Switch - TV execs know what we think about DOGs yet they still inflict them on us. I think in this instance it was more reasonable not to expect one, however, given that CBBC do not brand their BBC1 and BBC2 output and with BBC Switch technically a "stablemate" to CBBC we weren't expecting this.
BR
Brekkie
It kind of added to segregating the teen content from the schedule too. Teens - as do adults - want to watch what they want to watch, not what they're told to watch, and the way the BBC have gone about branding this is just an insult really. It certainly is no T4.


BBC Switch isn't going to get the following shows used to in the 6-7.30pm slot on BBC2 with shows like Buffy and Heartbreak High in the nineties.
JO
Joe
tvarksouthwest posted:
Damn you BBC Switch - TV execs know what we think about DOGs yet they still inflict them on us.


No, they know your opinion. Not everybody shares it.

tvarksouthwest posted:
I think in this instance it was more reasonable not to expect one, however, given that CBBC do not brand their BBC1 and BBC2 output and with BBC Switch technically a "stablemate" to CBBC we weren't expecting this.


CBBC brand their main strand, the channel. Switch on BBC Two is Switch's main strand, so it figures.
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tvarksouthwest
To be honest I knew the BBC would cock it up, one way or the other, so really they've failed to disappoint.

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No, they know your opinion. Not everybody shares it.

The day the POV message board is inundated with complaints about the ABSENCE of a DOG I might be more convinced of that.

And it was my understanding that BBC Switch is the "third branch" of BBC Children's - the others being CBeebies and CBBC.

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