BBC TWO HD

I do hope so. Slow 2 (by Barrie Gledden, Sulene Fleming, and Richard Kimmings) would be a good one too.

This answers your ident music questions. Some of the tracks are from the band 'alt-J's album.

I hope they're not paying PRS each time they play a symbol in that case!

Shazam's pretty useful.

Isn't there a blanket annual payment in place?

For the BBC, yes- any other broadcaster would have to pay each time.

I see Final Score dosent get a HD run like it did when it was on bbc HD this is poor

There's a lot of stuff that won't be getting an HD run anymore...

Welcome to the 20% savings of DQF. Simulcasting BBC Two HD saved some money (no separate playout area, no scheduling operation, potential reduced costs on live programmes etc.), but the quid-pro-quo was removing the ability to simulcast HD content from channels other than BBC One or BBC Two.

Over the next few years I suspect people will notice lots of things that aren't that great - but are being done to save money. 20% DQF savings on top of the 10ish% PQF savings are not going to be possible without results appearing on screen. (Repeats and News simulcasts on BBC Two daytime are another result of the savings required).

Very slightly off-topic, but there's an interesting parallel to this in Denmark at the moment. I don't know if it's related to finances, too (although I suspect it is), but DR have recently made similar changes to the BBC. They scrapped their 24-hour "rolling news" channel "DR Update" and have now launched hourly news bulletins on DR2 as well as bolstering that channel's news and current affairs line-up.

They've also dropped their HD channel altogether and have launched a youth-orientated SD channel (DR3) in its place. For those that are interested, you might be surprised just how similar DR and the BBC are in terms of channel offerings; a reminder of how influential the BBC is as an organisation (and of how everyone seems to be suffering from the effects of the financial mess we're in).

Yep - SVT (Sweden), NRK (Norway) and DR (Denmark) all have strong similarities to the BBC, and are definitely influenced by it.

SVT and DR have both run 24 hour news operations in the past, both have closed them as standalone channels...

By that I'll take it as 'currently', as it has been used on Network - though the recording I have is from July 2009