Goodbye BBC Broadcast...

It really does say something that ITV, of which outsourcing the transmission of its services might be in its financial interest, still does transmit its own services, as does Sky, but the BBC does not.

I look forward to the day when the new owners of BBC Broadcast fall out with the BBC, and find something in their contract with the BBC, and suddenly all BBC services go silent. The BBC executives will have no one to blame but themselves.

The BBC is, as far as I know, the only major broadcaster in the world, which does not own it's own central transmission facilities.

consider what the BBC have sold with this movie:

BBC Broadcast Movie

now, forgive me if i'm wrong, but does the sale mean that all the BBC is responsible for is just content?

Does Channel Five count as a major broadcaster?

There is one major (american owned) european network of channels that is currently taking it's transmission in-house

I noticed Ceefax ended up starting earlier - I got up at 12mins past 1 and it had all ready started. What ident was used and was it Dean Lydiate announcing considering it appears that they mentioned something about the end of an era.

Never a more damning word spoken.

No, after all BBC Broadcast has been in exsistance for a few years already with no diffrence. The BBC are a customer of BBC Broadcast (they have to get rid of the BBC name within the next 3 months) and they will playout whatever the BBC want them to.

The departments that dealt with planning and preparing the schedules were moved back into the BBC a few weeks ago.

It was Fire, and it was a female announcer (might've been Stephanie Sabine? - sounded a bit Scottish)

I don't know that Five does count.
MTV is in the process of building new facilities to bring everything in house - I assume that's what you're referring to...

Ive uploaded a copy of the announcement to http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/BBC2era.mp3 - sound only I'm afraid.
I did capture the video too last night, but saved it as some strange Mpeg2 thing which the video is unrecoverable from

here's the bbc 2 closedown in question ...

BBC TWO CLOSEDOWN - BBC BROADCAST SALE

I assumed all the MTV channels were in eggcup towers? I was refering to Turner who are currently setting up playout facilities in their HQ for all their channels (except CNN - who were already in-house). Quite a big job it seems, thy've been recruiting staff for a long while.

Five have always been contracted out to a diffrent company, although until fairly recently the playout has been done by a sister company (one owned by an owner of Five - Pearson and then RTL)