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What BBC1 and 2 could have looked like in 1991

Clearly this has gone far enough off topic to be closed. I think most of us have made up our minds enough on its authenticity.

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By A former member

124 replies

18,828 views

AS 24 Feb 2016 7:43pmAsa

The X Factor 2016

It has been shortened significantly though so it ends before the sweeps on top of losing its second episode of the week a couple of years ago. Agree though X Factor shows are very bloated and they...

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By Square Eyes

398 replies

61k views

BR 24 Feb 2016 6:11pmBrekkie

History of 3D Animation & Motion Tracking in TV Pres

I had great fun in 1992 too at a foreign broadcaster site. Quantel GFX and DVEs and Sony mixers and edit controllers. I even remember differing BNC connectors supplied from the two SI companies...

By Mr-Stabby

10 replies

1,399 views

MA 23 Feb 2016 9:55amMarkymark

ITV Mulling Pay per View Sport

Boxing first on agenda

I remember PrimeTime. Not many other people do.

By DVB Cornwall

5 replies

1,586 views

MI 22 Feb 2016 5:57pmMichael

Bad subtitling

My bugbear

Here's some odd subtitling from last week that someone on YouTube spotted.... they subtitled a word that wasn't actually heard (possibly NSFW)

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By davidhorman

18 replies

1,806 views

IS 21 Feb 2016 3:11pmInspector Sands

The Wombles are Coming Back

Techically a second reboot.

By DCI02

2 replies

491 views

MI 21 Feb 2016 12:34pmMichael

We're back

No, far too advanced...! It's all about the W@P (as this ad I recently found in my garage shows)

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By Asa

50 replies

6,070 views

AS 18 Feb 2016 11:14pmAsa

Programmes on air for contractual or other reasons

Re the Angelus, not only have they removed most of the religious imagery (although the bells still chime), they now, in an unorthodox move, run it on Good Friday and Easter Saturday, when Church bells...

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By VMPhil

37 replies

3,962 views

RD 18 Feb 2016 8:46amrdd

UKTV to launch new channel W

Flagship channel will replace Watch

I believe you can atone for each MasterChef USA episode with an episode of Murder She Wrote.

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By Jake

121 replies

23k views

BA 17 Feb 2016 10:16pmbilky asko

Did the loss of Thames result in a decline of standards?

That's them. Owned by the same company as The Daily Mail. They pioneered self-op video journalists, although I seem to remember stories about lots of their cameras going walkies in the first few weeks

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By Maaixuew

161 replies

15,453 views

IS 16 Feb 2016 6:37pmInspector Sands

Downtime

Thanks Asa! Will you be able to merge these threads back into the main site once everyone can see it? Might save a bit of confusion to keep the main site turned off until a set changeover time...

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By Asa

96 replies

6,894 views

SP 16 Feb 2016 2:11amSteve in Pudsey

Channel 5

Thanks to the site downtime, further discussion of this can be found here:

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By rob

1,589 replies

330k views

JA 16 Feb 2016 1:41amJAS84

Eurovision 2016

Temporary Thread

Nope. He beat you to it by 4 1/2 hours. His thread's first post is date stamped 15 February 2016 10:17am - yours is 2.49pm.

By Rob_Schneider

6 replies

623 views

JA 15 Feb 2016 8:41pmJAS84

Too Much TV

New BBC Two live magazine show

How long before this is simulcast on the news channel?

By VMPhil

4 replies

687 views

DO 15 Feb 2016 6:27pmdosxuk

ITV Chairman

Announcement imminent.

Should hopefully be a good signing by ITV.

By DVB Cornwall

2 replies

444 views

BR 14 Feb 2016 11:44pmBrekkie

Good Morning Britain

Temporary Thread

No one cares, seriously. GMB can wait.

By PATV Scunthorpe

2 replies

912 views

DB 13 Feb 2016 1:08amdbl

BBC Three - Trust's final decision published

Split from BBC Three

^Even if said re-run is effectively an advert for both ITV (Family Guy itself) and Channel 4 (because it's the Simpsons crossover)...

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By DVB Cornwall

399 replies

50k views

JA 10 Feb 2016 2:58amJAS84

ITV, STV, UTV Trailers

To my knowledge ITV just send the generic promo to STV so there can do there own VO and logo. Here is the SNT promo; On top of that STV does make its own promos for a number of ITV shows...

By A former member

2 replies

1,012 views

:-( 9 Feb 2016 11:50pmA former member

Switching control to Birmingham

A thread about the BBC switching test, and what happened when they did it for real.

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By robertclark125

28 replies

2,967 views

RI 9 Feb 2016 11:09pmRichard

Music from teletext

asking for advice

Just to add, I was always fascinated by the change between 4-Tel and Oracle and vice versa at 15 and 30 mins past the hour. You could see the new page number being manually selected on the decoder/generator...

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By seefacts

15 replies

3,325 views

SC 8 Feb 2016 6:07pmSi-Co