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Welcome to 2022. Lots of broadcasting milestones coming up, including:
• The 100th anniversary of the BBC.
• 40 years of C4 and S4C.
• 30 years since UK Gold launched
• 25 years of Channel 5.
• 20 years of Freeview.
• 10 years since digital switchover completed.
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On this day 20 years ago, the BBC launched its two children's channels, CBBC and CBeebies:
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In the latest round of BBC cuts, Belfast is now 'Belfat'.
The reduction in characters will help reduce wear and tear on keyboards.
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In a nutshell: BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Scotland, BBC Alba, BBC Parliament, BBC News, BBC World News are all showing the same thing and will do for hours to come. I suspect BBC Four will be very popular tonight.
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I think I've found BBC Two's latest ident 😆
What an incredible satellite image 😮
Which side of the waving weather front would you rather be under?!
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New look for CBeebies this morning. The original curved logo and blobs, used for the last 21 years have been retired.
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a) Satellite is operated by a Luxembourg company
b) A result of EU sanctions not UK regulatory action
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BBC Three got going at 7pm, with a preview loop that not many people can actually see at the moment. Look out for the channel popping up on your EPG later this month...
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BBC One HD upgrade: ALL regions will be HD on Sky and Freesat by this time next month.
This means the change will be completed well before the end of March timeframe originally announced by BBC Distribution Director Kieran Clifton back in November.
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BREAKING: BBC One HD across all English regions by the end of 2022.
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BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD are now back on Freeview after a two month break, this time with coverage from every Freeview transmitter site and relay.
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To confirm: the next big Freeview channel change day is Wednesday 26th January 2022.
Many channels will be moving down a number and BBC Three will be added to the EPG ahead of its launch the following week.
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Looking a twitter comments about the BBC Breakfast retro clock this morning. Amazed (and worried) how many didn't like it because they couldn't tell the time... 😬
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Only those born between 2nd and 9th February 1987 were in BBC Three's target 16-34 year audience group when it launched on 9th February 2003 and are still (just) in the 16-34 year group for the 2022 relaunch of
#BBCThree
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Just when everything starts to come back together for Channel 4, the whole thing comes crashing down.
All programmes, subtitles, audio description, adverts, on-screen graphics & announcements are all dependent on the playout servers. And when they go wrong, it's not a quick fix.
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BREAKING | Ofcom makes a provisional decision to approve the re-launch of BBC Three early next year.
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End of an era: TCM Movies and TCM Movies+1 have now been pulled from Sky.
The channel still had films scheduled until the end of the day!
TCM replaced TNT in the UK in the late 1990s. We come full circle later this month when the TNT brand returns...
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🚨 Breaking
Shopping channel Ideal World has suspended broadcasting. Its online store is also offline.
The development comes a month after the channel left Virgin Media and follows changes in control in the Ltd company behind the channel in the last few weeks.
@cleanfeed_ttvr
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BBC One to extend Wimbledon coverage until 9pm to avoid schedule chaos
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If you're buying a new TV, make sure the screen is large enough to fit in BBC Three's new DOG...
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The 'no big bang' approach adopted by BBC News for its TV channel change means we get new titles for a weekday show on a Friday...
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BBC and ITV secure broadcast rights for Euro 2024 and Euro 2028, with both broadcasting continuing to split coverage between them.
The deal with UEFA maintains the status quo in terms of UK free-to-air coverage.
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On this day 10 years ago, digital switchover ends in the UK with the closure of analogue TV in Northern Ireland.
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It's a decision that for many viewers won't make sense, especially given the women's football match France v England due to be shown on BBC Four is now relegated to Red Button:
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CBBC now offline at 7pm, as the BBC gets ready to launch BBC Three at the beginning of February.
On the iPlayer you'll see a blue off-air graphic (shown below).
On Freeview and Digital Satellite, you'll see a black off-air graphic 'sorry we're not here right now'.
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🚨 Breaking
250 staff at Ideal World made redundant. No buyer for the channel.
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👀
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BBC Three HD moves to Sky channel 115 across all of England on Wednesday.
Sky has until the middle of the year to get BBC Three on a top 24 EPG slot to comply with Ofcom rules.
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Ideal World HD and Ideal Extra now removed from Sky.
Broadcasters can't leave a static caption up for hours without risking loss of their Sky slot.
Will be important for Ideal World to get this back - the EPG slot may well be one of its few remaining assets.
@cleanfeed_ttvr
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Sky reporting the closure of CITV, which goes off air at 9pm 1st Sep.
However: CITV channel has only been on air 17 years, not 30. The
CITV or Children’s ITV brand is 40 not 30 years old. The 'Old Skool Weekend' was in Jan 2013, not this January as the article alludes.
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A bit of a jump from the BBC One sustaining feed, including HD red slate, to the message viewers with old SD satellite receivers will see pop-up in the coming weeks.
🚨This does not affect Freeview.
The information/URLs seen here for Sky/Freesat will work by late January.
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ITV's plan to simulcast the Queen's funeral on all of its channels on Monday will be an interesting test of the encoders on its shared Freeview multiplex with C4 and C5.
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I feel sorry for Channel 5 - they've spent the last five years really going for the type of programmes your average RadioTimes reader would like - Gardening, travel, quality drama - and they're still shunted over the page with all the smaller digital channels...
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Channel 5, 5 HD, 5+1 out of disaster recovery mode after 3 1/2 weeks. The black and white square indicating DR mode has gone.
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Channel 4 HD regions go live on satellite next Tuesday.
- This means Channel 4 HD will go on channel 104 across England, Scotland and NI. Currently, only Sky London viewers can see 4HD on 104.
Channel 4's regions are solely for advertising purposes.
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Fox UK closes next month: BBC eyeing up vacated slot on Sky for BBC Three: broadcaster previously stated in proposals it would settle for top 24 slot on EPG. Conveniently, Fox is in the 24th slot on Sky...
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When automation goes wrong:
Berlin's local public service channel accidentally celebrates New Year 24 hours early.
Programmes cut to a countdown at 23:59:50, followed by content that should have been shown a day later. It was only rectified 45 mins later.
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10 years ago today: 10/12/2013
BBC launches five HD channels
BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBBC HD, CBeebies HD & BBC News HD
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The planned single BBC One SD feed for all of the UK on Satellite is due to go live on 23rd January when the first migrations get underway. The service is called "Nightlight".
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Euronews launched on this day in 1993, 30 years ago.
The channel wasn't widely available in the UK until it was added to Sky Digital in 2001 by its then largest single shareholder, ITN.
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2023 is also the 30 year anniversary of
- the 'merger' of Eurosport and Screensport
- the closure of satellite channel Lifestyle
- the launch of Sky's multi-channel pay TV service (when channels including Sky 1 and UK Gold went from free-to-air to encrypted on satellite).
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Earlier this week, I mentioned how having all ITV channels carrying the same thing would be an interesting test on Freeview.
It seems it would have been quite a test for Sky as well... 🧵
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ITV, C4 and C5 a little more compressed on Freeview.
Space is being made for an extra stream.
In the Midlands, the change happened last week (img 1),
But other regions followed this week (South West img 2)
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Red Bee Incident:
▪️Over a week has passed, and both Channel 4 and 5 have not been able to fully go back to normal.
▪️C4 accessibility services still affected.
▪️Box Plus Network remains most affected: 4Music has been off-air for 8 days now, The Box simulcast continues.
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The Disaster Recovery mode symbol has made a reapperance on Channel 5 and some of its offshoots this morning.
Ofcom has this week signalled it wants broadcasts and multiplex operators to report on what measures they're taking to improve network resilience.
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TV breakdown update:
▪️Channel 4 HD and 5 Select restored to Freeview overnight
▪️Still some regional issues with some C4 services on Freeview, so E4 frozen for some, and C4+1 still blank in some regions.
▪️For satellite and cable viewers, services are are back to normal.
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ITV in disaster recovery mode today in some regions: while C5 has a black and white square in DR mode, affected ITV regions have their name in the top right. E.g. TTT - Tyne Tees Television. ITV normally test DR at nights.
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BBC Two NI HD officially launches on satellite on 5th January 2023.
It's the only version of BBC Two that's not been available in HD on satellite, despite being available on Freeview and cable in Northern Ireland.
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Sky: BBC One SE HD has just been listed on 101 in Kent and E Sussex and BBC Three HD is now on channel 115 everywhere in England.
All BBC TV services now upgraded on Sky satellite.
Next: Freeview "by end of April".
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And it appears nobody noticed...
Hearing that GB News was off air for nearly three hours this morning, due to technical problems.
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BREAKING
W launches on Freeview channel 25 next Monday, 28th March. The channel will also broadcast on Freesat and on UKTV Play.
This is W's new logo:
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Freeview channel changes now complete: you can now retune!
- BBC Three 23
- BBC Three HD 109 (not Scotland/Wales)
Please have your sunglasses handy 😎
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BBC Regional News cancelled in England, with Planet Earth Live coming up at 1:30 and Garden Rescue at 6:30.
This is a result of industrial action in England, where BBC staff are protesting about cuts to BBC Local Radio services.
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BBC News changes: And at 12, Lucy Hockings from Studio C with revised BBC News titles.
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Freesat has now added ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD on its EPG. The channels were added shortly after 10:30am and the changes should filter through to most Freesat TVs and boxes automatically.
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Massive thunderstorms once again knocking out satellite TV reception in parts of the UK - satellite signals struggle to pass through those big clouds laden with lots of water.
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And finally, you may have not noticed a thing on the BBC - they were affected, but seamlessly transferred playout from London to Salford. Some of the licence fee goes towards paying for lots of back-ups. At times like this, you'll see the benefits of that extra cost.
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Dutch cable providers who retransmit BBC channels have been given a stop date for SD distribution of 13th February for BBC One, Two and Four and 24th Jan for BBC Three.
That's according to Dutch TV listings and media news site Totaal TV, citing a letter issued to distributors.
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UK and International feeds of BBC News break apart at 9:50, with International showing a short edition of Click (5 mins earlier than on schedule).
This allows UK feed to go in-depth on a story about Referee Bodycams in England and a longer interview.
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On this day in 2013, the BBC launched five new HD channels: BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBBC HD, CBeebies HD and BBC News HD.
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Ahead of BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD moving Freeview multiplexes later this month, two new Service IDs - 18046 for BBC Four HD and 18176 for CBeebies HD have popped up on mux PSB3/BBC-B.
Freeview users will soon be invited to retune their TV and/or boxes, likely 3rd week of June.
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ITV4 HD has just gone free-to-air on satellite, becoming the last of the three channels to switch. ITV2 and 3 HD switched in the past hour.
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Fully regionalised BBC One HD service launches today on Sky Glass TVs. Other platforms to follow by end of next year.
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ITV2, 3, 4 HD now autoswapping on Sky...
....this means you'll now see the HD versions of the channels on 118, 119 and 120 even without a relevant subscription.
It was an anomaly since the HD channels went free-to-air last year.
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Early night for BBC One: hands over to the News Channel at 11:10pm.
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BBC One South East HD is now live on Freesat, meaning every BBC channel and regional service is available in HD on Freesat! 🎆
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Today's Express clickbait about the removal of Pick+1 ...which actually closed on platforms where it was still available at end of last month.
Spoiler: it hasn't been on Freeview for the last two years.
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It’s 65 years today since television sets had to stop broadcasting to allow parents to put children to bed. How did it ever seem like a good idea?
- interesting reading from The Guardian on a largely forgotten piece of UK TV history:
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Sky Sports News will be free-to-view for the first time in over a decade next week as the channel celebrates 25 years of broadcasting.
The sports channel will be free to watch from 7am-7pm on Monday 2nd October on Sky Sports YouTube and the Sky Sports App.
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On the day the UK lost a whole Freeview multiplex to 5G services, broadcasters and network operators across Europe joined forces to call for terrestrial TV frequencies to be preserved.
They want universal free-to-air broadcasting preserved, but...
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BBC statement on regional BBC One HD rollout:
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Messy number allocation for BBC Three on Sky:
- England (not London), Wales and NI: 117
- London 173
- Scotland 141
(SD will appear on 845 across the UK)
- Sky Glass 118 (119 Wales)
Like Freeview, BBC Three will appear on Sky on Wednesday ahead of next Tuesday's launch.
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Fog! Temperature Inversion!
Weird things may happen to your Freeview signal tonight and tomorrow. Don't retune!
(Unless your hobby is DXing and you want to see if you can get some out-of-region/foreign services.)
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Radio 4 LW from Droitwich will be subject to going off-air from during weekday daytimes for the next fortnight as the stays are greased.
Genuinely interested how many people will be affected or will notice?
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Ofcom has today opened four further investigations into GB News’s compliance with due impartiality rules. Two programmes - Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil & Jacob Rees-Mogg's State of the Nation to be investigated for potential breaches of the politicians as presenters rule
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No further specifics on removing BBC Four, CBBC and R4 Extra from current distribution channels. BBC previously named these services as going online only.
#BBCAnnualPlan
2023-24
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Last day of CBBC running to 9pm is currently scheduled as Tuesday 4th January. Wednesday 5th January's schedules showing 7pm finish.
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4Music is back on air after nearly three weeks. And it has subtitles.
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Last one: 10773H (SR23000 FEC 3/4)
BBC Parliament HD (6308)
BBC One North East & Cumbria HD ("NE&CHD" 6311)
BBC One North West HD (6331)
BBC One Yorkshire (6371)
Live on Freesat/Sky next week.
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A relaxing end to a Saturday evening, with the last ever Pages From Ceefax, shown on BBC Two ten years ago today, 22nd October 2012:
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The World Radiocommunications Conference WRC-23 has come to an end, and terrestrial TV will continue to enjoy primary use of the 470-694 MHz frequency band for a long time to come ...at least until terrestrial TV has had its day, not forced to vacate the airwaves in 2030.
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BBC Three's return to TV has received Ofcom's final seal of approval.
Within the next 18 months, all TV platforms will need to accommodate BBC Three in the first 24 EPG slots. This means that on some platforms, BBC Three may initially launch at a lower position.
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