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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 25/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A snippet from tonight's Shipping Forecast...complete with insuppressible yawn. 😂

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some BBC TV channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says. BBC DG: "The tight financial situation means that we're having to look at some of those decisions a bit sooner than we might like." >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says

The BBC's financial situation "may well mean" some channels and stations close, Matt Brittin says.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 25/09/2026

🟥 REWIND | YT Clip | The evening news on BBC Two from September 1978, the presentation of which looks like something more at home on North Korean TV. >> CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=srLc...

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | Edging ever closer to BBC Radio 5 Live London, BBC Radio 5 Live Manchester etc etc...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC Wales cuts 1/2: - 45 jobs to go, inc 20 from News (2 compulsory redundancies) - 20 fewer hours of commissioned TV - Radio Wales: Lynn Bowles and live weather forecasts axed - Radio Cymru: Dros Ginio, Ar y Marc, Dros Frecwast (Saturday) axed

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CBeebies launches Parenting Promise as Play School returns for a new generation

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Play School: "The iconic and ground-breaking pre-school show that helped define children's television is set to return for a new generation as BBC Children's & Education invites producers to pitch for a reboot on CBeebies." >> BBC Press: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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CBeebies strengthens its support for families with a new commitment to trusted, high-quality children’s content

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | 5 to launch dedicated drama channel - 5Drama. >> Via Paramount Press: www.paramount-mediahub.co.uk/press-releas...

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | A snippet from tonight's Shipping Forecast...complete with insuppressible yawn. 😂

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🟩 TELETEXT | #NationalTeletextDay 3/3 | A reminder that teletext lives. A huge archive of pages from Ceefax, Oracle, Teletext (Ltd), 4-Tel and a variety of international services. - THE TELETEXT ARCHIVE: teletextarchive.com

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🟩 TELETEXT | #NationalTeletextDay 2/3 | A reminder that teletext lives. There's also: - NMS CEEFAX: webfax.thetvroom.com/teletext-vie... - CHUNKYTEXT: webfax.thetvroom.com/teletext-vie... - TEEFAX: webfax.thetvroom.com/teletext-vie...

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🟩 TELETEXT | #NationalTeletextDay 1/3 | A reminder that teletext lives: The TV Room's own teletext services - Webfax 1 and Webfax 2 - updated throughout the day: - WEBFAX 1: webfax.thetvroom.com/teletext-vie... - WEBFAX 2: webfax.thetvroom.com/teletext-vie...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 21/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC Sport cuts: - BBC News channel: remaining sports bulletins to be cancelled. - Compulsory redundancies required as voluntary programme did not meet numbers required. More cuts announcements are expected across other depts in the coming days.

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🟦 No idea where that Wikipedia image has come from - presumably some mocked up nonsense. You're right - the 'BBC RADIO' element should not be laid out like that. The official version for this year's event:

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Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk · 20/09/2026

The channel move is all well & good, but they've dropped the quality of most channels on that multiplex to make them fit. Is this the beginning of a DAB style "race to the bottom" with the bitrate? And anyway, why are +1 channels still a thing, shouldn't they be the first to sod off...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 20/09/2026

🟪 TX | On This Day 1988 | The BBC launches Radio Data System from a number of transmitter sites. Radio receivers equipped with RDS capability could: - Display the radio station name; - Retune to a transmitter with a stronger signal; - Autotune to traffic bulletins; - Display accurate time/date.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 20/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Has Burnham poured cold water on 2034 Freeview switch-off plan?. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/24254/opinio...

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Has Burnham poured cold water on 2034 Freeview switch-off plan? - Clean Feed

Is the prospect of Freeview being switched off in 2034 receding?

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 20/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Has Burnham poured cold water on 2034 Freeview switch-off plan?. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/24254/opinio...

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Has Burnham poured cold water on 2034 Freeview switch-off plan? - Clean Feed

Is the prospect of Freeview being switched off in 2034 receding?

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 19/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | When you create a new version of your logo that to most people looks much like your old logo... ...and you have no brand governance... ...this will keep happening. 1997 - 2021 BBC logo still appearing on new productions.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 19/09/2026

🟩 CEEFAX | On This Day 1988 | Ceefax begins testing extra teletext lines in the VBI. Ultimately, this additional capacity would help accommodate the expanded service which would launch in November the following year. > ARCHIVE TELETEXT: teletextarchive.com

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 19/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | In the latest edition of BBC Newswatch, Director of Live and Daily News, John McAndrew responds to criticism about Newsnight's move to a 7pm slot on Fridays. >> PROGRAMME LINK: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 18/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1995 | Aertel reports that a consortium with plans to create a third national Irish TV channel will meet with the IRTC to discuss further. The venture would be a partnership with UTV. > Recovery: Adrian Burke > teletextarchive.com

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Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here is the full packaging for the upcoming Mr Benn dvd release. All the cartoons have been restored & look Fabulous. There are loads of extras, including a cd of Mr Benn - The Music. We hope you love it!! Please pass the word...

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | Looks as though ITV 2+1, ITV 4+1, E4 Extra and Film4+1 have quietly moved to the D3/4 multiplex meaning these channels are now available on Freeview Light. Though no mention of it in the official list of updates on the Freeview site.

🟦 Lazy construction of metadata in online tools/platforms certainly has not helped. On-demand services such as BBCiPlayer - where you have, for example, Newsnight and daily BBC One news programmes referenced as "episodes".

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 15/09/2026

🟦 "Episodes"?!? Does Newsnight have a plotline? Is it a story, broken up into units of narrative??? It's a live, reactive, current affairs programme. And each programme is an "edition".

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | And this is the initial update we referenced (launched at 8.30am). A new sting and audio bed for the headline sequences, with accompanying visual on the screen in the newsroom behind Studio E.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 14/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Implementation of further presentation changes will be fragmented. A small update may follow this week.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 12/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some viewer feedback about recent BBC Breakfast graphics changes on this week's Newswatch (now available on iPlayer - link below). A "BBC spokesperson" provided this response regarding viewer feedback:

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 11/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 2001 | From @iancarterim.bsky.social's X account:

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 11/09/2026

🟫 SHOWREEL | On This Day 1988 | Presenters Sarah Greene and Mike Smith recovering in hospital after a helicopter accident. >> ARCHIVE TELETEXT: teletextarchive.com

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 10/09/2026

🟥 REWIND | YT Clip | Rare footage of early 1980s BBC One Northern Ireland continuity featuring Linda Wray on announcing duties. Courtesy of Kaleidoscope. >> CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03Z...

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10 09 1981 BBC1 The Defence of the United States Nine O' Clock News

YouTube video by Kaleidoscope's Presentation Vault

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 09/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The Media Show, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says a new funding deal for the BBC is coming - but doesn't confirm funding model - and the upcoming charter renewal will be the last of its kind. >> PROG IN FULL: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 09/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Channel 4 to cut 340 roles (28% of workforce) by year end. >> Via C4 Press: www.channel4.com/press/news/c...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 08/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC director-general Matt Brittin confirms broadcast unions have rejected a new average pay increase of 2.1% (improved from 1%). No official comment yet from broadcast unions.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 08/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Frank Spencer back freelancing for BBC News...

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🟩 TELETEXT | Somehow, BBC Wales wangled a regional news service on Ceefax from c. spring 1988 (exact date yet to be determined). Northern Ireland, Scotland and the English regions would have to wait until *1997*, by which time the internet was lurking and waiting to zap the life out of teletext.

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | Further playout issues on 5 tonight. We've been contacted by a number of people saying the edition of Police Interceptors scheduled for 8pm has been restarted a number of times.

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | The film United 93 was apparently stopped and started from the beginning at around 11.15pm. This seemed to be about to happen just as our recording ended. But thanks to @philipmartin21 for the update on this.