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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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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 · 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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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 16/09/2026

🟦 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.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 16/09/2026

🟦 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 · 16/09/2026

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

🟦 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 · 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/...

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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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 07/09/2026

🟩 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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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 07/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Yet more playout issues around live snooker on 5. Snooker overran. Coverage ended 11.10pm, stuck on the endboard for over a minute before crashing into their film, United 93 - which was already in progress. Did they start it in the background at 11.05pm anyway?

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 06/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1986 | Introducing the BBC Master Compact. Ceefax reports on a new low-price version of the BBC Master Microcomputer. >> ARCHIVE TELETEXT: teletextarchive.com

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 06/09/2026

🟥 REWIND | On This Day 1986 - The first episode of Casualty airs on BBC One. - Peter West presents Cricket on BBC TV for the final time. >> MORE ANNIVERSARIES: rewind.thetvroom.com/on-this-day-... >> ARCHIVE TELETEXT: teletextarchive.com

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 05/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Nice touch by the @BBCCasualty team using the old music and logo at the end of tonight's double episode. Not so nice touch BBC Presentation having the announcer yap over most of it!!!

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 04/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A lot of announcerless ident links on RTÉ One in peak time in the last few weeks. Feels deliberate. Is this the removal of continuity announcers on RTÉ TV by stealth?

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 02/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | A page from Central TV's overnight Jobfinder service. Can't imagine too many Midlands houses had this view out their window. But teletext loved a palm tree. >> CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ad...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 02/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | Had no idea Oracle's Park Avenue soap opera was later rerun on Paramount Text. Odd to see the ITV Oracle logo reproduced on another service. Wonder did Oracle staff have involvement in Nick/Paramount Text? Recovery: PaulB :: teletextarchive.com

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 01/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 2010 | Ceefax reports that BBC staff vote for pension strike. >> MORE: webfax.thetvroom.com/teletext-vie...

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 27/08/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Not sure where the rumour about Newsnight facing the axe originated, but BBC DG Matt Brittin has dismissed it as "nonsense" in an interview at the #EdTVFest

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 27/08/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Another Breakfast news opt failure on BBC One NI. But here, even the backup - NewsSUS - misbehaves on a number of occasions.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 26/08/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | It's been a while, but here's Peter Kay on tonight's BBC North West Tonight, disrupting the weather forecast.

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten return to Studio B today, having been hosted in alternative studios over the last 3 weeks due to maintenance work.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | 2/2 | Examples of new graphics in use on BBC Breakfast from this morning.

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | 1/2 | Examples of new graphics in use on BBC Breakfast from this morning.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 14/08/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Graphics update for BBC Breakfast. Changes launch on air at 6am.

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🟦 CLEAN FEED | @rteweather.bsky.social - the graphics on your TV weather bulletins seem to be suffering a stutter effect during sequences that feature motion. This has been the case for a number of months. Possibly an issue with the frame rate being used when packaging the graphics.

The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 14/08/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | We understand that Monday 24th August has now been confirmed as the launch date for BBC Breakfast's new on-air look/graphics. The change will see the programme move to HTML-based graphics and move away from Viz. A similar change "is coming" for the News Channel.