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🟦 CLEAN FEED | Sports 'geo-blocking' can't be stopped, says regulator. >> Via BBC News NI: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Channel 4 and The Walt Disney Company strike landmark deal to bring Channel 4 to Disney+. >> Via C4 Press: www.channel4.com/press/news/c...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Interesting new meteorological terminology. 😉

☕️ PRES CAFE FORUM | Central News went out in the ITV Granada region this evening instead of Granada Reports. Granada Reports has been operating from a temporary set whilst work on a new set continues in their main studio. >> FORUM THREAD: pres.cafe/showthread.p...

Okay, you all (one person) asked for it, so here's clocks again www.twitch.tv/zxguesser

🟨 THE TV ROOM | Don't forget...

I made a little show as an extra for BBC Radio 4 Extra (pretty much in my own time): it’s being repeated to mark 20 years since the death of Nigel Kneale. This sort of bonus (dare I say it Reithian?) content will not be possible once the station goes in March. Enjoy: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🟫 SHOWREEL | BBC Look East presenter to leave after 35 years. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟥 REWIND | YT Clip | Wondering if these were specially made for Channel, given the "action" seems to sit between that ghastly overlay of a section of the logo. Still hard to believe this logo made it as far as the 90s.

Re: BBC 4Xtra / Sounds. Any archive service has to pay creators. The BBC can’t have an infinite database of content paid for via a fixed pool of money from the licence fee. Unless of course they work out the clever method Spotify did (just steal it all with menaces and don’t pay the suppliers).

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra channels to close. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Additional internal communication confirms closure of BBC Three, BBC Scotland channel and BBC Radio 4 Extra.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | New BBC News head Rachel Jupp confirms closure of 100 journalist posts to save £5.5m.

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1992 | Courtesy of Oracle's viewer comments pages... ...34 years ago today and TV was dying then too. >> MORE AT: teletextarchive.com

🟦 CLEAN FEED | And just to add to the announcer's link into today's Saturday Kitchen: "...and please note, there's strong language, right from the start..." And on this occasion Alan Cumming, quite a few people heard him.

Sky-ITV deal: Culture secretary 'minded to intervene'

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC News channel to launch on YouTube in the UK and USA. >> TRIAL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmmE... >> PRESS RELEASE: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Friends returns home to Channel 4. >> C4 PRESS RELEASE: www.channel4.com/press/news/f...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Nothing like a bit of bong & rumble at 10pm. (As seen at the start of @bbcnewsline's 10pm headlines.)

Coming soon... #onlyfools #gold #lostarchive

🟦 A frequent complaint from BBC staff, over many years: why the need for so many managers and senior leaders on large salaries, of dubious competence and value. When cuts are made, the perception is that proportionately, these people are largely immune.

🟦 After a meeting with the Irish Minister for Media Patrick O'Donovan today, RTE DG Kevin Bakhurst explained how he had agreed to "carry on working with his officials to try to find a resolution to this but it was very positive, which was very welcome for our part".

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exclusive: Britain's BBC and Channel 4 held preliminary talks with the government about a broader tie-up of some operations, two people with direct knowledge of the discussions said, in a potential shake-up of the country's public broadcasters reut.rs/3VsSFyx

🟦 CLEAN FEED | There's been a question mark over the future of the BBC Scotland channel for some time. With the BBC facing large-scale financial cuts, is now the time to start pushing content from some linear channels online? Speculation is rife >> BBC News Scotland: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | RTÉ DG 'completely rejects' minister's remarks as funding cut by €20m. >> Via RTE News: www.rte.ie/news/busines...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Blue Planet, Gandhi and BBC News composer George Fenton dies aged 76. >> MORE VIA BBC NEWS: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC appoints Rachel Jupp as new director of news. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OTD in 1976 BBC Radio 1 & Radio 2 first started to play jingles from JAM Creative Productions. First DJ to play them on Radio 2 was Tom Edwards & on Radio 1 it was Wally Whyton, sitting in for Stewpot. The newsreader that Saturday morning was James Alexander Gordon

🟥 REWIND | On TV | BBC Four marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Swap Shop: - Multi-Coloured Saturdays (first shown in 1996, celebrating 20 years of the programme) - Swap Shop's Summer Stocktaking (highlights of the 1981 series)

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Noel Edmonds marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Swap Shop. >> VIDEO: www.youtube.com/shorts/DqtA3...

🟫 The Times is reporting the death of former BBC TV/radio announcer, Clive Roslin. He was 92. >> PROFILE: showreel.thetvroom.com/talent-profi...

🟫 The Times is reporting the death of former BBC TV/radio announcer, Clive Roslin. He was 92. >> PROFILE: showreel.thetvroom.com/talent-profi...

🟫 Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

Carly responded to a Bluesky post two years ago when I was in a panic and needed someone to do some really basic photoshop. Instead she came up with illustrations that shaped how the publication looked. Do send her more work if you need actual talented human illustration.

🟫 We're saddened to learn of the death of broadcast historian and former STV and BBC Scotland TV announcer, Tony Currie. Tony died on 26th September at his home on the Isle of Lismore.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Gradually becoming a regular occurrence. Earlier bedtimes for BBC One. But in an age of on-demand and a wealth of other options - not to mention, reduced BBC funding - this seems a sensible direction of travel.

🟪 TX | Weather | The Met Office is predicting strong winds on Tue/Wed next week as a result of an extremely deep Low in the Atlantic. Track of the Low still uncertain but the worst of the winds currently expected out at sea. Possible disruption to mast-based TV/radio services.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | @TheGNShow is back for a new season... ...and so are the opening titles and set. Granted there have been some tweaks to both since the first show in 2007...but still...what a run! @jumpdesign.bsky.social

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

🟦 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...

🟥 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...

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