Channel 4 continuity (24th December 1994)
It’s Christmas Eve afternoon and Channel 4 is showing the 1978 animation of The Lion, the …
Wales Today opening titles (1985)
Whilst BBC TV regional news programmes in most of the rest of the UK went out at 6.30pm, Wales Today …
RTÉ 2 start-up (partial) (1985)
The final minute or so of an RTÉ 2 start-up, from a Sunday afternoon in 1985.
Branding the daytime schedule
The BBC’s new weekday daytime schedule arrived in October 1986.
1980s BBC One Scotland identity crisis
One of the strangest chapters in the story of BBC One branding in the nations runs from the autumn …
Pres fans await the new look BBC One
Recently we looked at the benefits of a big relaunch – schedule changes along with a new look …
The BBC test card and in-vision teletext
TV Presentation has a cousin – trade test transmissions and in-vision teletext pages.
Remembering the launch of BBC One’s circle-themed idents
At 10am on Saturday 7th October 2006, BBC One launched a new on-air identity. On the thirteenth …
BBC Two clock goes electronic
The project to replace the Noddy-based clock caption device (where a camera was placed in front of a …
2005 BBC strike
BBC staff went on strike from midnight on Monday 23rd May 2005 for 24 hours. They were protesting at …