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RIP BBC Television News
Moira Stuart loses BBC News slot It's bad enough that BBC Television News has become a round-up of the day's press-releases from think-tanks, pressure groups, charities and universities interspersed with showbiz trivia and cross-promotions for other programmes on BBC TV....
Irritating cliché #234563
In PC Pro this month (May 2007 edition), editor Tim Danton writes: In the 1960s, people were happy with black-and-white, grainy images with jittery sound quality.They weren't. 405-line television in the 1960s looked and sounded very much like a monochrome...
Diamonds should have been forever...
What seems like an age ago, I designed some Flash files for the BBCi Cult website. However, I was reminded of them the other day when I noticed that the 1972-1974 BBC 1 COLOUR strapline from one of them was...
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