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BBC-2 News
Published 15 June 2014
BBC-2 News for Spring 1968 brings you all the 625 and colour information you need
BBC Digital – April 1999
Published 15 June 2014
What you can see from the BBC in the new, exciting world of digital television
Lack of choice
Published 5 March 2014
BLOG: From rumours to facts – BBC Three is on the closure list
50 Years of Top of the Pops
Published 1 January 2014
BLOG: How the anniversary of Top of the Pops went little marked
The Key to a Long Gone Door
Published 1 November 2013
BLOG: A little bit of Bush House to take with me wherever I go
Dear America: this is not the BBC
Published 13 August 2013
BLOG: This is supposed to represent the BBC?
Brian Cant turns 80
Published 12 July 2013
BLOG: Brian Cant, the voice of the childhoods of three generations, turns 80 today.
Giant leap
Published 26 August 2012
Kif Bowden-Smith remembers watching one of the greatest events in human history – live
Farewell, Bvsh Hovse
Published 12 July 2012
BLOG: The BBC World Service’s main studios fall silent for the first time since 1940
Sailing in the wrong direction?
Published 7 June 2012
BLOG: It’s certainly not unusual for the BBC to be the subject of criticism when it comes to the coverage of any royal event apart from the most straightforward occasions. Getting the tone exactly right is an absolute nightmare and you are never going to satisfy everyone all of the time, especially when dealing with something that’s the least bit contentious.
Let’s go Nationwide!
Published 4 June 2012
BLOG: Nationwide joins the duck on the skateboard of history
Storify: what’s wrong with BBC commissioning and scheduling
Published 27 March 2012
BLOG: A discussion on Twitter about the BBC’s incomprehensible scheduling policies of late
So long, New Broadcasting House
Published 3 December 2011
Wandering round the BBC’s former Manchester studios
I’m with Matthew Wright. Are you?
Published 14 November 2011
BLOG: The BBC’s Delivering Quality First initiative has certainly caused a few headlines for its treatment of local radio, however much less discussed has been its impact on the BBC’s regional TV output. However its changes there have been no less controversial.
Robert Robinson
Published 2 October 2011
A look back at the life and works of Robert Robinson, the thinking man’s thinking man.
Boris Johnson – more knowledgeable about TV production than broadcasters themselves
Published 19 September 2011
BLOG: From the “Boris Johnson is clearly an expert on making television – better at it than even the BBC” file comes this rather farcical story….
Twin dilemma
Published 19 August 2011
Much has been said this week about proposed cutbacks that may (or may not) affect BBC Four, the ‘highbrow’ digital TV channel that has a relatively small but fiercely loyal…
Charged debate
Published 7 August 2011
The BBC’s popular and occasionally controversial Top Gear programme has been back in the news again for apparently upsetting car company Nissan; this is on top of another dispute over…
Formula won
Published 29 July 2011
Aside from those wanting Rupert Murdoch’s influence to be curtailed, the News Corporation phone hacking saga so far hasn’t been bad news for BSkyB either, despite the fact that it’s…
The naked truth
Published 13 July 2011
If you wanted excitement, intrigue and unpredictability in the world of media news then this past week simply had the lot, starting off with what seemed like a minor escalation…
A place to call our own
Published 13 June 2011
From a purely practical and logistical perspective, the BBC’s Television Centre is nowadays a large, old-fashioned and under-utilized building that must cost a fortune to heat and to cool, as…
Closing time
Published 10 June 2011
As the BBC continues to wrestle with the prospect of making significant cost savings, the subject of channel closures (television or radio) has reared its head yet again, but this…
A narrower perspective
Published 5 June 2011
As a television channel, BBC Four has been the subject of much scrutiny as of late, and not just because it happens to be a digital-only TV channel with a…
Production balance
Published 23 May 2011
Remember the days of regional ITV? Granada produced World In Action, Central produced Family Fortunes and The Cook Report, and Thames (R.I.P.) productions ranged from The Bill to This Week….
Best defence
Published 17 May 2011
Having people like Sir David Attenborough and Prof Brian Cox defending the BBC in front of a Lords communications select committee is worth much more than a thousand “Delivering public…
Managing management
Published 4 May 2011
As the new chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten has wasted no time in signalling his future intentions, thereby abruptly drawing to a close an allegedly soft-touch Sir Michael…
News clippings
Published 21 April 2011
The BBC’s “Delivering Quality First” (or should that really read Delivering Cutbacks First?) initiative, which has borne witness to a deluge of “trial balloons” in recent weeks, seems to (finally)…
Open to scrutiny
Published 4 April 2011
Ever since the last administration reclassified the UK TV licence fee as a tax (as opposed to a service charge) in 2006, there has been a theoretical danger that the…
More April 1st Shenanigans
Published 1 April 2011
Whilst here in Transdiffusion Towers we were busy listening to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 6music, it seems Ken Bruce over on Radio 2 was having problems with his voice.
April Fooled?
Published 1 April 2011
It’s April Fools Day, April Fools Day, Apr-Apr-Apr-Apr-April Fools Day! Were you fooled?