🟦 CLEAN FEED | Blimey - that's an early Saturday night bedtime for BBC One.

🟥 REWIND | On This Day 1987 | Arguably ahead of the game with this corporate branding of their TV channels in 1987. Only to slam on the brakes and go into reverse the following year. The logo would rarely be used on air thereafter. >> Via RTÉ Archives: www.rte.ie/archives/201...

🟫 SHOWREEL | The death has taken place of former ATV announcer, radio presenter and head of presentation at Central TV, David Jamieson. showreel.thetvroom.com/talent-profi...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | When playout goes badly wrong. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23924/opinio...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | STV staff back strike action over planned pay freeze. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Now on BBC One the BBC News at Six... ...that's except for viewers in Scotland, who can enjoy Clara Amfo and Alex Jones having a chat in The One Show studio. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23909/news/b...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | BBC Radio Scotland is reporting that NUJ and Bectu members at STV have voted for strike action over pay. No dates announced.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC expected to name Matt Brittin as director general within days. >> Via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference. >> Via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference. >> Via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

If you remember the final version of Ceefax, which ran from around 1996 until DSO - from 1998 it was produced by boxes like these. You can tell they're the real deal because they're beige. They are essentially PCs running MS-DOS with a fancy teletext inserter ISA card. More to follow.

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1982 | From Ceefax: news of a computer upgrade. ORACLE might take issue with the claim here. Anyone know more about the work on the Ceefax computer system? And a national teletext service for the US. Mort Smith was one of the Ceefax staff; anyone know who the other was?

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1982 | From Ceefax: news of a computer upgrade. ORACLE might take issue with the claim here. Anyone know more about the work on the Ceefax computer system? And a national teletext service for the US. Mort Smith was one of the Ceefax staff; anyone know who the other was?

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Is STV proceeding with news changes by stealth? cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23904/opinio...

Live from NMS Central Communications... 😆

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | Ofcom delays decision over STV news programme cuts. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1980 | The first experimental "in-vision" transmission of a selection of Ceefax pages airs on BBC One. >> ENJOY PAGES FROM CEEFAX LIVE: www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...

🚀 We're pleased to announce that we're releasing a new edition of A Pecular Effect on the BBC, a classic memoir by BBC special effects pioneer Bernard Wilkie, whose credits included Doctor Who, Quatermass and many more. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

🟥 REWIND | A recent HD recreation of the BBC One on-screen clock from 1991 - 1997 accentuates an eerie face that was there in plain sight amongst the coloured swirls. >> Loads of TV clock recreations here: www.mcmweb.co.uk

New to our #radiomerch collection! This is the 2nd one of these lovely mugs that we have from BBC Radio Humberside’s 10th anniversary in 1981. Handcrafted by local potter, Jerry Harper, each one is unique with minor differences. This one, for instance, is much bluer at the top than our other one.

🟥 REWIND | A recent HD recreation of the BBC One on-screen clock from 1991 - 1997 accentuates an eerie face that was there in plain sight amongst the coloured swirls. >> Loads of TV clock recreations here: www.mcmweb.co.uk

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Pam Masters: a key figure in modern British television presentation. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23899/opinio...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Pam Masters: a key figure in modern British television presentation. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23899/opinio...

Further tribute here posted by Red Bee. www.redbeemedia.com/news/our-fir...

🟥 REWIND | Feature | Reflections on 50th anniversary of BBC TV News presentation update. rewind.thetvroom.com/52892/featur...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The death has been announced of former Head of Presentation at Channel 4 and BBC Television, Pam Masters. >> Via LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesa...

🟥 REWIND | Feature | Reflections on 50th anniversary of BBC TV News presentation update. rewind.thetvroom.com/52892/featur...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | ITV Lunchtime News on the move. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23884/opinio...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | ITV Lunchtime News on the move. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23884/opinio...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC suggests licence fee could be cut if more people pay. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Sinn Féin opposes BBC involvement in new Belfast attraction. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1990 | ORACLE asks for the public's help to save its ITV and C4 service from closure. Commercial teletext wasn't catered for in the new Broadcasting Bill. Some disparaging remarks about Ceefax! Recovery: Tomsonic41 @ teletextarchive.com

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | 5 to close satellite SD service on Thursday. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23881/news/5...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | STV news cuts: possible impact on advertising sub-regions. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23874/opinio...

Rest in peace Edgar Martin. A great announcer and such a character.

🟫 SHOWREEL | The death has been announced of former BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio 4 announcer, Edgar Martin. showreel.thetvroom.com/talent-profi...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Newsnight looking well in the Salford studio tonight.

Here it is in its full glory!

🟦 Never mind all your outstanding work with iBuild, we're more interested in your test card. 😀

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Escalating industrial relations troubles for STV. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23857/opinio...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Escalating industrial relations troubles for STV. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23857/opinio...

Fancied doing another endcard.

I've not added anything to the javascript TV clocks for a while, so here's something particularly silly – It's the logo silkscreen printed on the front of the "GNAT" hardware from the 90s, turned into a working clock zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

How Reuters captured the photo of former Prince Andrew leaving custody reut.rs/4cawweJ

🟩 TELETEXT | #Ceefax klaxon. Doesn't get many mentions on BBC TV these days. But we'll them! Ceefax question on The Weakest Link. #Teletext

🟦 CLEAN FEED | It's been a very long (presenting) day for some. @bbcmaryam.bsky.social

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC News channel breaking the news about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at 10am today.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A fairly rare event on BBC TV these days. A News Report (or Newsflash) on BBC One this morning at 10.20am. Edit:

🟦 CLEAN FEED | STV pay freeze: the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and broadcasting union Bectu are to ballot their members on whether to strike. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | STV pay freeze: the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and broadcasting union Bectu are to ballot their members on whether to strike. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...