@thetvroom.com Something that passed me by till now but worth a look. A collection of interviews with ex-UTV presenters, announcers and production staff for a Queens University project. Johanne Woods, Adrienne Catherwood and Michael Henderson feature among them. blogs.qub.ac.uk/mediavoicesn...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Sky having to backtrack on numbers and admit they might be "jumping about" a bit and there might be some double-counting. 70 becomes 69. The BBC taking more care.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Interesting following the numbers this evening. BBC News rarely managing to keep up with Sky News...

🟥 REWIND | YT Clip | Back in the late 80s and 90s, there was always a bit of mischief about BBC announcer Andy Taylor. Here he is getting a little (uncharacteristically) tongue-tied and have a cheeky swipe at BBC One's programmes at closedown. >> CLIP: youtu.be/YdvUsSyr_qU?...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | An excellent history of the BBC's relationship with long wave broadcasting by Chris Greenway: >> LONG READ: radioatlanticodelsur.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC has confirmed that Radio 4's Long Wave service will close on 27th June 2026. Daily on-air reminders will be broadcast to help LW listeners find other ways of listening.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | U105 statement 1/2: "We wanted to update listeners that Denise Watson, David Johnson, Linda Cullen, Rick Nugent and Stephen Woods are leaving the U105 schedule, as we have been unable to reach mutually agreeable terms for new contracts. ...continues...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Former STV political editor Bernard Ponsonby commends BBC Scotland on their election coverage and compares the difference in the scale of resourcing with his experience in the commercial sector. >> FULL PODCAST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kad...

🟩 CEEFAX | Election latest. >> LIVE UPDATES: nmsceefax.co.uk#id=WyJubXMtY...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | STV news strike takes election coverage off air. STV journalist: "It is an awful situation. We're being asked to do more with fewer people and accept a pay cut with absolutely no sign of compassion from management." >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Tomorrow is one of those days that will undoubtedly be news overload. But the BBC News at Six on BBC One and BBC Two tomorrow? Presumably an error in the EPG data for BBC Two.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The overnight "This is BBC Two" promotional barker is more often than not way out of date. Still there being promoted as one of the faces of the channel...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | BBC Radio Scotland is reporting that tomorrow's STV strike is on. It says this means there will be no Scottish news bulletins or election results programmes.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The overnight "This is BBC Two" promotional barker is more often than not way out of date. Still there being promoted as one of the faces of the channel...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | No news from the BBC Channel Islands studio at 6.30pm due to technical problems. A Spotlight and Channel Islands-branded programme from Plymouth aired instead (with old branding).

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Another playout-related blip on ITV 1 yesterday. Loose Women didn't get off to the best of starts. (Sponsorship sting edited out).

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | BBC News channel to expand UK election coverage with special programming. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/24032/news/b...

🟥 REWIND | Feature | Natural vision: how Attenborough shaped the colourful future of British TV. >> ARTICLE: rewind.thetvroom.com/53026/featur...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Two audience-related incidents during today's live coverage of the World Snooker final. One involving a TV Licence protestor, who was quickly removed (note: bad language in video clip). And a phone alarm, in spite of repeated warnings from the referee.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Two audience-related incidents during today's live coverage of the World Snooker final. One involving a TV Licence protestor, who was quickly removed (note: bad language in video clip). And a phone alarm, in spite of repeated warnings from the referee.

🟥 REWIND | Feature | Natural vision: how Attenborough shaped the colourful future of British TV. >> ARTICLE: rewind.thetvroom.com/53026/featur...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some odd glitching across most of the country a few minutes before the end of The One Show. Viewers of BBC One Wales got to see BBC News Studio B (London) in darkness. The rest of the country (except Scotland) saw picture/audio glitching.

From Swap Shop on 7 March 1981 - Keith and Maggie leave Studio 7 to take the viewers on a tour of the Green Assembly area at Television Centre. #saturdaymornings youtu.be/LEehXf1p4Us

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Power supply issue takes BBC Two’s live snooker off the air. >> ARTICLE/CLIP: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/24018/bloope...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | And now on BBC One, the news where you are...not...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | RTÉ One launched 3 new idents yesterday, as part of the ongoing celebration of 100 years of public service broadcasting in Ireland.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Blooper | Weather graphics have failed, so sod that...that's the end of the weather bulletin. 😀

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some presenters at Belfast-based radio station U105 have disappeared from the airwaves in recent days in spite of being billed to appear. There's speculation the station has been bought by a rival. Belfast Telegraph reporting involvement of employment solicitor.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some presenters at Belfast-based radio station U105 have disappeared from the airwaves in recent days in spite of being billed to appear. There's speculation the station has been bought by a rival. Belfast Telegraph reporting involvement of employment solicitor.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Elections aren't far off now: the curved screen has been added to the front of the desk in the BBC's Studio B in London.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Closure of Radio 4 LW is the right decision. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/24010/opinio...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | ITV 1's Peston has launched from its new studio this evening, with a new set and updated titles. Looks like it might be based at ITV's Covent Garden setup at The H Club?

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | STV union members to strike on election day – but will STV blink? >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23994/opinio...

Great piece of audio production just after 1pm today on Downtown Radio as they move from the studios at Kiltonga, Newtownards, their home since 1976, to Belfast Harbour's City Quays 3

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | STV staff to strike on Scottish election results day. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Blooper | ITV National Weather disrupted by fault. >> ARTICLE/VIDEO: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23988/bloope...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | Journalists and technicians at STV are to stage a one-day strike which will impact the station's Scottish elections coverage. >> Via NUJ: www.nuj.org.uk/resource/stv...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | BBC Northern Ireland politics programme moves to multi-platform studio. >> ARTICLE/VIDEO: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23983/news/b...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | News | BBC Northern Ireland politics programme moves to multi-platform studio. >> ARTICLE/VIDEO: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23983/news/b...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | The return of Loose Women sees lunchtime news move back to 1.30pm. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23980/opinio...

🟥 Test Card klaxon. This one just appeared on #HIGNFY.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | "All areas of BBC News" to be affected by cost-cutting: BBC News CEO. - In e-mail to staff seen by Clean Feed, Jonathan Munro acknowledges the BBC will not be able to retain everything it currently broadcasts. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23978/news/a...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | "All areas of BBC News" to be affected by cost-cutting: BBC News CEO. - In e-mail to staff seen by Clean Feed, Jonathan Munro acknowledges the BBC will not be able to retain everything it currently broadcasts. >> ARTICLE: cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23978/news/a...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Ian Katz to step down as Channel 4’s Chief Content Officer. >> Via Channel 4 Press: www.channel4.com/press/news/i...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC quietly issued an update yesterday regarding the closure of BBC Radio 4 LW. - Still no specific date, only that it will close "later this year". - Listeners will receive two months' notice. >> LINK: www.bbc.co.uk/reception/wo...

🟦 What Channel 4 News could look like were it to adopt a styling in line with the channel's OSP.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | @itvpeston.bsky.social launches a new look when it returns on 22nd April. Here's Robert signing off from Television Centre for the final time last month. If Robert gets this excited about a new look, he really ought to be following us! 😀

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC to cut almost one in 10 staff to make £500m savings. >> Via BBC News: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...