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BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.
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The service was launched in 1999 as BBC Text.
BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.
A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.
BBC Text was considerably more advanced than Ceefax, in that it offered a richer visual interface, with the possibility of photographic images and designed graphics ( as opposed to Ceefax graphics which were composed of simple blocks of colour ).
BBC Text pioneered an early form of " on-demand " interactive television, called Enhanced TV.
It was recorded for a BBC Maida Vale session on 19 May 1971 for the Sounds of the Seventies show, a bootleg version of the session can be found on The Text of Festival.
BBC and also
There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).
Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.
Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.
By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.
See also the list of Acorn Electron games for a fairly comprehensive list of games published for the machine and: Category: BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games for a list of games with information on Wikipedia.
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.
From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.
BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.
Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.
BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.
Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.
Weather summaries are provided every half hour by forecasters from the BBC Weather Centre while business and sport updates are also presented generally from within the main studio.
In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.
Coverage of major events has also been simulcast on BBC World News.
Many of these programmes also appear throughout the week on BBC News's sister channel BBC World News.
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This enabled the Electron to achieve the same functionality as that provided by the Expansion-ROM slot on the bottom-left of the BBC Micro B keyboard.
The recycling of videotapes, coupled with savings made on the storage of the bulky 2 " tapes, enabled the BBC to keep costs down.
In the 2006 documentary A History of Tyneside, veteran North East newsreader Mike Neville suggested that the launch of Tyne Tees enabled local people to be able to hear local accents and dialects on television, since early broadcasters, particularly those from the BBC, tended to speak in Received Pronunciation.
Some early computer keyboards, such as the Commodore 64, had a shift lock but no caps lock ; others, such as the BBC Micro, had both, only one of which could be enabled at a time.
A deal with ITV enabled Culshaw to make this while simultaneously starring in BBC Two's Dead Ringers.
As part of that release, the tool UPCFS saw its first release which enabled a claimed 86 % compatibility rate with existing decompressed UEF files allowing them to be transferred to a real BBC Micro using a custom User Port cable that presents an RS-232 capable connection to a PC.
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It had feature limitations such as being unable to output more than one channel of sound, ( and provided fewer Envelope-shaping options ) where the BBC was capable of three-way polyphony ( plus one noise channel ) and the inability to provide teletext mode.
BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).
The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.
Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.
In May 2007, the channel became available for UK viewers to view through the BBC News website through a live stream.
In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.
As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.
The BBC had run the international news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997.
A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.
On 21 April 2008, BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News on the channel itself – but is referred to as the BBC News Channel on other BBC services.
The BBC began simulcasting the channel overnight on terrestrial channel BBC One with the launch of the channel, ending the tradition of a closedown but at the same time effectively making the service available to many more viewers.
BBC and association
Coleman's association with these verbal slips is so strong that he is often given erroneous credit for the earliest example specifically referenced as a Colemanball ; in fact the broadcaster responsible was fellow BBC commentator Ron Pickering.
The Archimedes won significant market share in the education markets of the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand ; the success of the Archimedes in British schools was due partly to its predecessor the BBC Micro and later to the Computers for Schools scheme organised by the Tesco supermarket chain in association with Acorn, and most students and pupils in these countries in the early 90s were exposed to an Archimedes or A-series computer.
The series was produced by Theatre of Comedy Entertainment, in association with DLT Entertainment Ltd. for the BBC.
In Simon Brett's long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy drama, No Commitments ( 1992 – 2007 ), Beckenham is the home of the wildly snobbish, socially aspirational and insecure sister Victoria ; the town is frequently mocked by association.
John Adams became the BBC Symphony Orchestra's artist in association in June 2003.
His first television success was as one of Michael Bentine's sidekicks in the inventive and surreal BBC show It's a Square World ( 1960 ), but Guyler gained greater recognition on the small screen in his association with comedian and writer Eric Sykes.
Rex the Runt is an animated claymation television show produced by Aardman Animations for BBC Bristol in association with EVA Entertainment and Egmont Imagination.
In 1974, following an earlier-than-normal TV screening of the film on BBC TV, which broke a gentlemen's agreement allowing a ' window ' of theatrical distribution before any TV screening, the UK's Cinematograph Exhibitors ' Association ( the theatrical distributors ' association ) recommended its members blacklist all future movies produced by Jules Buck.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a British topical sketch comedy show produced by the BBC in association with Spitting Image Productions.
BBC America is distributed in association with Discovery Networks, the United States division of Discovery Communications and parent company of the Discovery Channel, which also handled affiliate and advertising sales until this moved in-house on April 1, 2008.
Since its association with the BBC's role in the war, various recordings of Lillibullero have been played by the BBC as an identity signal.
Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a television natural history series made by the BBC in association with Warner Bros. and Reiner Moritz Productions.
Needell is best known in the United Kingdom as a television presenter and motoring journalist, in particular in association with the BBC TV series Top Gear which he started co-hosting in 1987.
Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers (" The Foreigners ' Office ", a fictional department for dealing with non-Jersey residents ), part of the States of Jersey Police.
However, during that time he also pursued other interests and began his association with the BBC, aiming to be a popularizer of classical music.
* The Monk and the Honey Bee Documentary of Brother Adam and his creation of the Buckfast bee in association with the BBC.
She was interviewed about her membership of the association and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory!
Jarvis has had a long association with the BBC, particularly BBC Radio 4.
In 1988, the association threatened to seek a legal injunction against the BBC to prevent the broadcaster from airing the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute from Wembley Stadium.
The serial, first broadcast on BBC One in 2003, was produced in-house by the BBC in association with the independent production company Endor Productions.
The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was later adapted as a BBC television film by British playwright Harold Pinter, in association with RTÉ.
His association with the BBC ranges from, formerly, a BBC Radio 4 series on language issues to, currently, podcasts on the BBC World Service website for people learning English.
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