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 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.

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.

This approach to reading credits was pioneered by the earlier BBC radio show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.

In 1965, he left the BBC to join Associated British Corporation, where he pioneered the talk show format in the UK.

During the early sixties, BBC Birmingham pioneered television programmes, for the Asian community.

During the early sixties, BBC Birmingham pioneered television programmes, for the Asian community.

He, Rusty Baillie and Chris Bonington pioneered the route up the Old Man of Hoy which was repeated with others on a live televised BBC outside broadcast on 8 – 9 July 1967.

The programme pioneered the way for the BBC Asian Network.

The science department also pioneered content rich web sites and was one of the first areas to use email inside the BBC.

Another technology which Bob pioneered was that of computer data transmission via Band II FM radio-raw data transmitted onto the audio signal with no subcarrier: WVR featured the " Roger Tate Computer Program Programme " with Bob introducing ( after the music had ended for the night ) half an hour of 8-bit data sounds played from a Nakamichi cassette deck, representing programs for the BBC Micro and the Tandy TRS-80 microcomputers, among others.

He pioneered the " psychic detective " style of Derek Acorah, making over 25 shorts with the controversial psychic before going on to make shorts for the BBC flagship travel show Holiday.

He pioneered the use of Dolby Surround in BBC Radio.

Its success in the UK was helped by Scott Mills of BBC Radio One who pioneered the song on his weekday afternoon radio show.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

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.

It aired on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of the morning from 1997 to 1999.

One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

When he broadcast on Welsh BBC, early in his career, he was introduced using this pronunciation.

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

* BBC Science-Electronic Brains BBC Radio 4 Series about early computers, Programme 1 is about LEO

In early 1993, Francis announced in an interview to BBC Radio 5 that the band was finished and offered no explanation at the time, unbeknownst to the other members of the band.

An early television serial was The Grove Family on the BBC.

After the huge success of the show in its early evening slot on BBC Two, a prime-time edition was shown on BBC One, usually broadcast on Wednesday evenings.

The Commodore 64, BBC Microcomputer and later the Amstrad CPC range were major rivals to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s.

Many early television networks ( e. g. the BBC, NBC or CBS ) evolved from earlier radio networks.

Most of the show's 26 episodes from series 1-3 that were videotaped in black and white and broadcast 1965-68 no longer exist ; they were wiped by the BBC during the late 1960s and early ' 70s.

At the BBC, the late 2000s and early 2010s have seen a major resurgence in traditional-style sitcoms filmed in front of a studio audience and featuring a laughter track, such as Not Going Out, Miranda, Reggie Perrin, Big Top, Mrs Brown's Boys and In with the Flynns

The retrospective show Before the Fringe, broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production.

Many of the early episodes in which Troughton appeared were wiped by the BBC ( a full list of Doctor Who episodes missing from the BBC Archives is available here ).

In the early 21st century Uganda has experienced a revival of child sacrifice and in spite of government attempts to downplay the issue an investigation by the BBC into human sacrifice in Uganda found that ritual killings of children are more common than Ugandan authorities admit.

Another notable early radio drama, one of the first specially written for the medium in the UK, was Danger by Richard Hughes, broadcast by the BBC on January 15, 1924, about a group of people trapped in a Welsh coal mine.

This meeting was dramatized in semi-fictional form for the BBC by Michael Ignatieff as Dialogue in the Dark.

" According to the BBC, Verity Linn's " diary mentioned the teachings of self-proclaimed prophet Jasmuheen who believes people can draw nourishment from the ' divine life force in the form of liquid light '.

When the BBC attempted to interview a lady who had entered her house's poltergeist on her census form, the recorder was repeatedly found to play back properly outside the house, but not inside.

Since then, the Cockney accent has been more accepted as an alternative form of the English Language rather than an ' inferior ' one ; in the 1950s the only accent to be heard on the BBC ( except in entertainment programmes such as Sooty ) was RP, whereas nowadays many different accents, including Cockney or ones heavily influenced by it, can be heard on the BBC.

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

Series one, two, and three aired on the BBC from 1992 to 1995, followed by a series finale in the form of a two-part television movie entitled The Last Shout in 1996.

Deller was an influential figure in the renaissance of early music: an early proponent of original instrument performance and one of the first to bring this form to the popular consciousness through his broadcasts on the BBC, he also founded the Stour Music Festival in 1962, one of the first and most important early music festivals in the world.

The scripts were edited and transformed into prose, and published by BBC Books in the form of diaries.

was first broadcast on 8 September 1972 on the BBC, in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse.

By the late 1950s, radio broadcasting took on much the form it has today strongly focused on music, talk, news and sports, though drama can still be heard, especially on the BBC.

" One Year On " can also be found in transcript form in a booklet which was included in the DVD set of Live Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video.

The following year, Pitt, by now working full-time for the BBC, as its director of music, augmented the ensemble to form the " Wireless Symphony Orchestra " for a new series of concerts broadcast from Covent Garden, conducted by Bruno Walter, Ernest Ansermet and Pierre Monteux.

Under Bělohlávek the orchestra won glowing reviews: The Times referred to its " superb musicians ", Michael Kennedy in The Sunday Telegraph referred to a " rich and opulent magnificently played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra " under Bělohlávek, and another Telegraph critic praised the BBC SO's " virtuoso form ".

In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.

This article outlines the differences between Malaysian English or more popularly Manglish, the form of street Malaysian English spoken by most Malaysians and British or the Queen's English, which for the purposes of this article is assumed to be the form of English spoken in south east England, used by the British Government and the BBC and widely understood in other parts of the United Kingdom.

This serial is missing from the BBC archives and survives only in audio form.

The original BBC stations which had been linked together to form the BBC Regional Programme were transformed into the BBC Home Service.

This led to a complete overhaul by Frank Gillard the BBC's Director of Radio of the BBC output creating the four analogue channels that still form the basis of its broadcasting today.