At its peak, the Electron was the third best selling micro in the United Kingdom, and total lifetime game sales for the Electron exceeded those of the BBC Micro.

The hardware of the BBC Micro was emulated by a single customized ULA chip designed by Acorn in conjunction with Ferranti.

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.

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.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

This was a blow from which the machine never fully recovered, although games sales for it would ultimately outstrip those of 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.

This behavior was the same as on the BBC Micro.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

The first used the same graphics processor as the BBC Micro in mode 7 — the SAA5050 — but used software to ensure that it was fed with the correct graphics data.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

The story of the men's claims was covered by many major news networks, including BBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

The service was launched in 1999 as BBC Text.

It was relaunched in November 2001 under the BBCi brand and operated under this name until 2008, when it was once more rebranded as BBC Red Button.

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 ).

Although the experimental service was publicly available, there were no digital set-top boxes or receivers available on the market which could decode the signal and the service was only presented to the public via BBC demonstrations using prototype receivers.

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

In this period he made regular television appearances on the current affairs programmes In The News ( BBC ) and subsequently Free Speech ( ITV ).

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

The BBC subsequently removed him from a list of speakers declared to be dangerous to public morality and in the 1930s he and his colleagues made a series of radio broadcasts on psychoanalysis.

The play was also filmed for television, directed by Nick Wood, and was broadcast on BBC Four on 13 June 2004, as part of a Summer in the Sixties season, subsequently airing on BBC Two on 1 January 2005.

Since 1 January 1951, five 15-minute episodes ( since 1998, six 12½-minute episodes ) have been transmitted each week, at first on the BBC Light Programme and subsequently on the BBC Home Service ( now Radio 4 ).

The song received crucial airplay on BBC Radio 1 and DJ John Peel's evening show, and Bauhaus was subsequently asked to record a session for Peel's show, which was broadcast on January 3, 1980.

Wilson subsequently rewrote BBC Basic in ARM assembly language, and the in-depth knowledge obtained from designing the instruction set allowed the code to be very dense, making ARM BBC Basic an extremely good test for any ARM emulator.

A radio parody of The Lion in Winter entitled The Leopard in Autumn by Neil Anthony was originally broadcast in BBC Radio 4 in 2001 and 2002 and subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011.

Caesar then went on to get his first " paid gig " on the Rod Lucas Show on BBC Radio Kent and shortly afterwards they both moved to the newly created Invicta Radio and, in a similar manner to BBC Radio 1 presenter Steve Wright, copied a style from American DJ Rick Dees that has subsequently become known worldwide as the ' Zoo Format '.

The restaurant featured in a BBC documentary in spring 2008 and subsequently boasted the slogan, ' As Seen on TV ', on the shopfront.

Kelly, Collins, Maconie, Lamacq and Hobbs would all subsequently become prominent broadcasters with BBC Radio 1 as it reinvented itself under Matthew Bannister.

The BBC did not clear this usage and Top Gear's producers subsequently apologized.

BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow filmed at Brooklands Museum in July 2009 and subsequently produced two programmes for its next series-these being first broadcast on 10 and 17 January 2010.

Redwood of course subsequently learned the anthem but, in August 2007, when an unconnected news story on Redwood was illustrated with the same clip, Tory activists complained and the BBC apologised to him.

At the time of their first broadcast, they attracted some controversy: in The Sunday Times ( 15 April 1990 ) Paul Donovan opined that Lewis-Smith's hoaxes were " repugnant " and claimed that Lewis-Smith's company broke a " written undertaking that permission to broadcast would be obtained from all the people who had received the hoax calls " and that subsequently the BBC made illegal broadcasts in breach of their producers ' guidelines.

The track was performed on the children's show Blue Peter but complaints arose due to drug references and the record was subsequently banned by the BBC.

in 1982 after being awarded two of the channels the BBC proposed its own satellite service, but by 1983 started talking with the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), subsequently, BBC joined a joint-venture with Granada, Virgin, and Thorn-EMI ( dubbed the " Club of 21 ") to try and start up a joint satellite service but failed in 1985 with the BBC saying the costs were prohibitive, because the government insisted that the BBC should pay for the costs of constructing and launching a dedicated satellite.