Of course, from WETA-TV’s (Washington, DC) prmotional reel, this sounds as if it will be a Washington Metro item, not national in the US (as f now).  The programming sounds as if it is similar to what BBC America offers, without the commercials.  It is also a digital Television channel, which means it is a [...]

My wife was asking me about when the latest series of the Killing (aka Forbrydelsen, meaning The Crime) was going to appear on BBC Four.  Alas, that is yet to come, but the Radio Times has announced that more Nordic Noir will be hitting the airwaves soon.  The only one of these new series with [...]

Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel here for a job switch. The Radio Times published this sickener about the post. Former D-Gs talking about what a living nightmare the post is. Everybody seems to hate you: OK, so you can’t sleep, you can’t go on holiday and everyone outside the BBC [...]

Somehow. my stats have jumped up from the UK–and a certain IP address block at that. I’m dead serious–I’ll apply for the job of D-G if I stand a chance.

No sooner do I post my pieces on the BBC then this job opens up: British Broadcasting Corporation  Director-General. Now, I would be happy to give them my CV if I knew I stood a ghost of a chance. I wonder how many of my Old School Chums are higher ups at the Beeb? Break [...]

At this point, I’m going to try to tie together the thoughts I’ve mentioned in the previous three posts to try and come up with a coherent whole. 1) The BBC is a public broadcasting service The major problem with this one is who exactly is the public and who exactly funds it. The BBC [...]

Once again, to recap, Three of the BBC’s public purposes as set out in its Royal Charter are: Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK Delivering to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services. In the first of these [...]

My attempt to get a TV License as: Mr. David Camoron 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Was rejected by them. Fake addresses do not work for getting a TV license.

I want to reiterate some things I mentioned in Part I of this: Two of the BBC’s public purposes as set out in its Royal Charter are: Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK In Ye Olden Dayes, the BBC Motto was [...]

If you have access to the Internet, then you can receive BBC Television whilst it is being broadcast from anywhere in the world (despite what the BBC, or TV Licence Resisters such as Peter, would like to admit). Of course, if you want to be legal, then you can’t watch it whilst actually being broadcast. Or [...]

Everyone will tell you that you need a valid TV Licence if you watch or record TV as it’s being broadcast. Watching while during broadcast includes the use of devices such as a computer, laptop, mobile phone or DVD/video recorder. It isn’t really enough to say that you don’t watch as a programme is broadcast–there [...]

The title from this post comes from the World Services int signal, but it seems quite appropriate.  Two of the BBC’s public purposes as set out in its Royal Charter are: Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK In Ye Olden Dayes, [...]

For those of you who say I don’t give other opinions air, I present this: 2 responses to The TV Detector Van Just goes to show… a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. The “TV Licensing Authority” is the BBC. The BBC subcontract their TV licence enforcement and operations to several companies, which act [...]

The BBC World Service turned 80 Today.  In celebration here is a video of the World Service Idents through the years. Idents of the BBC Empire Service (up till 1948) followed by the General Overseas Service (till 1980s) including the short time ‘oranges and Lemons’ ident of the 70s. Afther that is Lilliburlero, the world [...]

Is the Title of a BBC drama about a woman who is a midwife in the East End of London in the 1950s and based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth. I was curious if it would make it to the US airwaves given it deals with two no-nos in US politics–woment’s health and nationalised [...]