Talk:Timeline of the BBC
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Factual disputes
- 1986
- October 27 - BBC1 starts a daytime television service.
- Surely they'd been carrying some daytime programmes since the mid-1970s.
- This date is correct in the context of the launch of the BBC's daytime service as it was from this day that BBC1 broadcast all day, every day.
- 1988
- September 1 - BBC External Services is renamed the World Service.
- I thought that happened in the 1960s.
Lee M 12:23, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
- Regarding the World Service, it's somewhat confusing: the English service started using the World Service in the 60s, but other non-English Extenal Services only used the name from 1988. Tom- 21:50, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Daytime programmes did happen before 1986, but there was not a full schedule. Programmes stopped after Breakfast Time until Play School at 10:30am, then popped back for the news at lunchtime plus jolly old Pebble Mill at One. There was another breather in the afternoon until Play School again ushered in children's TV and the rest of the day's schedule. Compare the Feb 18 1985 schedule with the Oct 27 1986 schedule. As you'll see from the Radio Times cover for that week, it was seen as a major change on a par with the start of Breakfast TV. --Avaragado 22:48, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
EasyTimeline
Yesterday I noticed that someone, I don't know who, tried to convert this timeline into an EasyTimeline version, on June 9, and gave up. So I took up the challenge and tried it myself. I encountered some bugs (partly in Ploticus which I use for rendering, next version of ET will contain a workaround). However the main lesson I learned was that a one on one conversion from a textual timeline is not always a good idea. Reasons and image on [1]. Erik Zachte 23:06, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:Bbc logo 1970.png
BetacommandBot 10:57, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
- Already had a rationale. TheIslander 11:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:Bbc logo before 1986.png
BetacommandBot 11:00, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
- Already had a rationale. TheIslander 11:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:BBC Logo 1997-Present.png
- Done - replaced with svg version. TheIslander 11:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for Image:BBC Logo pre 1997.gif
- Done - rationale added. TheIslander 11:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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2000 dates
I tweaked some of the 2000 dates regarding the ending of
Station openings pre 1929
There remain some discrepancies between the present article and the one at BBC Regional Programme concerning station openings before the advent of the "Regional Scheme" in c.1929. External sources don't always agree either, but I'm looking for additional references with a view to resolving this difficulty. -- Picapica (talk) 21:26, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Have now checked and updated all these dates using what I believe to be a reliable source: the Radio Times as reported by http://www.mds975.co.uk/Content/bbc_transmitter_development_clive_mccarthy.pdf -- Picapica (talk) 17:37, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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