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In the mid 1980s, as TV-am was finding its feet, it decided that, as well as having UK reporters based in the regions and nations, to open regional offices. These were also known as inject studios. It saved guests on the programme having to travel down to London; instead they could be interviewed locally. Ian White, the BBC Yorkshire journalist, has the North east inject studio set. It consisted of two parts. The first was a smaller version of the Good Morning Britain set, and at 90 degrees to that, was a regionalised version of the TV-am news set. In the case of the North East, it would read "TV-am North East" as opposed to TV-am News.

I know the TV-am North East studio was in an office block, a few minutes walk from Jesmond Metro station, and the one in Yorkshire was in the TV museum in Bradford. Where were the others located, and who uses them now? Also, when TV-am closed its news service in 1992, in favour of Sky produced bulletins for the last months, I assume these inject studios were done away with as well?

Hell of an expose from the BBC here on multiple allegations of misconduct, inappropriate behaviour and bullying at Al Jazeera English including against Kamahl Santamaria who  left TVNZ after just 32 days (this happened ages ago but I haven't seen anything about it until now).

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Apologies if this is too minor for a new thread but I couldn’t find an existing STV thread.

Bean is currently going out on STV with an ITV DOG, I’m watching on Freeview HD in Central Scotland so there’s no way to pick up ITV by mistake.

Edit: going into the ad break, we got an ITV “Back Soon” bumper, followed by an “VW sponsors STV Movies” sponsorship and then an ITV break bumper, perhaps their clean feed isn’t available?

Okay, one day late - but the TV channel Dave launched 15 years ago yesterday on 15th October 2007.

I only note this because this channel has had a slightly interesting history. It started out as UK Gold Classics in 1998, a channel so short-lived with such limited availability that there is no recorded footage of it anywhere on the internet AFAIK.

It was replaced with UK Gold 2, a curious channel, in that it simply repeated UK Gold's morning/daytime schedule but from 6pm in the evening, because UK Gold's daytime schedule (including soaps like Neighbours) appealed to a different audience.

Meanwhile, UKTV had another channel, UK Play (later Play UK), again a curious mix of music in the daytime and comedy in the evening - I believe this was down to limited space on ONdigital/ITV Digital where it had less competition than the number of music channels on Sky. As well as BBC repeats the channel also had some homegrown comedy with people who would go on to become household names - the likes of Lucas & Walliams, Mitchell & Webb, Russell Brand.

In 2002, after the closure of ITV Digital, Play UK closed too - but UKTV seem to have regretted this (I'm not sure where the likes of HIGNFY and Buzzcocks turned up on the UKTV network in the period after Play closed - UK Gold?) - as in 2003 they replaced UK Gold 2 with UK G2, pretty much the spiritual successor to Play UK's comedy side (even some Play original productions like Rock Profile turned up in the G2 launch schedule).

At some point the channel started broadcasting in the daytime too - beginning a tradition of Top Gear repeats, the programme that would become to define the channel really.

G2 suffered the worst in my opinion from UKTV's baffling decision in 2004 to change the prefix on all their channels from "UK" to "UKTV". UKTV G2 is not a snappy name.

The decision to relaunch the channel as Dave at the same seemed a little baffling, but of course in hindsight, was a genius decision. The unusual name, cleverly positioned branding and not forgetting a well publicised launch on Freeview pretty much made the renamed channel an instant success.

Branching into more original programming has also been a success for Dave - some shows even being successful enough to make the leap to mainstream television.

But of course the main reason we go to Dave is for comfort television - the likes of Top Gear, HIGNFY, QI, Would I Lie to You. Happy birthday Dave and long may you continue to be "the home of witty banter".

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Just over a month to go before the World Cup is underway... FIFA has unveiled the opening titles and theme music for the world feed TV broadcasts. You'll need to get directly to the video (FIFA deliberately blocks embedding to protect their copyright). Here it is.

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In comparison, here's the opening for the last World Cup, which featured the first outing of the FIFA's then-new anthem "Living Football" (from Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe).

Interesting to note that the titles to the National Television Awards tonight features the old BBC One and BBC Two logos, but the current BBC Three logo. I think I'm right in saying the rest were current though.

The trailer for the BBC centenary episode (and Jodie's swansong) has been released. Airs Sunday 23rd October:

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Looks like ITV3 are showing 2 hours of Classic Emmerdale episodes (in addition to the the usual afternoon run, which co-incidentally will be showing the 30th anniversary episodes later in the month) from 10pm-Midnight during the week of the 17th October. Looks like it includes 7 episodes from the "Emmerdale Farm" era, which ITV3 didn't show- according to Digiguide though it doesn't give the exact dates, there's the first episode from 1972, an episode from 1976, 2 from 1978, 1 from 1986 and 2 from 1988. While I'd love to get the full 17 years (and still wish ITV3 had begun with them, they'd have got through it in a little over 2 years and be up to 1994/95 by now), it's good to finally see some episodes from the "farm" era get repeated.

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