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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Milkshake - 12-09-2023

(09-09-2023, 12:09 AM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote:  This is a turn up - BBC Scotland does its own thing in the school summer holidays in (I think) 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3XBpdryO8w 

Complete with BBC Scotland logo rendered in ice cream wafers!

It was 1992, Of course that was Steve McKenna, who ended up with Real Radio for most of the 00s Mega-mag, took over in 1993 and continued until 1996? I'm sure that also had Steve on it along side Grant. By 1998 BBC Scotland opt out from Daytime in early July stopped and was moved over to BBC2.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - robertclark125 - 13-09-2023

BBC Scotland had, for a short while, a trailer sting for kids programmes, which was a scene looking on a pavement, with a skateboard going past, and the camera then focusing on the manhole cover, with the BBC Scotland logo on it.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - VMPhil - 15-09-2023

Welcome to British Interactive Broadcasting. Interactive television… for the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikv7VDzOeHE 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - James2001 - 15-09-2023

That whole interactive television idea never quite worked out.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Neil Jones - 15-09-2023

Looks like the BBC Red Button on steroids.

IIRC they changed the name of that not long after to Sky Active I think it was?

Bit clunky I feel.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - VMPhil - 15-09-2023

Sort of, it was what became “Open…” which was later replaced by Sky Active.

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harshy - harshy - 15-09-2023

(15-09-2023, 05:57 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  Sort of, it was what became “Open…” which was later replaced by Sky Active.

I remember they gave you some shots like a director only it was so slow to change over it just didn’t work.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 15-09-2023

(15-09-2023, 05:57 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  Sort of, it was what became “Open…” which was later replaced by Sky Active.

Yes, Sky used the 'British <insert here> Broadcasting' name a few times in the late 90s. 

British Interactive Broadcasting became Open... and the original name of ONdigital (which originally had Sky involvement) was British Digital Broadcasting 


Open had a big flashy office near Holborn Viaduct. They eventually got subsumed into Sky. The most famous thing to come from it is probably Beehive Bedlam.

Interactive never really caught on and the idea of messing around with a TV and a keyboard and a dial up connection to order a pizza was never going to catch on. Very little was true interactivity either, you couldn't actually interact with what was going on on TV.

The best 'interactive' thing I remember seeing was on night one of E4 where the series Banzai launched with a fairly simple MHEG play along. Worked really well with no return path or any faffing. I thought Avago was quite good too.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - James2001 - 15-09-2023

Just come across this, which is where the Robert Palmer clip The Chart Show put on their final episode in 1998 as the supposedly "first video shown" is from- even though this was actually the 4th episode, not the 1st, plus as you can see here wasn't even the first song on this edition either, so not sure why they made the claim he was the first.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Spencer - 15-09-2023

(15-09-2023, 09:10 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote:   Interactive never really caught on and the idea of messing around with a TV and a keyboard and a dial up connection to order a pizza was never going to catch on. Very little was true interactivity either, you couldn't actually interact with what was going on on TV.

The best 'interactive' thing I remember seeing was on night one of E4 where the series Banzai launched with a fairly simple MHEG play along. Worked really well with no return path or any faffing. I thought Avago was quite good too.

I won an Open… keyboard once by having a letter published in the Sky customer magazine.

I tried ordering a couple of Domino’s pizzas using it. It was such a monumental faff, that by the time I’d made my order and entered my address and card details, I could easily have walked to the pizza shop and placed my order there in the time.

On the subject of play along interactive game shows, I remember they did the same for a series or two of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I remember trying it and getting bored after a while. I think the problem with such things is most people enjoy TV as a passive, relaxing experience. Anything beyond shouting answers at the screen seems like unnecessary admin.

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