Bbc Teletext To Be Switched Off

[Justin Smith]

7 hours ago, Baron99 said:

The BBC's Teletext service has been given a reprieve until at least the Spring, while the powers that be consider all the objections to closing the service. 

 

Apparently they've received a larger number of complaints than they were expecting, especially from pensioner groups & those without access to the Internet for their news services. 

I can assure the BBC however many complaints they got was less than I was expecting...… I thought they'd get huge numbers of complaints, it surprises me they've waited so long to announce a rethink and even then they haven't cancelled the switch off.

The only thing I regret is I didn't get to sign any of the petitions which were apparently handed in.

[Baron99]

8 hours ago, Justin Smith said:

I can assure the BBC however many complaints they got was less than I was expecting...… I thought they'd get huge numbers of complaints, it surprises me they've waited so long to announce a rethink and even then they haven't cancelled the switch off.

The only thing I regret is I didn't get to sign any of the petitions which were apparently handed in.

I was watching the BBC's "Newswatch" programme on Saturday morning & this topic was raised. 

 

As one person who wrote into them said, if a little less money was spent on needless outside broadcasts, (case in point later in the morning around 9am, a reporter doing a piece about the UK leaving the EU but stood outside 10 Downing St. with nobody else about & then doing a commentary over Friday night's video footage. 

 

Reporters doing outside broadcasts where they speak to fellow reporters to get THEIR opinions or in the case of the recent Australian bush fires, where the BBC already have Australian based reporter or use local Australian reporters, flying 6pm BBC news anchor, Clive Myrie, out to Australia to give a 5 minute piece to camera about the fies.  Think not only if the cost but also the environmental impact of flying Myrie there & back. 

 

Trim a bit of the above & there might be money to continue to fund the Teletext? 

[hauxwell]

7 hours ago, Baron99 said:

I was watching the BBC's "Newswatch" programme on Saturday morning & this topic was raised. 

 

As one person who wrote into them said, if a little less money was spent on needless outside broadcasts, (case in point later in the morning around 9am, a reporter doing a piece about the UK leaving the EU but stood outside 10 Downing St. with nobody else about & then doing a commentary over Friday night's video footage. 

 

Reporters doing outside broadcasts where they speak to fellow reporters to get THEIR opinions or in the case of the recent Australian bush fires, where the BBC already have Australian based reporter or use local Australian reporters, flying 6pm BBC news anchor, Clive Myrie, out to Australia to give a 5 minute piece to camera about the fies.  Think not only if the cost but also the environmental impact of flying Myrie there & back. 

 

Trim a bit of the above & there might be money to continue to fund the Teletext? 

Good post,  I think the person who wrote to the BBC made a good point.  They also want to look at their wage bill for the highest paid stars and see what cuts they can make there.

 

[francypants]

6 hours ago, hauxwell said:

Good post,  I think the person who wrote to the BBC made a good point.  They also want to look at their wage bill for the highest paid stars and see what cuts they can make there.

 

Not just the highest paid ' stars '  ( if you can call them that ! )

One particular programme where money is blatantly wasted is .......     Rip Off Britain.   Actually it's the license payers who are being ripped off.    Why it needs three presenters when one would suffice.  Frequently off on a jolly presenting from Tenerife / Lanzarote etc.  when the programme is anything to do with holidays but nothing related to where they are !!   Very, very annoying.

[francypants]

8 minutes ago, West 77 said:

If they can find another similar age woman to join them, they could film a British version of the Golden Girls. To the credit of the BBC at least they now let older women continue to present programs because they used to pension them off early to make way for much younger women.

I call them the Three Stooges.        😕

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hauxwell]

5 hours ago, West 77 said:

If they can find another similar age woman to join them, they could film a British version of the Golden Girls. To the credit of the BBC at least they now let older women continue to present programs because they used to pension them off early to make way for much younger women.

I can’t think of their names but didn’t a few older women presenters take the BBC to court saying they were being discriminated because of there age, and they won their case.  

There does seem to be more older women working for the BBC now.

[willman]

It is an age thing though - teletext and such. You either used it when it arrived and now can't do without it or you've never used it.

I bet my daughter (35) doesn't even know it exists 'cos i've never ever used it,although my dad used it for football scores at one time.

 

[alchresearch]

On 02/02/2020 at 01:17, Baron99 said:

As one person who wrote into them said, if a little less money was spent on needless outside broadcasts, (case in point later in the morning around 9am, a reporter doing a piece about the UK leaving the EU but stood outside 10 Downing St. with nobody else about & then doing a commentary over Friday night's video footage. 

 

 

BBC Breakfast is the worst.  They ship their stupid red sofa all around the country.

 

Same with this coffee cart.  It wasn't driveable between locations so had to be packaged up and transported.

 

[Guest makapaka]

2 hours ago, willman said:

It is an age thing though - teletext and such. You either used it when it arrived and now can't do without it or you've never used it.

I bet my daughter (35) doesn't even know it exists 'cos i've never ever used it,although my dad used it for football scores at one time.

 

Teletext has been replaced by the internet.

 

zero need to keep it.

[Padders]

6 minutes ago, makapaka said:

Teletext has been replaced by the internet.

 

zero need to keep it.

I use it all the time, football, news, horse racing, share prices,  etc..

Internet too much faffing..