Latest BBCi goings on
Published on 15 September 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC Radio, BBC red button, CBBC, interactive television
CBBC extra goes bright green, and cable-land gets a radio service
Posts about Interactive TV
Bouncing bugs
Published on 18 July 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
The end of last week saw the launch of yet another raft of BBCi changes that I've been involved with. In fact it was a huge, chunky, bit-of-a-nightmare of a release, with most of the changes being behind the scenes so you'd never even notice, which isn't really the most encouraging thing in the world!
An Award Winning BBCi
Published on 20 April 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, Work, BBC, BBC red button, Ceefax, Digital Switch Over, interactive television
Tthis week, BBCi won the International Interactive Emmy award for Best Interactive Television Service. Woo!
100% Increase In Video Choice! (a.k.a BBCi News Multiscreen on Freeview gets a bit bigger)
Published on 24 February 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, Freeview, interactive television
It was great to see the new look BBCi News Multiscreen launch on digital terrestrial television at around 11:10 on Thursday morning - now with 100% more video options! (well four choices instead of 2 is a 100% increase!)
Number or No Number?
Published on 21 February 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
I mentioned the other day that all but four pages within the new BBCi weather service had page numbers and that I was contemplating adding in those extra four. Whether to do so or not turned out to be an interesting decision.
Changes to the BBCi Weather service
Published on 17 February 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
Urgh, thank goodness it's the weekend. It's been a particularly long week due to the launch of the revised BBCi weather service on digital terrestrial and satellite which, for us, wasn't quite as smooth as I would have liked - hence why I was still at work last night at 8pm. Especially annoying given I'd worked late the previous night and had hoped to go home early on Friday to compensate! Still the changes are done and the service is up there for people to see.
Weather and Sport joins the BBCi News Multiscreen
Published on 10 February 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, Freeview, interactive television
A while ago, someone emailed me to ask what was going to replace the old quarter screen BBC Parliament service on digital terrestrial television (aka Freeview). At the time I just said that something was coming, and that I couldn't say more.
Three closures, one opening and some snow
Published on 11 January 2007 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC Parliament, BBC red button, interactive television
I feel a bit like the grim reaper having recently been the person who took the life away from two BBCi sections which closed this week.
A tale of some brown holly
Published on 30 December 2006 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television
This year we added a bit of brown holly to the front page of BBCi on satellite. Some people may wonder why it's brown. Some might wonder why only on satellite. So here's why.
A Brief History of BBC Parliament on Freeview
Published on 28 October 2006 in BBC red button, Interactive TV, Television, BBC, BBC Parliament, BBC red button, Freeview, interactive television
Well the news is out - BBC Parliament on DTT/Freeview will be going full screen in November, rather than the horrible quarter screen format that it goes out in now.