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BBC Video was established in 1980 as a division of BBC Enterprises (later BBC Worldwide) with John Ross Barnard at the head, just as home video systems were starting to gain ground. At launch, the BBC had no agreement with British talent unions such as Equity or the Musician's Union (MU), so BBC Video was limited in the television programming ...
The first 'Blocks' logo with italicised lettering, used between 1958 and 1963. In 1953, Abram Games was commissioned to design an on-air image. [3] Nicknamed the 'bat's wings', [3] it consisted of a rounded brass contraption with a tiny spinning globe in its centre, with large wing-like protrusions flanked by lightning bolts on either side.
BBC Archive logo. The BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, BBC products (including toys, games, merchandise, books, publications, and programme releases on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, DVD, vinyl, audio cassette, audio ...
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To recover lost BBC productions and media, the BBC launched the BBC Archive Treasure Hunt, a public appeal to recover pre-1980s lost BBC radio and television productions. [5] Original material from many programs was often discarded to reduce costs, avoid copyright issues, and for technical reasons.
2008-05-25 14:24 Bilky asko 187×56× (175407 bytes) Reverted to version as of 14:22, 3 November 2007 - the letters in the logo are not white. 2008-05-25 13:55 Mangwanani 187×56× (176731 bytes) white letters
BBC logo between 1958 and 1963. 1950. May – The Archers was launched, the longest running soap opera. 21 May – Lime Grove television studios open. 27 August – First live television from the European continent, using BBC outside broadcast equipment. October – Democracy on TV first started, but was never shown in public.
The result was a logo centred on a stylised Children's with a corporate BBC logo at the bottom of the screen. In 1994, the Children's BBC idents changed in style; many featured cartoons or computer generated graphics where the stylised Children's and the BBC corporate logo would feature somewhere.