please empty your brain below
30th June 1954, surprisingly, had 49% of programmes as sport. The Lawn Tennis Championships and 'From Switzerland World Cup Football - A semi Finals Match'. No indication of who was playing. Presumably people then were really complaining about the amount of sport on the box.

Andy | 18.10.14 - 8:08 a.m. | #

The only time I've ever been on TV was in the exact same place DG was on the BBC, for exactly the same reason.

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1d8420a464ed469e98a7093e53256b7f

Andy Norman | 18.10.14 - 9:34 a.m. | #

I believe the term Teletext with a capital became a registered trademark when the Daily Mail's Teletext (UK) won the franchise to provide commercial teletext services on Channel 3 (the name never caught on despite a brief rebrand by Tyne Tees as Channel 3 North East) and Channel 4, taking over from Oracle. The BBC's Ceefax, ITV/Channel 4's Oracle, Sky Text and independent satellite / ancillary terrestrial services (4-tel and regional ITV in the 600s) from the likes of Intelfax had happily used the term Teletext for many years. All that changed with the advent of Teletext (UK), forcing any mention of teletext in general terms by those other providers to be lower case.

| 18.10.14 - 10:58 a.m. | #

Yay 'Animal Magic'!

Bronchitikat | Homepage | 18.10.14 - 11:51 a.m. | #

I've been present at a number of live TV programmes but can't recall ever seeing my actual face in the broadcast. My shoulder, my torso, my hand but no face. The effect of me being there...oh yes. One notable occasion when a big-boots MP visibly broke out into a soaking sweat. (YEAH! Success!)Visible and evident squirming in his seat obvious in the actual broadcast footage too.

B | 18.10.14 - 12:53 p.m. | #

Yay! Maybe I can at last uncover my greatest missing piece of trivia? What was the Inspector's name in the 'Six Clue Challenge' section of 'Crackerjack!'

Joel | 18.10.14 - 7:09 p.m. | #

@non 1058
If teletext was already recognised as a generic term it shouldn't have been able to be registered to any one company's exclusive use.

timbo | 18.10.14 - 7:28 p.m. | #

I managed to find my moment of fame!
It was the one and only series of Musicology, a pop quiz for student teams; I was in the Liverpool University team. We sailed through the first round against Salford Technical College, which was broadcast live.
The second round was due for broadcast during the Easter holidays, so the Northern quarter-finals were recorded together on the last weekend of term at Manchester Polytechnic. Having only a short trip over from Liverpool, we arrived early, and we were treated to a tour of the BBC (across the road from the Poly), where we saw a rehearsal of A Question of Sport, and had a slap-up lunch in the BBC canteen. I'm sure I wasn't the only one of us who landed up with indigestion!
The quiz was broadcast on the Kid Jensen Show on April Fools Day 1980.

Steve Bird | 18.10.14 - 7:43 p.m. | #

Teletext was adopted as the generic name way back in 1974, when the BBC engineers at Kingswood Warren (see earlier DG entries) and the Independent Television Authority engineers, probably at Crawley Court near Winchester) brought together Ceefax and Oracle into a common standard. I was -- as a journalist -- at the Royal Television Society meeting at London Weekend Television on the South Bank when the compromise was agreed. How the Daily Mail managed to register Teletext, I have no idea, and I'd better not speculate, as I'm employed by a company controlled by the Daily Mail group.

Meanwhile, what was on TV the day I was born? Muffin the Mule and an adaptation of RL Stevenson's The Black Arrow
The day after? Even worse.

Meanwhile on the day I was born the Home Service (ancestor of Radio 4) has lots of music, Macbeth and Barchester Towers; on the following day it was music, music, music (no Today programme) and Princess Elizabeth opening the Festival of Britain.

Alan Burkitt-Gray | 18.10.14 - 8:56 p.m. | #

Oh, and the day after I was born (Sun 27 May 1951), there was SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby. A schools programme. In the late 1950s that was a feature of every Monday at the primary school I attended, in Doncaster, where Mr Appleby was the local authority's music adviser. The programmes were recorded at Doncaster Grammar School, which I attended from the age of 11.

Alan Burkitt-Gray | 18.10.14 - 9:02 p.m. | #

on the day I was born there wasn't any TV ... but I see the Home Service had the news in Welsh !!

Caroline | 18.10.14 - 9:06 p.m. | #

It's all Olympics from Montreal the day I came into being.

Simon | 21.10.14 - 2:25 p.m. | #

I looked at 9 months before I was born. No wonder I was conceived!

Karl, Dover | 21.10.14 - 7:29 p.m. | #











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