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2005 p2 2005 p1 2004 p2 2004 p1 2003 p2 2003 p1 2002 2001-00 Entries are presented in reverse date order Sunday December 22 2002 - 05:07:12
Name: g brooks
Where are you from?: norwich, uk
Comments: I agree bring back the balloon! It's blatantly apparent Ms Heggessey's sole motive was to make an impression upon her arrival as bbc controller! Political correctness gone mad again I'm afraid
Wednesday December 04 2002 - 09:24:14
Name: Radio World
Where are you from?: Europe
Comments: Nice website, quite intresting! Don't forget it to add it on Radio Web World (www.radioweb.org/word).
Tuesday November 19 2002 - 19:02:42
Name: Ben
Where are you from?: Newcastle
Comments: Nice site what about favourite snacks of the 80s though like top deck shandy and cute girls of the 80s Watch out for bats RW replies: This is a television site rather than a nostalgia one. However I'll watch out for the bats
Sunday November 10 2002 - 19:57:58
Name: Rob
Where are you from?: UK
Comments: Like the site, the front page is very interesting. Keep up the good work.
Friday November 08 2002 - 12:37:19
Name: Hannah
Where are you from?: Work!
Comments: Hello Robbie!! Hope you get well soon!! 3 days off work - bargain! It's been very quiet here without you! See you soon Hannah et al xxx
 Sunday October 27 2002 - 17:37:46
Name: Gary
Where are you from?: Southampton
Comments: Very nostalgic site. Coming from Southampton I feel like I was brought up spoon fed with Guy Michelmore!!
Saturday October 19 2002 - 01:12:50
Name: ALUN GRAY
Where are you from?: DUNDEE SCOTLAND
How did you stumble upon this site?: From webring
Comments: GREAT SITE WELL DONE C.U.
Sunday October 13 2002 - 15:29:44
Name: Colin Day
Where are you from?: Birmingham
Comments: Congrats on a very entertaining site. A nice nostalgia trip for unreconstructed anoraks like me.
Monday October 07 2002 - 10:51:11
Name: Josh Lim
Where are you from?: Malaysia
Comments: Damn cool stuff, insight and commentary. Keep up the good work.
Thursday October 03 2002 - 22:33:12
Name: Carl Waring
Where are you from?: West Yorkshire, UK
Comments: An excellent site. I have bookmarked it and will return!
Saturday September 21 2002 - 20:35:15
Name: Malcolm
Where are you from?: Newbury
Comments: Excellent.........this is what 'The Web' is about. Well done
Wednesday September 04 2002 - 05:47:20
Name: MIKE G
Where are you from?: North East UK
Comments: Oh fantastic site full of great memories... Marian Foster of Pebble Mill at One now reads the BBC News for radio Newcastle (and has her own weekend radio show) She also is a reporter for BBC Look North (North East & Cumbria) And didn't willo the wisp get repeated on Channel 4 in the very early mornings at around 5:25am at the same time they were showing magic roundabout at that awful hour of the day! Still great site!
 Saturday August 31 2002 - 00:13:54
Name: Em
Where are you from?: NW England
Comments: Wow - fantastic site! Loads of nostalgia and someone else who though that 'The Adventure Game' was fantastic at the age of about 7... Keep working and I'll keep dropping in
for a trip down memory lane! From another telly addict born in 1976!
Thursday August 22 2002 - 21:47:54
Name: André Ockers
Where are you from?: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Comments: Great Site! Spent here more than an hour, loved it! Keep up the good work! André Ockers Chief of WijknieuwsTV Nijmegen Public Television The Netherlands
Monday July 22 2002 - 23:07:54
Name: Dave Smith
Where are you from?: Leicester
Comments: Great site mate. Really loved the Kids TV memories. Keep up the good work.
Sunday July 21 2002 - 17:35:37
Name: Paul Ryan
Where are you from?: Mansfield
Comments: This site is superb! Keep up the good work.
Thursday July 18 2002 - 21:39:46
Name: Jenny
Where are you from?: Banbury
Comments: Congratulations on a very good site. I particularly liked the radio Times covers section. There's an excellent exhibition of radio Times artwork on at the moment at the Ashmolean in Oxford.
Tuesday July 16 2002 - 23:03:31
Name: Ben
Where are you from?: Sussex
Comments: Fantastic site! Spent almost an hour here, it's so good :) Keep up the good work!
Sunday July 07 2002 - 15:19:32
Name: Leigh
Where are you from?: Reading, Shinfield
Comments: My name is Leigh, and i'm 14 still. But time is 'Green Eggs And Ham' on? Is on Christmas Eve 1978 BBC2 Colour
Friday July 05 2002 - 14:44:23
Name: stephen doran
Where are you from?: london
Comments: i like martin kelner very much in fact i used to listen to his weekly show on radio 2 around 1987,he had a featured year every week it was very interesting.
Sunday June 30 2002 - 20:32:59
Name: Dave
Where are you from?:
Comments: Great site!
Friday June 21 2002 - 00:01:21
Name: Darren Powles
Where are you from?: wales
Comments: I really enjoyed this site. It's very interesting! -- Darren
 Tuesday May 07 2002 - 14:28:53
Name: Digifiend
Where are you from?: Hull
Comments: When will TV & Radio Bits next be updated? Have you seen E4's spoof BBC1 idents? The TV Room site has got them, I'm sure I don't need to post the address!
Monday May 06 2002 - 18:29:23
Name: Rob gould
E-mail: rob1664@btopenworld.com
Where are you from?: Cheshire
Comments: CBBC:Andy Crane is now a breakfast time radio presenter for jazz fm.Can be heard on the web at jazzfm.com(manchester)
Monday May 06 2002 - 04:38:06
Name: Vern
Where are you from?:
Comments: Great site.
Monday April 22 2002 - 16:58:48
Name: Digifiend
Where are you from?: Hull
Comments: That's what the links page is for. The biggest and best site has to be TV Ark - http://www.TV-ark.co.uk I certainly think this site is professional though, my site looks pathetic in comparison!
Monday April 15 2002 - 15:05:04
Name: Iain L
Where are you from?: Kent
Comments: I think this site is ok,i suppose.but the thing that this site needs like many other TV sites is video clips using eg: realplayer, apart from that, i ve seen worse sites that this. Verdict: OK but needs improvement. RW replies: I've seen worse guestbook entries than this
Thursday April 11 2002 - 16:06:43
Name: Digifiend
Where are you from?: Hull
Comments: Neil, this site only displays Christmas idents in December. But it would be a good idea to put them up full time. How about it guys? Also, the BBC are using different trailer styles for each channel, even BBC Choice, although when BBC3 launches I guess theirs will be different. Christmas idents can be seen at http://www.tvhome.co.uk http://www.TV-ark.co.uk and http://www.thetvroom.com Also, nice one for being so up to date. Some sites I can name haven't updated to the new look yet! RW replies: Christmas idents are now available here all year round
Wednesday April 03 2002 - 21:29:33
Name: Graham
Where are you from?: London
Comments: Love the site but Debbie Flint did not disappear into obscurity she had a series for BBC 1 daytime and has been one of the most popular presenters on TV Home Shopping for years. www.shoppingtelly.com RW replies: Shopping television...obscurity...same thing, isn't it? Debbie isn't the only former children's presenter to end up trying to sell you things - watch out for Peter Simon on bid-up.tv!
Monday April 01 2002 - 05:59:25
Name: Rodney Watson
Where are you from?: Birmingham, England, UK
Comments: Wow, just stumbled upon this site - it's great and bang up to date too! The typeface the BBC are now using for their programme listings is called Franklin Gothic. It is currently used by ITN and the free Metro News newspaper. Sky used to use the italic version of it a lot a while back. I don't know why the BBC have done with this. They should of stuck to Gill Sans like what they were using before because now the two different typefaces clash with one another. What they should of done was used some of the other weights (versions) of the Gill Sans family to add emphasis and variety where needed. When the new Gill Sans BBC logo was introduced some years ago there was uproar about the cost (can't remember how much, but it was a lot) - so why the use of Franklin Gothic? Another blunder I've spotted is their incorrect use of the apostrophe in headlines. They sometimes use the straight one ' (which true use is for feet & inches and minutes & seconds, eg 5' 9") rather than the curly one (the proper apostrophe, can't type it here, but you know what I mean). BBC News are usually the worst culprit. Does all this matter? The Beeb set the standard that people look up to and if they can't get it right, what chance have anyone else? Try these links and compare the two mentioned typefaces: Franklin Gothic http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_023.html Gill Sans http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_152.html
Sunday March 31 2002 - 20:17:00
Name: Neil Green
Where are you from?: Manchester
Comments: Fab! Now I know I'm not the only saddo who likes stuff like this! :-) Any chance of getting any old christmas idents? (there was a lovely set of revolving 'glass' xmas trees for BBC2 sometime back in the 80s I wouldn't mind seeing again...) RW replies: Christmas idents have since been added to BBC Television Idents
Monday February 11 2002 - 17:41:28
Name: Natalia wolff
Where are you from?: Twikenham
Comments: Really useful, as I am doing my disertation on TV Idents. Would love to know more about them. Really interesting
Tuesday February 05 2002 - 02:29:25
Name: Richard Dobbie
Where are you from?: Manchester
Comments: Brilliant and fascinating site... especially love the blow-by-blow accounts of the BBC power cuts! Also, your hand-drawn pictures of the BBC channel idents are really cute. But how do you get them so accurate? There are some more classic moments you could feature alongside the BBC power cuts, such as the BBC1 output on the morning of 15 October 1987 (the famous hurricane), which I remember so vividly. None of the staff at Television Centre could get in to work that morning, which led to a bleary-eyed Nicholas Witchell talking to a fixed camera for two painful hours in the Childrens BBC "broom cupboard" (which had been stripped of all its decorations), with absolutely no VT to fall back on. Occasionally he took a short break, so they placed a cardboard slide in front of the camera featuring the garish "BBC Daytime" ident. As the morning progressed they threw together a botched programme from the Newsnight studio, featuring a mismatch of incorrect graphics. Somebody somewhere must have a recording of this bizarre episode in television history. It would be wonderful to see it again. RW replies: I never got to see any of this since we didn't have any power for the week following the 'hurricane'!
 Saturday January 12 2002 - 21:29:12
Name: R K
Where are you from?: Yorks
Comments: Will be OK as soon as more stuff is added. But, Martin Kelner - unsung hero? please! If anyone had a face for radio, he's the one.
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