BBC launches Radio Times archive listings website
MikeBr
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"The BBC today launched ‘BBC Genome’, its project to publish a comprehensive history of every radio and TV programme ever broadcast by the Corporation.
It has been created by using the BBC programme schedule from digitised copies of editions of Radio Times magazine between 1923 – 2009. The next phase of the project will look at capturing regional and national variations and changes to the planned broadcast schedules."
Press release
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-unveils-digital-schedules-radio-times
Website
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/
It has been created by using the BBC programme schedule from digitised copies of editions of Radio Times magazine between 1923 – 2009. The next phase of the project will look at capturing regional and national variations and changes to the planned broadcast schedules."
Press release
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/bbc-unveils-digital-schedules-radio-times
Website
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/
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Dearie me it is a bit!!
"The official organ of the BBC". That role is now filled by Jeremy Clarkson.
Thanks for highlighting this. I foresee many lost hours ahead!
Very useful to have. I always regret chucking out all our Radio TImes from the 1970s.
Useful ammunition to have to hand when people make the claim that BBC Radio is as good as ever. Or am I just being old fashioned?!
I spent ages last night looking back through 80's Radio 2 schedules.
I also pinto intend the day Steve Wright took over the 2pm slot from Ed Stewart and as a consolation Ed covered for Terry on Breakfast for a few weeks.
I too feel too many wasted hours will be spent, already saved link to favourites:o
I seem to remember the BBC getting into problems a few years ago when using basically the same map for their weather forecasts!
I 'lost' a whole evening trawling through early Radio 1 schedules! It appears that in 1972/3 that Fluff didn't have a break for all the time he presented the afternoon show.Rather different to all the holidays the presenters get now!
One that stood out was 'BBC Stagshaw' which only lasted from 9 January 1938 until just after the outbreak of war on 9 September 1939. Why this was standalone from the other English regional programmes isn't clear to me.
It seems that on 19 October 1937 the 1kW Newcastle 5NO station was replaced by 60kW from Stagshaw, so presumably that's why it continued to carry local programming.
The link doesn't seem to work unfortunately.
Sorry, seems my phat phingers broke it when I added more info to my post.
It's OK now.
This needs reporting to the project team. My copy of the Radio Times for that date shows:
7 pm The Return of BA Robertson with "three hours of suitably Scottish silliness"
9.50 pm Newsbeat
10.0 pm Blondie In Concert from the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow
10.45 pm Adrian Juste
My memory must be spot on then!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Programme_Catalogue
I wonder how the method of data collation differed then.
The Stagshaw transmitter had a strange footprint; in post war times it was used for a combined Newcastle / Northern Ireland Home Service. Irish listeners would have the local news from Newcastle, and those in the north east would enjoy the livestock prices from Fermanagh! True local services did not arrive until the introduction of FM.
After the re-organisation of 1945 Stagshaw shared with Lisnagarvey (the pre-war-constructed main Northern Ireland MW site, 100 kW, ie high powered) in what we would call today a single frequency network on 1050 kHz. It wasn't that Stagshaw itself covered Ulster. In 1950 the frequency changed to 1151 kHz with Londonderry sharing it as well. This sharing was simply because there weren't enough wavelengths to go round. It was only when the BBC European Service surrendered 1340 kHz that Lisnagarvey/Londonderry could take that frequency - which happened in about 1962 from memory.
But you are right on the programming, there were some odd bedfellows in those days!
Jan Lecming, John Travels Newsround etc....
To be expected. I use the British Newspaper Archive regularly and those are quite trivial errors compared with what you see there but at last on the BNA it is only an index leading to the image of the actual page.