The TV Room

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Radio | Per a contributor on pres.cafe, has @sarajcox just inadvertently dropped a big hint about her start date on the R2 breakfast show? FYI - Sara's new book is apparently due out on 16th July.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | We interrupt this timeline to bring you breaking news from BBC News...on a VERY slow news day...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A fault with a camera caused picture distortion during a large part of Czechia's performance at #Eurovisión2026. According to Graham Norton, one of the camera operators may have fallen during the performance.

🟥 REWIND | The late 80s/early 90s BBC Sport ident made an appearance at the start of today's FA Cup coverage...as did Des.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | 1/2 Still zero care being taken on BBC Two when exiting BBC News ch simulcast at lunchtime (Network and Wales versions shown here). Would it be too much to ask to handle this more professionally and perhaps point viewers to BBC One news or BBC News ch?

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Former STV political editor Bernard Ponsonby commends BBC Scotland on their election coverage and compares the difference in the scale of resourcing with his experience in the commercial sector. >> FULL PODCAST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kad...

🟦 CLEAN FEED | No news from the BBC Channel Islands studio at 6.30pm due to technical problems. A Spotlight and Channel Islands-branded programme from Plymouth aired instead (with old branding).

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Another playout-related blip on ITV 1 yesterday. Loose Women didn't get off to the best of starts. (Sponsorship sting edited out).

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Two audience-related incidents during today's live coverage of the World Snooker final. One involving a TV Licence protestor, who was quickly removed (note: bad language in video clip). And a phone alarm, in spite of repeated warnings from the referee.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some odd glitching across most of the country a few minutes before the end of The One Show. Viewers of BBC One Wales got to see BBC News Studio B (London) in darkness. The rest of the country (except Scotland) saw picture/audio glitching.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | RTÉ One launched 3 new idents yesterday, as part of the ongoing celebration of 100 years of public service broadcasting in Ireland.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Blooper | Weather graphics have failed, so sod that...that's the end of the weather bulletin. 😀

🟦 CLEAN FEED | ITV 1's Peston has launched from its new studio this evening, with a new set and updated titles. Looks like it might be based at ITV's Covent Garden setup at The H Club?

🟦 CLEAN FEED | @itvpeston.bsky.social launches a new look when it returns on 22nd April. Here's Robert signing off from Television Centre for the final time last month. If Robert gets this excited about a new look, he really ought to be following us! 😀

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Multiple ITV 1 regions are being affected by what appears to be a major fault at ITV's playout centre. The regional news and national news has been largely blacked out in some parts of the country and replaced by animating logos output from regional studios.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC's Made Of Here campaign docks in Northern Ireland with a Titanic-sized drone display. This trail aired earlier this evening.

🟥 REWIND | All this fuss about who has what it takes to present an early morning radio show. Back in the day, TV announcer/director David Allan would finish his evening/late night shift on BBC One and head over to Broadcasting House to do the early shift on BBC Radio 2.

🟥 CLOCKS GO FORWARD | As is customary on this feed, our reminder about the clock change. @zxguesser.bsky.social moved all his clocks forward live online. How good is this!

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Newsnight looking well in the Salford studio tonight.

🟩 TELETEXT | #Ceefax klaxon. Doesn't get many mentions on BBC TV these days. But we'll them! Ceefax question on The Weakest Link. #Teletext

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Glitching on the clean feed of BBC One around the newsflash junctions caused issues for playout centres in Scotland, Wales and NI:

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC News channel breaking the news about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at 10am today.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A fairly rare event on BBC TV these days. A News Report (or Newsflash) on BBC One this morning at 10.20am. Edit:

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Weeks after launching its updated Studio 1 set, the ITV Lunchtime News was back in the 'broom cupboard' Studio 3 today, complete with creaky presenter's chair. Issues with the main studio? Oddly, an ITV News Central-branded lower-third appeared at one point.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC Reporting Scotland has updated its signature tune. Here's a comparison of the opening of yesterday's 6.30pm programme versus today's:

🟦 CLEAN FEED | As expected, ITV Border News during GMB, STV News replaced by trails at lunchtime...and now at 6pm, Sean's Scotland instead of STV News at 6. All without any on air explanation from STV.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | ITV News London reused the national news set for its lunchtime bulletin, but with new backdrop imagery.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | After over 20 years using virtual sets and green screen technology, ITV News has switched to using a physical set, in its Studio 1 facility at ITN, which it now shares with Good Morning Britain. But graphics and set backdrop visuals remain largely unchanged.