BBC 1 Clock Goes Forward 1985

[unlokia]

People had standards back then. Where did they lose them?

[mlcmuk]

With regards not paying for programmes on commercial TV: actually you do. For every jar of Nescafe or packet of Walkers crisps you buy, you pay a percentage towards marketing. TV advertising isn't a charity - we the consumer pay for the ads on TV and in this we don't have a choice (unless you avoid buying consumer products). At least with the licence fee you can choose not to pay. Even if you don't watch ITV, every time you buy a jar of Nescafe you're paying for the programmes you're not wat

[GloucesterAdam]

@knightvox I'm not! The BBC is too far a left-leaning organisation these days.

[Jexington80]

when you saw and heard this, you KNEW it was bedtime. Now you have shit on all night to keep you up and then you're late for work....and then you get suspended!

[crazydavedisco]

The good ole days :-( The only reason we have 24 hour telly is for all the doleies who got "f" all to do (like get up 4 work) the next day. This country is is a shit state these days. If only we could rewind 30 years and start again !

[visaman]

@knightvox How is BBC One more contemporary? Do they use a digital clock now?

[Jamie10004]

A revolution in computerised technology lol

[Feisty1967]

My God! it makes me so proud to be British, tv doesn't close down like this anymore, standards have fallen.

[Jamie10004]

@Feisty1967 Too right standards have fallen! Programs don't even come on at the right time anymore! If you check on here for BBC1 Continuity in the 70's and 80's, you will see many programs started at bang-on the time they were supposed. Now theyre 3 minutes late, 50 seconds early.

The BEEB don't care. If they go off air now for 2-3 minutes, theres no sincere apology, like there was in the 80's. They expect our TV Licence fee, it is no longer a gratitude payment. The BBC are bloody crap now.

[GloucesterAdam]

@Jamie10004 Hear hear! If you don't want the BBC to get its hands on your money, just tune BBC programmes out of your TV (can easily be done). You don't have to pay to watch ITV or SKY (as the adverts fund the programmes), so it is possible to watch for free.

[Jamie10004]

@GloucesterAdam I researched the UK laws in 2007, I have not paid for licensing fees since. You have to detune your TV (and set-top box, and video recorders etc.) To be legal YOU CANNOT RECEIVE ANY BROADCAST IN THE UK - this also applies to Astra 1 satillite (I know this is owned by Germany, but you are still receiving a broadcast in the UK). Games consoles, pre-recorded media is fine. What you cannot do is ask next door to tape last weeks Corronation Street, for you to borrow for the evening.

[JHollowayNetwork]

then a few second the clock has faded to the globe.

[These4walls05]

How times change, except for the fact that BBC radio 4 still has God save the Queen played at 1am.

[Tomj2110]

The start then of BST(British summer time).

[brizzleboi]

If 1985 then this would have been March 31st

[Visonu]

This is from 31st March

[kamilek]

Closedown on date 20th May 1985.