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14 February – Following the launch of Breakfast Time, the Open University (OU) programmes previously shown on BBC1 on weekday mornings move to BBC2, resulting in the weekday early morning OU transmission on BBC2 being extended from 1 hour 15 minutes to 2 hours 5 minutes. BBC1 continues to broadcast early morning OU transmissions at the ...
Unlike TV-am, Breakfast Time was only broadcast on weekdays; weekend breakfast transmissions on BBC1 continued to consist of programmes from the Open University. However, on two occasions, weekend editions of the programme were broadcast. They were to provide coverage of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster and the Hillsborough disaster.
From the 1982 season, only a single Open University programme is aired, at 5:10pm ahead of the start of BBC2's evening programmes. October – Scottish Television becomes the first ITV station to operate a regional ORACLE teletext service, containing over 60 pages of local news, sport and information. [18]
15 April – BBC2's start time moves to the later time of 5:10pm with transmissions beginning with a single Open University programme with regular programmes now beginning at 5:40pm. For the past six months, BBC2 has been starting its weekday broadcasts at the earlier time of 3:55pm.
23 October – The last ever teatime block of Open University programmes airs. From 1982 onwards, only a single Open University programme airs and is billed in TV listings as a general programme rather than an Open University programme. This allows BBC2 to begin weeknight programmes at 5:35pm throughout the year instead of just before 7pm.
From 1963 to 2010, the majority of television material of nationally networked programmes in the BBC Archive were housed at the archive centre in Windmill Road, Brentford, in west London. Television programmes were also stored by the Open University in Milton Keynes, and by BBC nations and regional libraries around the country.
The programme used a magazine style starting in the 1980s, but changed to a single subject documentary in 2001. [1] More recently the programme has formed a partnership with the Open University Business School. The Open University provides input into programmes and supplementary materials written by OU Business School academics.
The network television premiere of Richard Donner's 1978 blockbuster Superman: The Movie on ITV, starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando. Debut of The Irish R.M. on Channel 4 in the UK and RTÉ1 in Ireland. 14 January – TV-am broadcasts a special edition to advertisers ahead of its official launch on 1 February.