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Thursday, March 20 F1 comes home to the BBC! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! $deities be praised! The BBC has secured the television rights to show Formula One in the UK from the 2009 season. How good a bit of news is this! I've loathed ITV's coverage ever since they won the rights from the BBC in the 1990s - there was nothing like sitting down and watching an entire race, without adverts, and with quality presenters. Unfortunately Murray Walker has retired (maybe he'll stage a return to broadcasting?) but there's still a raft of quality presenters to back up the coverage. This also means it'll (likely) get an HD simulcast for the countries filming in HD as well! (America, UK, Germany, some other EU countries and quite possibly some of the Asian countries). The total lack of adverts is more than adequate enough to satisfy me though. Oh yes, I'm so happy! This has made my week, if not my month. I really do love the BBC right now, this makes my license fee so much more worth paying. (I already pay it anyway because I think it's stonkingly good value for money, but this will secure my payment for at least the next five years!) Labels: 2009, BBC, broadcast, f1, formula 1, kerblam Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 3/20/2008 12:16:00 PM. Roughly. Blog ID: 3165439770356387994· | Permalink Wednesday, March 5 I was on BBC TV! And for a good reason, too... Crossposted from my Uniblog. Preface: a while back, I wrote a case study about damage to my own hearing after prolonged exposure to loud noise over a period of years (musician, drummer, listen to loud music etc... I'm sure you're the same or similar, or you know someone like me). Anyway, on Monday, I was contacted by someone from the RNID, who said they were launching a new campaign called "Practice Safe Decks" (groan) to raise awareness of hearing protection - and would I like to take part in a BBC Breakfast article to be featured on Wednesday morning? So, although I consider myself to have a great face for radio, of course I said 'definitely!' (Wouldn't you?) I also drafted in my coursemate Ciarán Jordan (it made for better TV, and he was interviewed too. Brucey Bonus.) ...And here I am, on BBC News! Click here to read the rest... Labels: BBC, campaign, deafness, Don't Lose The Music, kerblam, rnid, TV, uniblog Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 3/05/2008 10:56:00 PM. Roughly. Blog ID: 2139379875482912868· | Permalink |
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