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{| border=1 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width=300 style=margin-left:10px |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF"|BBC One |- |colspan=2 align=center| |- |Formerly Called|| The BBC Television Service (until April 1964) |- |width="40%"|Launched:||November 2 1936 |- |Audience Share (Aug 2004[http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/monthreports.cfm?report=monthgmulti]):|| 22.6% |- |Owned By:||BBC |- |Web Address:||[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone] |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF"|Availability |- |Terrestrial Analogue:||''Usually Channel 1'' |- |Terrestrial Digital:||Freeview Channel 1 |- |Satellite:||Sky Digital Channel 101 |- |Cable:||NTL Channel 101 Telewest Channel 101 |} BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. It is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and first broadcast as the 'BBC Television Service' on November 2, 1936, although the BBC had been broadcasting experimental and test transmissions in a variety of formats since 1929. The station held a complete monopoly on television broadcasting in the UK until ITV was launched in 1955. ==History== [[Image:Alexandra Palace mast.JPG|left|thumb|The transmission mast above the BBC wing of Alexandra Palace, home of BBC One from 1936 until the early 1950s, photographed in 2001.]]The earliest broadcasts used the 210-line Baird system and the 405-line Marconi-EMI system on alternate weeks. However the Baird system proved too cumbersome and by early 1937 had been dropped. The station was based in a converted wing of Alexandra Palace in London, housing two studios, various scenery stores, make-up areas, dressing rooms and so forth, and even the transmitter itself. The Palace was the home base of the channel until the early 1950s when the majority of production moved to the Lime Grove Studios, and then in 1960 the headquarters moved to the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, also in London, where the channel is based to this day. On September 1, 1939, two days before Britain declared war on Germany, the station was unceremoniously taken off air at 12:10pm after the broadcast of the Mickey Mouse cartoon, ''Mickey's Gala Première''. The last words broadcast were of a caricature of Greta Garbo saying "Ah tank ah kiss you now". It was feared that the VHF transmissions would act as a beacon to enemy aircraft homing in on London—also, many of the television service's technical staff and engineers would be needed for the war effort, in particular on the radar programme. The television channel returned on June 7, 1946 at 3pm. Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement saying "Remember me?" Remarkably, the programming continued with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939, introduced with the announcement: "As we were saying before we were so rudely interrupted..." [[Image:Dummy emitron camera.JPG|thumb|An Emitron camera, of the type that would have been used to make the earliest 405-line programmes broadcast on the channel. This particular example is a dummy constructed for the 1986 BBC drama ''Fools on the Hill'', which depicted the early days of the station.]] Initially, the station's range was officially only within a twenty-five mile radius of the Alexandra Palace transmitter—in practice, however, transmissions could be picked up a good deal further away, and on one occasion in 1938 were picked up by engineers at RCA in New York City, who were experimenting with a British television set. They filmed the static-ridden output they got on their screen, and this poor-quality, mute film footage is the only surviving record of 1930s British television filmed directly from the screen. However, some images of programmes do survive in newsreels, which also contain some footage shot in studios while programmes were being made, giving a feel for what was being done, albeit without directly replicating what was being shown on screen. By the outbreak of war in 1939, there were an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 television sets in London. Coverage extended to Birmingham in 1948 with the opening of the Sutton Coldfield television transmitter, and by the early 1950s the entire country was covered. The station was renamed BBC1 when BBC Two was launched in April 1964. In 1969, simultaneous with ITV and two years after BBC2, the channel began 625-line PAL colour programming. Stereo transmissions began in 1988, and wide-screen programming was introduced on digital platforms in 1998. However many of these developments took some years to become available on all transmitters. For the first half century of its existence, with the exception of films and imported programmes from countries such as the United States and Australia, almost all the channel's output was produced by the BBC's own in-house production departments. This changed following the 1990 Broadcasting Act, which required that 25% of the BBC's television output be out-sourced to independent production companies. As of 2004 many popular BBC One shows are made for the channel by independents, but the in-house production departments continue to contribute heavily to the schedule. ==Programming== BBC One is more mainstream than its sister station BBC Two and generally gets higher ratings, competing with ITV as the most-viewed channel in the UK. The BBC's sport and news have their homes here, as does Children's BBC, mainstream drama and comedy programming, film premieres and documentaries. Regional news programmes generally follow the main news, in particular the ''Six O'clock News'' is followed at 6:30 by half-hour regional news shows. Popular shows from BBC Two may make the crossover to BBC One, ''Match of the Day'' and ''Have I Got News For You'' being examples of this. Some popular programmes: *''Picture Page'' (1936–39; 1946–52) - Magazine programme *''Come Dancing'' (1949–95) - Ballroom dancing *''Panorama'' (1953–) - Current affairs *''Bernard Quatermass'' (1953; 1955; 1958–59) - Science-fiction *''The Grove Family'' (1954–57) - Soap opera *''Dixon of Dock Green'' (1955–76) - Police drama *''The Sky at Night'' (1957–) - Astronomy *''Grandstand'' (1958–) - Sports showcase *''Blue Peter'' (1958–) - Children's magazine *''Steptoe and Son'' (1962–74) - Situation comedy *''Z-Cars'' (1962–78) - Police drama *''Doctor Who'' (1963–89; 1996; 2005–) - Science-fiction *''Top of the Pops'' (1964–) - Popular music *''Match of the Day'' (1966–) - Football highlights *''Morecambe and Wise'' (1968–78) - Light entertainment *''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' (1969–74) - Sketch show *''Play for Today'' (1970–84) - Drama anthology *''Grange Hill'' (1978–) - Children's drama *''Question Time (television)'' (1979–) - Political debate *''Only Fools and Horses'' (1981–2003) - Situation comedy *''EastEnders'' (1985–) - Soap opera *''Casualty (television)'' (1986–) - Medical drama *''One Foot in the Grave'' (1990–2000) - Situation comedy *''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–) - Mystery drama *''Spooks'' (2002–) - Spy drama For a fuller list of programmes screened on all BBC television channels, see List of BBC television programming. ==On-screen identity== [[Image:Bbc1cow.jpg|thumb|right|Computer Originated World (COW), BBC1's primary ident from 1985 to 1991.]]BBC One's identity was symbolised by the idea of a globe. In the early 1960s a map of the UK was shown onscreen between programmes, but in 1963, the globe first appeared, changing in style and appearance over the next 39 years. In its time, it became a 'mirror-globe' in several colours and sizes (a globe in front of a curved mirror which reflected a distorted view of the reverse) from 15 November 1969 until 18 February 1985, when the COW (Computer Originated World) debuted. This was a computer-animated globe with the land coloured gold, and the sea a transparent blue, giving the impression of a glass globe. On 16 February 1991, on the same day that BBC2 rebranded, an ethereal crystal-ball-type globe appeared, which was played out on air from laserdisc. On 4 October 1997, the revolving aspect disappeared as the globe became a red, orange and yellow globe-patterned hot-air balloon flying around various places in the UK. This was the first BBC1 ident to appear in multiple versions, as the balloon was seen floating over numerous British landscapes, and in later variations, superimposed on more distant locations including Sydney, Australia (during the 2000 Olympics) and even prehistoric Earth (when ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was aired). On 29 March 2002, the globe finally disappeared from screens to be replaced by the current ident sequences, consisting of people dressed in red and dancing in various styles. Instead of the globe, a clock was sometimes displayed (usually before the news). This disappeared along with the balloon in 2002. For schools programmes a countdown clock with one-minute countdown was shown, with music. Various special idents have been used over the years at Christmas. See: BBC balloon ==Controllers of BBC One (prior to 1964 the BBC Television Service)== The current Controller of BBC One is Lorraine Heggessey, the first female Controller of the channel, who has been in the role since 2000. She is due to leave the channel in June, to be succeeded by Peter Fincham, the first Controller never to have previously worked for the BBC. * 1936–1939: Gerald Cock * 1946–1947: Maurice Gorham * 1947–1950: Norman Collins * 1950–1957: Cecil McGivern * 1957–1960: Kenneth Adam * 1960–1963: Stuart Hood * 1963–1965: Donald Baverstock * 1965–1967: Michael Peacock * 1967–1973: Paul Fox * 1973–1977: Bryan Cowgill * 1977–1981: Bill Cotton * 1981–1984: Alan Hart * 1984–1988: Michael Grade * 1988–1992: Jonathan Powell * 1992–1996: Alan Yentob * 1996–1997: Michael Jackson (TV) * 1997–2000: Peter Salmon * 2000–2005: Lorraine Heggessey * 2005–present: Peter Fincham ==See also== * List of British television channels ==External link== *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/ BBC One official homepage] BBC television channels British TV channels
==Mickey Mouse== I personally find it highly amusing that they bothered to resume the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 when they resumed transmission in 1946 as few would even remember what had last been shown when they went off air seven years previous! "Only in the UK..." User:PMelvilleAustin 05:58, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC) :It wasn't so much for the benefit of the viewers - it was really symbolic, showing that this was still the same BBC Television Service, picking up and continuing as before. There was some debate internally about the move, particularly as it was felt that the particular cartoon was more dated than others (it apparently spoofed some movie stars who had since fallen out of popular view), but it was felt important, for the morale as much as anything else, to provide a stubborn sense of continuity to what had gone before. User:Angmering 21:31, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC) ==Rename?== This should be moved to "BBC One". Writing it all in capitals is just an affectation. The letters ONE are a word, not a set of initials. User:Andy G 16:40, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) :But that's their official way of writing it so I think it should stay. User:Angela 17:03, Oct 3, 2003 (UTC) ::me too User:Jimfbleak 17:06, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) :It's only the way they write it at the moment -- no doubt they'll change the style next time they relaunch the BBC house style. User:Arwel Parry 17:35, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) :I wasn't actually voting on "BBC ONE", though it's true I do think this all-capitalised style is a bit of an affectation. It's just a style thing the BBC have currently got, and I have no doubt that sometime within the next 10 years they'll rebrand their channels again to a more sensible BBC One or BBC 1. To my mind the numeric form of channel name seems more natural, but that's probably because I can remember when they first started having two channels, and they've used a digit for all except the last few years! :) I think if we were having a vote on channel names I'd settle for BBC One or BBC 1, but ONE makes no sense as it doesn't represent an acronym. Regards, -- User:Arwel Parry 00:04, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC) ''(Written originally on User talk:Angela - moved here by Angela.)'' ::The spelling "BBC One" is even widely used on the BBC's own website (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/bbc_one.shtml], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3192307.stm]). --User:Wik 22:20, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC) Use of capitalisation is in many cases an important feature in defining corporate or name identity. For example, there is no such organisation as the True Catholic Church but there is an entity called the true Catholic Church, its lower cap t indicating an important factual analysis of itself, that it believes it is the true Catholic Church, not a separate catholic church with the word true being given equality in its title. BBC ONE, not BBC one or BBC One is the name of the station formerly BBC1. Writing BBC One is as wrong as writing United states of america or Coca cola. Its name is unambiguously BBC ONE and nothing else. If you are using the formal name of an organisation, you should use its capitalisation. In Ireland, for Nato (which is generally written as such in Europe) is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. NATO is a different national organisation associated with tenants. Proportional Representation is a formal voting system, proportional representation is a broad collection of electoral systems who share principles of proportionality. SimilarlyNatWest is universally recognised as what used to be called the National Westminister Bank, Natwest is unrecognisable to most. Organisations use capitalisation to create a brand identity behind a word. If wikipedia is referring to that brand, it should recognise that fact, and not treat a brand identity which carries with it a recognition factor as merely a word. If Colgate calls itself that, we shoudn't decide that we for our own reasons want to call it cOLGATE. If Britain's main TV station calls itself, BBC ONE that is what we should call it, just as we should write about the true Catholic Church in articles, etc. Encyclopædias are based on reality, not fictionalising brand names to push an agenda. The suggestion that use of capitals is just a presentation choice is patiently absurd. User:Jtdirl 20:51, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC) ''(Written originally on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions - moved here by Angela.)'' :I have to disagree. Many organizations like to write themselves in all capitals. This is not usually followed by others if it's not an acronym. For example, a German newsmagazine invariably refers to itself as DER SPIEGEL, but everyone else says ''Der Spiegel''. --User:Wik 23:55, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC) ::The BBC's own documentation frequently writes "BBC One" (the Annual Report does so consistently); its Teletext services write "BBC1". No-one is disputing what the channel calls itself (it would be wrong, for instance, to call it "BBC Channel One") -- only whether we need slavishly to follow every typographical change to its on-screen logo. What next? Are we going to have to change all references to the network that shows "Coronation Street" in Britain to read "itv"? -- User:Picapica 20:13, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) :::It's ITV1 and that's the way it is written on the ITV website [http://www.itv.com/] So no.User:Mintguy User talk: Mintguy 22:01, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::My point precisely. It's "ITV1" -- even though the on-screen logo is written "itv1". And it's "BBC One" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/] -- even though the on-screen logo is written "BBC ONE". (By the way, ITV2 also shows "Coronation Street".) -- User:Picapica 09:24, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::The naming of this page is not dependent on the on-screen logo. But how the BBC names the station in general. To be specific, as it is presented here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/ ::"BBC ONE" ''isn't'' "how the BBC names the station in general" though, is it? It's how the BBC ''writes'' the name sometimes; as often as not it writes "BBC One" -- see [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3889153.stm] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/whatson/]. I still can't see any good reason for being more purist about this than the BBC itself. -- User:Picapica 13:10, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) I totally vote for this being moved to 'BBC One'. The BBC are very inconsistant about whether they use capitals or not (see list below) and capitals (at least having the entire name in capitals) when it is a normal word are very rarely followed by others. All capitals: * BBC ONE * BBC TWO * BBC THREE Initial capitals: * BBC Four * BBC News 24 * BBC Parliament No choice about whether to use all capitals: * CBBC Compounds: * CBeebies (also the only one whose logo is not all in capitals) There is a difference between text in a logo and body text. There is very often a difference between how an entity's name is written in a logo and how it appears in body text. There are many examples of this. Amnesty International is written as such, although its logo is in lowercase (except, oddly, in Germany, where poor understanding of capitalization presumably led to the official term being "amnesty international"!), and in recent years many high-tech companies have used unusual capitalization in their logos; for example the defunct software company Asera had a logo that read "AserA". Many, many company logos are written in uppercase, but you drive a Toyota, not a TOYOTA, drink Pepsi, not PEPSI, and watch a Sony television, not a SONY. Likewise, stylish logos are sometimes in lowercase, but you still have a Vodafone or Orange mobile phone, not vodafone or orange. And although its logo is written as "ebaY" the online aution house is written "eBay" in text. BBC One appears as BBC ONE in its logo and usually in headings on BBC websites, where emphasis is required (this appears to be the BBC's house style), but otherwise in body text it is written "BBC One" — which is how it should be written here. The following official link should clear things up: It contains the logo, headers including the term written in capitals, and body text written as "BBC One": http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/bbc_one.shtml --User:ProhibitOnions 11:58, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC) == BBC Writing Style Guidelines == You may be interested in this, the official line on capitalisation... : "In large areas of text ... and in picture captions, BBC brands are written in upper and lower case (''eg BBC One''), except CBBC which is all capitals. Television channels are written in words rather than numbers, except BBC News 24." : "In display adverts and posters, BBC brands ... should appear in capitals (''eg BBC ONE''). In press releases, television channels should appear in capitals, but all other services should be in upper and lower case, eg BBC News." User:Tom- 20:49, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::Many thanks for finding that, Tom. I propose, on the grounds that a Wikipedia article is neither an advert nor a poster (and nor is it a press release), that this page be moved to "BBC One". -- User:Picapica 15:20, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) :::I agree. Anyone going to do the honours? == BBC ONE links == Now that the page resides at the much more pleasing 'BBC One', is there any way someone can run a link-fixing Bot to change all the BBC ONE links in pages to BBC One ones? There are rather a lot of them... I'm afraid I know very little about bots, by the way, but from what I do know I believe this ought to be a possible and appropriate use for one? User:Angmering 12:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Red+White Dancing links == Is there a definitive list of these links anywhere, and are they chosen depending on the next programme? --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 09:23, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC) :The original eight - Acrobats, Ballet (very, ''very'' rarely used, except in the Midlands where it's used into the local news), Capoeira, Festival (the "rave" one), Haka, Hip Hop (wheelchairs), Salsa, Tap Dogs. Added later, in this order: Music Video, Bollywood, Tango, Tai Chi, Tai Chi reflection version (since withdrawn), Skateboarders, Maasai. And two versions of the Christmas ident, one with the children descending from on high, and the other without. Capoeira exists in two edits, and a still version is the backup ident in case the server fails. (There's also a clock which uses the capoeira still as its background, but it has never been used and almost certainly never will.) They are used to a certain extent depending on the next programme - they don't use Festival into the news, for example. User:Bonalaw 15:57, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) ::Actually, I should add that technically speaking there's twice as many as that, since they all exist in versions with and without the Subtitles flag. User:Bonalaw 16:03, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) Cheers. Just a couple of queries: is "Capoeira" the two blokes fighting on top of the skyscraper, and is "Music Video" the dancing girls who all bear a vague resemblance to Louise Nurding? --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 16:12, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC) :Very vague, in the case of the black one. ;-) But yes, right on both counts. User:Bonalaw 17:57, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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{| border=1 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width=300 style=margin-left:10px |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF"|BBC One |- |colspan=2 align=center| |- |Formerly Called|| The BBC Television Service (until April 1964) |- |width="40%"|Launched:||November 2 1936 |- |Audience Share (Aug 2004[http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/monthreports.cfm?report=monthgmulti]):|| 22.6% |- |Owned By:||BBC |- |Web Address:||[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone] |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#BFDFFF"|Availability |- |Terrestrial Analogue:||''Usually Channel 1'' |- |Terrestrial Digital:||Freeview Channel 1 |- |Satellite:||Sky Digital Channel 101 |- |Cable:||NTL Channel 101 Telewest Channel 101 |} BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. It is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and first broadcast as the 'BBC Television Service' on November 2, 1936, although the BBC had been broadcasting experimental and test transmissions in a variety of formats since 1929. The station held a complete monopoly on television broadcasting in the UK until ITV was launched in 1955. ==History== [[Image:Alexandra Palace mast.JPG|left|thumb|The transmission mast above the BBC wing of Alexandra Palace, home of BBC One from 1936 until the early 1950s, photographed in 2001.]]The earliest broadcasts used the 210-line Baird system and the 405-line Marconi-EMI system on alternate weeks. However the Baird system proved too cumbersome and by early 1937 had been dropped. The station was based in a converted wing of Alexandra Palace in London, housing two studios, various scenery stores, make-up areas, dressing rooms and so forth, and even the transmitter itself. The Palace was the home base of the channel until the early 1950s when the majority of production moved to the Lime Grove Studios, and then in 1960 the headquarters moved to the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, also in London, where the channel is based to this day. On September 1, 1939, two days before Britain declared war on Germany, the station was unceremoniously taken off air at 12:10pm after the broadcast of the Mickey Mouse cartoon, ''Mickey's Gala Première''. The last words broadcast were of a caricature of Greta Garbo saying "Ah tank ah kiss you now". It was feared that the VHF transmissions would act as a beacon to enemy aircraft homing in on London—also, many of the television service's technical staff and engineers would be needed for the war effort, in particular on the radar programme. The television channel returned on June 7, 1946 at 3pm. Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement saying "Remember me?" Remarkably, the programming continued with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939, introduced with the announcement: "As we were saying before we were so rudely interrupted..." [[Image:Dummy emitron camera.JPG|thumb|An Emitron camera, of the type that would have been used to make the earliest 405-line programmes broadcast on the channel. This particular example is a dummy constructed for the 1986 BBC drama ''Fools on the Hill'', which depicted the early days of the station.]] Initially, the station's range was officially only within a twenty-five mile radius of the Alexandra Palace transmitter—in practice, however, transmissions could be picked up a good deal further away, and on one occasion in 1938 were picked up by engineers at RCA in New York City, who were experimenting with a British television set. They filmed the static-ridden output they got on their screen, and this poor-quality, mute film footage is the only surviving record of 1930s British television filmed directly from the screen. However, some images of programmes do survive in newsreels, which also contain some footage shot in studios while programmes were being made, giving a feel for what was being done, albeit without directly replicating what was being shown on screen. By the outbreak of war in 1939, there were an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 television sets in London. Coverage extended to Birmingham in 1948 with the opening of the Sutton Coldfield television transmitter, and by the early 1950s the entire country was covered. The station was renamed BBC1 when BBC Two was launched in April 1964. In 1969, simultaneous with ITV and two years after BBC2, the channel began 625-line PAL colour programming. Stereo transmissions began in 1988, and wide-screen programming was introduced on digital platforms in 1998. However many of these developments took some years to become available on all transmitters. For the first half century of its existence, with the exception of films and imported programmes from countries such as the United States and Australia, almost all the channel's output was produced by the BBC's own in-house production departments. This changed following the 1990 Broadcasting Act, which required that 25% of the BBC's television output be out-sourced to independent production companies. As of 2004 many popular BBC One shows are made for the channel by independents, but the in-house production departments continue to contribute heavily to the schedule. ==Programming== BBC One is more mainstream than its sister station BBC Two and generally gets higher ratings, competing with ITV as the most-viewed channel in the UK. The BBC's sport and news have their homes here, as does Children's BBC, mainstream drama and comedy programming, film premieres and documentaries. Regional news programmes generally follow the main news, in particular the ''Six O'clock News'' is followed at 6:30 by half-hour regional news shows. Popular shows from BBC Two may make the crossover to BBC One, ''Match of the Day'' and ''Have I Got News For You'' being examples of this. Some popular programmes: *''Picture Page'' (1936–39; 1946–52) - Magazine programme *''Come Dancing'' (1949–95) - Ballroom dancing *''Panorama'' (1953–) - Current affairs *''Bernard Quatermass'' (1953; 1955; 1958–59) - Science-fiction *''The Grove Family'' (1954–57) - Soap opera *''Dixon of Dock Green'' (1955–76) - Police drama *''The Sky at Night'' (1957–) - Astronomy *''Grandstand'' (1958–) - Sports showcase *''Blue Peter'' (1958–) - Children's magazine *''Steptoe and Son'' (1962–74) - Situation comedy *''Z-Cars'' (1962–78) - Police drama *''Doctor Who'' (1963–89; 1996; 2005–) - Science-fiction *''Top of the Pops'' (1964–) - Popular music *''Match of the Day'' (1966–) - Football highlights *''Morecambe and Wise'' (1968–78) - Light entertainment *''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' (1969–74) - Sketch show *''Play for Today'' (1970–84) - Drama anthology *''Grange Hill'' (1978–) - Children's drama *''Question Time (television)'' (1979–) - Political debate *''Only Fools and Horses'' (1981–2003) - Situation comedy *''EastEnders'' (1985–) - Soap opera *''Casualty (television)'' (1986–) - Medical drama *''One Foot in the Grave'' (1990–2000) - Situation comedy *''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–) - Mystery drama *''Spooks'' (2002–) - Spy drama For a fuller list of programmes screened on all BBC television channels, see List of BBC television programming. ==On-screen identity== [[Image:Bbc1cow.jpg|thumb|right|Computer Originated World (COW), BBC1's primary ident from 1985 to 1991.]]BBC One's identity was symbolised by the idea of a globe. In the early 1960s a map of the UK was shown onscreen between programmes, but in 1963, the globe first appeared, changing in style and appearance over the next 39 years. In its time, it became a 'mirror-globe' in several colours and sizes (a globe in front of a curved mirror which reflected a distorted view of the reverse) from 15 November 1969 until 18 February 1985, when the COW (Computer Originated World) debuted. This was a computer-animated globe with the land coloured gold, and the sea a transparent blue, giving the impression of a glass globe. On 16 February 1991, on the same day that BBC2 rebranded, an ethereal crystal-ball-type globe appeared, which was played out on air from laserdisc. On 4 October 1997, the revolving aspect disappeared as the globe became a red, orange and yellow globe-patterned hot-air balloon flying around various places in the UK. This was the first BBC1 ident to appear in multiple versions, as the balloon was seen floating over numerous British landscapes, and in later variations, superimposed on more distant locations including Sydney, Australia (during the 2000 Olympics) and even prehistoric Earth (when ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was aired). On 29 March 2002, the globe finally disappeared from screens to be replaced by the current ident sequences, consisting of people dressed in red and dancing in various styles. Instead of the globe, a clock was sometimes displayed (usually before the news). This disappeared along with the balloon in 2002. For schools programmes a countdown clock with one-minute countdown was shown, with music. Various special idents have been used over the years at Christmas. See: BBC balloon ==Controllers of BBC One (prior to 1964 the BBC Television Service)== The current Controller of BBC One is Lorraine Heggessey, the first female Controller of the channel, who has been in the role since 2000. She is due to leave the channel in June, to be succeeded by Peter Fincham, the first Controller never to have previously worked for the BBC. * 1936–1939: Gerald Cock * 1946–1947: Maurice Gorham * 1947–1950: Norman Collins * 1950–1957: Cecil McGivern * 1957–1960: Kenneth Adam * 1960–1963: Stuart Hood * 1963–1965: Donald Baverstock * 1965–1967: Michael Peacock * 1967–1973: Paul Fox * 1973–1977: Bryan Cowgill * 1977–1981: Bill Cotton * 1981–1984: Alan Hart * 1984–1988: Michael Grade * 1988–1992: Jonathan Powell * 1992–1996: Alan Yentob * 1996–1997: Michael Jackson (TV) * 1997–2000: Peter Salmon * 2000–2005: Lorraine Heggessey * 2005–present: Peter Fincham ==See also== * List of British television channels ==External link== *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/ BBC One official homepage] BBC television channels British TV channels
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==Mickey Mouse== I personally find it highly amusing that they bothered to resume the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 when they resumed transmission in 1946 as few would even remember what had last been shown when they went off air seven years previous! "Only in the UK..." User:PMelvilleAustin 05:58, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC) :It wasn't so much for the benefit of the viewers - it was really symbolic, showing that this was still the same BBC Television Service, picking up and continuing as before. There was some debate internally about the move, particularly as it was felt that the particular cartoon was more dated than others (it apparently spoofed some movie stars who had since fallen out of popular view), but it was felt important, for the morale as much as anything else, to provide a stubborn sense of continuity to what had gone before. User:Angmering 21:31, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC) ==Rename?== This should be moved to "BBC One". Writing it all in capitals is just an affectation. The letters ONE are a word, not a set of initials. User:Andy G 16:40, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) :But that's their official way of writing it so I think it should stay. User:Angela 17:03, Oct 3, 2003 (UTC) ::me too User:Jimfbleak 17:06, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) :It's only the way they write it at the moment -- no doubt they'll change the style next time they relaunch the BBC house style. User:Arwel Parry 17:35, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) :I wasn't actually voting on "BBC ONE", though it's true I do think this all-capitalised style is a bit of an affectation. It's just a style thing the BBC have currently got, and I have no doubt that sometime within the next 10 years they'll rebrand their channels again to a more sensible BBC One or BBC 1. To my mind the numeric form of channel name seems more natural, but that's probably because I can remember when they first started having two channels, and they've used a digit for all except the last few years! :) I think if we were having a vote on channel names I'd settle for BBC One or BBC 1, but ONE makes no sense as it doesn't represent an acronym. Regards, -- User:Arwel Parry 00:04, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC) ''(Written originally on User talk:Angela - moved here by Angela.)'' ::The spelling "BBC One" is even widely used on the BBC's own website (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/bbc_one.shtml], [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3192307.stm]). --User:Wik 22:20, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC) Use of capitalisation is in many cases an important feature in defining corporate or name identity. For example, there is no such organisation as the True Catholic Church but there is an entity called the true Catholic Church, its lower cap t indicating an important factual analysis of itself, that it believes it is the true Catholic Church, not a separate catholic church with the word true being given equality in its title. BBC ONE, not BBC one or BBC One is the name of the station formerly BBC1. Writing BBC One is as wrong as writing United states of america or Coca cola. Its name is unambiguously BBC ONE and nothing else. If you are using the formal name of an organisation, you should use its capitalisation. In Ireland, for Nato (which is generally written as such in Europe) is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. NATO is a different national organisation associated with tenants. Proportional Representation is a formal voting system, proportional representation is a broad collection of electoral systems who share principles of proportionality. SimilarlyNatWest is universally recognised as what used to be called the National Westminister Bank, Natwest is unrecognisable to most. Organisations use capitalisation to create a brand identity behind a word. If wikipedia is referring to that brand, it should recognise that fact, and not treat a brand identity which carries with it a recognition factor as merely a word. If Colgate calls itself that, we shoudn't decide that we for our own reasons want to call it cOLGATE. If Britain's main TV station calls itself, BBC ONE that is what we should call it, just as we should write about the true Catholic Church in articles, etc. Encyclopædias are based on reality, not fictionalising brand names to push an agenda. The suggestion that use of capitals is just a presentation choice is patiently absurd. User:Jtdirl 20:51, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC) ''(Written originally on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions - moved here by Angela.)'' :I have to disagree. Many organizations like to write themselves in all capitals. This is not usually followed by others if it's not an acronym. For example, a German newsmagazine invariably refers to itself as DER SPIEGEL, but everyone else says ''Der Spiegel''. --User:Wik 23:55, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC) ::The BBC's own documentation frequently writes "BBC One" (the Annual Report does so consistently); its Teletext services write "BBC1". No-one is disputing what the channel calls itself (it would be wrong, for instance, to call it "BBC Channel One") -- only whether we need slavishly to follow every typographical change to its on-screen logo. What next? Are we going to have to change all references to the network that shows "Coronation Street" in Britain to read "itv"? -- User:Picapica 20:13, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) :::It's ITV1 and that's the way it is written on the ITV website [http://www.itv.com/] So no.User:Mintguy User talk: Mintguy 22:01, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::My point precisely. It's "ITV1" -- even though the on-screen logo is written "itv1". And it's "BBC One" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/] -- even though the on-screen logo is written "BBC ONE". (By the way, ITV2 also shows "Coronation Street".) -- User:Picapica 09:24, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::The naming of this page is not dependent on the on-screen logo. But how the BBC names the station in general. To be specific, as it is presented here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/ ::"BBC ONE" ''isn't'' "how the BBC names the station in general" though, is it? It's how the BBC ''writes'' the name sometimes; as often as not it writes "BBC One" -- see [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3889153.stm] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/whatson/]. I still can't see any good reason for being more purist about this than the BBC itself. -- User:Picapica 13:10, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) I totally vote for this being moved to 'BBC One'. The BBC are very inconsistant about whether they use capitals or not (see list below) and capitals (at least having the entire name in capitals) when it is a normal word are very rarely followed by others. All capitals: * BBC ONE * BBC TWO * BBC THREE Initial capitals: * BBC Four * BBC News 24 * BBC Parliament No choice about whether to use all capitals: * CBBC Compounds: * CBeebies (also the only one whose logo is not all in capitals) There is a difference between text in a logo and body text. There is very often a difference between how an entity's name is written in a logo and how it appears in body text. There are many examples of this. Amnesty International is written as such, although its logo is in lowercase (except, oddly, in Germany, where poor understanding of capitalization presumably led to the official term being "amnesty international"!), and in recent years many high-tech companies have used unusual capitalization in their logos; for example the defunct software company Asera had a logo that read "AserA". Many, many company logos are written in uppercase, but you drive a Toyota, not a TOYOTA, drink Pepsi, not PEPSI, and watch a Sony television, not a SONY. Likewise, stylish logos are sometimes in lowercase, but you still have a Vodafone or Orange mobile phone, not vodafone or orange. And although its logo is written as "ebaY" the online aution house is written "eBay" in text. BBC One appears as BBC ONE in its logo and usually in headings on BBC websites, where emphasis is required (this appears to be the BBC's house style), but otherwise in body text it is written "BBC One" — which is how it should be written here. The following official link should clear things up: It contains the logo, headers including the term written in capitals, and body text written as "BBC One": http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/bbc_one.shtml --User:ProhibitOnions 11:58, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC) == BBC Writing Style Guidelines == You may be interested in this, the official line on capitalisation... : "In large areas of text ... and in picture captions, BBC brands are written in upper and lower case (''eg BBC One''), except CBBC which is all capitals. Television channels are written in words rather than numbers, except BBC News 24." : "In display adverts and posters, BBC brands ... should appear in capitals (''eg BBC ONE''). In press releases, television channels should appear in capitals, but all other services should be in upper and lower case, eg BBC News." User:Tom- 20:49, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::Many thanks for finding that, Tom. I propose, on the grounds that a Wikipedia article is neither an advert nor a poster (and nor is it a press release), that this page be moved to "BBC One". -- User:Picapica 15:20, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) :::I agree. Anyone going to do the honours? == BBC ONE links == Now that the page resides at the much more pleasing 'BBC One', is there any way someone can run a link-fixing Bot to change all the BBC ONE links in pages to BBC One ones? There are rather a lot of them... I'm afraid I know very little about bots, by the way, but from what I do know I believe this ought to be a possible and appropriate use for one? User:Angmering 12:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Red+White Dancing links == Is there a definitive list of these links anywhere, and are they chosen depending on the next programme? --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 09:23, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC) :The original eight - Acrobats, Ballet (very, ''very'' rarely used, except in the Midlands where it's used into the local news), Capoeira, Festival (the "rave" one), Haka, Hip Hop (wheelchairs), Salsa, Tap Dogs. Added later, in this order: Music Video, Bollywood, Tango, Tai Chi, Tai Chi reflection version (since withdrawn), Skateboarders, Maasai. And two versions of the Christmas ident, one with the children descending from on high, and the other without. Capoeira exists in two edits, and a still version is the backup ident in case the server fails. (There's also a clock which uses the capoeira still as its background, but it has never been used and almost certainly never will.) They are used to a certain extent depending on the next programme - they don't use Festival into the news, for example. User:Bonalaw 15:57, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) ::Actually, I should add that technically speaking there's twice as many as that, since they all exist in versions with and without the Subtitles flag. User:Bonalaw 16:03, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) Cheers. Just a couple of queries: is "Capoeira" the two blokes fighting on top of the skyscraper, and is "Music Video" the dancing girls who all bear a vague resemblance to Louise Nurding? --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 16:12, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC) :Very vague, in the case of the black one. ;-) But yes, right on both counts. User:Bonalaw 17:57, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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