THE END OF THE BBC RED BUTTON IS COMING

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IS IT THE END FOR THE BBC RED BUTTON?!
After nearly 25 years, the BBC RED BUTTON service has been providing useful text and video services to millions of viewers. However, as technology continues to innovate and improve, the Red Button service is being left behind... With numbers declining in terms of engagement, and repeated attempts to slim down the service, is 2023 finally the time when the BBC Red Button bites the dust?
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@stuff31 Год назад

Tragic, it's a shame legacy TV tech never really sticks around. Red Button was never something I used as a young laddie, but it was a fascinating thing. I'm sure it will be sorely missed, like Ceefax before it.

@MrDannyDetail Год назад

If you holiday in the uk, or have a weekend away in the UK, or have to travel around the UK for whatever reason, then it can be super useful to have the red button service available on a Freeview TV in your Premier Inn or Travel Lodge room, or your caravan. Phones and laptops don't always find sufficient signal in many parts of the UK, and in case you may not necessarily want to take your expensive devices away with you, but if the van or room already has a freeview tv, and therefore presumably the location has sufficient tv signal, then you always have a source of up-to-date on-demand news reports, weather forecasts and sports results whilst away.

@mr.berlingo8211 Год назад

Many are switching to connected tv services, however not easy to use if you're not familiar with them, and smart tvs are renowned for rapidly going dumb as the manufacturer hosted data services are discontinued apps go out of date or the os becomes too old to support updated apps.

@BBC600 Год назад

Red Button is so advanced compared to what we have in Canada. I think it's sad CEEFAX is no more as other countries in Europe still have their teletext.

@turnonmyaxel Год назад

I remember clearly up until maybe 2013/14 using the red button quite frequently. It was a great way to check the weather or see the news. I remember when we would take trips to Wales we would check the traffic. In the last 10 years however, I've only used it for things like the Olympics when I'm bored of the main feeds or wanted to watch a specific sport. Also to get subtitles for stuff like Eurovision. I still use it sometimes these days. I have a standard def freeview aerial in my room which was a lifesaver when my Internet was down for weeks.

@hibbiea8841 4 месяца назад

The Sing Along Thingys was axed in 2015 What happened

@rainbowpearlvlogsandanimations Год назад

I remember I used to use the Red Button mostly for the games and interactive material they had, but as soon as I got my hands on the Internet it mostly just became that ‘random button I keep pressing by accident when I want to turn the volume down’…

@scotttonner6817 Год назад

If the BBC wants to save money, perhaps they should reduce EastEnders coverage to just two episodes/week as it was many years ago. Or they could cancel it altogether, maybe that would be better.

@timecapsule. Год назад

I remember going onto CBBC extra using the red button during the summertime of my childhood and watching the Horrible Histories sing along (The Aztecs song was my favourite).

@titanictotired Год назад

Oh god remember the red button from my childhood. It's a shame that technology advances and things that you remember that entertained you and made you happy disappear..... what an automated and horrible world we live in. Thank you Adam my great friend for covering and warning us on this great loss of TV history! I will always appreciate you!edit; I AM HUX MEDIA. ITS A SHAME HOW THE @ FEATURE DESTROYS THE CHANNEL NAME. shame.

@F2SOnYouTube Год назад

Just change it Hux.

@titanictotired Год назад

@@F2SOnRU-vid but it would ruin the shipping forecast joke :(

@DoctorVision Год назад

My gran used to use this to look at the weather forecast for both here and abroad. I also have vague memories of my mum using it to look up the lottery numbers back in the day. Still doesn't beat Ceefax though. Waking up early in the morning to see Ceefax and music on the screen - what a time that was.

@L1RW Год назад

The BBC don’t even cover the lottery anymore. Every Saturday they used to have game shows with breaks. During those breaks, the lottery numbers would be drawn. In fact, I’ve not seen a lottery draw on live tv for many years.

@DoctorVision Год назад

@@L1RW Yes I do recall, when the BBC covered it though you could look the numbers up through the red button I'm pretty sure. Well it was either that or Ceefax.

@edbateyjr.517 Год назад

As an American, your channel gives me a comprehensive and understandable view of British television services. Cheers!

@MostlyPennyCat Год назад

London 2012 was the pinnacle of Red Button, choosing other HD "channels" (they were, of course, streams) with _massive_ bandwidths. Glorious that was.

@SeamlessShelf35 Год назад

It will be a shame for BBC Red Button to go. Me and my dad use it to watch the extra events of Wimbledon, Snooker and the Olympics.

@joemurphy2177 Год назад

Are we all going to wake up some morning to hear that TV is being got rid completely. At the moment TV channels are just being used as a way of advertising the various players

@1701Wren Год назад

Adjusted for inflation, in the 80's the licence fee was the equivalent of £300! So the BBC has had to do cuts since the 1990's!

@clarkejoseph49 Год назад

Well, we’ve been hearing about the Red Button being wiped out for good in recent years (Especially in 2014-15 when they were considering moving BBC3 online and extending CBBC to 9PM) Hopefully whatever replaces it will be just as big as it was when Digital Television started. And of course, I used to check the Entertainment News, Lottery results, and scores from the Football. (Including my team, Blackburn Rovers)

@retrometalguy Год назад

I remember using the red button for Freeview in the mid 2000's, which I'm especially recalling a Dick "n" Dom In Da Bungalow interactive on there 😆

@MePeterNicholls Год назад

Ten years of license fee freezes is reducing the bbc to a husk 🤬

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

I was very excited for this circa 06, as I had missed out on Ceefax because none of the TVs in the house had Teletext support (below the mandated size). I used it a lot before I got my own computer. The loading times were too long after that. I remember being amazed by all the options in the menus for the Olympics when at a boyfriend’s house with satellite. I only used it all in all maybe a dozen or so times, but I’m going to be a wee bit sad when it’s gone! Wee nerdy nitpick: the original Teletext was digital too, squeezed into the vertical blanking interval in the analogue video! But I’m sure you know this and just said “analogue Teletext” for expedience :)

@richardbutler4488 Год назад

That BBC 24 channel live interface was remarkable 😊

@testcardsandmore1231 Год назад

There seems to be some confusion... Ceefax Teletext was indeed a digital service. It was transmitted as a data stream within the otherwise analog TV signal.

@jacomoss3041 Год назад

I remember CBBC Extra on Red Button

@PhilipMurphyExtra Год назад

Old BBC Red Button might soon go, But no reason to stop allowing people to press the red button to access BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds on connected BBC TV channels.

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated Год назад

BRING BACK CEEFAX AND TELETEXT!

@gamboscott Год назад

I used the red button to access local news for my area I find it hard to find local news stories via my smartphone esp up to date stories that regional news still didn’t mention in their programs ( in live in South west Scotland so Border region )

@wildthing6668813 Год назад

More people are cancelling their licences and don't want any TV service so the BBC are finding it hard to fund themselves. They are cutting 1000 hours of TV from the schedules, this means that there are more repeats and repeats of repeats shown by all channels.

@97channel Год назад

Red Button text service content was never as good as Ceefax. It's always been a very barebones service. There'll always be some who do find it useful, but I think the majority of people will have forgotten its very existence by now. It's always a bit sad to see something like this disappear, mostly for the nostalgia, but I do think that text services on TV are antiquated by now.

@nowster Год назад

For context, 405 line television was switched off twenty years after the introduction of 625 lines, and 15 years after the introduction of PAL colour.

@PhilipMurphyExtra Год назад

Glastonbury has being moved from BBC Red Button to BBC iPlayer, With live coverage from every stage.

@marcus1503 Год назад

I forgot about it was there, not used it in over 10 years And only watch about 2 BBC shows, so i would not even miss the BBC if it went.

@nayftv Год назад

Skys response to the pressing the red button is now basically a link to iPlayer

@mr.berlingo8211 Год назад

I will miss this, was enjoying the 2020 reprieve, I use it several times a week to quickly check the news or weather without turning a computer on or messing with a small vision- damaging phone screen. I still fondly remember the news multiscreen where you could select between four rolling video feeds: news, local news, quirky news and weather. Subtitles are also suffering from a lack of care with many now auto- generated and not far off gibberish.

@scousertom0388 Год назад

**sighs** I should've seen this coming.

@nathanpollard1223 Год назад

For me, the loss of the video channel'd be a shame.

@RyanGonTV Год назад

In Ireland we have a digital service similar to the red button called Aertel, but without the video part of the red button, just news sport and weather… and maybe transmitter information from time to time.

@RyanGonTV Год назад

It’s based on MHEG, however they are doing HbbTV trials at the moment.

@nowster Год назад

RTÉ's Teletext service was also called Aertel.

@RyanGonTV Год назад

@@nowster Yep, RTÉ is our national broadcaster.

@vanessaosborne3175 Год назад

We need the court coverage back for Wimbledon. I watched my own version of Wimbledon every year but this year is really poor in comparison.

@MrNinjaFish Год назад

Used to be an easter egg regarding the red button on Freeview boxes - there was a certain number combination you had to put in somehow and you'd get the testcard.

@AdamMartyn Год назад

One of the best Easter Eggs around!

@EmmaJones925 Год назад

It’s also used for Final Score on a Saturday before it moves to BBC1 later, plus shows extra courts on Wimbledon, but with apps these days I guess it’s not needed

@L1RW Год назад

Final score? You can stream the 3pm games… if you know how. A rolling results service isn’t needed in 2023. On radio yes, but TV, no.

@hibbiea8841 4 месяца назад

And The Sing Along Thingys will be back in 2025 or 2026

@Ese96Agoaye Год назад

I do use the Red Button button from time to time (sometimes Springwatch highlights, BBC Studio highlights), but the main reason for me is sporting events such as Olympics and Wimbledon (though the BBC no longer have main rights for the former).

@DJPalsyP Год назад

TV online is very well, however, a third of the country is unable to get decent internet...... I couldn't even get Fibre until 2019, my BT cab only serves a minute of properties so BT won't upgrade it. Luckily, Glide stepped in and installed cabinets around the area - now I get FTTH 100/100 - it's kinda expensive compared to BT, but as Esther Rantzen said, that's life.

@anthonyperkins7556 Год назад

I still get BBC Red Button text on my Sharp 50 inch AQUOS Smart TV with built-in free to air satellite receiver via the Astra 2 BBC UK spotbeam services on my Zone 2 44cm Minidish.

@SO_DIGITAL Год назад

Hugh Dennis made a dirty joke about the Red Button on Mock The Week once.

@RouthornAlex07 Год назад

I remember the good ol’ Red Button. It is sad that the end is near for the Service. 😢

@turnonmyaxel Год назад

I do recall accessing iplayer on virgin media services in 2008 via the TV (after only recently switching from NTL)

@sophiecurran4529 Год назад

To broadcast on the red button the BBC will need to pay a licence fee to OFCOM to use the radio frequencies. But using Iplayer is all on the internet. So will cost a lot less in internet bandwidth

@nowster Год назад

Not Ofcom. To operate the extra channels on satellite they have to rent a satellite transponder for a month or two. That's very expensive. And the expectation would be that these pop up channels would be HD too. At the moment they're already renting an extra transponder for the Standard Definition nightlight services, and that will have eaten up much of that budget.

@GamingWithArchie2 3 месяца назад

In 2014-15 BBC ANOUNCED THAT CBBC WILL AIR UNTIL 9PM AND BBC THREE MOVES ONLINE

@letmelooktv Год назад

Im pretty sure that the red button has been in use for a lot longer than 1999. I worked on stuff for interactive tv in around 92. That used the coloured buttons. I created a interactive music based program in the very early nineties that was broadcast. It was big in sport around that time as well.

@D2Dale Год назад

Sky now uses the red button service with Sky Sports F1

@wisteela Год назад

The end of SD will be more of an issue for many. There are still many TVs in use that are HD, but only have SD Freeview.

@stevew5751 Год назад

The solution to that is to use a Freeview HD box.

@nowster Год назад

Freeview SD isn't going away. Satellite based SD (Freesat and older Sky) is.

@barrieshepherd7694 Год назад

Red Button fails because it's use cannot be monetised so no commercial reason for it to be supported by other than a public broadcaster. As technology marches on it falls by the wayside. Like my Panasonic smart HD TV, can no longer get ITV channels on demand as it does not support TVX technology - or whatever its called!.

@nancyhoward8692 Год назад

I think I use the red button Service by the BBC sometimes😅🔴

@TheGothSpecialOne Год назад

Sooner the BBC gets defunded the better, I cancelled my tv licence 7 months ago as I no longer watch or record any programmes on the BBC or commercial tv channels as I can watch programmes without a tv licence on the commercial tv channels apps like ITVX, I’m only missing out on the BBC programmes as I can’t watch iplayer as you need a tv licence to watch it which I have no intention of buying again as it’s unfair for those that don’t want to watch the BBC have to still pay the BBC just to watch the commercial tv channels

@FemboyModels Год назад

I think the TV remote would wired without a red button

@hibbiea8841 4 месяца назад

The Sing Along thingys was axed in 2015

@RebeccaPhythian Год назад

Absolutely nothing wrong with the red button 🔴

@AdamMartyn Год назад

Preach it! 🔴

@timiadeniji9559 Год назад

I used to love the red button. It just gave me the joyous ability to watch a range of different things at the Olympics different tennis matches at Wimbledon and other tournaments football matches that were going on at the same time. Another great sporting events. I think we need a BBC Sport TV channel and then extra channels when the big events coming around.

@loby24 Год назад

RIP 🔴

@castle6742 Год назад

yh i still used BBC Red Button When I want to look at fixtures on my TV. yh i don't what it to go 😢

@archiveguy2362 Год назад

Everything comes and eventually goes

@dj_james170 Год назад

Whilst I don’t make much use of the red button service now. I know that my Grandparents use it every day and would be a lot less informed without it. (They still call it Ceefax)

@Lando4Life 5 месяцев назад

I loved the Red Button because they used to show full live formula e races in 2019-20

@Tom_murray89 Год назад

It wouldn’t surprise me if it does close down

@judewestburner Год назад

Feels like the Teletext debate

@timiadeniji9559 Год назад

I think if they’re gonna shut down the red button, they need a solution, not just putting everything onto the iPlayer because older people still want to be able to watch big event and watch things on linear TV

@JayZDraws Год назад

Nostalgia hit me after watching this ❤

@NorthStarBlue1 Год назад

Interesting how much the interface of BBC Text resembles the layout of WebTV (later MSN TV), just not as... well, terrible. I wonder if the BBC looked to that as a template for their service, or everyone in that timeframe just had the same ideas as to what interactive television should look like.

@L1RW Год назад

I loved the red button. Especially when it showed a live feed of Chris Moyles Longest Show Ever on Radio 1, for Comic Relief. I guess it isn’t needed these days though. With most people using their phone or radio to keep up to date with news and other stories. The iPlayer offers the other streams for Wimbledon, Olympics etc. So it is a bit of tough luck if you don’t have the internet! I can see the BBC eventually moving online only. I hope when that time and day arises, that the TV licence is scrapped. So we can all watch live TV for free!!

@timrutten5990 Год назад

I never use the equivalent services here in the Netherlands. Prefer good o'l teletext

@AdamMartyn Год назад

Can't beat the classic!

@ThatRetroGuy2005 Год назад

My childhood... 😞

@candidshadowcollections6670 Год назад

Is the iPlayer broadcast over Hbbtv?

@Mrmayhembsc Год назад

I don't think I have used the text service in Probs like 10 years. Always thought on the ui was poor. I'm not surprised it'll go. The interactive video ones are still good.

@jakequin5517 Год назад

I still use bbc red button for national and regional news and sports, fixtures etc. Much more straight forward than using the internet as it has everything in one place.

@s826-v3i 9 месяцев назад

Its not true, a new channel on sky called BBC RB 1 HD is now present. By the looks of it, theyve killed the Standard Defenition version of it

@vanessaosborne3175 Год назад

I still use the text every day

@ANGEL_BOB_YT Год назад

The red button is not going to die it's just changing the red button seems to now on most TVs lead to iPlayer because most TVs are now smart TVs

@GoosePlays20 Год назад

Away goes red button and out comes a BBC button

@RealOscarMay Год назад

Sky q currently does not have any text services, only video

@DanBen07 Год назад

Yeah I had Sky box and then I got a sky Q box last year. Yeah on the BBC news channel I used to press the red button & read articles and now I can't do that but in another room we have a TV with Freeview and it can still do that.

@rogerdarthwell5393 Год назад

Very interesting video Adam, but we still don't know what happened to the Sunday Catch Up, has it been permanently cancelled? If so then it's not a problem, but it feels like that the Sunday Catch Up has sort of become the ''subject that must not be mentioned'' and it's a bit weird, so why the secrecy?

@AdamMartyn Год назад

My fault for not mentioning it much! I just haven't had the time to make a satisfactory new ep of TSCU! April's ep I wasn't happy with my presence on camera (exhausted/tired) and May I just couldn't get finished in time! Hopefully will be different this much!

@rogerdarthwell5393 Год назад

@@AdamMartyn Thank you for finally giving us an explanation Adam! It's very appreciated

@jamesdelboy Год назад

I used the red button for CBBC Extra

@chrisst8922 Год назад

I use Red Button all the time. it's my newspaper.

@williambailey344 Год назад

Red button is great little tool

@scotttonner6817 Год назад

In many respects,I could see this coming,with respect to format changing. Old analogue TV was stable and trusted, but, but the cynic in me, says that they probably weren't making any money out of it! Now look,in the space of 20-ish years, we've had many so-called Freeview "upgrades",so of which have rendered boxes obsolete and forced their owners to purchase new equipment. I suspect even LCN changes will over time,wear out the flash memory inside these boxes too, further pushing more sales

@DrWhoFanJ Год назад

BBCRB was the channel on which I first watched _Doctor Who_ back in 2010, when they had a loop of the pre-titles sequence to _The Eleventh Hour._ Genuinely don’t think I’ve (deliberately) touched it since, though. Honestly, there’s very little TV I watch on broadcast any more, since I’m only in the house where I have my own TV at the weekends, and most of that is spent watching the things we’ve missed during the week! (Even separately from that, we always record non-BBC shows for later so we can skip the adverts; we’re usually rather tight for time when watching, so we simply don’t have time to waste on ads rather than actual content.)

@davidrumming4734 Год назад

The way the bbc text and i player work depends also on how old your tv or box is. My 4y old Samsung can operate the old style text button w/out needing an internet connection….but I player does need the internet. We got a little, 2023 LG smart tv in the kitchen/living area….this can’t access any of these services w/out the tv being connected to the internet. Try and you just get message telling u to connect to the internet. *the red button triggers the i player. Only the specific text button activates or try’s to activate (in the 2023 LG example) the basic text service.

@_NathB Год назад

I love using the Red Button on my really old tv. I can watch the shows but then also browse football scores

@pjuk Год назад

Think end of the decade is optimistic. The way things are going they won't have many people paying the licence fee by then. I opted out in 2015 and in the last decade everyone I know has opted out of it too and just watches on demand (non iplayer) and streaming. I didn't even know that they even did red button anymore, I guess it's how the subtitles are accessed post ceefax?

@drsmartin Год назад

My opinion is that BBC Red Button advertising was too little, too late. Ceefax haf already used the red, blue, green and yellow buttons, but reinventing the wheel whilst the corporate speak needed dumbing down to satisfy capture the lowest common denominator of the piously chaired' 'viewers and listeners association’ must have interfered with the development and progression of UK PBSs

@FH4Player6397 Год назад

Noooooo, I don't want this to end :(

@AdamMartyn Год назад

I think most don't!

@lukemccorkell6533 Год назад

@@AdamMartyn I Agree Adam

@2511dhall Год назад

Will not be good for the none digital people.

@SweetStevieAaron Год назад

Doesn’t the red button just bring up BBC iPlayer now? Surely this is easier than messing around looking for an app. That’s the whole point of stuff like a red button. Convenience. I like the option of selecting from multiple matches or performances. The text stuff is completely dated mind.

@thobu6576 Год назад

Live broadcast t.v. itself is probably going to end reasonably soon. It's already happening to some extent. I recall there being a few BBC dramas recently where they broadcast only the first episode, with the rest of the series being on iplayer.

@mistie710 Год назад

It's an example of the ignorance of the younger generations that don't like catering for those that need such services. They can't understand why older people have no access to technologies like smartphones, tablets and computers. The BBC aren't alone in this with so many other services that have some requirement, even local authorities and health services, are increasingly ignoring those people that don't have access to the technology that GenZ and so forth take for granted. They just don't think!

@ourhudlathome8885 Год назад

The red button as on screen graphic was technically known as the Call To Action, it operated in the graphics plane of a digital box, it first became possible in the late 90s.. Sky TV and a couple of EU broadcasters using software from OpenTV had it before the BBC. The IP owner of the software was OpenTV and they did start to sue network operators who they believed were infringing their software patents. I know this as I was involved at the time. Most software elements of a digibox, such as the EPG guide are subject to strict patent enforcement, several companies own them a require a lot of money from broadcasters/hardware companies that want to implement software features they patented decades ago. Before digiboxes and EPGs as we know them even existed. Only companies like Sky had deep enough pockets to pay for the rights to use these patented features.

@smogmonster1876 Год назад

There was a programme about the Clitoris on the Ted Button, but I couldn’t find it 😂- Gary Delaney Seriously tho, if it’s not being used then remove it. The BBC would be silly to close video via the Red button tho. As not everyone has super fast broadband and if EVERY household is required by law to have a TV Licence then EVERY household shod have access tother extra content imo.

@fusionsub 8 месяцев назад

Does anybody remember using the BBC iPlayer channel on the wii or is it just me misremembering?

@qinpawz 5 месяцев назад

i remember!!!

@retrorambles517 Год назад

Ive never used the red button But used to like ceefax

@LTLegendd Год назад

I remember the red button.

@jitmancanth6698 Год назад

Still use red button for quick weather and news checks, not so much the added broadcast streams. It is a lifeline for elderly parents. The TVs are all wi-fi'd up, but they have zero confidence with internet TV and i-player and the like, even the internet channels on the Freeview EPG (waiting for them to buffer is not in their skillsets)

@Ashs-mini-vlogs Год назад

My father still uses it

@Somekindamugaguy Год назад

The Red Button service has met with a terrible fate, hasn't it? And that fate, is budget cuts thanks to the dumpster fire that is the BBC.

@alzeNL Год назад

cant wait until its 'the end of the bbc'

@ollie_04 Год назад

I might be misremembering, but I think when F1 was still shown on the BBC from 2009-2015, you could use the red button to see alternative camera angles on the car. That's cool especially for the time and they still do it on Sky and F1's own subscription, so red button does still live on in some way.

@hibbiea8841 4 месяца назад

Forgetting****