BBC TV (Bloxanada)

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BBC TV, also known as BBC is a Bloxanadian English-language channel owned by the Bloxanadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster of Bloxanada. The network began its operations on September 6, 1951, with its main studios in the Bloxanadian Broadcasting Center in Ro-Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is the channel ICI Radio-Bloxanada Télé. It also has three sister channels, those being BBC Kids, BBC News Network and BBC Radio One (digital and radio-only).

BBC TV is available throughout Bloxanada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry channel on cable and satellite providers, and is livestreamed on its streaming platform, the BBC Emerald.

General Overview

This channel provides a 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, the like. Throughout Bloxanada, it airs programming at the same time, except in Newbloxland and Labrador, where it follows its own time and programs air 30 minutes later than usual.

Example: So let's just say The Anna Hottenmeyer's show aired on 11:30 PM, on Thursday. Well, guess when our friend the Newbloxlandian feed over at St. John's airs this show? THE NEXT DAY!! Yes, I am not joking, it airs this show on midnight, FRIDAY!! Crazy right?

Somewhere around late 2006, BBC TV and its owned stations started to go on air for 24 hours, making it one of the last major English-language broadcasters to do such a thing. Previously, its owned stations used to go off the air from around 1:00 am to 6:00 am.

During 1:00 am to 6:00 am (before late 2006), instead of a dumb static screen, they used something unique and different (kinda). They aired this schedule of programming known as the 'Technical Information' from 1 to 3 am, odd title indeed. In the schedule of programming, they of course had some technical engineering information of the BBC that aired for 2 hours until 3:00 am. Then after that, repeats of random shows will start appearing, but there is a bit of a dark blue tint (not fully noticeable to the naked eye) while showing that. But from 2005, after the creation of BloxTube, BBC started airing randomized BloxTube videos until 6:00 am.

ICI Radio Bloxanada Télé on the other hand, continued to sign off every day for twenty decillion years after late 2006. Ever since its creation, it simulcasts radio broadcasting from its radio counterparts, including BBF-FM, until 6:00 am of the next programming day.

While historically there was room for local programming, due to decreased fundings in the present day, the local programming decreased to only cover the three Bloxanadian territories only and an occasional edition of Absolutely Bloxanadian, that one documentary.

Until the year 2003, BBC TV carried an arrangement of Robloxian programs alongside its core Bloxanadian programming, directly competing with other private broadcasters in the region. Since 2003 however, it restricted itself to broadcast only Bloxanadian programming, a handful of Bloxian programming, some international programming and some occasional Robloxian films and some off-network repeats. Since then, BBC TV's ratings went down the drain. But there was still a bit of hope. In 2011-2014, they experienced a rating resurgence as a result of carriage of successful Bloxian and Bloxanadian programming, particularly, 'Henry Old Down', a soap opera that was filmed in Henry Old Down, Ottawablox, where the Bloxanadian Broadcasting Corporation headquarters are in.

In 2001, BBC TV became the second broadcaster in the Roblox world (only behind NovoOne of Labublox, who pioneered it in 1998, I forgot to add that) and the first broadcaster in Bloxanada that is required to provide close captioning for all of their programming. Advertisements need not be captioned, but everything else shall be captioned. This stemmed from a human rights complaint filed by deaf woman Martha Shrugs in 1999.

Programming: News and Current Affairs

The BBC's flagship newscast, BBC News at 6, airs everyday at 6:00 pm Bloxanadian Standard Time (except in Newbloxland and Labrador, where it airs at 6:30 pm for all the reasons why, it is known as BBC News at 6:30 over there). Until late 2006, BBC owned-and-operated stations aired a second broadcast of the BBC News at 6 at 10:00 pm (10:30 pm in Newbloxland and Labrador, known as BBC News at 10:30) and they call it, 'BBC News at 10'. This iteration only included the main newscast segment, not the analysis nor the documentary.

After late 2006, it continued to broadcast under the name 'BBC News at 10' (BBC News at 10:30 in Newbloxland) until early 2008, where they changed the name into 'BBC Nightly News' and that's how that came to be. This new reincarnation broadcasts only from Monday to Friday at 10:00 pm (10:30 pm in Newbloxland, I can't give any more examples, go find out yourself for once) and in the weekends, there would be a new newscast stepping in.

Meet BBC Newsround, the newscast that is similar to BBC Nightly News, but it has some twists. Oh, and it broadcasts only on Saturdays and Sundays at 9:00 pm local time. That's right, we are going down back an hour with this one. This iteration of BBC Nightly News (an iteration of an iteration 👍) would be a bit more longer than BBC Nightly News by half an hour (90 minutes in BBC Newsround). With this half hour segment, they decided to create and air short twenty-five minute documentaries based on the main headline of the day. And after that, with the extra five minutes, the news reporter would give an analysis on what we watched. Overall, this is a more expanded version of BBC Nightly News and it has more sauce.

Hockey Night In Bloxanada broadcasts would often feature a short news update during the intermission of the second game of the doubleheader.

When there are no simulcasts of a local BBC Radio One show from 6 am to 6:30 am in any region, then there would be a repeat of a random half hour television show until the BBC news of the morning appears (see below)

Generally, there are three main newscasts of the day (four if you count BBC Newsround, it is unknown if Good Morning from BBC is a newscast, since it is similar to TV-AM or something like that) they are, in local time:

Good Morning from BBC (6:30 am to 8:30 am)

BBC News at Noon (12:00 pm to 1:00 pm)

BBC Nightly News/Newsround (BNN: 10:00 pm to 10:30 pm) (BNR: 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm)

Programming: Sports

One of the most popular sports shows on BBC TV is the weekly Saturday broadcast of RHL games, and giving it a unique name, Hockey Night in Bloxanada. This has been televised ever since 1951. When the RHL cancels a hockey season, instead BBC will air some randomized films (but they would be up to PG13 only) and call it, 'Movie Night in Bloxanada'.

Many cultural groups throughout Bloxanada have criticized this action and suggested that BBC cover minor hockey leagues as well. The BBC, on the other hand, responded that most such broadcast rights were taken by other channels. But its Hockey Night broadcasts are based on different Canadian venues, so that's that. Other than hockey, BBC also owns the properties to the Ro-Toronto Raptors, Ro-Toronto basketball events, and other events.

In 1956, the Summer Bloxlympics held in a certain Bloxian colony were televised. The BBC have the rights to the broadcasting of both Summer and Winter Bloxlympic Games until the year 2056.

It was also the exclusive center of the Bloxanadian Curling Association (BCA) events during the RHL's downtime. However, due to fan outrage and hate for broadcasting many events (that end in draws) to BBC Country Bloxanada (now known as just Country Bloxanada), BCA tried to cancel its multi-year deal with the BBC signed in 2003. When BBC threatened legal action, an agreement was made between the two under which the early-round rights went to TSN. On late 2008, however, for that year's curling season and beyond, BBC got shunned out of the broadcasting game by BCA, who took all of the BBC's rights to broadcast their game and gave it to TSN.

CFL regular season games and the Grey Cup games were moved to TSN, as announced by the CFL themselves, costing BBC a huge blow, in 2007.

On late 2008, they gained the rights to broadcast RBA games involving the Ro-Toronto Raptors throughout the years 2009-2019 as part of a decade-long deal with them.

And on March 2009, BBC also announced that they had a three-year deal with the Ro-Toronto Bluejays to broadcast their participated events; it ended on early 2012, and it was not renewed.

In November 2014, the BBC has yet again suffered a massive blow to their sports broadcasting agenda. They lost their rights to broadcast NHL events to Bornebeach Communications, due to financial reductions from broadcasting them by the government. They went back to guess who? TSN!! But they agreed on a deal, where TSN-produced Hockey Night in Bloxanada broadcasts would be subsequently broadcast on BBC. But the BBC also gets advertising time in those broadcasts.

On January 2016, after more than 6 decades, due to financial reductions by the Bloxanadian Federal Government and its parent company, BBC TV finally ended their broadcasts of major sports programming and switched to covering minor league sports programming.

Programming: Entertainment:

Among the BBC Television's best-known primetime series are soap operas Henry Old Down (2014-), The Bright and the Dim (1991-2021), Sunset in Shores Valley (2001-) and partial comedy-soap opera Hello, Au Revoir! (2002-) and sitcoms Welcome to Doofustown (1988-2009) and Stake for Steak (2009-). In these years, Bloxian series like Mind Your Language and Coronation Street have been given greater prominence. As noted above, it carries very little Robloxian programming apart from syndicated daytime shows. But one of the most popular Robloxian shows on BBC back then was The Berringtons.

In fall of 2008, the BBC announced a radical change in lineup, that still continues to this day. They added a few international shows to their lineup, most notably from Rogaulia, Romarkia and Labublox. But the most surprising and radical thing is they added a show from Guiblox to their lineup. Viewers of that time were shocked, yet amazed and fascinated. They kept pressuring for more, and the BBC also added Mauribloxian and programming from more countries (eventually four countries total) in 2010. They were given an international award for being the most diverse channel in 2011.

A note of criticism was when the BBC attempted to move The National in some time zones to air The One and Only John Jacob, a Rogaulian show. Viewers heavily criticised this and it eventually became a moot point; The One and Only John Jacob had 'interesting' reviews from all the countries and it became a massive flop.

In 2013, they aired a new show called The One and Only AndroidTan. Others were happy and amazed at AndroidTan's heroic deeds, but Bloxanadian members of the Anti-Furry Coalition were enraged at this, and so they started a riot in Ro-Montreal. Eventually, since the Bloxanadian president could not handle the massive riots, so does the president of BBC, they called AndroidTan for help and he sent the Rabbit Killer to destroy the riot. Around 10,000 members were killed, and AndroidTan still keeps five thousand of the dead bodies in a secret chamber in his office yet today, a reminder to not poke fun at his name. The remaining dead bodies were given to the former Labubloxian president M.K. Pelo, one of his closest allies. Now the stash lays in the basement of the Kediaman Presiden. Sinister indeed.

In 2014, BBC TV added a new talk show called, 'Nick and Julius'. It was a massive.... SUCCESS! It received strong ratings and was the number one best show to watch in BBC for a decade, before being topped off by a new comedy series called, 'Television You'.

Children's programming was broadcast under the BBC Kids block, from 8 am to 12 am until 2001, when the BBC Kids block was shunned out of BBC TV and promoted to its own channel of the same name. Formerly when it started from 1987 until 1993, the block was known as Get Set to Learn by BBC instead.

BBC Emerald

BBC Emerald is the BBC's over-the-top streaming platform. It launched on 2017, replacing the former BBC TV app. The service carries live and on-demand programming from BBC TV, BBC Kids, BBC News Network and podcasts/music from BBC Radio One, as well as short and long-form original programming and acquisitions.

The service is available in free ad-supported and premium versions. The premium version is just the same as the free one, except that you can have access to the BBC News Network programming (which you cannot in the free one), access to premium content exclusive to subscribers and also advertising-free video on-demand, like BloxTube Premium.

At launch, the BBC announced that they were adding around 45 movies to BBC Emerald per-year, and it partnered with Telefilm Bloxanada to air some movies ad-free for all users.

The Former BBC TV Platform

There was a streaming platform preceding BBC Emerald, what is it? That's right, it's BBC TV. Yes, that is the name of the application. It was the first over the top streaming platform in Bloxanada; having launched in 2008, for ePhone, ePad and ePod Touch users. It did not come to Ro-Android until the year 2011. It is the same thing as BBC Emerald, except that the premium subscription is much cheaper in this version than BBC Emerald and, of course, the graphics.

The graphics used to have some 2000s gradient on it, but the graphics were always in white and green. In 2014, they updated the graphics to exclude the glossy, skeuomorphic look and come with new, brighter graphics. In BBC Emerald, the graphics were light green and black, so there's that for you. It also never came to PC until 2010.

Former BBC HD Channels (2006-2011)

On September 21, 2006, just a day before BBC switched to 24-hour programming, BBC started launching high-definition simulcasts that broadcast on digital television (OTA digital television) of its owned-and-operated stations over time:

All HD channels map to their analogue positions via the North Bloxmerican PSIP virtual channeling standard.

In June of 2007, BBC upgraded its Ro-Toronto facilities, becoming the second fully-HD news broadcaster in Bloxanada. BBC Nightly News/Newsround and the other news programs originating in the same Ro-Toronto studio were now fully broadcast in high definition (HD) on these channels.

On January 2011, as part of the Bloxanadian digital switchover, these HD channels started to use 1080p resolution format instead of 720p.

And finally on December 31, 2011, all BBC owned-and-operated stations stopped using the BBC HD branding and reverted back to the standard BBC branding.

There is also one BBC HD channel using the BBC North branding (aka the northern states of Bloxanada's BBC channel). That being:

Stations

All the stations that are owned by the BBC are owned-and-operated ones, so no station owned by the BBC is an affiliate, including its international O&Os in the Robloxian northern states (only those who border with Canada, including Ro-Montana and Rolaska) and Chubloxka in the Tovokian Federation. Their master control facilities are all in the same building, that being the Bloxanadian Broadcasting Center, Ro-Toronto. BBC O&Os (owned and operated abbreviation) operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the local schedule (except of course, in Newbloxland and Labrador), although there are some regional differences from time to time.

Primarily stations from smaller cities who broadcast BBC programming on a large-scale would be considered affiliates, because keep in mind that they are not owned by the BBC. And let's just say there are a ton of affiliates from Northern Robloxia. A TON. They are all headed by the affiliate in Junblox, Rolaska.

Anyways, these private 'affiliates' would broadcast at least 40 hours a week (yes, these affiliates have no 24-hour thang). However, they sometimes also choose to opt out some of the BBC programming to air local, syndicated, or purchased programming from other broadcasters, such as BTV, which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the BBC programming would be broadcast at a different time than the O&Os or just outright removed. Generally, most affiliates would opt out BBC's afternoon schedule and Thursday arts programming. And also, they would broadcast the BBC news programmes at the same time as their O&O counterparts. They later added BBC's overnight schedule to their own schedule after BBC went 24-hours.

All the Bloxanadian area affiliates would eventually shut down after the disaffiliation of the last privately-owned affiliate, BKSA-DT, in Ro-Lloydminster, on September 3, 2017. Only some Northern Robloxian and Chubloxkan affiliates exist to this day. Many of the former affiliates were purchased by other local broadcasters such as BTV, Global Television and E!, the latter shut down on September 2011 and all of its affiliates were purchased by Global Television. There was also another important broadcaster in this saga of affiliate reduction, BTV Two, who purchased around 30 affiliates in Bloxanada. An example is BHBC-TV (yes, analogue) in Bloxmowna, who joined E! (then known as CH). In these cases, the BBC would add a retransmitter to make sure the service won't go away that quickly. But as a result of an agreement with BFJC in Kamblox, BFJC also seceded from BBC and joined E! and the BBC retransmitters in both areas would be revoked and turned into E! transmitters (later Global transmitters). BFJC and two other stations including BHBC were incidentally owned by an independent company at the time, Jim Patterson Company of Broadcasters.

After a talk with Thunder Bay Communications (the private owner of BKPR-DT (yes, digital), a BBC affiliate in Thunder Bay), the BBC decided to unaffiliate itself with BKPR-DT and sell it to CityTv in 2011. Though they reached an agreement to air some BBC programming for half a decade after that.

On March 13, 2012, Astral Media decided to sell some of its assets to BTV for 34 billion Roblox Points (Bloxanadian currency), including its owned affiliates of the BBC, BJDC and BFTK. As a result, BBC lost those affiliates and they are now BBC Two affiliates.

BBC stations in the northern states of Bloxanada, i.e. Bloxnavut, are branded BBC North and usually broadcast native programming in different languages, French being none of them (people who have a brain will understand why), instead in Inuktitut, Dene and others. There would be only one O&O in each of the three states.

BBC O&Os in the northern states of Robloxia are branded as BBC Robloxia and broadcast a mix of Bloxanadian and Robloxian programming. They are in English. The BBC Robloxia stations are just a few, as BBC adheres to a rule of two O&Os per state, most notably in the major cities of each one.

BBC O&Os in Chubloxka, Tovokian Federation, meanwhile, are branded as BBC Tovokia (there are only two). They broadcast in Russian and have some programming borrowed from Tovokiya One, the national broadcaster of Tovokia.

BBC O&Os in the other three Bloxanadian territories meanwhile, are branded as BBC Territories, and broadcasts in the three territories' official languages according to territory feed.

BBC Stations: On-Air Identification (Callsign)

You probably read the title above this section right? That means there are no idents here! Alright, let's get the elephant out of the room.

Now, for on-air identification, most O&Os used the standard BBC branding, until sign on or sign off, where they would use the BBC branding BUT with their respective callsigns, making each one unique. And after the abolishment of those sign on sign off things in late 2006, BBC created a standardized, yet more differentiated for each, logo for each O&O (more on that later).

The formula for the callsign of your average O&O in Bloxanada is this:

They would use 'BX' as their beginning of the call sign because that is the call letter assigned to Bloxanada. Then as the third letter, the third letter from its respective BBC Radio One station callsign is used too. In the fourth letter, it would be 'T'. However there is an exception to this rule, that being the BBC North stations, whose callsigns start with 'BZ' due to their historic association with the BBC Frontier Coverage Package which uses this callsign letter as well.

For BBC Robloxia O&Os, they use the word 'B' in front to resemble Bloxanada itself. The second letter is the first letter of the city it was broadcast in. Although for stations with the same city first letter, they use the BBC Radio One station callsign's second letter instead. Then for the last two words, it is mandatory to use 'NR' which means, 'Northern Robloxia', stating that they are in Northern Robloxia.

BBC Tovokia O&Os used the same formula as BBC Robloxia, but instead the last two letters are 'CK' referencing Chubloxka.

BBC Territories O&Os are random every time, but they usually start with 'B' and end with 'T'. The middle two letters are very random which is what makes them weird and fascinating.

BBC Stations: On-Air Identification (Logos):

As I said above, in late 2006, the BBC made all of their O&Os in Bloxanada a specific and unique logo for each of them, which was standardized but was unique in its colours and callsign text. The formula is a wide rounded rectangle (like the real-life ICI Télé's logo) which would be in any colour (more on that in a table I made for you guys). There would be a 'Six Circles' logo which is the red part of the current BBC logo, in white, to the left-hand corner of the rectangle. There would be a thin, almost transparent white line dividing it from the O&O's specific callsign text, to the right. Let's move on to the rectangle colours, which could be used as variations.

And just to note, even the BBC North O&Os have these logos, but they have a specific variant, which we will get onto later.

These logos would be used all the time, even as their screen bug (where they would all be grey). BBC North stations have the same formula, but their callsign is moved slightly above to fit in the specific native language of the three stations specifically. This native language text would often translate to the name of the city the station was broadcast in. The same thing applies for the BBC Territories stations.

Before 2006, they all used the standard BBC branding. BBC Robloxia and BBC Tovokia do not have specific logos as they use the standard BBC branding as a whole. The logos are Bloxanadian-only.

General Logo History (Explained by Words):

Now we have come to my actual most favourite part: explaining an entire logo history of the standard BBC branding!

1951-1971: A big rectangle with the text 'BBC Radio Bloxanada' in it. In colour (1965 and forward), the rectangle would be depicted as a red rectangle and the text in white.

1971-1972: Basically a copy of BTV's logo at the time (which you could tell, is also a copy of the real-life CTV logo at the time, a copy of a copy 👍), but with the colors reversed, and the words 'BBC' instead of 'BTV'.

1972-1984: The logo above was used as a placeholder for this logo here. This logo, used from 1972 to 1984, consists of four circles varying in size, arranged like the ABS-CBN logo (which is the real-life version of the Ro-Philippines channel). They are red, orange, yellow and green in color.

1984-1995: Same logo as above, but now the official logo is basically black in colour, all throughout. The idents feature different gradients (more on those later).

1995-2001: Uses the same logo as the real-life CBC logo at the time.

2001-2006: The same logo used for the 1972-1995 logo, but this time its light green throughout, and its glossy too. Under it lies the text, 'BBCtelevision' stylized that same way I put the text.

2006-now: The words 'BBC' and a big red circle in the gap of the big C. Five smaller red circles surround the big one, to the right. Sometimes, a white maple leaf would be shown inside the big circle, but other times, it won't be included.

Slogan History

Slogans were implemented during the colour era, in 1965.

1965-1969: Amazing Things To Watch!

1969-1978: This is BBC, Home of Bloxanadian Television.

1978-1981: Bringing Bloxanadians Together.

1981-1992: BBC TV: Our Own Entertainment Television.

1992-1994: Pure Bloxanadian Joy, Recorded In Television.

1994-1996: We Copied The Bloxians, Now Leave Us Alone! (Controversial!)

1996-2004: Bloxanada's Own.

2004-2008: This is BBC.

2008-now: BBC: Home of the Bloxanadians.

Ident History

Idents were implemented in 1952.

1st Ident (1952-1971):

Visuals: The ident is static. It is set on a black screen, with the BBC logo at the time in the middle, in grey.

Audio and Sound Effects: An announcer saying, 'This is BBC Television.'

Variants: There was a colour variant from 1965 used alongside this ident until 1971. It consists of five squares (red, orange, yellow, green blue) arranged like points of a star. They spin around until eventually they all come to the middle and form the BBC logo. A seven-note trumpet fanfare arrangement would play. The announcer would say this time, 'This is BBC Television, bought to you in pure colour.'

2nd Ident (1971-1972): hello u patched goofy as hell soso