The TV Room

Mike if you could please read my PM.

Thanks
Hyma

Just a quick note to say how sorry I am to see the site closing Mike. You, Martin and Asa have worked so hard on the site over the years, and it must be heartbreaking to have to shut down.

Your site was one of the first I visited when I discovered the internet almost 10 years ago. It was a very valuable resource, and I hope your material can be put to some use in the future.

Thank you Mike for keeping my thirst for TV presentation alive, and all the best to you.

Rob.

I certainly echo Rob's sentiments above.

PM already in your inbox, Mike.

Unfortuantly I have heard there are no plans to suppy other sites with content at the moment. For the time being keep looking on the homepage

Sorry to see it go. Along with Richard Bell, Andrew Wiseman's 625 site and TV Ark, it has been one of the original pres sites. The TV Room Plus site has been particularly useful.

This is really sad news! I know it's a huge catalogue of videos, but can some at least be uploaded on YouTube?

Very sad news, Sorry to hear you're pulling the plug on the site Mike, but given your reasons I can totally sympathise with you, I can imagine how much hard work a site can take, in terms of time and finance.

But you've provided an excellent resourceful TV pres site, which is quite lacking on the Net these days, especially as TV Room has been round for such a while.

I will miss the TV Room
I contributed a little while ago with loads of Schools clips. One of the best TV pres sites around.

Really sad to see the site closing down. Back in the day it was the website that got me properly fascinated in TV presentation. It even led me to this site all those years ago.

So without sounding too cheesy, thanks and all the best Mike.

It's been quite heartbreaking over the last decade to see the demise of TV pres sites like this. When I first got the internet in 2000, there were absolutely loads and you could pretty much find any clip you wanted on at least one of the sites, even if it was low-quality RealVideo. Over the years though we've lost most of them, with Java TV, APFS, TV & Radio Bits and of course Asa's TV Home being some of my most missed, and now that's joined by The TV Room.

I suppose with the advent of youtube they've become a bit of a dying breed, but even so I will miss the site immensely. As others have said it was one of the first ever sites I found, and many hours have been spent in the past trawling through all the pages. Best of luck for the future!

Just echoing what other people have put- TV Room has been a tremendous resource and one from which many, many people have taken great pleasure. (I can only hope that the materials can be used elsewhere.) Thank you to all concerned- another loss, and a particularly major one, from the presentation of UK television history on the internet.

As others have said, this is very sad news and a great shame that The TV Room has to close.

The loss of the site, and the others before it that BillyH mentioned, seems to be indicative of the way the web is going, away from structured, authoritive websites like The TV Room, and towards 'Web 2.0' and 'user-generated content' (though I hate both of those terms). YouTube is all very well, and there are some great clips of old continuity up there if you search them out, but all it can offer presentation enthusiasts is a bunch of isolated clips. What it cannot provide is an overview of the subject for anyone interested in tracing the development of television continuity right the way through the ages, from the 1950s to the present daym and I think The TV Room is really the last remaining site that offers that in any great detail - not just the video clips and the image galleries, but also the commentary that goes with it.