RD
I am so stunned to learn about the imminent closure of TV Forum, particularly because I only joined late last year, but just like everybody else I have to thank Asa with all my heart! Running a forum like this is no easy task, but doing it for over 20 continous years....well that is pure dedication!
Also I just discovered that this website was launched on the 22nd of March 2001, that was the day I turned 3 years old.....I looked forward to celebrating many more birthdays together, but I fully understand the reasons for the closure of this wonderful forum! The only forum I love to visit every day, there are loads of cool people in it and I hope that if there will be a successor to this great forum, I hope to see you all there!
I want to conclude by sharing with you my favourite memory form my short time in this forum. It was in November last year when itsrobert decided to share with us his BBC News recordings from the early 2000s, and I know it may seem trivial, but just to show the influence that this great website has, is that Adrian Finighan himself enjoyed the uploads of the clips https://twitter.com/afinighan/status/1330365131700776960 and that Susanna Reid herself already retweeted the clip of her presenting News 24 back in 2003, and that it even got mentioned on GMB itself.
With these events I realized that this website is a great force for good. In the end I just want to thank Asa again for his dedication in all these 20 years and just like itsrobert wrote earlier, I truly hope that we can collectively move somewhere else as it would be very sad to lose our wonderful community. Rob, if you want to make a successor forum to this, I want to wish you good luck, it's going to be a challenge, but it's going to be worthwhile! Also I hope to be there!
Also I just discovered that this website was launched on the 22nd of March 2001, that was the day I turned 3 years old.....I looked forward to celebrating many more birthdays together, but I fully understand the reasons for the closure of this wonderful forum! The only forum I love to visit every day, there are loads of cool people in it and I hope that if there will be a successor to this great forum, I hope to see you all there!
I want to conclude by sharing with you my favourite memory form my short time in this forum. It was in November last year when itsrobert decided to share with us his BBC News recordings from the early 2000s, and I know it may seem trivial, but just to show the influence that this great website has, is that Adrian Finighan himself enjoyed the uploads of the clips https://twitter.com/afinighan/status/1330365131700776960 and that Susanna Reid herself already retweeted the clip of her presenting News 24 back in 2003, and that it even got mentioned on GMB itself.
With these events I realized that this website is a great force for good. In the end I just want to thank Asa again for his dedication in all these 20 years and just like itsrobert wrote earlier, I truly hope that we can collectively move somewhere else as it would be very sad to lose our wonderful community. Rob, if you want to make a successor forum to this, I want to wish you good luck, it's going to be a challenge, but it's going to be worthwhile! Also I hope to be there!
JO
Maybe a farewell zoom "after party" ?
I'd love to have a Zoom meetup like we had with James Mobbs a few months ago. Maybe we could agree to do something?
Would it be worth having a small award ceremony to celebrate the best contributions and contributors on this forum? I know I haven’t been here long so somebody else could do it.
Maybe a farewell zoom "after party" ?
I'd love to have a Zoom meetup like we had with James Mobbs a few months ago. Maybe we could agree to do something?
JB
Maybe a farewell zoom "after party" ?
I feel sorry for the person who would have control over muting 300 odd + members!
A Zoom party sounds like a great idea.
Would it be worth having a small award ceremony to celebrate the best contributions and contributors on this forum? I know I haven’t been here long so somebody else could do it.
Maybe a farewell zoom "after party" ?
I feel sorry for the person who would have control over muting 300 odd + members!
A Zoom party sounds like a great idea.
FB
Can I add my good wishes and thanks for running this over the years and all the best for whatever you do next.
Thanks to Asa, the mods and all the TV Forum contributors. Whilst we may have different views on TV pres, I think we'll all agree that we'll miss this when it's gone.
Thanks to Asa, the mods and all the TV Forum contributors. Whilst we may have different views on TV pres, I think we'll all agree that we'll miss this when it's gone.
NT
Gosh - I hadn't quite appreciated how long this website has been running for; I think Asa's well within his rights to call it a day after so many years, this stuff can take over your life and I can understand the need to decompress and have a fresh start!
I think the algorithms and ubiquity of Twitter and Facebook have a lot to answer for in changing the way otherwise-unassuming people think and behave online. Being on alert 24/7 for people who simply don't understand, or don't care, that their words have consequences can wear anyone down.
I'm very grateful to him for creating a well-run forum and to those here who have taught me a lot about how telly works (and worked) over the few years I've been on here. Thank you and good luck!
I think the algorithms and ubiquity of Twitter and Facebook have a lot to answer for in changing the way otherwise-unassuming people think and behave online. Being on alert 24/7 for people who simply don't understand, or don't care, that their words have consequences can wear anyone down.
I'm very grateful to him for creating a well-run forum and to those here who have taught me a lot about how telly works (and worked) over the few years I've been on here. Thank you and good luck!
PF
Anyone else hoping BBC ONE rebrands very soon so the site will keep going a little longer...?
...So short of any major presentation developments, the site will close at the end of this month...
Anyone else hoping BBC ONE rebrands very soon so the site will keep going a little longer...?
HO
Maybe a farewell zoom "after party" ?
I feel sorry for the person who would have control over muting 300 odd + members!
A Zoom party sounds like a great idea.
Maybe. But can you imagine the breakdown slide for if/when things got really pear shaped?
Would it be worth having a small award ceremony to celebrate the best contributions and contributors on this forum? I know I haven’t been here long so somebody else could do it.
Maybe a farewell zoom "after party" ?
I feel sorry for the person who would have control over muting 300 odd + members!
A Zoom party sounds like a great idea.
Maybe. But can you imagine the breakdown slide for if/when things got really pear shaped?
HC
Asa's getting out before GB News starts. Doesn't want the hassle of keeping that thread on the rails - come on admit it, boss!
I've never had the need to contact you Asa - and thankfully, that worked the other way as well (!) - but your work on keeping this place going as long as I've been here was never taken for granted. And for the other mods, when I've alerted them to a couple of issues over the past few months as well. Thank you. No, really Thank You.
Seriously, my productivity will now rocket whilst working from home. Works laptop to the side, reading this forum on the 'big pc'.
My Gran (bless her) always said "all good things must come to an end" and it's always rang around my head when news like this knocks you briefly sideways.
I came to this site more years ago than I care to remember - I had hair back then and no wife and children (guess which two of the three I'm still lacking!).
And now thinking back, it's been more use that I care to remember.
I've read threads and posted comments on the studio PC during my fleeting radio career, whilst watching boring tv programmes, and on numerous train journeys, usually on the commute (including one to London trying to control the increasing nerves travelling down for a failed development job interview with 12 Yard Productions).
I've looked at this site whilst waiting for a drink to be served in a bar upstairs from NBC at 30 Rock in Manhattan, on a coach in St Petersburg, and the most surreal of all, trying to watch the first of the BBC One Circle idents (wall of death, if you must know), whilst on a cruise ship sailling off the coast of Africa, on a connection that would shame most dial-ups and it cost me £9.80 for the on board charge for the internet time.
I only break cover in PM's to those that I contact where it would be giving it too much away in the usual threads - and of course, I repay the complement by not blabbing on the boards what has been told to me in strict confidence.
Oddly, I believe I've only met one regular poster on this forum - although, PM me if you want to break cover in all confidence.
He knows who he is - Hello, Mr Currie. Looking forward to seeing you again sometime soon in Birmingham at the next Kalidescope meeting.
If there are any others who attend those - next meeting, I'll be the one in the TVS hoodie - please say hello.
It's been a blast. Hopefully Rob will carry on the good work, because leaving us all with Digital Spy for all our tv discussion needs is a very hollow prospect indeed.
I've never had the need to contact you Asa - and thankfully, that worked the other way as well (!) - but your work on keeping this place going as long as I've been here was never taken for granted. And for the other mods, when I've alerted them to a couple of issues over the past few months as well. Thank you. No, really Thank You.
Seriously, my productivity will now rocket whilst working from home. Works laptop to the side, reading this forum on the 'big pc'.
My Gran (bless her) always said "all good things must come to an end" and it's always rang around my head when news like this knocks you briefly sideways.
I came to this site more years ago than I care to remember - I had hair back then and no wife and children (guess which two of the three I'm still lacking!).
And now thinking back, it's been more use that I care to remember.
I've read threads and posted comments on the studio PC during my fleeting radio career, whilst watching boring tv programmes, and on numerous train journeys, usually on the commute (including one to London trying to control the increasing nerves travelling down for a failed development job interview with 12 Yard Productions).
I've looked at this site whilst waiting for a drink to be served in a bar upstairs from NBC at 30 Rock in Manhattan, on a coach in St Petersburg, and the most surreal of all, trying to watch the first of the BBC One Circle idents (wall of death, if you must know), whilst on a cruise ship sailling off the coast of Africa, on a connection that would shame most dial-ups and it cost me £9.80 for the on board charge for the internet time.
I only break cover in PM's to those that I contact where it would be giving it too much away in the usual threads - and of course, I repay the complement by not blabbing on the boards what has been told to me in strict confidence.
Oddly, I believe I've only met one regular poster on this forum - although, PM me if you want to break cover in all confidence.
He knows who he is - Hello, Mr Currie. Looking forward to seeing you again sometime soon in Birmingham at the next Kalidescope meeting.
If there are any others who attend those - next meeting, I'll be the one in the TVS hoodie - please say hello.
It's been a blast. Hopefully Rob will carry on the good work, because leaving us all with Digital Spy for all our tv discussion needs is a very hollow prospect indeed.
JI
Oh no! That explains some of the Gallery Threads I've seen....
I really don't know how to take this on board. I'm don't contribute much (plus many of my past contributions have ended up disappearing over the years....).
First I should give my condolences to @Asa. Mate, thanks for your 20 years of captaincy of TV Forum. I don't know much of the history, but that's almost an unbeatable innings for a community run website. Being on literally the other side of the world, I would not have aware of community forums, thanks to limited Dial-Up usage times back in the late 90s and through the early 2000s. I would not even fathom the time and effort you would have put into maintaining a Discussion forum in those early days of the web. You should be proud of that.
To the larger community at hand, and to the regulars who have been around, thank you for being such an engaging and expressive community. I had discovered TV Forum around the beginning of the 2010s, and it was during my time when I was beginning to delve deeper into what the Internet offered with communities. At the time, I knew I was attentive to News Broadcasting and presentation. Listening to the themes of ABC Australia, National Nine News, Sky News Australia, and Ten News, along with watching presenters and journalists express their authenticity and deliverance to the news and events of the day.
My biggest draw-card was Countdown Music, something Sky News Australia was beginning to showcase in 2007, but little did I know about the BBC's countdowns until I stumbled through YouTube and the TV-Ark website. I can't remember much, but knew that I found TV Forum, and a place I could start showcasing (my then poor quality exports for Adobe Premier Pro) into the Forum.
I also managed to join the Australia equivalent of TV Forum; MediaSpy but haven't engaged as much their, and didn't follow up with a new account when they migrated their servers back in 2015, but I still look around from time-to-time, watching the changes in Australian TV Presentation.
In my own time, I learnt what After Effects was and began improving my own work quality. I'm certainly no artist, but I've learnt a little more about TV Broadcasting Standards and some information gleamed from the Forums, it genuinely has been helpful.
Over the years since, I spectated almost everyday, watching commentary on the BBC's migration to NBH, and the history of TVC. I've also built a little (maybe too large) of a collection of BBC News tunes and still jam to it everyday. What a disaster it turned into. It had the best intentions, but people got too greedy.
Upon reflection, I seemed to have my corner where I wanted to achieve big things, and grab what I could with the right attitude, but I think my concern and fear got the better of me at times, and things never eventuated, and much of my work is no longer visible. Which really is a shame on my part, and I wish I could undo some of the erasing that I did.
One take-away that TV Forum has enabled me is to try a hand a streaming, and thinking about how it works. Watching the News 24 galleries, I feel like I can emulate what they can do, and given I have spent years volunteering for AV teams at Churches and Schools, I could see myself in a backup career if Software Development ever falls by the way-side.
Finally, I want to give a shout out to the following members; Bail, Mike W, rob, itsrobert, SomeRandomStuff, mdtaUK, DTV, FactorFiles, VMPhil, PATV Scunthorpe . You guys are amazing. I am in awe of your talent and knowledge. You have helped create inspiration, and your engagement has been like a good mentor. Engaging critiques and insight into the past operations. Mind workings with your talented Presentation Mocks and your sense and respect towards others. I will really, truly miss you.
Many of you are based in the UK, and one in my neck of the woods, but I do hope we may cross paths again, either in-person (if I ever fly to the United Kingdom), or virtually with streaming and social media communications.
God-speed my friends, and may this final March, be our strongest transmission.
~~ This is James "Jimmyson" Crawford, reporting from Melbourne, Australia, for TV Forum ~~
I really don't know how to take this on board. I'm don't contribute much (plus many of my past contributions have ended up disappearing over the years....).
First I should give my condolences to @Asa. Mate, thanks for your 20 years of captaincy of TV Forum. I don't know much of the history, but that's almost an unbeatable innings for a community run website. Being on literally the other side of the world, I would not have aware of community forums, thanks to limited Dial-Up usage times back in the late 90s and through the early 2000s. I would not even fathom the time and effort you would have put into maintaining a Discussion forum in those early days of the web. You should be proud of that.
To the larger community at hand, and to the regulars who have been around, thank you for being such an engaging and expressive community. I had discovered TV Forum around the beginning of the 2010s, and it was during my time when I was beginning to delve deeper into what the Internet offered with communities. At the time, I knew I was attentive to News Broadcasting and presentation. Listening to the themes of ABC Australia, National Nine News, Sky News Australia, and Ten News, along with watching presenters and journalists express their authenticity and deliverance to the news and events of the day.
My biggest draw-card was Countdown Music, something Sky News Australia was beginning to showcase in 2007, but little did I know about the BBC's countdowns until I stumbled through YouTube and the TV-Ark website. I can't remember much, but knew that I found TV Forum, and a place I could start showcasing (my then poor quality exports for Adobe Premier Pro) into the Forum.
I also managed to join the Australia equivalent of TV Forum; MediaSpy but haven't engaged as much their, and didn't follow up with a new account when they migrated their servers back in 2015, but I still look around from time-to-time, watching the changes in Australian TV Presentation.
In my own time, I learnt what After Effects was and began improving my own work quality. I'm certainly no artist, but I've learnt a little more about TV Broadcasting Standards and some information gleamed from the Forums, it genuinely has been helpful.
Over the years since, I spectated almost everyday, watching commentary on the BBC's migration to NBH, and the history of TVC. I've also built a little (maybe too large) of a collection of BBC News tunes and still jam to it everyday. What a disaster it turned into. It had the best intentions, but people got too greedy.
Upon reflection, I seemed to have my corner where I wanted to achieve big things, and grab what I could with the right attitude, but I think my concern and fear got the better of me at times, and things never eventuated, and much of my work is no longer visible. Which really is a shame on my part, and I wish I could undo some of the erasing that I did.
One take-away that TV Forum has enabled me is to try a hand a streaming, and thinking about how it works. Watching the News 24 galleries, I feel like I can emulate what they can do, and given I have spent years volunteering for AV teams at Churches and Schools, I could see myself in a backup career if Software Development ever falls by the way-side.
Finally, I want to give a shout out to the following members; Bail, Mike W, rob, itsrobert, SomeRandomStuff, mdtaUK, DTV, FactorFiles, VMPhil, PATV Scunthorpe . You guys are amazing. I am in awe of your talent and knowledge. You have helped create inspiration, and your engagement has been like a good mentor. Engaging critiques and insight into the past operations. Mind workings with your talented Presentation Mocks and your sense and respect towards others. I will really, truly miss you.
Many of you are based in the UK, and one in my neck of the woods, but I do hope we may cross paths again, either in-person (if I ever fly to the United Kingdom), or virtually with streaming and social media communications.
God-speed my friends, and may this final March, be our strongest transmission.
~~ This is James "Jimmyson" Crawford, reporting from Melbourne, Australia, for TV Forum ~~
BL
As a long time lurker - but also previously from the MHP-Chat / Private Parts! - I'd just like to thank Asa and the team from TV Forum for all the work they've done over the last 20 years!
I remember around 1999-2000 when TV Home started, I swapped a tape of Sky Presentation/Granada/BBC North West with Asa - who had just moved from YTV to the Meridian/Carlton region - the tape was full of everything! I loved it pre-Youtube and pre-TV-Ark sites for example when we used to swap VHS tapes of ITV Regions / Sky Presentation etc
Hopefully TV Forum will continue in some form - if it doesn't however, it's been a blast! I'll remember so much from TV Forum and TV Home from the last 20 years - I've literally grown up with it like Asa! All the best everyone
I remember around 1999-2000 when TV Home started, I swapped a tape of Sky Presentation/Granada/BBC North West with Asa - who had just moved from YTV to the Meridian/Carlton region - the tape was full of everything! I loved it pre-Youtube and pre-TV-Ark sites for example when we used to swap VHS tapes of ITV Regions / Sky Presentation etc
Hopefully TV Forum will continue in some form - if it doesn't however, it's been a blast! I'll remember so much from TV Forum and TV Home from the last 20 years - I've literally grown up with it like Asa! All the best everyone
TV
I joined this forum as a naive teenager - and let's be honest, I was/came across as a bit of a p**** (albeit with good intentions). It's been brilliant sharing things on this forum and improving my mocking ability throughout the years, and it's a shame to see it go. I've come from releasing 'insider info' way too early (some of it so early that the plans never actually happened, which made me look like a real plonker) to being much more mature in what I give out and what I don't, and in the way I conduct myself. Good luck to Rob with the TVLive Forum, and goodbye to this one!