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Old 18-11-2019, 23:00   #1
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BBC News app to close

The BBC has confirm that both BBC News app and BBC Sport app will no longer broadcast via TiVo from January 30th 2020.
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Re: BBC News app to close

Not that surprised. I questioned whether they meant the TV Apps when they announced they were closing down the digital text next year. There was a certain ambiguity to the the wording back then that suggested they might be included.

I had often criticised them, particularly the Sport App front page for its stupid content duplication and the placement of the text articles, but there could have still been a place for them.
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Old 19-11-2019, 06:10   #3
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Re: BBC News app to close

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The BBC has confirm that both BBC News app and BBC Sport app will no longer broadcast via TiVo from January 30th 2020.
You do mean the older TiVo boxes? l would imagine MB and not the V6 boxes.
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Re: BBC News app to close

BBC News, Sports and Weather are vanishing from the red button on the V6 at the end of January 2020. I'm guessing that these services are the same as those available via the app. I know that the BBC is launching a new version of the iPlayer next year and I wonder if it will launch around the same time. I understand BBC news, weather, sport and lottery results will still be available on mobile phones, tablets and on-line.
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Re: BBC News app to close

Here is the BBC Blog post about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthe...7-98930425302a

It also looks like they are bringing the BBC Sounds app to all the TV platforms losing the TV News and Sports Apps.
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Re: BBC News app to close

Getting the message on all the TV based apps so this will be all smart TVs as well as TV platform apps on STBs that we are losing. The Beeb don't want to shell out for seperate versions of their apps so these are the obvious ones to go
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Getting the message on all the TV based apps so this will be all smart TVs as well as TV platform apps on STBs that we are losing. The Beeb don't want to shell out for seperate versions of their apps so these are the obvious ones to go
So the separate sports and news apps will be fully incorporated into the BBC iPlayer app if l am correct?.
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So the separate sports and news apps will be fully incorporated into the BBC iPlayer app if l am correct?.
Here's the link from the on screen message

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questi...ed-button-text

You won't get any of the text services in iPlayer, just the video content for News and Sports
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Re: BBC News app to close

I removed all my BBC apps inc iPlayer, as the BBC News is untrustworthy.
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I removed all my BBC apps inc iPlayer, as the BBC News is untrustworthy.
Guess you'll have to rely on the unbiased Currant Bun/Daily Fail then.
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Guess you'll have to rely on the unbiased Currant Bun/Daily Fail then.
Without introducing politics into this thread I think the bbc has become completely biased this election shockingly so that it’s in line with the daily fail. Laura kussenberg revealing the state of mail votes on the news today even though it’s illegal and influencing the vote potentially.

In other news has anyone heard of the o2 deal where you can get amazon prime for several months if you’ve upgraded since 2017 (I think) not open to new users though which is bloody annoying as I already subscribe to amazon
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Without introducing politics into this thread I think the bbc has become completely biased this election shockingly so that it’s in line with the daily fail. Laura kussenberg revealing the state of mail votes on the news today even though it’s illegal and influencing the vote potentially.

In other news has anyone heard of the o2 deal where you can get amazon prime for several months if you’ve upgraded since 2017 (I think) not open to new users though which is bloody annoying as I already subscribe to amazon
I'm surprised it is legal for the BBC to even get hold of the mail voting figures let alone broadcasting them.
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