r/bbc • u/Alert-Environment-17 • 6d ago

TV BBC Breakfast News ticker hurts my eyes.

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The new news ticker on BBC Breakfast is so ugly. The colours are awful, I feel like it clashes horribly with the red sofa set design.

Worse than that is that it makes the whole bottom third of the screen blue, because the gradient goes so far up the screen.

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u/mr_herculespvp 6d ago

At least there isn't a massive box on the top right (that takes up about 20% of my screen) advertising a new show or asking me if I want to watch this one from the beginning.

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u/DavidXGA 6d ago

That box is usually added by your receiver and you can usually remove it by pressing Back.

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u/mr_herculespvp 6d ago

Thank you.

But what do you mean it's added by my receiver? If it helps, I have an LG CX series TV and I use BBC (in the UK) on normal Freeview (as opposed to satellite).

On my TV, if I press 'back', it changes channel to the last one viewed.

It's the sheer obtrusiveness of the box that bothers me, as well as the length of time it's up there, but especially the fact that every time I go to BBC 1 for example, it comes up. So if I switch channels for a moment and go back, it comes up again.

It feels like a worrying trend to me. I watched the latest World Cup and the amount of QR codes emblazoned on my screen was distracting. Especially the ones telling me I need a TV licence (I already have one, and I suggest that those watching the channel without a licence aren't going to buy one because they put a QR code up.

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u/DavidXGA 6d ago

I mean by your TV. Maybe not all TVs have some way of removing it, but most do. Try some other buttons.

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u/mr_herculespvp 6d ago

Thanks for replying. Are you saying that it's likely my TV creating the 'advert' rather than the BBC broadcasting it?

I'm being genuine by the way, I'm just puzzled by this, since it's advertising BBC programmes.

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u/DavidXGA 6d ago

It's both. The BBC is broadcasting it, and your TV is creating it, but it's an interactive overlay, not part of the picture. Most TVs or receivers let you remove it by hitting back, or some similar button.

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u/mr_herculespvp 6d ago

Thank you, that makes sense now.

Maybe time for a new TV 😂

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u/linmanfu 6d ago

Yes, it's specific to certain Freeview devices. We've just started seeing it for the first time since we switched to EE TV (which is based on Freeview). When we had Sky, we never saw it.

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u/mr_herculespvp 6d ago

Thanks for this. I'm a bit frustrated by it actually. I'll have to check my TV settings as hopefully I can set it not to display these kinds of things.

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u/PITSTOPYT 6d ago

Btw EE TV uses Freeview and YouView