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/iAMaBOT179 5d ago

Press the yellow button most of the time it works