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BBC Chameleon progress checker - Moz - 26-04-2022
I'm not sure whether this project is even possible to do properly, but I was wondering - with the Forums help - if we could perhaps keep a check of how the BBC are doing with the Chameleon project.
I'm going to make a start with some basics which is by no means exhaustive.
Please reply with what I've missed and I'll (if the moderators are on board with this) keep editing this post with updates (or try to)...
BBC ONE
Idents ✔ ECPs ✔ Social media ✔
BBC TWO
Idents ✔ ECPs ✔ Social media ✔
BBC THREE
Idents ✔ ECPs ✔ Social media ✔
BBC FOUR
Idents ✔ ECPs ✔ Social media ✔
CBBC
Idents ? ECPs ? Social media ?
CBeebies
Idents ? ECPs ? Social media ?
BBC News
Countdown ✔ Titles ✔ DOG ✔ Promos ? Online ✔ App ✔ Social media ✔/X (Instagram and Facebook have new logo, Twitter - with it's three separate accounts - doesn't)
BBC World News
Countdown ✔ Titles ✔ DOG ✔ Promos ? Online ✔ App ✔ Social media X
BBC Parliament
Titles X DOG X
BBC Weather
Forecasts X Online ✔/X App ✔
BBC Sport
Titles X Graphics X Promos ✔/X Online ✔ App ✔ Social media ✔
BBC Regions & Nations
Titles ✔/X DOG ✔ Promos ? Online ✔ Social media ✔
BBC Scotland
Idents ✔ ECPs ? Social media ?
BBC Alba
Idents ✔ ECPs ? Social media ?
BBC iPLAYER
Online ✔ App ✔ Smart TVs ✔/X
BBC Sounds
Online ✔ App ✔
BBC National Radio
Sounds X Social media ✔
BBC World Service
Sounds X Social media ✔
BBC Local Radio
Sounds X Social media X
BBC Bitesize
Online X App X Social media X
BBC Mugs
Breakfast X
BBC Buildings
Signage ✔/X - BBC Wrexham's sign has been done! Reckon it'll be a while longer before NBH has new glass!
BBC Muffs
Radio 1 ? Radio 2 ✔ Radio 3 ? Radio 4 ? 5 Live ? 6 Music ✔ Asian Network ?
BBC Music
Proms X Symphony Orchestra X Philharmonic X Singers X
BBC Shop
X
BBC Global
Kids ✔ America ✔
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Brekkie - 26-04-2022
Guess you take it as a given they'll never get round to BBC Parliament.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Moz - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 02:28 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Guess you take it as a given they'll never get round to BBC Parliament.
Added - along with Scotland and Alba which I'm not sure where they are with.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Brekkie - 26-04-2022
All ticks for both I think - the idents were certainly updated. Not sure if they have now updated the daytime barker for BBC Scotland - was a mixture of old and new last time I saw a cap. Similarly did they ever get round to updating the "This is BBC Two" overnight barker?
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Robert Williams - 26-04-2022
There is still plenty to be changed online - the schedule and programme pages for all BBC services, with the sole exception of BBC Three, still carry the old logos, and in many cases the old branding (which in the case of BBC One is now two eras out-of-date, with its red swirls left over from the circles era).
With BBC Radio, only the social media accounts for the national stations have changed so far - local stations and the nations' stations have yet to be updated (I see Radio Orkney uses a 70s/80s logo on its social media!)
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - AxiosBrit67 - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 03:18 PM)Robert Williams Wrote: There is still plenty to be changed online - the schedule and programme pages for all BBC services, with the sole exception of BBC Three, still carry the old logos, and in many cases the old branding (which in the case of BBC One is now two eras out-of-date, with its red swirls left over from the circles era).
With BBC Radio, only the social media accounts for the national stations have changed so far - local stations and the nations' stations have yet to be updated (I see Radio Orkney uses a 70s/80s logo on its social media!)
Don't forget BBC World Service (an international radio station operated by the BBC), because they already updated the logo on their social media accounts since yesterday, in line with BBC News department.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Moz - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 03:18 PM)Robert Williams Wrote: There is still plenty to be changed online - the schedule and programme pages for all BBC services, with the sole exception of BBC Three, still carry the old logos, and in many cases the old branding (which in the case of BBC One is now two eras out-of-date, with its red swirls left over from the circles era).
With BBC Radio, only the social media accounts for the national stations have changed so far - local stations and the nations' stations have yet to be updated (I see Radio Orkney uses a 70s/80s logo on its social media!)
The schedule pages? Isn't that the TV Guide on iPlayer which is up to date.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide
I never quite understand programme websites - where are you even supposed to access them from apart from the programme page on iPlayer. Why are there two, one on iPlayer and one on /programmes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ggt7/five-bedrooms-series-1-6-fifty-years
Will update Radio as you've said.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Robert Williams - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 03:50 PM)Moz Wrote:(26-04-2022, 03:18 PM)Robert Williams Wrote: There is still plenty to be changed online - the schedule and programme pages for all BBC services, with the sole exception of BBC Three, still carry the old logos, and in many cases the old branding (which in the case of BBC One is now two eras out-of-date, with its red swirls left over from the circles era).
With BBC Radio, only the social media accounts for the national stations have changed so far - local stations and the nations' stations have yet to be updated (I see Radio Orkney uses a 70s/80s logo on its social media!)
The schedule pages? Isn't that the TV Guide on iPlayer which is up to date.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide
I never quite understand programme websites - where are you even supposed to access them from apart from the programme page on iPlayer. Why are there two, one on iPlayer and one on /programmes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ggt7/five-bedrooms-series-1-6-fifty-years
Will update Radio as you've said.
The schedule pages as accessed from this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules
Programme pages can be found as links from these schedule pages. Unlike the schedule pages on iPlayer and Sounds, these are permanent, and go further forward, and much further back. Likewise, the programme pages are meant to be a permanent canonical link to information about a programme, regardless of iPlayer/Sounds availability.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - JAS84 - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 03:18 PM)Robert Williams Wrote: With BBC Radio, only the social media accounts for the national stations have changed so far - local stations and the nations' stations have yet to be updated (I see Radio Orkney uses a 70s/80s logo on its social media!)Hmm, I see they launched on 9 May 1977, and so are two weeks away from their 45th birthday. Maybe that explains the retro branding?
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Robert Williams - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 04:40 PM)JAS84 Wrote:(26-04-2022, 03:18 PM)Robert Williams Wrote: With BBC Radio, only the social media accounts for the national stations have changed so far - local stations and the nations' stations have yet to be updated (I see Radio Orkney uses a 70s/80s logo on its social media!)Hmm, I see they launched on 9 May 1977, and so are two weeks away from their 45th birthday. Maybe that explains the retro branding?
Looking at the Internet Archive, they've been using the same picture since at least 2014, so maybe changed for an earlier anniversary and never changed back, or someone just likes the retro style?
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - JAS84 - 26-04-2022
That'll be a red X against Magazines.
![[Image: FRQVoSHWQAME27A?format=jpg&name=900x900]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRQVoSHWQAME27A?format=jpg&name=900x900)
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - chris - 26-04-2022
The BBC Sounds app only deserves a half-tick. The station logos are still the 2007 versions.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - Josh - 26-04-2022
(26-04-2022, 02:51 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Similarly did they ever get round to updating the "This is BBC Two" overnight barker?Last time I checked, no.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - DTV - 26-04-2022
Interesting that, as you mention, the NBH signage still hasn't been done. Does anybody know when they replaced the signage on TVC in 1997, because it must have been fairly quick - the change is visible by the sixth episode of I'm Alan Partridge which TXed on 8th December and must have been recorded at least several weeks in advance.
RE: BBC Chameleon progress checker - mdta - 26-04-2022
BBC's International channel brands, and BBC Global News not on the list