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Sep 16^th, 2019, 3:52pm

The BBC has announced the demise of "Text services" on "The Red Button".

"From early 2020, viewers will no longer be able to access text-based BBC News and BBC Sport content by pressing red," a BBC spokesperson said.
"It's always a difficult decision to reduce services, and we don't take decisions like this lightly, but we have taken it because we have to balance the resources needed to maintain and develop this service with the need to update our systems to give people even better internet-based services.
"Viewers can still access this information on the BBC website, BBC News and Sport mobile apps - as well as 24-hour news on the BBC News channel."

The BBC report is here.

More background, here, from "www.rxtvlog.com".

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Administrator YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 3254	Re: Red Button Reply #1 - Sep 18^th, 2019, 9:20pm Here are Andrew Bowden's personal thoughts having been part of the "Red Button" team for eight years. "BBC Red Button may be coming to an end. But it’s influence on my life will last forever."
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Administrator YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 3254	Re: Red Button Reply #2 - Jan 27^th, 2020, 11:43am There’s a petition to save the Red Button. Read about it here.
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Administrator YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 3254	Re: Red Button Reply #3 - Jan 29^th, 2020, 1:17pm According to this BBC News site..... the cancellation of the BBC Red Button service has been suspended.
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Administrator YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 3254	Re: Red Button Reply #4 - Jan 29^th, 2020, 1:34pm Here is DG's letter to Damian Collins MP.
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