“BBC iPlayer will become the home of much of the video content that is currently available on the BBC Sport and BBC News TV apps and the traditional text and data offer will remain accessible on the majority of Internet-connected televisions via the ‘Text’ button on the remote control,” he added. Add or Remove the Interactive (Red Button) icon Press services on your Sky remote, select Options and then select Sky+ Setup. “For people using the Internet-based version of our Red Button service, we will be consolidating our Internet-connected TVs apps, retiring the BBC News and BBC Sport connected TV apps before the end of the year as well as the lottery and weather pages on connected TVs,” he said. Red Button video streams for the likes of Wimbledon or Glastonbury won’t be affected by this change. We are concerned that the digitalisation of services will. Due to cost implications, we will not be updating the news and sport element of the service throughout the night – however, this will be refreshed each morning and then throughout the day to ensure you are up-to-date,” he advised. WaveLength welcomes the BBCs investigation into the impact of the closure of the BBC Red Button. National sport indexes (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) will be retained – as will all sport fixtures and results. “This will mean we will be no longer be providing Lottery results (from November 2020) or English regional sport pages and individual sports’ headlines, besides football and those on the main sport pages (from mid-2021) via the Red Button. “This means you will continue to be able to access local, national and international news headlines and stories, main sport headlines and stories, sport fixtures and results, as well as weather forecasts.”Īccording to Taylor-Watt, to enable the continuation of the most valued text and data elements of the service, the BBC was having to find ways to reduce cost and complexity elsewhere. BBC Red Button is a digital interactive television service owned by the BBC, which broadcasts its content in the UK. BBC Red Button Text is a MHEG-5 service operated by the BBC as a digital replacement for the Ceefax analogue teletext service. “We have listened to this feedback – and I’m pleased to let you know that we have found a way to keep the most valued text and data elements of the Red Button service,” he revealed.
Writing in a BBC Blog, Dan Taylor-Watt, Director of Product, BBC iPlayer & BBC Sounds, noted that since then, the BBC had been in contact and had extensive dialogue with a wide range of representative groups to build on its existing research into what elements of the service were most used and valued by different groups.
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