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1988
Bruce Gyngell, managing director of TV-am, sacks staff who had been participating in industrial action.
1991
BBC One and BBC Two introduce new on-screen presentation packages, designed by Martin Lambie-Nairn and team.
EXTERNAL LINK: BBC One globe: 1991 - 1997.
EXTERNAL LINK: Lambie-Nairn discusses the BBC Two identity.
EXTERNAL LINK: BBC One globe: 1991 - 1997.
EXTERNAL LINK: Lambie-Nairn discusses the BBC Two identity.
2016
BBC Three ceases broadcasting as a linear TV channel. The channel's content moves online only. BBC Three returned to linear TV in February 2022.
2016
BBC Three closes its linear TV channel and its programmes are moved online. The channel would return to linear TV in February 2022.
Programmes
1957
The first edition of Six-Five Special airs on BBC TV.
1968
The final black and white episode of Till Death Us Do Part airs on BBC One.
1972
The final episode of A Family at War airs on ITV.
1974
The 400th episode of Dixon of Dock Green airs on BBC One.
1982
The first edition of On Safari airs on ITV.
1982
The first episode of Emery Presents airs on BBC One.
1982
Too Late to Talk to Billy - the first of the Billy trilogy - airs on BBC One. A Play for Today production.
1982
The final episode of Muck and Brass airs on ITV.
1983
The final episode of Skorpian airs on BBC One.
1986
The first episode of Hot Metal airs on ITV.
1989
The 200th edition of 40 Minutes airs on BBC Two.
1990
The first edition of Whicker's World: Hong Kong airs on BBC One.
1990
The final episode of Colin's Sandwich airs on BBC Two.
1992
The first episode of Hannah Hauxwell - Innocent Abroad airs on ITV.
1993
The final episode of Count Duckula airs on ITV.
1994
The final episode of Middlemarch airs on BBC Two.
1998
The first edition of Lion Country airs on BBC One. A series of 55 weekday programmes which look behind the scenes at Longleat House and its estate in Wiltshire.
2000
The final episode of The Peter Kay Thing airs on Channel 4.
2004
The first edition of The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two.
2004
BBC One's news programmes get new title sequences, bringing them into line with the ident/sting style used on BBC News 24.
2005
The first edition of The Apprentice airs on BBC Two.
2018
The final edition of The Graham Norton Show to be recorded at The London Studios airs on BBC One. The programme was recorded the previous day.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1965
BBC TV/BBC One tape Le Prophet - Galop airs for the final time.
2002
BBC Two tape Just for Fun airs for the first time.
On This Day...16th February
Births
1937
Former radio/TV presenter, Peter Hobday.
Deaths
2005
Former TV announcer, Brian Sharpe.
2007
Former TV/radio presenter, Sheridan Morley.
Events
1989
Annabel Croft replaces Anneka Rice as presenter on Treasure Hunt (Channel 4).
Research for On This Day in TV History is by Paul R. Jackson.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.
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