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🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Live announcers: an essential part of PSB channels.
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Live announcers: an essential part of PSB channels - Clean Feed

It was interesting to read a claim on a forum that it was a surprise that British TV still had announcers.

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January 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM

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Riding from Acocks Green to Monkspath the Morning after #StormGoretti 9/1/26
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Riding from Acocks Green to Monkspath the Morning after Storm Goretti 9/1/26

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January 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM

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My view to see Jack Off The Beanstalk.

It’s a very adult and hilarious panto!

January 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM

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Bike Ride from Monkspath to Acocks Green during #StormGoretti 8/1/26
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Bike Ride from Monkspath to Acocks Green during Storm Goretti 8/1/26

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January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM

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Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row

Hundreds of people gather in Centenary Square to see in 2026 after false claims online promise ‘dazzling’ display The new year got off to an anticlimactic start for hundreds of people in Birmingham who were tricked into attending a New Year’s Eve fireworks display that didn’t exist. Crowds of revellers gathered in the city’s Centenary Square, hoping to catch a glimpse of a pyrotechnics display to welcome in 2026. Continue reading...

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January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM

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South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name

Toby Morton now owns trumpkennedycenter.org, which advertises new year performance by the ‘Epstein dancers’ Donald Trump may be remaking the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into a pool of his self-reflection, but a writer for South Park, the TV series that better reflects the obsessions and tendencies of the administration than any political pundit, has purchased the rights to trumpkennedycenter.org. Toby Morton, a TV writer and producer who has worked on the long-running and joyfully offensive sitcom, said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists. Continue reading...

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January 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM

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#sgtpepper2025 v2

December 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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John Williams

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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM