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It's an outrage!: BBC could have made TOTP work.(VIEWPOINT)
Like football, the fate of Top Of The Pops has always provoked fierce Debate--but nobody has ever suggested that the programme should be taken off air all together.
Not until last week when, bringing a new dimension to the term "missing the point", the BBC announced that "the time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion". They did not offer any explanation for how being taken off air is in any way the "natural conclusion" for a show celebrating mainstream entertainment. Surely, the natural conclusion for such a show is to put it in a prime-time slot, to cherish it and to make it work.
A controversial tactic, given the recent treatment of TOTP, and easier said than done at a time when pop TV scheduling is a hard sell, but it is not the ease that in these days of multi-channel programming there is no home anywhere for a Top Of The Pops TV show.
The BBC'S mismanagement of TOTP bordered on insanity, but it was never beyond salvation. It ...
- OATH Submits TOTP: Time-Based One Time Password Specification to IETF.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 8, 2008 700+ words
...Reference Architecture, version 2.0. The TOTP draft was developed through the collaboration...s Joint Coordinating Committee. "The TOTP draft fills an important gap in the available...chair of OATH's Technical Focus Group, TOTP, OCRA, and Thraud are all key ingredients...
- TOTP is told 'we don't like Fridays'
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London DAVID LISTER Arts News Editor September 11, 1996 700+ words
...the relationship between the BBC and the record industry. Over the past year we have spent half a million pounds supporting TOTP, half of which is in setting up satellites and overseas transmissions to tie in with the programme. I don't intend to continue...
- M2: showbiz: TOTP all-stars.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) November 28, 2003 700+ words
...from KYLIE and ELTON JOHN. Sir Elton will perform his hit Your Song live from Atlanta, Georgia, while Kylie will be in the TOTP studio. Despite the controversy surrounding the allegations against him, Michael Jackson will also be part of the new show...
- Brit's TOTP Award.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) December 30, 2001 700+ words
...gigs. Joan Jett, whose 1981 smash I Love Rock 'N' Roll is covered on Britney's new album, has also been approached. A TOTP spokesman said: "Britney is one of the biggest female artists in decades. Her fanbase in Britain is just as strong as in the...
- Brit all set for TOTP.
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) January 18, 2002 700+ words
...singer displayed no diva-like behaviour when she arrived to record the show last night at the BBC's studio in west London, a TOTP spokeswoman said. In contrast, fellow US superstar Jennifer Lopez reportedly travels with an army of stylists and chefs, and...
- WIN VIP tickets to TOTP.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) May 23, 1999 700+ words
...also have five runner-up prizes of a pair of tickets, a Top of the Pops CD Rom computer game, plus a copy of the brand- new TOTP compilation double-CD. A further five runners up will receive the CD Rom and the compilation CD. To enter, just answer this...
- Here's The Week's Top 10 TOTP facts:.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) July 30, 2006 700+ words
...Robbie Williams, Dennis Pennis, Harry Hill, Frankie Dettori and Lily Savage. One of the few acts never to have appeared on TOTP was Midland band Led Zeppelin, despite their hit Whole Lotta Love providing the show with one of its most popular theme tunes...
- Eminem game receives 20,000 plays a week on TOTP site. (Marketing).(Brief...
- Magazine article from: New Media Age Dillabough, Chris March 6, 2003 700+ words
...site. The Flash-based game, from agency Digital Outlook, challenges players' rhyming skills and knowledge of Eminem lyrics. There's also a competition to win a platinum disc. bbc.co.uk/totp chris.dillabough@centaur.co.uk
