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[trog]

The big question is why? I wonder what the cost is for such a pointless change.

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[Black Hole]

U? Easier to understand? Whoever comes up with this bollox must think the public are as moronic as they are (or just don't think at all).

It's like Musk renaming Twitter to X. Everyone calls it "Twitter slash X" so that worked (not)! And if it's not Twitter, what are tweets now?

 

[trog]

" And if it's not Twitter, what are tweets now?"
Kisses? XXXXX

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[MikeSh]

The big question is why? I wonder what the cost is for such a pointless change.

Brand consolidation I guess. I didn't know those channels were all part of the same group.

Cost doesn't matter - it's a commercial setup, not BBC, so they can squander their advertising revenue on what they like. Maybe they think it will garner more advertising - wouldn't surprise me if it did since presumably advertisers are brand image believers.

 

[EEPhil]

U? Easier to understand? Whoever comes up with this bollox must think the public are as moronic as they are (or just don't think at all).

It's like Musk renaming Twitter to X. Everyone calls it "Twitter slash X" so that worked (not)! And if it's not Twitter, what are tweets now?

More DOG on screen I expect. On Dave (so-called) comedians appearing on repeated BBC programmes have joked about appearing on Dave not U&Dave. Complete waste of time, money and pixels.

I thought everyone called it "X previously known as Twitter" or something very similar. Tweets are Posts.

 

[EEPhil]

National Highways shared the news on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter,

 

[prpr]

Looks like U& are having another (pointless?) re-org. on Wednesday.

 

[EEPhil]

WTF are they changing this time? I know Eden is supposedly coming - and that is pointless.

 

[prpr]

It said 74 U&Yesterday+1 is closing and 57 U&DaveJaVu is moving to 74.
So presumably something else is moving in to 57.

 

[EEPhil]

As U& Yesterday+1 is just a placeholder, I wonder if that means U&DaveJaVu is going to be downgraded to one. DJV has been useful when Dave had sound problems, so I hope not.

 

[Wallace]

Whoever thought that 'U' was a good name for a television channel should be sacked.

 

[EEPhil]

Whoever thought that 'U' was a good name for a television channel should be sacked.

It's even worse than that. It becomes Ewan (as in You an') at least for Dave and Drama. A channel called Dave was bad enough, but who is this Ewan? All the extra screen graffiti is a bit annoying as well. (But not as annoying as Rewind TV covering the cast list with their "next" graphic )

 

[Black Hole]

When I see "U&" in the EPG etc, I misread it as "US"

 

[Luke]

It said 74 U&Yesterday+1 is closing and 57 U&DaveJaVu is moving to 74.
So presumably something else is moving in to 57.

None of the other existing U& channels have a moving message. Unless something has been agreed with another provider that only leaves U&Eden.

 

[trog]

None of the other existing U& channels have a moving message. Unless something has been agreed with another provider that only leaves U&Eden.

U&Eden seems highly likely.

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