It's the day (most of) you have been waiting for! Cabinet of Continuities is back on YouTube after a 4 month hiatus! We begin with an exclusive...previously unseen footage from the CBBC Summer Social from 2017, filmed by 13 year old me. For those who enjoy this website, don't worry! I'll still be uploading new stuff here as well as on YouTube. I won't be uploading as often as I used to on YouTube for now and there won't be as many posts either. If you want something similar

Continuity from TV Globo Internacional on the day of the first round of the Brazilian presidential election.

An interesting development has emerged in the Sky-ITV takeover. It’s now been revealed that ITV willingly sold itself to Sky in order to save the broadcaster, according to an interview by Broadcast with ITV’s group CEO (and my old boss), Carolyn McCall. This is certainly an unusual decision, as you surely wouldn’t think that a private company would anything to do with a PSB* let alone wanting to help them out! It makes you wonder what Sky had to offer that was so enticing to

Let’s set the scene: Australia is hosting the Olympics and Paralympics in 2032, and the long awaited emblem reveal is almost here. The emblem isn't just something that’s pretty to look at, it’s a key part of the visual identity of the event, and sets the tone on which it is delivered. You’ve spent the best part of a week teasing the new logo, with Australian sporting celebs dotted all over the state giving us clues to what it’ll look like. Then, with just 3 days until the gra

Dame Esther Rantzen, acclaimed television presenter and campaigner, has died. She was 86 years old. She began at the BBC as a sound effects assistant, before launching her presenting career on the satire show BBC-3 in 1965. In 1968, Rantzen became a presenter on Braden’s Week at the request of the producers who wanted the researchers to have a visible presence on screen. Her most famous presenting gig was probably That’s Life! which was hosted by Rantzen for 21 years, from 19

Yes, Radio 4 Extra still exists, even though they were planning on closing it alongside BBC4 and CBBC last year. The "jingles" have remained unchanged since the station's launch in 2011.

"Ready to knock?" The BBC has announced a revival of the much loved children's show "Play School" almost 40 years after it was axed. The new version will be revamped for the modern age and will air on linear, iPlayer and the new CBeebies Parenting channel on YouTube. The original version debuted on 21st April 1964 on BBC2, inadvertently becoming the channel's first programme. It featured songs, stories, and the famous toys, as well as launching the careers of the likes of Mi

An excerpt from a much longer video coming soon to the all new CabCon channel.

UPDATE: Paramount has now confirmed that the new channel will launch on 21st October Eagle-eyed viewers of Virgin Media may have noticed that 5Select is looking a little different... While not yet officially confirmed by Paramount, various sources have revealed that the 5Select is set to rebrand as 5Drama within the next few weeks. The channel was originally launched in 2016 as "My5", which in turn replaced the Channel 5 +24 timeshift service, sharing its name with the then r

Ofcom has recently announced that no more new commercial radio stations will launch on AM and FM transmitters, except community stations where specific criteria applies. Despite the launch of DAB in the 1990s and the rise of streaming services in recent years, FM radio remains popular - especially in workplaces and schools and in the car. FM also offers superior audio quality to DAB as the audio is not compressed, whereas DAB is compressed to the lossy AAC codec. There have l

The long awaited Strictly relaunch doesn't quite go to plan... Stoooooooooooooop dancing!!

ITV will be required to broadcast subtitles on 100% of advertisements network-wide from January 2027. The rules cover all of ITV’s linear broadcast channels as well as streaming, and region specific advertisements. Similar rules were introduced across the Channel 4 portfolio earlier this year to coincide with the Winter Paralympics. It comes after hard campaigning for deaf rights activists who complained of a lack of subtitles during advert breaks. Until now it was a choice f

On this day in 1956, Australia became the latest country to begin full-time television broadcasting. Australia was relatively slow to the television race, even though the first official broadcast was in 1934, two years after the launch of the BBC Television Service (now BBC1). The Broadcasting Act 1948 officially set the wheels in motion for a full-time TV service with the construction of the initial six transmitters. The then government under Robert Menzies also allowed comm

3 weeks to go and preparations are running full steam ahead ready for the grand return of CabCon on Monday 5th October! I thought I’d quickly give you a little update on where I’m at so far with the new channel. I’ve had a good look through my hard drive and transfered files from my computer to the hard drive. There are about 12,000 video recordings and screenshots in total. That’s right, TWELVE THOUSAND!!! Just one issue though… Until the channel was popped I’d usually delet

Yet another royal death in Norway, this time Princess Astrid who has died at the age of 94. She had attended the funeral of her younger brother just 2 days earlier. NRK1 was already on rolling news when the statement was published and switched to presenters wearing black. The other channels carried on with their usual schedules.

More from the previously mentioned update to NHK international news. Note the banner text is in a different font, and the transitions between programmes are now longer than they were previously.

NHK Newsline has introduced its first revamp in 7 years as the transfer of news and playout operations to the new broadcast centre is finally complete. The red has been swapped for the NHK signature blue colour with a studio not too dissimilar to the generic domestic news studio. Graphics are now almost identical to the domestic service but with a modified version of the previous font. The music has been changed too, swapping the traditional style of the previous with look wi

Maltese public broadcaster PBS and the EBU have revealed the logo and stage design for next month's Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Malta, and it's all the fun of the fair. An AI generated fair that is. I'm sure you walked past at least one AI generated funfair poster while out and about over the summer. Now imagine that poster but as a massive stage, and you basically have the stage design for this year's JESC! The stage for this year's JESC (Source: Eurovoix) I'll let PBS

Long-time "Wheel of Fortune" announcer Jim Thornton has been fired by Sony Pictures Television after getting caught out by messages he was posting on an online chatroom. In May of this year, a fellow passenger on a flight Thornton was taking bound for Los Angeles described to TMZ that she saw images and messages on Thorton's laptop that pertained to paedophilia. One such message used the acronym "CP" which she believed stood for child p*rn. The passenger alerted the authoriti

Today (5th September) marks exactly 1 year since the 50th Japan Week festival was held in Manchester. The six day event brought over 20,000 local visitors and several hundred organisations and exhibitors from across Japan into the city for a celebration of culture and shared heritage. The event also saw the signing of a landmark Sister City Agreement between Greater Manchester and Osaka, the details of which were finalised at Expo 2025. Slow Scenes UK (aka me!) was there to c