Red Button video streams for the likes of Wimbledon or Glastonbury won’t be affected by this change. Due to cost implications, we will not be updating the news and sport element of the service throughout the night – however, this will be refreshed each morning and then throughout the day to ensure you are up-to-date,” he advised. National sport indexes (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) will be retained – as will all sport fixtures and results.

“This will mean we will be no longer be providing Lottery results (from November 2020) or English regional sport pages and individual sports’ headlines, besides football and those on the main sport pages (from mid-2021) via the Red Button. “This means you will continue to be able to access local, national and international news headlines and stories, main sport headlines and stories, sport fixtures and results, as well as weather forecasts.”Īccording to Taylor-Watt, to enable the continuation of the most valued text and data elements of the service, the BBC was having to find ways to reduce cost and complexity elsewhere.

“We have listened to this feedback – and I’m pleased to let you know that we have found a way to keep the most valued text and data elements of the Red Button service,” he revealed. Writing in a BBC Blog, Dan Taylor-Watt, Director of Product, BBC iPlayer & BBC Sounds, noted that since then, the BBC had been in contact and had extensive dialogue with a wide range of representative groups to build on its existing research into what elements of the service were most used and valued by different groups.

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