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In the News (Mon 17 Jun 13)

  
  Top of the Pops
Unlike many other pop shows Top of the Pops contained the narrative ingredients of development, anticipation and closure: with each episode, as the countdown commenced, the audience would be kept in suspense by the big question, "who will be top of the pops this week?".
In many respects the Top of the Pops format was informed by radio, the medium that had been closer to the pulse of teen tastes and pop trends.
Nevertheless, Top of the Pops has continued to fend of all rivals, and competitors have found the show to be an immovable fixture in the schedules.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/topofthepo/toppfthepo.htm   (885 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Top of the Pops leaves BBC One
The BBC's flagship pop music programme Top of the Pops is to move from BBC One on Fridays to Sundays on BBC Two.
Top of the Pops was relaunched in a blaze of publicity in December last year in an attempt to reverse a long-term decline in audience figures.
The All New Top of the Pops was fronted by newcomer Tim Kash and was put together by producer Andi Peters, who was brought back to the BBC from Channel 4 to revitalise the series.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4051231.stm   (430 words)

  
 Top of the Pops (UK) TV Show - Top of the Pops (UK) Television Show - TV.com
Top of the Pops 2 Top of the Pops 2, had the voice talents of Radio DJ, Steve Wright, classic archive performances would be shown.
Top of the Pops Plus Commencing October 2000 and running for two years, Top of the Pops Plus aimed to be interactive, letting viewers of the show on BBC TWO and UKPlay, to choose the playlist and vote for their favourite artists.
Top of the Pops Reloaded Commencing Saturday 10th September 2005, a new look Saturday morning version of Top of the Pops featuring artist interviews, live perfomances and a behind the scenes look at the filming of the previous weeks Top of the Pops.
www.tv.com /top-of-the-pops-uk/show/8566/summary.html   (1036 words)

  
 BBC's 'Top of the Pops' Cancelled After 42 Years - The Deadbolt
Top of the Pops, the BBC's music charts show, kicked off its 42 year run with the Rolling Stones' "I Wanna Be Your Man" back on January 1st, 1964.
Top of the Pops enjoyed its best levels of success in the 1970s, when an average of 15 million viewers would watch the show.
In 2003, the BBC considered ending Top of the Pops, but decided in favor of overhauling the show in an attempt to make it more modern and with the times.
www.thedeadbolt.com /news/111264/topofthepops.php   (563 words)

  
 Top of the Pops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Top of the Pops was a long-running British music chart television programme, and indeed the longest-running music show in the world, shown each week on BBC and now licensed for national versions around the world.
Top of the Pops began on New Year's Day 1964 in a studio (converted from a former church) on Dickenson Road in Longsight, Manchester, which the BBC had bought from Mancunian Films in 1954.
Top of the Pops magazine has been running since February 1995, and filled the void in the BBC magazine portfolio where Number One magazine used to be.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Top_of_the_Pops   (4953 words)

  
 Top Of The Pops - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The format of Top of the Pops was simple, and has changed little - A few coloured lights, some camera effects (not always state of the art!), and an artist, usually lip- synching, banging out their current hit.
In October 1982 Dexy's Midnight Runners appeared on Top Of The Pops to perform Jackie Wilson Said, the band's tribute to the soul legend.
During the 500th edition of Top Of The Pops in October 1973, Cliff Richard's performance was interrupted when the stage was showered by wigs.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/variety/totp.htm   (538 words)

  
 TOP OF THE POPS BBC TELEVISION HIT CHART | TV POP MUSIC POPULAR SINGING TALENT AND MUSICAL SHOWCASE | SOLAR COLA, COKE, ...
TOP OF THE POPS - BBC TV Top of the Pops first aired on 1 January, 1964 at 6.36 from a converted church in Manchester and was introduced by Jimmy Saville Originally it was only commissioned for six shows, but the show has survived for 40 plus years and some 2000 editions
TOTP Plus was in the same vein as MTV's TRL on the cable TV station UK Play (Later Play UK).
Top of the Pops has began to lose ratings.
www.solarnavigator.net /music/top_of_the_pops.htm   (739 words)

  
 Mediaset.it - Italia 1: A Top of the Pops la musica del momento!
Le suonerie di Top of the Pops anche sul tuo telefonino!
Top of the Pops, la storica trasmissione musicale della BBC, in onda il sabato pomeriggio su Italia 1, festeggia 41 anni di storie e successi.
Forte del meccanismo che lega gli studi londinesi di Top of the Pops con quelli italiani, il programma permette le esibizioni in contemporanea dei maggiori artisti italiani e stranieri supportate da interviste inedite.
www.mediasetonline.com /news/scheda/6442.shtml   (305 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of performers on Top of the Pops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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Top of the Pops was a long-running British music chart television programme shown each week on BBC and now licensed for national versions around the world.
Founded in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd (a privately owned company), subsequently Incorporated and nationalised in 1927 as The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List_of_performers_on_Top_of_the_Pops/'   (239 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC calls time on Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops was first broadcast in 1964, from a converted church in Manchester.
Although it has had numerous face-lifts in its 42-year history, Top of the Pops has always featured the chart rundown, culminating in the number one single of the week.
They made their Top Of The Pops debut in 1968 dancing to Tommy James And The Shondells' hit Mony Mony, and stayed for nearly a decade.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/5099894.stm   (693 words)

  
 Newsvine - BBC Cancels 'Top of the Pops'
LONDON — The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than four decades on the air.
"Top of the Pops" has featured everyone from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Nirvana and the Spice Girls.
One of the reasons the BBC gave is that they were struggling to compete with the 24 hour music channels...
www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/06/20/261264-bbc-cancels-top-of-the-pops   (387 words)

  
 Farewell Top of the Pops | the Daily Mail
From the Swinging Sixties onwards, Top of the Pops has been essential viewing for teenagers eager to catch the sight and sound of their favourite stars.
Announcing the decision, the BBC said TOTP was a victim of competition from 24-hour music channels such as MTV and the declining importance of the singles chart.
Rebranded as 'All New Top of the Pops', it was extended to include archive clips in the hope of attracting older audiences as well as teenagers, and given a new presenter, former MTV host Tim Kash.
www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=391672&in_page_id=1773   (1030 words)

  
 George Michael brings his antiwar protest to Top of the Pops | Print this article | Advocate.com
British pop star George Michael appears on the BBC's Top of the Pops program on Friday for the first time in 17 years, but the studio filming of his antiwar song did not go off without a hitch.
A Top of the Pops spokeswoman said, however, that while producers were not happy with the T-shirts, Michael and executive producer Chris Cowey did not argue and the atmosphere was very friendly.
Top of the Pops airs in the United States, with a one-week delay, on the cable channel BBC America.
www.advocate.com /print_article_ektid12479.asp   (446 words)

  
 SvD: Jag sörjer inte Top of the pops
Top of the pops var bara något man läste att varenda brittiskt band såg som den viktigaste värdemätaren på deras framgång.
Det är tack vare Top of the pops som det här är det enda landet i världen där varenda mormor och farfar har lika initierade åsikter om både The LA‘s som om Technotronic featuring Felly.
Kanske logiskt då Top of the pops sätt att presentera musik efter en försäljningslista av singlar är själva anledniningen till att programmet blivit omodernt och överflödigt.
www.svd.se /dynamiskt/noje/did_13368180.asp?maxcount=10&offset=0&abuseid=522156   (686 words)

  
 Top of the Pops - Digital Spy Forums
TOTP 2 has 2 new performances a week so is worth a watch if you want to see the chart, but of course its not like the original.
I can't see TOTP being the same again, but it would be nice to watch something decent on a Sunday.
TOTP could be picked up by BBC Three and developed more as a youth culture programme.
www.digitalspy.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=471813   (650 words)

  
 Top of the Pops stopt - telegraaf.nl [Prive]
HILVERSUM - BNN stopt met Top of the Pops.
De Britse omroep BBC stopte eind juli al met Top of the Pops.
Top of the Pops is elke zaterdag vanaf 19.00 uur te zien op Nederland 3.
www.telegraaf.nl /prive/article53470251.ece?cid=rss   (111 words)

  
 Top of the Pops - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
TOTP 19.30 - 20.00 - Friday BBC1 and again on Saturday BBC’s TV chart run down on Friday night between 19.30 and 20.00 is normally presented by 2 people quite often male and female.
Top of the Pops : Top Of The Flops
Top of the Pops : FLIP FLOP, BIPPETY BOP!
www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/top-of-the-pops   (245 words)

  
 Top of the pops (Metro Times Detroit)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
That song was the first in the Four Tops’ string of smashes, most of which featured roiling, boiling bass lines from the late great James Jamerson and the interlocking interplay of the rest of the Funk Brothers.
The Tops continued to score with remakes of pop hits, duets with the Supremes, and a ’71 U.K. chartbuster (“A Simple Game,” on which they were backed by the Moody Blues), before splitting for Dunhill/ABC in 1972.
Ultimately, the Four Tops are as much a part of Detroit’s proud musical legacy as longtime riverfront nightspot the Roostertail, where they recorded a 1966 live album.
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=8456   (1790 words)

  
 MoMB: Top of the Pops - The Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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The Hot 100 – which is a kind of mini-zeitgeist and displays the most popular betas (and alphas, and pre-betas,...) based on how many bookmarks there have been added within the last 7 days; this list will be updated every Sunday.
The Top 100 still might be a good starting point for exploring new apps in a quality controlled way.
momb.socio-kybernetics.net /blog/top-of-the-pops   (191 words)

  
 Top of the Pops axed | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Forty-two years after the Rolling Stones opened the first show with I Wanna Be Your Man, the BBC is finally calling time on Top of the Pops.
Jimmy Savile, who presented the first show from a disused church in Salford on January 1 1964, said: "Top of The Pops as such is being axed but its place is being taken by at least 20 television channels banging away 24 hours a day on satellite TV.
Early Top of the Pops was something nobody else had done.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1802394,00.html   (484 words)

  
 Sixties City - Bringing on back the good times
The first show was broadcast on 1st January 1964 from a disused church in Dickenson Road, Manchester, (because most of the other BBC studios were busy at the time) which had been acquired by the BBC and fitted out as a studio some years earlier.
Following this, the Top of the Pops Orchestra, directed by Johnny Pearson, provided live backing to specially recorded tracks by the artists.
Live television threw up all kinds of problems, one of the most memorable being in March 1967 when, in his first appearance on TOTP, Jimi Hendrix was announced by Pete Murray and was quite bemused when he started his 'mime' to the sound of an Alan Price record.
www.sixtiescity.com /PopTV/TopOfThePops.shtm   (1141 words)

  
 Final countdown for Top of the Pops (01.08.06)
Iconic music TV show Top of the Pops went out on a high note last night, after 42 years on British screens.
Fronting the show's final countdown yesterday, original Top of the Pops host Jimmy Savile was back with his trademark cigar to guide viewers through four decades of the show's history, including archive performances from a range of musicians, spanning from the Rolling Stones to the Spice Girls.
Drawing Top of the Pops to a close after its long history, Savile signed off with his once famous catchphrase: "Don't forget it's number one, it's still Top of the Pops."
www.ageconcern.org.uk /AgeConcern/News_MoreInfo.asp?Articleid=17411851&titleID=Final+countdown+for+Top+of+the+Pops+(01.08.06)   (272 words)

  
 BBC - Top of the Pops 2 - Homepage
BBC - Top of the Pops 2 - Homepage
Slap some wallpaper of your fave pop star on that PC of yours.
Read about the songs that sent Auntie Beeb's knickers in a spin.
www.bbc.co.uk /totp2   (63 words)

  
 Top of the pops - smh.com.au
At best it seems hopelessly optimistic and at worst borderline delusional, but when David Cassidy brings his travelling roadshow to Australia in November he is booked to play the Sydney Entertainment Centre, a venue with an 11,000-seat capacity.
His last locally released album, Didn't You Used To Be (1992), didn't even register a blip on the ARIA Top 100 chart.
As for the man himself, there's no sense the tour is an ambitious undertaking rather, Cassidy views such arenas as more of a natural downsizing from his teen idol days in the 1970s when songs such as I Think I Love You ruled the airwaves.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/15/1032054709859.html   (881 words)

  
 Jimmy closes Top Of The Pops
Jimmy Saville is back on the box, but sadly he could not fix it for Top Of The Pops to continue.
DJ Tony Blackburn was one of them and he was among fans who dressed up as their rock and pop idols, but sadly didn't get to see any superstars on stage.
And after 42-years on the trot Top Of The Pops has lasted longer than most.
www.itv.com /news/entertainment_0978087564c8fad211bd175c9227c258.html   (260 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - BBC axes Top of the Pops
Only six episodes of Top of the Pops were commissioned in 1964, but the show proved so popular it became a Thursday night fixture on British TV.
A hosting gig on Top of the Pops was often a ticket to celebrity status.
Top of the Pops featured most of music's biggest names from Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s, The Jackson Five and David Bowie in the 1970s, Madonna and Kate Bush in the 1980s to Oasis and Britney Spears in the 1990s.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/06/20/top-pops.html?ref=rss   (1394 words)

  
 Tootsie Pops - Candy you ate as a kid®
By the way, I can still make them pop and as soon as my granddaughter gets a few teeth I'm gonna show her how to pop them like papa does.
They were one of the top choices of children who only had a few pennies to spend on satisfying a sweet tooth.
A Tootsie Pop wrapper with a picture of an Indian shooting an arrow at a star on it can be redeemed with Tootsie Roll Industries for a free bag of candy.
oldtimecandy.com /tootsie-pops.htm   (533 words)

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