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==July==
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=2021 Updates=
*'''19 July''': We've '''fully revised''' the [[Nigeria]] profile and [[Airdates in Nigeria|Airdates]] pages to fix a number of factual errors, but to mainly add a lot of new information, such as:
 
**Maps of the early days of TV in the country
 
**Why RKTV went off the air for two months in 1966
 
**Where and where did the Patrick Troughton stories screen?
 
**Details about the NTA Zones, and additional screening dates
 
**Who or what was "The Son of Dr Who?"?
 
*'''1 July''': It's '''Canada Day'''!  To celebrate, we have fully revised and updated the [[Canada (Space)|SPACE cable station profile]] and [[Airdates in Canada (Space)|airdates]] pages, with full details of what was shown and when.
 
 
 
 
 
==June==
 
*'''30 June''': Update to the [[Netherlands]] to include "illegal" screenings on cable, and we've added further items of merchandise that were available
 
*'''28 June''': Some more merchandise updates for [[Sweden]], [[Argentina]], and [[Finland]], plus full revision for [[HBO OLE|HBO Ole]]
 
*'''27 June''': '''NEW''' profiles added for [[China]], [[Russia]], [[Hungary]], [[Czech Republic]], [[India]], [[Austria]].
 
*'''26 June''': Updates to [[Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Brazil]], [[Spain]] to include new merchandise items.
 
*'''19 June''': Some updates to [[Prairie Public Television]]
 
 
 
 
 
==May==
 
*'''20 May''': Update to the pages for [[France]] to include the '''La Nuit Doctor Who''' evening from 2012.
 
 
 
  
 
==April==
 
==April==
*'''28 April''': Major update to the [[Germany]] pages to add the recent Colin and Sylvester repeats on channel One, as well as some further merchandise items and YouTube clips.
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*'''20 April''': Filling in some gaps in [[Austin]] and [[Arkansas Educational Television Network|Arkansas]].
*'''15 April''': Update to the TV3 Cataluna section of the [[Spain]] page.
 
*'''3 April''': The TARDIS sound effect was used in [[Japan#TARDIS_Sound_Effects|some Japanese TV and film productions in the 1970s and 90s...]]
 
  
  
 
==March==
 
==March==
*'''21 March''': 98 countries simulcast the 50th anniversary special [[The Day of the Doctor]] on 23 November 2013.
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*'''8 March''': [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]: coverage of the Peter Cushing movies has been expanded.  
*'''14 March''': Updates to [[Malta]] to add some new TV clippings.
 
*'''9 March''': Updates to [[Nebraska Educational Television Network]]
 
*'''3 March''': A small amendment to the [[Guam]] pages; it looks like the series was originally scheduled to start a few months earlier than it ultimately did, and the true debut was also a week earlier than the date we  had it.
 
*'''2 March''': Update to [[Jamaica]] to include [[Peter Cushing]] and the Daleks at the cinema, and some of the TV Dalek stories appear to been shown out of sequence.
 
  
  
 
==February==
 
==February==
*'''BroaDWcast''' turned nine this month! To celebrate, we've added a new page for a country that '''never showed''' the series! But classic '''Doctor Who''' was available in [[South Africa]] in other forms ...  
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*'''20 February''': Between 1976 and 1989, each new season of '''Doctor Who''' made its overseas broadcast debut in a different country - either the [[Netherlands]], [[United Arab Emirates]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] or the [[United States]]...
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:''Or that's what we thought'', but it turns out that bar a handful (due to extra-special circumstances) '''all''' those fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor series had their foreign premieres in '''West Germany'''!   Although the German broadcaster RTL-Plus began screening McCoy episodes in late 1989, those episodes - and a whole lot more - had already been aired in parts of West Germany by the '''[[British Forces Broadcasting Service]] (BFBS)''', which operated a closed-system  television network that was available only at British military bases dotted around the country. The McCoy stories were also shown by the BFBS on  the [[Falkland Islands]].
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::*We've added the '''[[BFBS|new BFBS profile]]''', and a page for the [[Falkland Islands]], plus made various changes and additions to the pages for the [[Netherlands]] (parts of which could receive the military signals), [[Germany]], [[Belize]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Cyprus]] accordingly.
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*'''19 February 2021''': This is our '''tenth''' anniversary. The site was officially launched on '''19 February 2011''' at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. A big ''Thank you'' to all our readers and supporters - and an even bigger special '''Thank you''' to our contributors - see the very long list on the Main Page.  We couldn't have done this without you.
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*This website turns '''TEN''' on '''19 February'''. We were going to have a party with cake, balloons and clowns, but that's been scrapped due to COVID. Instead, each day over the next ten days we'll be Tweeting a "Fun Fact" highlighting something of interest that was discovered during research. On the tenth day, we'll be uploading a new profile - that of a previously unfamiliar broadcaster who was actually the first to... Well, that would be telling!
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==January==
 
==January==
 
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*'''17 January''': Update to [[Portugal]] and [[Brazil]] to include further info regarding the [[Cushing Daleks|Peter Cushing Dalek films]].
*'''21 January''': The (brief) complete run in [[South Dakota Public Broadcasting|South Dakota]] is added
 
*'''11 January''': Some of the documentaries and dramas made by [[Reeltime Pictures]] and [[BBV Productions]] have been shown on US and UK television. We have added new profiles for these two production companies. (And if anyone can confirm that the "PROBE" dramas did indeed screen on the UK [[Sci-Fi Channel Europe|Sci-Fi Channel]], please drop us a line!)
 
  
  
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==Previous Updates==
 
==Previous Updates==
  
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*'''[[What's New 2020|What was New in 2020]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2019|What was New in 2019]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2019|What was New in 2019]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2018|What was New in 2018]]'''
 
*'''[[What's New 2018|What was New in 2018]]'''

Revision as of 14:21, 20 April 2021

This page will list UPDATES and NEW pages added.

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2021 Updates

April


March

  • 8 March: Spain and Portugal: coverage of the Peter Cushing movies has been expanded.


February

Or that's what we thought, but it turns out that bar a handful (due to extra-special circumstances) all those fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor series had their foreign premieres in West Germany! Although the German broadcaster RTL-Plus began screening McCoy episodes in late 1989, those episodes - and a whole lot more - had already been aired in parts of West Germany by the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS), which operated a closed-system television network that was available only at British military bases dotted around the country. The McCoy stories were also shown by the BFBS on the Falkland Islands.


  • 19 February 2021: This is our tenth anniversary. The site was officially launched on 19 February 2011 at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. A big Thank you to all our readers and supporters - and an even bigger special Thank you to our contributors - see the very long list on the Main Page. We couldn't have done this without you.
  • This website turns TEN on 19 February. We were going to have a party with cake, balloons and clowns, but that's been scrapped due to COVID. Instead, each day over the next ten days we'll be Tweeting a "Fun Fact" highlighting something of interest that was discovered during research. On the tenth day, we'll be uploading a new profile - that of a previously unfamiliar broadcaster who was actually the first to... Well, that would be telling!


January


Previous Updates