yeah missed that post as also at work and wandering about serveral sites using about 3 different PCs at once due to network/telecoms infrastructure upgrades)
not sure if it is the main reason but the PEL may have meant risk assesments, paperwork, extra costs to the BBC
wouldn’t have helped when viewing figures are already declining.
TBH I can see why though, the commercial pop music scene is becoming increasingly irrelevant to anybody older than 12 and this demographic has reached market saturation..
I’m amazed TOTP lasted so long anyway. even by the mid 80s I always thought it was amusing to see a lot of the bands making out they were playing complicated sequences on a Yamaha DX-7 (one of the defining sounds of mid-80s music…) and other keyboards which were clearly not plugged in or connected via MIDI..
