wrote:
Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

The advertising posters alongside the main escalator bank at

Tottenham

Court Road have all been replaced by flat screen displays, showing
adverts of course.

There's some advantage been taken - there was an advert involving

water

flowing down several screens - but I'm not convinced it's worth it.


I remember a TV-based advertising scheme on the Piccadilly westbound
(?)platform at Leicester Square, and also at Heathrow T4 platform -
don't think these lasted longer than a few years.

Also, the Paris Metro in the 1980's had something on a couple of dozen
platforms if I remember rightly - called 'Tube' I believe - that was
removed in the early 90's.

I think it was Rue Montmartre (now Grands Boulevards) metro stop that
had, in about 2000, TV screens hanging down along the platform showing
news, weather, ads, film clips etc.

Actually, maybe it was JUST classic film clips, at least for a while.
Not been there lately though.

Dave Newt wrote:

I think it was Rue Montmartre (now Grands Boulevards) metro stop that

had, in about 2000, TV screens hanging down along the platform
showing
news, weather, ads, film clips etc.

Thinking about it, I remember now on the Madrid metro in 2002 they had
something similar at a couple of stations (at least) - weather was the
one thing that I found useful.

In message , Dave Newt
writes
I think it was Rue Montmartre (now Grands Boulevards) metro stop that
had, in about 2000, TV screens hanging down along the platform showing
news, weather, ads, film clips etc.

Circular Quay station in Sydney (actually elevated but and "Underground"
station in the operational sense) had those in 2001. I'm not sure if
they're still there but I'll be able to check in a couple of weeks!
:-)

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