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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - DTV - 28-01-2023

(28-01-2023, 07:40 PM)itsrobert Wrote:  My memory on this is a bit hazy now but wasn't N8 used between 21:30-22:00 to allow N6 to prep for the Ten? Of course they didn't have that problem at 17:30 as the Six came from TC7 which was free anyway.

Yeah, that was the reason. Ten needed to be able to rehearse and record studio-based segments for reports so one of the evening shift presenters had to run up to N8 (including doing the 21:30 BBC World News summary). The thing that has always confused me is why after Newsnight left for NBH did they not move the Ten to TC7 and stop with the weird studio shuffle - would've better utilised the TC7 studio team and meant they no longer had to fire up N8 for 30 minutes a day in the last few weeks.

(28-01-2023, 07:06 PM)Yorksman Wrote:  Nearly 4 and half hours from News 24 in the early hours of November 20th 1997:

It's so good to be able to see full archive news programmes - I think it's really important to be able to see how the content and structure has structured over time as well as the presentation. Such a shame that there are so little full News 24 or World programmes archived anywhere public - and the little that survives of News 24 (or even the News channel) is overnight.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - DTV - 28-01-2023

On an unrelated note, I've been looking through some of the old magazines and annual reports on the fascinating BBCeng.info website and think I've solved a few elusive news studio questions that have often been asked about in the past.

- Newsnight moved from Lime Grove to TC2 in January 1988, with Breakfast Time following after Easter.

- There was indeed a Studio N3 that existed by at least the early-1980s. Though it was not a full studio (as per N1 and N2), it was enough of a studio to have its own gallery and get refurbished as part of a wider refurbishment of the news studios from 1982-1985 (during which N2 was expanded). The studio was 'demolished' in 1988 to establish the Nine O'Clock News' new integrated studio and production area (the studio of which was controlled from N2's gallery). I think noggin had previously established that, once vacated by the Nine, this area was returned to being an 'N3' with a small CSO set-up (used for Working Lunch and signing Breakfast News).

- BBC WSTV News was launched from Studio N2 (not a studio in Bush House as I recall was suggested). It was then moved to its own studio (a converted tape store next to the WSTV newsroom on the seventh floor of Stage V, controlled from N3's former gallery) in autumn 1991 upon the launch of the Asian version of channel - which, as a 24-hour news channel, could no longer share with network news. WSTV's newsroom was later moved to the sixth floor and the channel moved to N1 in autumn 1993 (with a set based on the national news one).

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Bluecortina - 28-01-2023

I do miss noggin’s authoritative and informative posts.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - Kojak - 15-02-2023

Don't know if this was ever posted on any of our predecessors, but I have found close to an hour's worth of BBC World's 9/11 coverage, starting with the initial footage of the crash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tazOss3nGkA 

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - AaronLancs - 15-02-2023

Popping over onto Lambie-Nairn Tube over on YouTube and coming across this little oddity. Anyone know why the identifying sound similar in status to the BBC World News symbol was dropped? Just that I remember it from the original 1999-2003 BBC English Regions blue & orange titles.

BBC London (2008-2013) - Titles: First Version
https://youtu.be/reVCz93iFjs 

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - MFTJA - 15-02-2023

I have a feeling that the final version of the titles weren’t ready yet (they had the “On TV, On Radio, Online” slogan), so they used those for the first few days after the 21st April rebrand. By 2019 a few other regions were using that altered music before the standardisation in July that year.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - AaronLancs - 15-02-2023

(15-02-2023, 06:29 PM)MFTJA Wrote:  I have a feeling that the final version of the titles weren’t ready yet (they had the “On TV, On Radio, Online” slogan), so they used those for the first few days after the 21st April rebrand. By 2019 a few other regions were using that altered music before the standardisation in July that year.

The "On TV, On Radio, Online" slogan was / is and will always be uniquely BBC London's territory. The audio tag for me kind of signified the BBC English Regions to have a unique audio 'ident' that is akin to what BBC Reporting Scotland has to this day.

Here is the BBC South Today title post BBC Newsroom South East split to demonstrate the audio signifier.
https://youtu.be/ZtrIOCWBl8M 

P.S. Apologies to the mods if it is from a blacklisted YouTube account but with there being no proper presentation sites that have this sort of video content easily linkable to post on this forum / message board I have to use them, sorry. Tried everything to get something from TV Whirl no less but got nowhere (after a good 15 minutes of trying).

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - DTV - 19-02-2023

Recently uploaded, 50 minutes of BBC World continuity + full BBC World News bulletin from April 1999.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kJu0zfcQI 

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - oscillon - 19-02-2023

Is this newsroom backdrop virtual or real? If it is the latter, it is interesting that they seem not to use glass separators between the presenter's area and the newsroom at all (like in modern Studio E) to avoid newroom noises going on air.

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RE: BBC News Pres: Nostalgia - DTV - 19-02-2023

(19-02-2023, 12:49 PM)oscillon Wrote:  Is this newsroom backdrop virtual or real? If it is the latter, it is interesting that they seem not to use glass separators between the presenter's area and the newsroom at all (like in modern Studio E) to avoid newroom noises going on air.

It's live in the newsroom. Glass panelling wasn't installed in N9 until 2004.

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