[James2001]

Yep, seen that before, incredibly bizarre to see a very stereotypical "yoof TV" show covering such a hard hitting and sombre topic. The opening titles are very out of place for what follows, suprised they didn't omit them for this edition.

[VMPhil]

Ah a very low res clip of that is on the MHP Private Parts. Interesting to see it in better quality.

[lookoutwales]

That frontcap for the National Weather is new to me - definitely recall it going sponsorless for at least a couple of days that week (think the frontcap was quickly changed to something matching the endcap)

Of course, Trish Bertram discussed a lot about being called into work at LWT on that day in Rob's TV Live podcast, which is well worth a listen.

[RDJ]

That’s the first clip I’ve seen of Carol Barnes at the helm of the News on the day Diana died.

I believe she was usual weekend anchor at this point. So I’m guessing she was filling in as relief presenter when Dermot and Nicholas came off from presenting non- stop from the early hours.

[Stooky Bill]

Don't remember 'Straight Up' at all, was that a regular Sunday programme? Odd too that the menu and were national but the ident wasn't, they might as well have just done it all from London

[lookoutwales]

Don't remember 'Straight Up' at all, was that a regular Sunday programme? Odd too that the menu and were national but the ident wasn't, they might as well have just done it all from London

‘Straight Up’ was, as the intro implied, a weekly current affairs show for young people - ran for one summer series, produced by Meridian, in the 1.10pm slot usually taken by Jonathan Dimbleby. 

Think that was one of the last shows in it’s only run (Nick Knowles was already fairly well established as a regional reporter for TVS / Meridian - think he had his own local show by that point, RidgeRiders)

Don’t recall any networked idents from that weekend, just the menu rundowns - even the PP clip includes Trish announcing “This is London Weekend Television” (over a sombre version of their ident) - most local continuity, by and large, resumed in the evening.

[Asa]

That menu is a more generic design than what we got for 9/11, with Carlton serving up a GMG style hearts background.

Do we think every region would have taken it? Certainly by 9pm YTV were making their own (with a little glitch) www.youtube.com 

Presumably it’s all because LWT were in ‘nominated contractor’ mode - would it be their responsibility to liaise with ITN and then relay that back to the rest of the network? I guess with the fluid nature of the schedule it made sense to not ask 15 regions to separately update a menu.

It’s still a fascinating day for presentation, even after all this time. Did we ever get an answer to how BBC Two came on the air that morning?

[Bluecortina]

That menu is a more generic design than what we got for 9/11, with Carlton serving up a GMG style hearts background.

Do we think every region would have taken it? Certainly by 9pm YTV were making their own (with a little glitch) www.youtube.com 

Presumably it’s all because LWT were in ‘nominated contractor’ mode - would it be their responsibility to liaise with ITN and then relay that back to the rest of the network? I guess with the fluid nature of the schedule it made sense to not ask 15 regions to separately update a menu.

It’s still a fascinating day for presentation, even after all this time. Did we ever get an answer to how BBC Two came on the air that morning?

Certainly as the nominated contractor LWT would have been making operational decisions on behalf of the entire network. 

Only the nominated contractor and ITN could initiate a ‘Red Phone’ call*, the remaining companies could participate across it so I imagine in this instance any discussions would be ITN and LWT talking to each other with the other companies listening, questioning and participating as required.

*The ‘Red Phone’ was always connected and active during transmission hours so any company could pick up their Red Phone and call out to another company at any time, but only Thames/LWT/ITN could initiate a group call. There were generally two regular fixed group Red Phone calls during the working day each week, at 11am when the  presentation office staff would talk to each other over more long term presentation issues and timings etc, and at around 5pm when the transmission controllers would talk to each other to agree and fine tune the evenings schedules..

[W. Knight]

That menu is a more generic design than what we got for 9/11, with Carlton serving up a GMG style hearts background.

Do we think every region would have taken it? Certainly by 9pm YTV were making their own (with a little glitch) www.youtube.com 

Presumably it’s all because LWT were in ‘nominated contractor’ mode - would it be their responsibility to liaise with ITN and then relay that back to the rest of the network? I guess with the fluid nature of the schedule it made sense to not ask 15 regions to separately update a menu.

I remembered watching a Westcountry continuity clip announcing the changes via TVArk (as a reference to my mediocre mocks!), like I mentioned on the 25th anniversary thread (pres.cafe ). 

Now TVArk is offline, there's only a Youtube potato, websnatched recording of it; but going through the old tv-ark.org.uk archives, I found the junction clip, in much lower resolution, in a .RM file (web.archive.org ). I've converted it to an .mp4 file, and reuploaded to Metropol (Mods - please give me a heads up if that's not allowed):

Westcountry Television Continuity
7 captures 14 May 2004 - 20 Nov 2008 Sep OCT Feb 13 2005 2006 2008 success fail …
  Source: web.archive.org

up.metropol247.co.uk 

Original recording belongs to TVArk.

[James2001]

Speaking of websnatching... it's bad enough searching YouTube and finding a cwilliams video, but yesterday I found what I thought was a pres video, but it turned out it was one of those people who downloads videos from other YouTube accounts and reuploads them as their own... and it was a cwilliams video 😱

At least when you see his name next to a video you know to avoid it, but when other people are websnatching and uploading his stuff too and also labelling it as if it's genuine pres...