[Stooky Bill]

Of course, there were the continuity skits with Rowan which topped and tailed S3E3 (the closedown by far the best known of the two)

I'm more familiar with the compilations so didn't realise there was a similar sketch at the start of that episode.

Here it is

youtu.be 

---

Some of the best examples of fake continuity and messing around with beginnings and ends of episodes are from Alexei Sayle's Stuff

youtu.be 

youtu.be 

This video can only be viewed on YouTube.

[Steve in Pudsey]

Python were arguably the originators of continuity announcement based sketches on the telly, although you could probably trace it back to the likes of the Goon Show.

TV Ark has a nice collection

tvark.org 

Spoof Idents | TVARK
Home Instagram Facebook X Forum Search TVARK Branding News Programmes Features T…
  Source: tvark.org

[Neil Jones]

Screenwipe went the whole hog once and went as far as to artificially create a whole new junction using a BBC Four ident of the time:
www.youtube.com 

Though the whole segment was to pee and moan about end credits and credit squeezes, Sick on a Widow could have been Barry Shitpea's break out moment.

And then also from Screenwipe, there was this:
www.youtube.com 

[Roger Darthwell]

I have found a very interesting recording here, it's a BBC One closedown filmed on Belgian cable TV, and over the test card that the cable TV company put on there is a simulcast of BBC Radio 2, I had no idea that they simulcasted radio stations over the test card after the channel was off the air
www.youtube.com 

[lookoutwales]

One from Look North Leeds from the days of hourly morning summaries from the regions.

Not only is Peter Levy self-op'ing, but you can actually - albeit, briefly - see him manning the self-op panel.

Quite why they've stuck a second camera and a computer in the Pres studio, I'm not sure...

www.youtube.com 

[robertclark125]

I presume the presence of the computer, is to make it look like a news studio.

[Steve in Pudsey]

That's brilliant! That desk acquired a side piece and top to hide the buttons at some point

tvark.org 

Look North Breakfast | TVARK
A Breakfast bulletin with Peter Levy. Lead Story: Air Accident experts are inves…
  Source: tvark.org

[Stooky Bill]

Quite why they've stuck a second camera and a computer in the Pres studio, I'm not sure...

That's a BASYS terminal and it looks like it's working so presumably it's there for the newsreader to use.

And why not have a second camera?

[Bluecortina]

That's a BASYS terminal and it looks like it's working so presumably it's there for the newsreader to use.

And why not have a second camera?

I don't think BBC News ever used Basys did they? I think ENPS more likely?

I wonder if the BBC use ENPS these days, perhaps they have moved over to something else from a third party supplier like Avid or some such?

[Spencer]

I don't think BBC News ever used Basys did they? I think ENPS more likely?

I wonder if the BBC use ENPS these days, perhaps they have moved over to something else from a third party supplier like Avid or some such?

We definitely used BASYS when I was at BBC Leeds in the mid 90s. I’m pretty sure it was in use across BBC News. We switched to ENPS in around 1997.