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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..