[Kojak]

According to your Great Presenter Count of 2020, Huw presented a grand total of four (weekday) Ten O'Clocks before 2003 - two of which were in Washington for the 2000 presidential election. It seems George Alagiah was actually the most frequent relief presenter when both Michael and Peter were away (which itself was a rare occurence).

As for Philip Hayton, apparently not. According to Genome, the closest he got to a network bulletin between 99 and 03 was an edition of Breakfast on the day after the US election, which he co-hosted from Washington:

Ah yes! I forgotten I did that as a result of lockdown boredom!!

Huw's 2 other appearances were indeed in 2002.

Now this is interesting - Genome suggests that Huw hosting the 10 in the video you posted was perhaps a late fill-in job, as it was actually Peter Sissons who was down to do the 10 that night:

BBC News

Wed 18th Dec 2002, 22:00 on BBC One London
With Peter Sissons. 10.25 Regional News
Then Weather with Helen Willetts.
Followed by National Lottery Update

Huw's two other (scheduled) appearances on the Ten that year were on the 19th June, and from New York on September 11th.

[itsrobert]

I'd be interested if Philip did any network bulletins in the 1999-2003 era. I know he did sporadically between 2003-05.

Also, I've stumbled among a first clip I've found of Huw doing the Ten before 2003. I always guessed he must have covered at least once but this is the first I've seen:

www.youtube.com 

Given the closeness of that broadcast to the January 2003 relaunch where Huw took over the Ten, I'd suggest this was him being tried out for the role.

[Kojak]

A full half hour of Breakfast News from April 1997, including Look North opt-outs with Peter Levy and a rare set of election titles at 16:17:

www.youtube.com 

[DTV]

Matthew Amroliwala with half-an-hour of Newsdesk from September 1997.

www.youtube.com 

[harshy]

That’s a strange design as behind Matthew is the coloured background and then the next shot is Matthew in front of a newsroom.

[chaose]

That’s a strange design as behind Matthew is the coloured background and then the next shot is Matthew in front of a newsroom.

Yes, it's quite bizarre. Back in the day, BBC World routinely did that. Here's another example:

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The wide shot shows a newsroom background behind the presenter (in a mismatched angle...), but when we cut to the desk shot, the background is suddenly gone.

[thegeek]

That’s a strange design as behind Matthew is the coloured background and then the next shot is Matthew in front of a newsroom.

He does introduce the interview with Andrew Marr (gosh, doesn't he look young?) and Torin Douglas as being from earlier, which explains that particular mismatch.

The wide shot at the end of 24 Hours is quite something, though.

[MFTJA]

Matthew Amroliwala with half-an-hour of Newsdesk from September 1997.

www.youtube.com 

That was the odd 'iridescent' flags look that only lasted from March to October '97 IIRC. Love the Newsdesk theme, not sure about the graphics though, they've definitely aged quite a bit.

[DTV]

That was the odd 'iridescent' flags look that only lasted from March to October '97 IIRC. Love the Newsdesk theme, not sure about the graphics though, they've definitely aged quite a bit.

Yes, clock change-to-clock change (as BBC World often worked in those days). You're right to say there was quite a bit 'odd' about that era - not just was the iridescent look applied to some branding elements but not others, but some of the 'branded' news programmes were renamed Newsdesk, but not all - the Amroliwala clip is from the two-hour 'evening' edition that had previously been called The World Report (though, unlike the other 'branded' slots, this did not become an edition of The World Today in the October). I do wonder how much of the half-applied nature of the rebrand was due to the impending full one in October?

[Newsroom]

I've just stumbled across this and had no idea the summaries originated from the One O'Clock studio prior to moving into the newsroom. And I also had no idea that Vivien Creegor presented for the BBC before moving to Sky!

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