05-12-2023, 06:47 PM
(24-11-2023, 07:20 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: An oddity for you. On the face of it, what appears to be a standard Nine O'Clock News - or Main News, in this case - from November 1983, but not quite.
AFAIK, Celtic's UEFA Cup clash with Nottingham Forest was being shown live on this particular evening - but only on BBC1 Scotland (7.10 - 9.20pm). Highlights were shown elsewhere via Sportsnight.
So, what follows is a Scottish-only network bulletin, shown at 10.20pm, while everyone else got the Nine as usual (a drama called Spyship filled the gap in Scotland between the football and the news)
Content wise, there's nothing particularly outstanding but at least it's evidence.
www.youtube.com
Was the weather live on that occasion? I'm wondering how they did that technically - you wouldn't want to have two separate circuits from London to Glasgow (one with the news studio and one with the weather studio) but obviously BBC1 presentation wasn't available to do that mix between the two studios. So perhaps the news studio took the weather studio (pres A) as an outside source or vice versa? Or was the weather a timeshift of network played out from Glasgow?