[Stooky Bill]

That's a good point - presumably the ITN programme got to the network via Central or another of the big regions rather than Thames on that occasion?

No reason why it couldn't have gone to air via Thames, the previous programme came from them, so it makes sense to. All that was turned off at midnight was their output to the transmitter - none of the network were taking that

In fact thanks to announcer Mark Lipscomb who took a camcorder into Thames that evening, here is video footage of Thames's transmission controller checking the on-air time of that bulletin with the PA at ITN. No out-time of course, I assume the regions just ducked out of Big Ben whenever they had had enough

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