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This is an odd one, it seems they used a programme slide as the test card with tone after closedown. But did they forget to load the test card into the system or could there have been a problem?

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Anyone know what would have caused the closedown ident to be yellow and why the globe reappears after closedown?

The former was probably just the wrong thing cued up. Interesting that the ident had been updated to remove the BSB logo (and add 'British Sky Broadcasting') but the menus and other presentation elements still had the BSB logo.

The latter was a thing that happened every so often - ISTR someone who worked in continuity at the time said that the colours could just be changed with a rotary knob - and they'd sometimes make it pink on valentines or whatever.

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Can't believe this thread has gone through 2 full pages with no mention of Central's beautiful starry night sequence.

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The shooting star as the lights turn off is a nice touch.

Yep. Real swansong for the genre, amazing they bothered given the clear direction of travel by this point was toward 24 hr broadcasting.