[Bluecortina]

Back when we had in vision pages from ceefax, on bbc1 and bbc2, there was a wide choice of music played. One example from the last day of term, June 1988, on YouTube, has four separate ceefax junctions! And four different music tapes.

Simple question, was it the announcer who chose the music, or someone else in presentation?

As an aside, my wife used to be a POA (Presentation Operational Assistant) in BBC presentation in the early 1980’s. The role was to switch between the various sources incoming to Presentation. One of the jobs during the day was to play the quarter inch music tapes that accompanied the Test Card (so not Ceefax) and she tells me they could put on any tape they wanted within the ones supplied to them so no fixed order or anything like that. The only stipulation given to them was that they had to change the tape that had run out to the next one within 60 seconds - no doubt this was to a avoid excessive periods of silence going to the transmitter network.