[James2001]

I don't think Sky+ had even launched at that point (though Tivo was around, but with very few subscribers), so it would pretty much have required someone to have been specifically recording onto VHS, which is probably not very likely.

We've got the posts on Digitalspy from the time with people talking about it "flickering between green and a test card", though where that was coming from I don't know (along with the technical difficulties caption and video statement from outside the building posted on the last page), I assume the galleries and transmission equipment got destroyed? Or maybe there was enough that survived to keep that minimal output going (though even if that was the case, I doubt anyone would have been allowed in the building to operate it, so unlikely). I guess there was some backup facility that was at least enough to put out the caption and short video.