[Stooky Bill]

I did see the video, can't remember where - but I suspect they continued providing an outgoing source for a short time. It's unlikely all of the staff were suddenly unemployed from 0000 on the 1st January 1993, I'd imagine Thames had the foresight of employing those who were made redundant after the licence change for a couple of days or maybe a even a month after the final Tx.

Mark Lipscomb uploaded a video of it and the PST monitor shows black, so I assume they cut to black after the ITN news, weirdly they keep the Elizabeth Tower clockface on screen once Carlton take to air (and they begin booing)...

The video only shows the first 10 seconds or so after midnight but why would they cut away from it straight away?

The last thing in their schedule was the news and then there's nothing next so they just cut that to air and then left it on their output. It would have been the same as they'd done every morning at 6am and Fridays at 5:15. Presumably on Fridays there was then some sort of routine where they'd clear up the desk, put stuff to a nominal state and then turn off monitors before going home. On the last day the probably pretty similar but with more people there.

Leaving ITN cut to their output would have been an extra fall back should the switch not have happened, but of course not for long - Thames wouldn't have had anything else to play

I think a lot of Thames staff were made redundant on new years day. Some will have been kept to wind down what was left of the company and decommission kit. Some stayed on, programme makers and crew at Teddington for example. The building stayed on air that night as UK Gold was coming from it at the time. Some staff stayed employed for that