RN
Very unlikely but wouldn't it be amazing if Gavin Esler or Sarah Montague turned up to present the evening shift tonight on News 24, sorry the News Channel, tonight.
LL
The original music it launched with really is brilliant, and in my opinion, hasn't aged too badly.
That being said, I really can't imagine a time where the current music could ever change. It's been in place for about fifteen years or so, but it's become about as iconic as the BBC logo itself.
That being said, I really can't imagine a time where the current music could ever change. It's been in place for about fifteen years or so, but it's become about as iconic as the BBC logo itself.
RW
Robert Williams
Founding member
BBC News 24 launched just over a month after the BBC1 balloons, so once again I have to say 'where has the last 20 years gone?!'
Like most of the population, I had no access to the channel when it first began, so my first experience of News 24 was a couple of days after launch, when I recorded the overnight output from BBC1, just to see what it was like. I remember the presenter that night was Maxine Mawhinney, and was not yet simulcast with BBC World. It's perhaps ironic that it was at the time when the channel was actually doing its own thing 24 hours a day that the fewest number of people were able to view it.
The original flags branding is still by far my favourite, although I also still love the original version of the countdown from 1999, still better than all the subsequent umpteen remixes.
A516digital has a good summary of the last 20 years: http://www.a516digital.com/2017/11/20-years-of-bbc-news-whenever-you-want.html - which states that the World simulcast started in March 1998. And in case anyone missed it, I recently posted up the early News 24 schedule here: https://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post1076402#post-1076402
Like most of the population, I had no access to the channel when it first began, so my first experience of News 24 was a couple of days after launch, when I recorded the overnight output from BBC1, just to see what it was like. I remember the presenter that night was Maxine Mawhinney, and was not yet simulcast with BBC World. It's perhaps ironic that it was at the time when the channel was actually doing its own thing 24 hours a day that the fewest number of people were able to view it.
The original flags branding is still by far my favourite, although I also still love the original version of the countdown from 1999, still better than all the subsequent umpteen remixes.
A516digital has a good summary of the last 20 years: http://www.a516digital.com/2017/11/20-years-of-bbc-news-whenever-you-want.html - which states that the World simulcast started in March 1998. And in case anyone missed it, I recently posted up the early News 24 schedule here: https://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post1076402#post-1076402
NE
Not to be as it's Ben Brown on but not without it's own sense of irony as (as shown in one of the clips above) he was the first Correspondent to feature on News 24.
Very unlikely but wouldn't it be amazing if Gavin Esler or Sarah Montague turned up to present the evening shift tonight on News 24, sorry the News Channel, tonight.
Not to be as it's Ben Brown on but not without it's own sense of irony as (as shown in one of the clips above) he was the first Correspondent to feature on News 24.
VM
A516digital has a good summary of the last 20 years: http://www.a516digital.com/2017/11/20-years-of-bbc-news-whenever-you-want.html - which states that the World simulcast started in March 1998. And in case anyone missed it, I recently posted up the early News 24 schedule here: https://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post1076402#post-1076402
I actually came across this incredible thread which I have honestly completely forgotten all about, in which members including a516 go into great detail on the early days of News 24 as well as World from that era.
https://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/bbc-news-24-world-19971999-33411/
A516digital has a good summary of the last 20 years: http://www.a516digital.com/2017/11/20-years-of-bbc-news-whenever-you-want.html - which states that the World simulcast started in March 1998. And in case anyone missed it, I recently posted up the early News 24 schedule here: https://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post1076402#post-1076402
I actually came across this incredible thread which I have honestly completely forgotten all about, in which members including a516 go into great detail on the early days of News 24 as well as World from that era.
https://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/bbc-news-24-world-19971999-33411/
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A former member
WE HAVE a classic countdown the now!! that was a shocker and lucky I was recording 
SP
Shouldn't be that big a shock, pretty big clue here
Looked very clean in HD.
WE HAVE a classic countdown the now!! that was a shocker and lucky I was recording
Shouldn't be that big a shock, pretty big clue here
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Looked very clean in HD.
RW
That looked like a recreation to me, the digits appeared sharper than they did in the original.
Robert Williams
Founding member
WE HAVE a classic countdown the now!! that was a shocker and lucky I was recording
That looked like a recreation to me, the digits appeared sharper than they did in the original.