20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

So 2003's countdown in just under an hour, 2007's just before Outside Source and then the Current one just before 11:00pm since it looks like we are getting old countdowns throughout the evening.

That just means more recordings will need to be set!

1999 Countdown ident - dusted off for the 20th anniversary....

They seemed to change the orientation of the desk and the desk itself very quickly after the launch, as shown below.

They skipped over any explanation for this during today's pieces. What was the reason for this?

http://i67.tinypic.com/2il08ef.jpg

My new capture card will be going into overdrive...I thought the flags were enough!

We're being spoiled for choice here...

There did say there was alot of experimentation going on during the period.

I think the recreation theory might be right

Pres Geek Heaven . . .

The 1999 countdown used is an HD recreation someone posted on here:

https://www.tvforum.co.uk/thegallery/bbc-news-24-countdown-1999-40431/

That countdown was definitely a recreation...from YouTube!

The original:



What we just saw:



EDIT: beaten to it!!

The dangers of producers using YouTube for clips!

I guess they either don't have the original materials anymore or it would be too much money to digitise them if they do. My money is on them having lost all of the original footage - I would be amazed if the BBC keep all of their title sequences somewhere. Even the flags ident we've seen tonight could have been doctored from PABs - or were they too from YouTube?

Too high quality to be from You Tube surely

Bit disappointed to find the 1999 countdown is not an original.