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Those videos posted by Mark Lipscomb are amazing. I wonder how many people in the gallery knew what Carlton's presentation was going to look like - it was quite a startling change from the Thames style. (That's ML himself on the opening Carlton announcement, isn't it?) And, of course, that for some of those there, it was no different from what they'd done at 5.15 on a Friday for years, just with a few boozed-up spectators...
Slightly off-topic - Thames had handed over to LWT hundreds of times, but LWT never handed over to Thames, did it? The 1969 Moon landings were on a Sunday so might have provided an opportunity, but otherwise closedowns and TV-am must have separated them. (I remember Thames Weekend News, but that was technically just another programme, wasn't it?)
Shame that switch at the BT Tower never made it to a museum after 1992.
Slightly off-topic - Thames had handed over to LWT hundreds of times, but LWT never handed over to Thames, did it? The 1969 Moon landings were on a Sunday so might have provided an opportunity, but otherwise closedowns and TV-am must have separated them. (I remember Thames Weekend News, but that was technically just another programme, wasn't it?)
Shame that switch at the BT Tower never made it to a museum after 1992.