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Good Morning Britain in 2020

Spencer posted:
Davidjb posted:
I can't be the only one that hears 'The A Team' theme tune in the new title sequence music?


Oh my goodness. You're absolutely right. It's the drumbeat over the date and the orchestral sweep up before the theme kicks in. Can't unhear this now.

Edit: Hope you don't mind my nicking your idea, but I think it fits quite well...



Yep once you hear it there’s no going back! 😂
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Good Morning Britain in 2020

I can't be the only one that hears 'The A Team' theme tune in the new title sequence music?
Last edited by Davidjb on 7 January 2020 8:17pm
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

Media Boy posted:
Tony posted:
Hatton Cross posted:
Looks like a Pendelino.
So either Preston or Carlisle?


Its a Voyager and is defintely Newcastle


This is, without doubt, my fave post EVER.

Thanks for the love all, we've certainly had some fun today, glad you approved.

Thanks for watching.

Here's to the next 20!

Happy Birthday.

C


Thanks for marking the occasion. It's always great to look back on these things & see just how far things have changed. Also studio C looked just awesome! Great job.
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

Also, anyone remember Weekend 24 on a Saturday morning?
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

Andrew posted:
dvboy posted:
Only 7 hours 45 mins a weekday on the News Channel is live and unique to the channel these days, the rest being simulcast with BBC One, BBC Two or BBC World, pre-recorded back half hours and the Newsnight repeat.


News 24 having its own breakfast service for 3 years just seems like a different world when these days they can barely run a daytime and evening schedule of their own.

Does anyone have more accurate dates of when the overnight service was dropped, breakfast was dropped and then BBC One simulcasts started (and did they just start simulcasting some rather than all BBC One bulletins at first?)


The overnight service started simulcasting around March 1998 I believe. News 24 Breakfast (or Breakfast 24 as it got nicknamed) ended after the Sydney Olympics in 2000 when BBC Breakfast rebranded & relaunched on both BBC One & BBC News 24. I think the main BBC One bulletins got phased in separately. I've got a vague recollection that the BBC News at One started on the channel a little ahead of the Six & Ten but not by much.
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

dvboy posted:
No classic countdown before the 10.


I think there is one at 22:59 though Wink
Ittr, gordonthegopher and dvboy gave kudos
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

itsrobert posted:
MetalGearRex posted:
2003 countdown ident right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28lzFXmcBHk

That was the first rebrand I remember watching when it actually happened (I'd been aware of the May 1999 rebranding exercise but in a gradual way). I tuned in at 9am and remember seeing that countdown for the first time followed by the new set and presentation with Phil Hayton and Anna Jones. Seems like yesterday, really.

At least Phil Hayton was with Anna Jones that day & not Kate Silverton Wink
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

JoshX posted:
Cor, that flag music makes me feel nice and fuzzy.


The up to the hour music is quite soothing.
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

BBC News 24 was more aligned with BBC World & BBC News Online branding when it first launched. I think it was October 1999 when it adopted the same look & feel as BBC One news programmes with BBC World adopting the look in April 2000.
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

I think Jane Hill is the only member of original presenters still with the channel, all the others have either taken up other roles within the BBC or left in recent years.
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20 years of the BBC News Channel (BBC News 24)

Thursday 9th November 2017 marks 20 years since the BBC News Channel (aka BBC News 24 back in the day) was launched on NTL analogue cable and BBC One overnight. At the time being billed as the forerunner of the BBC's new digital services. It sounds like the occasion is going to be marked in some way tomorrow so it will be great to hopefully see some classic clips of the original "car crash in a shower room" studio N9 and hopefully N8 too from the original flags era. BBC News 24 launched at 5:30pm on the Sunday evening with a preview program looking at the history of BBC News. The first live news bulletin came at 6pm with Gavin Esler & Sarah Montague.
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Rolling News posted:
Davidjb posted:
Really am genuinely sorry to see Maxine go. Been a part of my weekends for as long as I can remember. I do worry the news channels future is getting shorter & shorter all the while, we need this vital service! Does this make Jane Hill the only surviving original presenter now?

I believe Jane is now the longest serving presenter, then Joanna Gosling the second longest having started in 1999.


Sounds about right. I still remember Jane & Joanna from their overnight days.