I stopped watching at about 1pm (12.59 am on the election programme). It was orginally predicted to be a hung parliament but when I switched off despite Labour having just under 40 seats more than the Conservatives with 326 results gone, the forecast predicted a small Conservative majority.
I'm loving this, I was too young to remember it then but watching back what turned out to be a fasinating night.
Dimbely was speaking to a young Shadow Transport minister called Gordon Brown, who'd of dreamnt back then.........Laughing
Oooh and Tony Blair held onto Sedgefield, Brillant exit poll too. Interesting seeing the Tory MP's holding onto their seats, whilst knowing what happened 5 years later.
Do the results graphics remind anyone else of the current News 24 headline graphics? The way they animate on is practically identical.
Yeah I thought that too.
As goes the picture loss - it looked to me like the tape started rewinding, they cut it to black, and then managed to get it going again (although seem to miss out a chunk - when it went it was Peter Snow talking about London, when it came back it was a location interview).
This one featured the return of the swingometer last seen in 1979 with Bob McKenzie. I've still got the special edition of the Radio Times. And I remember this one because of Rory Bremner's Paddy Ashdown joke that cracked up the entire studio!!
Might the one minute of 'loss of programme' blackness have been them changing the tape?
On Sky Plus, the coverage is split into three chunks, surely they couldn't have recorded the whole thing onto one 'tape'? They didn't have hard disks in 1992 did they?
My sky plus didn't have the programme starting at 9am - just that Record Review at 8. It could be Sky + can't cope with the long programme.
I had the black here, so it could have been black in the programme, but then even with multiple tapes the whole thing would be stitched together on server for today so i'm surprised it wasn't removed!
Might the one minute of 'loss of programme' blackness have been them changing the tape?
On Sky Plus, the coverage is split into three chunks, surely they couldn't have recorded the whole thing onto one 'tape'? They didn't have hard disks in 1992 did they?
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You could be right. I imagine they would have started the next tape recording before the previous one had finished though.
Maybe they did but it just wasn't seen as worthwhile to edit it together nicely for this repeat showing.
On a related note, do you think anyone at the BBC has ever watched this back? Would someone have had to watch all 13.5 hours again before they could repeat it on BBC Parliament to check for legal/technical issues or do they just find the tape(s) press play and hope for the best?
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