BBC London TV News

It was more than just a name change, it was a new programme.

They deliberately moved it away from NSE as far as they could - editorially and aesthetically it was very different. A lot of the NSE presenters and production team continued but there were quite a few who didn't, also It had a new new editor overseeing it who joined specifically for the launch

It's over 10 years since the region split up, Newsroom Southeast spent the last month or 2 covering just London until the new programme was launched. It lost Oxford a lot earlier

Plus it moved from TVC to Marylebone High St

I don't remember the show coming from TVC. I'm sure it came from another studio like Lime Grove.

Lets remind ourselves of the early days for BBC London.

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbc_se_and_ldn/bbc_london_news.html

maybe it was elstree.

the image of the website on that tv-ark page is great. So strange seeing how crummy the old BBC pages were ten years ago.

It was Elstree until around the time it was downsized to London.

I don't think it ever came out of TVC. During the Nationwide/Sixty Minutes era it was Lime Grove (sharing the set of those two programmes).

In fact during the Nationwide era, I don't recall it even being branded separately, as far as London&SE viewers were concerned Nationwide was one long 55 min programme, albeit only with South East features during the first half !

Yes it was in Holby City until a couple of months before LDN launched.

If I remember rightly, Oxford was spun off first, then they moved to Central London, then Kent and Sussex was spun off, then BBC London launched. Therefore for a few weeks there was the odd situation of having both Newsroom Southeast and South East Today on air.

NSE lost East Sussex in the 90s when South Today took over the Heathfield transmitter. They were left with the vast majority of Kent except for Ashford and Tenderden.

So the core area until 2001 was Kent, Greater London, Surrey, North Sussex including Crawley and East Grinstead, South and West Essex, Herts, South Beds, South Bucks, Oxfordshire and Berks east and north of Reading.

They also had crossover areas including Swindon and Milton Keynes. (Brighton as well until the 90s)

Alice Bhandhukravi is making BBC London history by being the first reporter to produce a package for tonight's bulletin in HD.

However no-one will see it in HD mind.

Cue Daily Mail comment about wasting the licence fee.

Alice has tweeted that they now have HD cameras, but not ready to switch.

They appear to have created a new graphic for the screens .... it is the the logo from the end board of the last look over the usual background. And a new slug rather than the titles being used for the close. Looks pretty rubbish.

These days HD is virtually the norm when it comes to filming stuff. If a broadcaster is going to go out and buy a new camera then they'd may as buy an HD one.... they might not even be able to get and SD one!

There are advantages with a programme like BBC London shooting in HD long before they'll broadcast in it - having a head of steam of HD archive footage being one.

I'd have thought that if any region goes HD, BBC London will be the first purely because they'll soon be more integrated in with national news in their new home