BBC News 24

Fair enough, but does that mean you write like that by default?!

Looks like TOG's gone down again. It's being going on and off a lot in the past hour and it's completely down now.

I think they need a new system.

They've managed to get a strange BBC News "tower" in the corner. No clock, just 'www.bbc.co.uk'.

I think that version only usually gets seen on clips on t'internet.
It disappeared during the weather and reappeared at some point during HardTalk.
The astons beforehand weren't quite as animatey as usual - a BigTED backup, perhaps?

Apparently there are some problems with ENPS this evening; so the two things may be related.

The BBC News tower is usually used to hide the clock and News 24 dog on the standard tower and is available permanently keyed over on a separate output.

I believe the Biged + Aston is still there (I think it normally just does top left location astons) as a backup for TOG - so that would explain it.

Any caps of it?

How bizarre! No opening titles, just cutting straight to the studio, and the graphics haven't changed.

The "fake" tower stayed on during the weather, promos and the countdown (blocking the numbers).

The titles weren't played out. We just heard the music and got a wide shot of the studio. Looked strange.

Fergus Walsh's report on binge drinking looked suspiciously like the final piece to camera was filmed in the BBC Club bar. Usually they at least make the effort to nip down the road to Shepherd's Bush or Notting Hill...

And TOG's back in action.

But for how long...?

Yes, I found this quite intriguing... here's some caps courtesy of my Humax PVR which captured all of these goings-on for posteriority.

Click here

It went down during WBR as well!