One I've spotted - a clip of Nicholas Witchell presenting a BBC News bulletin after the 1999 red and cream relaunch. For some reason I always thought he'd stopped presenting before the end of the virtual era.
I do remember Nicholas Witchell returning during the red/cream era. It was only a brief return to presenting mind you. I seem to recall he did the Six and Nine/Weekend bulletins for a short time after the 1999 relaunch.
Looking at old news clips it shows how BBC News seemed to lose their way, graphics wise in the mid 00s.
They changed the set to be more red but kept the cream titles, then they had all those titles that only appeared on plasmas but didn't change the actual titles. I was never a fan of the 'explosion' titles either.
It all seemed to come together again when the current titles were introduced
That very first "beige" look was really good. It almost feels like they paid a lot of money for someone to come up with it, and then tried to copy it and tweak it themselves on the cheap further down the line. Which to be fair is probably exactly what happened.
The explosion titles were a definite low point. The regional titles have always been pretty naff and cheap looking too.
I don't think they've ever got the surrounding graphics (lower thirds etc) right. They're probably the best now they've been, but there have been some real horrors (that red and black with bold white writing mess on the news channel springs to mind).
Much preferred the explosion titles and swirls to what followed. BBC News long overdue a visual revamp though - probably will be an evolution rather than the revolution but that's fine - it just all needs refining really rather than replacing, even though I'd prefer something a bit more substantial. Studios are fine and can just be updated through lighting if required.
When they do revamp, I think they should ditch the BBC World News name. It appears too often on domestic BBC News (it never should), usually in simulcasts, and having both channels just be called BBC News would solve that problem.
When they do revamp, I think they should ditch the BBC World News name. It appears too often on domestic BBC News (it never should), usually in simulcasts, and having both channels just be called BBC News would solve that problem.
One I've spotted - a clip of Nicholas Witchell presenting a BBC News bulletin after the 1999 red and cream relaunch. For some reason I always thought he'd stopped presenting before the end of the virtual era.
You can't beat the 2000 Today version though… nice long intro with the camera swooping over to the news desk, that ominous music bed, fantastic titles that were only used for one day, Michael Buerk shouting the headlines in your face
One I've spotted - a clip of Nicholas Witchell presenting a BBC News bulletin after the 1999 red and cream relaunch. For some reason I always thought he'd stopped presenting before the end of the virtual era.
Oh how I missed those snappy headlines, dum dum headline, dum dum headline, dum dum headline, titles.
Indeed, compared to today
Dum dum tonight at ten deadline sub-headline, clip of someone talking, discussion point, also tonight, dum dum headline, dum dum headline, dum dum video clip, headline, and in the region tonight headline headline titles, it's now 10:02
Was Huw the one who also set the example for how most presenters do the titles on the One/Six and Ten? He seems to be the only one who consistently says "Tonight at Ten...", "...also tonight", but the other presenters often do the same some of the time.