BBC Regional News

Since 1999, the Lambie-Nairn ripples have symbolised out BBC Regional news, but when will this look actually change? I know that it's nice for each region to be different, but Scotland has been using those map titles since 1999! London changed in 2005, but no other regions have followed, with Spotlight and South Today using different styles to the others as well.
What i want to know is when these changes we've been expecting (Vizrt, etc) will actually happen.

VizRT doesn't affect the ability of regions to come up with new titles. Scotland will receive a new look in July, as there's new equipment at Pacific Quay. BBC London is getting VizRT soon, before the other English regions. I don't know whether Wales and Northern Ireland are choosing to buy VizRT, it's a seperate decision for them.

Midlands Todays Endbord has been the same for 5 years, They even made it widescreen in 2004! I thought they would use the LDN style one.

BBC Midlands Today will be using Big Ted for their astons, which will enable swish animations on and off screen. The team are currently working on new graphics, to be launched some time later this year.

Big Ted is simply a front-end for a character generator such as aston. It isn't a graphics or aston system. Basically it's used for timings and sending the appropriate commands to the character generator at the right time. BigTed has been going for a decade now in various versions... the newest being BigViz to control VizRT systems.

Correct, but the current 'Aston' system, does not enable animating astons. Just static. Atleast with Big Ted, they can enable an animation, and use it to put a deley on so when its cued, it doesnt start animating until its aired.

not long to wait now

but that's not big ted surely? that's big viz?