Click

Browsing the BBC News site, clicked on a video and saw this, it's new to me.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f363/TheAxG/BBCClick.png

I was thinking only the other day that the Click titles are probably the oldest ones in use under the BBC News umbrella of programmes. I think there's only been two different looks for Click?

They've certainly stood the test of time.

I think i'm right in saying the music is as old as the programme itself. Wasn't it was used back in the Stephen Cole era also?

There were only two different title sequences during the Click Online/Stephen Cole era. The Click titles/theme has been used since it was renamed back at the start of 2006 and Spencer Kelly took over, so they're almost 9 years old.

The current theme bears a resemblance to the last Click Online theme, specifically the final notes, but I wouldn't say it's the same theme.

I too thought when watching last weeks about the titles. I think it's more for the fact that the titles looked terribly upscaled. For a programme that is about the advances in technology and the weeks news, surely they could advance the titles at least into HD.

If they're changing the logo, why is the old one shown on the page for tomorrow's episode? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3csw97d
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01tgmhd.jpg

More than likely just a standard iPlayer programme image.

I suspect it's tied into the opening of their YouTube channel. They are producing bite sized videos covering three topics

• Click Starter – will cover the latest ideas and prototypes in development

• Click Bytes – latest thoughts from key players in the industry

• Click Bait – a curtain-raiser to that weekend’s show

so a simple endcap would seem necessary.


see here ……..

MEDIACENTRE on BBC.CO.UK
17-Oct-2014 @ 21:32

No new titles as yet, this week's show still using the current titles.

Click! was originally called Click Online. I think the "online" was dropped and the show relaunched when Spencer replaced Stephen Cole as presenter.

Click Online certainly had at least one other theme tune - which featured computer-style voice synthesis/vocoding in it before the current music was adopted - but I can't remember if Click Online used the current music or not.

I think the current music has been with the show since it relaunched as Click!, but I don't think Stephen ever presented Click!, just Click Online.

The original titles: https://vimeo.com/20086000 (the voice appears to be Microsoft Sam, built in with Windows XP)

Last titles used from 2004 or so until the end of 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3RKNQU77po

As I said, it bears a resemblance to the current theme used since 2006, but only in the last few notes.

(Also, it's never been styled "Click!" so I'm not sure where you got that from!)

Edit: Beaten to it by 2mins!

I always thought it was Click! - as an imperative rather than a noun. My mistake.