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Suzanne Virdee's sudden departure from BBC Midlands (September 2004)

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JC
Jack Carkdale
South Today posted:
THE END OF AN ERA~ MIDLANDS TODAY FROM PEBBLE MILL ~ FRIDAY


Signature needs updating! Wink
HA
Hazzamon
At last! Midlands Today in proper widescreen!

And also - no more regional idents that look like they're being playing from a VHS tape Wink

Encoding the headlines now...
MB
Mr.B
A quote from someone within 'the horse's mouth'

My Mate posted:
Very exciting. First opt is 20 mins away. They've re jigged the titles and seem to be using the London news music instead of the old one. Nick will have the newsroom behind him but the studio is 360 degrees. There will be a bit done in the actual newsroom too.


They're getting very excited down at t'Mailbox...
MA
Matrix
Well the first glimpses have been revealed to the public, the regional ident is much improved, now all we need is the 2 1/2 mins of blackout before the breakdown and wella Welcome to the Mailbox.
No seriousl (god i hat that word) so, um right, um LISTEN! (mild improvement?) It's shaping up to be very good, Enjoy!
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AWAITING IDEA FOR SIGNATURE?
Yellow Pigs?
JO
joy210
OMG.... a PROPER WIDESCREEN IDENT! im so so so so so happy! and a Midlands today title change as seen in the news room

|B|B|C|
Midlands
Today


?????? well we will see in a few mins!
SA
Salty Founding member
You've cum already Joy? Thats a shame.
HA
Hazzamon
Right, after much faffing about getting the filesize below 1mb, here's the (heavily edited) headlines:

Clicky here (Zipped AVI)

EDIT: Hang on a minute, wasn't Kay supposed to be doing the first bulletin!?
HA
Hazzamon
ARRRGGH!!! Please get rid of that god awful headline vamp!

It's at the exact resonance frequency as my skull! Shocked

Other than that, everything looks fab :p

EDIT: Hooray! The first cockup! Very Happy - going into the report about the Mailbox move, they showed a few seconds of the previous report before hurriedly cutting to the intended report Razz
Last edited by Hazzamon on 25 October 2004 1:43pm
MO
morgaineofevil
Nice new look, not sure about the jingle for ther headlines though sounds a bit of ff and disturbing from the normal bum bum bum they used to use.
I do like the fact that Nick Owen gets to do the first news from the Mailbox. Nick's great, he's very professional but is not miserable like GORDON OR DOMINIC.
I NEVER WATCH EMT it's gome downhill really badly IMO, even Anne davies isn't as good as she used to be. i'm going home to the North west today so i;m going to have t put up with GB tonight booooo, depress us all.
WT
The World Today
WOW This is excellent, it looks like its coming from TV Centre - it looks better that not only BBC LDN (You'd think London would look the best region being the capital city) but 10 times better than the BBC National News, BBC News 24 and World studios...

The astons - NASTY - get them off.

The Headline sting - Oh my god - I hope they drop that!
BR
Brekkie
Just a request - rather than hiding caps of the new look in this thread, for ease of future reference could they be placed in a new thread.
SA
Salty Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
Just a request - rather than hiding caps of the new look in this thread, for ease of future reference could they be placed in a new thread.


and break tradition? this is the midlands today and central west thread - don't bring your fancy ideas here.

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