New Countdown

Does anyone know the name of the font useed in the countdown or is it the same as the BBC Sport Font?

P.S If anyone has either of those fonts please PM them to me!

BBC News 24 Countdown - Through the ages.

A trip down memory lane, from the first, the tweaked, and now the new.

That's pretty good - Well done!

Nice one Bail,

You all realise that this blows our chances some what at getting the full 90 of the 2003 relaunch countdown

If there was a CD I would buy it |B|B|C|

With reference to HPC:Factor's comment about getting the full version of the 2003 countdown, is there any chance that someone with a high-speed connection could make a good-quality recording of the 88-second countdown posted on page 26?

And with reference to the new countdown I find it hard to visualise how they're going to do the menu - or if they have done away with it altogether...

Caught 8 seconds of it just now and I like the way the swooshy thing fills up the screen at the end, and it isn't just cut to the first headline VT, it sort of flickers away quickly. That's something they should expand on, using the red swoosh between the clips and incorperating it into the headlines somehow (they need to get rid of that tickertape idea in the ident because they can never decide what to do with it - it looks silly if they put the first slug on it, it looks silly if they put the BBC logo on it, it looks silly if they put "NEWS 24" on it like they did just now at 18.00).

I think it's excellent.

As for the menu, I've never seen much point in it to be honest.

How utterly self-congratulatory.

It's lovely. And the music is fab.

Could this new countdown signify any more changes for BBC News, and could it also mark the reappearance of the BBC 1 clock (as this new News24 countdown is more accurate) ??????

I very much doubt it due to propogation delays on satellite transmissions. But I do miss the ol' on-air analogue clocks.

I haven't had a chance to see the countdown yet, but does this new countdown have the bar at the bottom telling us the what's on next (eg. 7pm BBC News) etc?

No, no menus so far.

The concept fell on its face a bit at 1900 - 30 seconds of really dynamic images of newsgathering, with live pictures being beamed back from around the world, flying all over the place, direct to TV Centre in West London.

Then we get to the end of the sequence, and cut to.. a static map of Indonesia.

It's not the kind of thing you can really plan for - but I'd have thought that even a two-shot of the presenters would have looked better.