72 second countdown

On news 24 this evening @ 20.00, there was a 72 second countdown. Never seen it so long actually on screen. Bit wierd to have such a long one at such an early hour.

I've seen a 75 second one before at 9.58am!

Yes I just saw it too! Excellent!!

Yes it was absolutely excellent! I wish they would show us more of the long countdowns, because I think it looks and sounds much better when played on tv!

Grr... I was watching a Father Ted DVD and only joined at 50

Yes,I saw that 72 second one too!

They must have forgotten to run another trailer!

I was sat watching it thinking to myself 'I bet someone has posted about this ...'



You guys must be plugged into the station all day!

I don't, dunno about others.

A damn fine oppurtunity I've missed here, by the sound of things.

I've the seen the countdown before from about 55 seconds - I dunno if that was where it started from, 55 secs was where I switched over to BBC News 24.

I saw the countdown from 70 on the very first day it was used - 25th October 1999. It must have been played in a minute late as it should only have counted from 10 seconds; but they played the rest in its entireity and the news started at 10.01!

http://www.users.nascr.net/~rgwill/News24.jpg

Only managed to video it from 64 seconds though!

The countdown runs automatically, ie no one has to press a button. On the first day it ran a minute late because of a programming error.

I seen a 89 second countdown before! I remember it because it was approaching 7.00pm just before Gwenan and Chris were about to come on, and it was a Sunday. It must have been about this time last year. It sounded fantastic!