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BBC 1988 - 1997 logo revival?

(January 2015)

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MI
Michael
As a random aside, was the Perfect Day campaign launched before or after the new corporate logo?


Have done some digging online. A commenter, one "Steve Williams" of TVCream - who I believe posts on here too - remarked on an article about Perfect Day that he recalled seeing it before BBC2's Radio One Night, which occurred on Saturday 20 September 1997
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1997-09-20
a full two weeks before the current BBC logo launched on screen. (Comment 88 ) *fcking emoticons!

Coupled with the fact that the old slanted boxes are seemingly "burnt in" to the lens flare transition between the endboard and Lou Reed's shush, would lead me to conclude that the old logo did feature onscreen.
LL
Larry the Loafer
Coupled with the fact that the old slanted boxes are seemingly "burnt in" to the lens flare transition between the endboard and Lou Reed's shush, would lead me to conclude that the old logo did feature onscreen.


Took me a while to spot it...

http://s24.postimg.cc/wkr13myvp/Screen_Shot_2015_01_31_at_20_23_55.png
EL
elmarko
Thanks, I couldn't spot it all!
MI
Michael
JJ Abrams wouldn't have let that one get through.
MA
Markymark

I was at Crystal Palace, a couple of weeks ago, the analogue transmitters and the sheet of A4 paper with the offensive logo, are still there, all frozen in time. Cool


Wow! Weren't tempted to fire them up again were you? Wink I'm surprised they haven't been lobbed in a skip or donated to a museum!


So was I !! They are relatively modern, installed 2001. The power amps from both BBC 1 and 2 analogue txs were earmarked for a new life running COM 7 and 8 at Winter Hill ISTR, but plans must have changed
SW
Steve Williams


I do indeed post here. And it is my name. That was the first time I'd ever seen it and I think it was its debut. I actually had that night on a VHS for ages.

This is going off the point a bit but that was the night before I went to university and I'd been devouring telly that summer (I watched hours and hours of the coverage of Diana's death a few weeks earlier) because I'd assumed I'd never have the time to watch much telly when I went. Of course, I ended up watching more telly than I've ever done before or since and could quite easily go on Mastermind with Every single thing broadcast on British television 1997-99 as my specialist subject.
bilky asko and VMPhil gave kudos
WH
Whataday Founding member
Its debut absolutely was Saturday 20th September 1997. (Ref: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/oh-its-such-a-perfect-song-1293130.html)

I seem to remember reading that either Perfect Day or the rebrand was delayed due to Diana's death. Is there any truth in that?

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