BBC Network Rebrand

Read on another forum, supposed insider states regarding BBC One:



They also state this will launch in May.

This may have substance - I read on MediaGuardian months ago that the BBC are planning to scrap the dancers...

Anybody got any news / speculation? It's worth discussing anyway!

and the moon is made of cheese

Trust me, utter rubbish.

Editorial arguments aside, in vision continuity could not happen on BBCtv now. There is no suitable live studio in the Broadcast Centre and you could not have a continuity announcer who's divorced from the transmission process.

The only thing which would be theoretically possible is some kind of "programme between the programmes" like CBBC or the links which Ross King used to do from Pebble Mill through the morning in the mid 90s.

I've no idea about the new BBC1 ident but I doubt very much if there'll be a clock. It would only be accurate for the third of viewers who are still watching on analogue. A proportion which declines by the week.

And I'm sure there is no Studio 2a at TVC... just a Studio 2.

When has BBC One EVER had in vision continuity?

BBCtv, and subsequently BBC1, had in vision continuity until around 1965. The likes of Sylvia Peters were amongst the best known faces in the land.

Indeed, when TV Centre was built two small studios were built specifically for in vision continuity - but after on screen announcers were dropped, these studios were adapted and used for programmes such as Points of View and Late Night Line Up.

Well...

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I think someone said that some of the con booths in the new broadcast centre had been made big enough that they could do this kind of thing again.

But I agree that the source doesn't sound that convincing

Pres A and Pres B - didn't the weather used to be based in one or t'other of these?

Indeed - in Pres A

hmm seems very unlikely. doubt very much that we'll ever see in-vision continuity. clock would be nice to see again, but i doubt it.

hey, at least the dancers are going.

This rumour started in a thread on the TV Ark forum posted by someone with only 3 posts. All following posters then lapped it up regardless. It then ended up on Digital Spy and then here.

I really think people need to stop believing everything they read on the internet

I thought it was impossable to do a clock with the diffrent delays in D-Sat, DTT and D-Cable.

It's not that it is impossible, just that it supposedly wouldn't make sense due to the delays on digital. Given the minimal delay that there is, I personally wouldn't mind the clock being technically a few seconds out. I think it looks nice as an introduction to the news, not to mention the lack of audio. The use of standard idents before the news really does bug me. The silence of the clock made it feel more important somehow.