For years now, Sign Zone pres was a slide announcing the next programme, followed by an ident and an announcement for the 'now' programme. Which never made a whole lot of sense, since if you're deaf you wouldn't be able to hear what you were about to watch.
It appears the new way of doing things is to introduce the programme with with a slide. That's far more sensible.
BBC One HD just showed the spinning glass "BBC" blocks for a couple of minutes after the regional news filler had finished, before cutting back to the weather. There was then a brief VT clock at the start of the Savile doc - the two possibly connected I guess if the programme was a very late edit and there were some similar late schedule edits going on at Red Bee.
I saw this too. The first time I've seen them in fact.
Anybody know why they were created or what they are normally used for? Just seems odd to have generic BBC branding on air, instead of specific BBC1 branding. But still, nice to see I guess.
The glass blocks ident was done for BBC DVDs / Blu Ray to replace the 1997 ribbons ident. It exists constantly running under all channels in case everything else fails so there is always a picture of some sort.
Prior to this it was a BBC logo on a photo of some clouds taken from marksi's back garden
BBC One HD just showed the spinning glass "BBC" blocks for a couple of minutes after the regional news filler had finished, before cutting back to the weather. There was then a brief VT clock at the start of the Savile doc - the two possibly connected I guess if the programme was a very late edit and there were some similar late schedule edits going on at Red Bee.
The VT clock suggested to me that it was a very late edit and possibly being played in from the edit suite rather than being directly under the control of the network director at Red Bee