BBC ONE Wales closedown error

Here is an error that happened on BBC one Wales last night (Friday).

Step one:
The ident starts up and after a long pause, the announcer says:  'That's it from BBC One tonight, so from me Steve Watt and the rest of the BBC Wales team, have a very good night'

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/upload/bbcwerror1.jpg


Step two
In the middle of that very nostalgic goodnight speech, the ident disappeared BUT the URL stayed onscreen for a couple of seconds before going black.


Step three
The details of the next ident appeared on screen!!!

http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/upload/deda.jpg

Step four
Another ident appeared and the announcer said 'we'll it was obvious that I wasn't expecting that!  Anyway, we never go to sleep at BBC One, so to take us through the night, it's News 24.


(Edited by itsrobert at 9:32 pm on Dec. 15, 2001)

Ah! Great stuff - a nice little personal comment from the announcer. I wish I saw that!

LOL - TV Forum's very own Geraint was announcing on BBC 1 Wales analogue last night, but at around midnight they hand over to BBC 1 Wales digital.

Geraint seems to be prone to the odd late night cockup too

I see the BBC call them idents too! Im suprised they dont have VT clocks. I saw a similar caption on L&K once, precceding a music video!

May it be noted that I guessed the name of the announcer, as I couldn't be bothered to check! http://web.ukonline.co.uk/tv.home/forum/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Could we have some video?

good job you're not a journalist then. You'd have to work on the Sun

if only bbc one england closedowns were as exciting!

im presuming that the ' numbers means seconds - so does that mean (5 x 4) = 20 + 30 = 50 seconds in total?

i thought bbc ones were 30 or 40seconds long?

(Edited by tvmercia at 10:38 pm on Dec. 15, 2001)

The 5 seconds is the jingle and then the symbol (that's what they are called at the beeb) continues for 30 seconds.

They are categorised as Con+5, Con+4 etc.

If they needed a 10 second ident and they used a con+5, then the annopuncer could only say 5 seconds before the programme.