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Inspector Sands 11 November 2015 5:53pm

Were those ever used on-screen on BBC One?

No, the only appearance of London Live on TV was the radio station logo on the morning travel news

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I have a recollection that BBC London's studio operation started at Marylebone High Street but continued with multicoloured Newsroom South East titles and on-screen look that was in use previously at Elstree (though they dropped to single headed presentation) recreated in a CSO set. I think BBC South East at Tunbridge Wells had split by this point?

When BBC London launched for real (possibly the same time that the BBC Oxford sub-opt started - not sure) with Emily Maitlis at Marylebone High Street the BBC LDN brand was used - and was all red?

Tunbridge Wells launched at the beginning of September and according to TV Ark, Oxford started in 2000. BBC London launched on the 1st October so for a month there were two BBC South East news bulletins, one just covering London. (not as odd as it sounds, after all there are 2 Look North's!)

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Steve in Pudsey 12 November 2015 7:43am

3 Look North's!

I thought they were being kicked out of Elstree, so NSE moved to Tunbridge Wells until Marylebone High Street was ready to split off and launch LDN?

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Inspector Sands 12 November 2015 9:59am

Steve in Pudsey posted:

3 Look North's!

Good point

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I thought they were being kicked out of Elstree, so NSE moved to Tunbridge Wells until Marylebone High Street was ready to split off and launch LDN?

Nope, NSE moved from Elstree to Marylebone High Street and South East Today split off from it from Tunbridge Wells.

BBC LDN was effectively a relaunch of Newsroom South East, whereas South East Today was a new programme started from scratch

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Richard 13 November 2015 10:36pm

Inspector Sands posted:

Tunbridge Wells launched at the beginning of September and according to TV Ark, Oxford started in 2000. BBC London launched on the 1st October so for a month there were two BBC South East news bulletins, one just covering London. (not as odd as it sounds, after all there are 2 Look North's!)

I think it was only about 2 weeks after TW split that NSE continued. For that time NSE continued with the same titles, but a BBC One London ident rather than Southeast and obviously only covering London stories. South Today changed its titles to include Oxford and South East today had new titles. BBC LDN obviously had new titles, in the new style, which all the English regions copied later, although TW kept the old style of titles for longer, presumably to make it clear it was "news for Kent and East Sussex" or whatever rather than the old SE region.

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noggin Founding member 14 November 2015 12:59am

Steve in Pudsey posted:

I thought they were being kicked out of Elstree, so NSE moved to Tunbridge Wells until Marylebone High Street was ready to split off and launch LDN?

No - Newsroom South East was definitely broadcast from Marylebone High Street (from a CSO set which mocked up the old Elstree set) after they left Elstree. Think one idea was to allow MHS to get used to the new technology at MHS without tarnishing the new BBC LDN brand (i.e. get the gremlins out of the way whilst still seeming to be Newsroom South East)

(November 2015)