The discussion about regional BBC continuity led me to this, the final regular BBC1 North West regional closedown from 1980. It shows a level of relationship with the viewer that I think would be unheard of today. Do watch to the very end.
Interesting video description too:
During this era of BBC1, each region of the UK would transmit a junction between each programme, either out of vision or in vision, giving details of later programmes and the one about to be transmitted. Also, BBC1 used to close down each night and just prior to closedown the regions would transmit a late night news bulletin, play The Queen, and then remind everyone to switch their TVs off.
The junctions and closedown by the English regions ended on Friday 12 September 1980 - London did all the junctions and closed down the channel at night from then on for the English regions, however Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales continued their own junctions and closedown - and here we have the final North West region transmission from BBC Studio P, Broadcasting House, Manchester, where the junctions and closedown came from.
Studio P was a self op. studio located on the 4th floor of BH, amongst radio studios from the 1920s, when the upper floors of the building changed from being a bank to becoming BH Manchester for the BBC's north west region's radio programmes.
Studio P had one camera, a desk in front of the presenter with various sources coming in (TK, VT, slide scanner, etc) and was about a third the size of a normal-sized living room. The presenter self-operated the cutting to the various sources and you'll see John Mundy's arms move at some point to do this. The slides also show the desk.
The clip is all pretty well self-explanatory, and the slide sequence will give a good idea of the operating conditions. The camera used to be an EMI 2001 but this was moved to Studio N eventually and a cobbled together Philips LDK15 handheld camera used, with a film lens. The quality was never very good with this camera and to make matters worse there was an autocue in front of it too. That's why the camera output in this clip looks so soft and the black level sat up. I did try post-processing the clip but couldn't really get anything out of it to make it sharper....
Finally.... one of the cameramen rota'd to work in Studio N for the day had to check the camera in the afternoon for the correct shot, to make sure it hadn't been knocked, and so it became common to hear 'I'm going to P!'.