Regional News Dates

Bit of a favour to ask. Can anyone tell me when each region turned corporate? Also, when did the Oxfordshire become the control of South Today (and hence when the titles updated)

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Look North (Leeds) - 10th April 2000

I'm afraid I can't tell you the exact date, but I know that North West Today was May 2000.

didn't they all go corporate at the same time?

I remember Look North Newcastle being normal one day
then having a gold backdrop but the old titles (for a week)
then having new titles but the gold backdrop (for a few bulitins)
then going the whole hog

Wales Today - 4th October 1999


http://www.btinternet.com/~thenewsroom/images/bbcnews-wales9.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~thenewsroom/images/bbcnews-walesstudiowide.jpg

East Midlands Today and Look East both changed on the same weekend in june 2000

10th May 1999 - BBC National News

4th October 1999 - Reporting Scotland; Newsline; Wales Today; Newsroom South East

18th October 1999 - Look North (North East & Cumbria)

25th October 1999 - BBC News 24; UK Today

December 1999 - BBC World

20th March 2000 - Midlands Today

10th April 2000 - Look North (North)

Early May 2000 - North West Tonight

Later May 2000 - South Today; Spotlight; Points West

5th June 2000 - Look East; East Midlands Today

2nd October 2000 - Breakfast

Thanks to the people of MHP Chat!

Thanks. I knew I should have archived that MHP message!

Cheers, Asa

Only one error in Andrews post. BBC World did not relaunch until April 2000.

So if World didn't go corporate for 6 months after news24 what happened over night? And what happened on world?

I can remember that they still flew the flags during the night well after October 1999 and kept their old graphics untill BBC World changed.

BBC News 24 used the flags for a few weeks overnight after they had relaunched using BBC Worlds studio. They then used the News 24 studio with the generic titles used on BBC One until BBC World relaunched. It must have looked extremely odd on BBC World having the usual flag ident on the hour then cutting to the news which was a completely different theme. I thought it was extremely odd once because i think it was february 2000 time, They used the generic BBC News idents but the BBC World studio for one night which was still using the flag theme. It didnt half look strange. The main reason i know BBC World didnt relaunch until April 2000 was because i got Sky in Jan 2000 and BBC World News on News 24 was still using the flag themed World studio. Also it relaunched when it dropped The World Today and Europe Direct (Europe Direct has since been reinstated on a monthly basis). Why they left it six months to relaunch i dont know. It was also obvious when BBC World relaunched as news 24 was producing the news like they do overnight. At .25 past the presenter reminded us of the headlines and then said 'this is BBC News' paused for a few seconds while BBC World pulls out and would then introduce the weather. Hope this helps anyone who is interested.