I recall reading a report on the digital switchover trials in parts of Wales, one of the biggest complaints was the loss of BBC Two for BBC 2W which only showed local programming, and that a solution would have to be made before switchover was fully implemented. Evidently they just decided to shut it down.
The 1977 Southern Television broadcast interruption : Throughout the United Kingdom, as a broadcast interruption brought forth a message accompanied with a pulsating humming sound. The speaker claimed to be of another galaxy. The broadcast message is generally considered to be a hoax, but the identity of the hijacker is unknown. A warning to all Earth people.
This text was from the You Tube page. One clue is the "throughout the United Kingdom"... Day By Day was just broadcast to the Southern Television region and not the whole of the UK... It's a hoax I think.
In hindsight you do wonder what they were thinking of with 2W, it wasn't going to be sustainable after DSO
Wasn't 2W a kind of successor to BBC Choice Wales and some of the stuff transferred over when the national opts on Choice ended?
RS
Rob_Schneider
Should add that yes, it is still piss easy to hijack FM radio, especially a TX fed from off-air. Any decent car FM transmitter could, in theory, do it.
MA
Maaixuew
The BBC Two clock was rarely shown during this period. It had been used before the news bulletin on Saturday evenings and at closedown on Friday and Saturday nights. During 1998, the clock had largely been phased out. However, it did put in the odd appearance later on, such as July 2000 and 2001 when the 'One O'Clock News' moved to BBC Two to make way for extended Wimbledon coverage on BBC One.
With the introduction of digital services in 1998, a new digital presentation suite was brought into service. The hardware used to generate the clock from the digital BBC Two control area differed from that used in the analogue suite. The more obvious differences were the length of the hands and the fact that the minute hand moved only once every minute on the clock in the digital presentation area, as opposed to the constant movement on the analogue version.