S4/C closed their analogue transmissions at around the same time as everyone else in Wales. S4/C decided to mark the occasion with a special video.
So, it’s goodbye to analogue TV in Wales.
S4/C final analogue closedown 2010
March 31, 2010BBC1 Wales analogue switch-off 2010
March 31, 2010Wales has become the first nation in the UK to have entirely switched off analogue TV.
BBC1 Wales and S4/C both marked the occasion, S4/C will be posted later. But here’s how BBC1 Wales closed on analogue for the very last time.
I expect to see other similar closedowns in the future. Where I am, we have already gone all digital and there was nothing special when it happened, so it’s nice to see this happening as part of television history.
New CNBC Europe graphics
March 1, 2010This morning I woke up to new graphics and a new ident for CNBC Europe. I first noticed the new look on Squawk Box Europe this morning. They are using a new (to me) font, which may have been specially done for them. Italicised, it closely resembles Crillee, which was used for credits and titles in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The new graphics are airing on Worldwide Exchange, so perhaps US viewers can now see them. The new font is being used on the ticker, lower thirds, and full screens. The hotboards have also been redesigned. Everything looks far simpler, and less extravagant.
I hope to have some caps up shortly.
RTE2 Closedown 1985
February 16, 2010It’s been a while since I’ve been here in Ident City. Personal situations have not been favourable and it takes a long time to recover from personal tragedy. But things are slowly coming together, and I actually feel like returning to a few old haunts. And I have a nice long video for my first return to Ident City.
This is a closedown from RTE2, as it was known back then, in 1985. Later in the 80s it became Network 2, then N2, before returning to RTE TWO.
In this video, you’ll see an old RTE News Headlines update from Don Cockburn, Night Light, a religious reflection commentary, and a look ahead to the following days programming. This particular style seemed to be oft copied around the world.
Despite the long period of silence, we’re not closing down here at Ident City.
BBC Select – Full theme
May 22, 2009For those who have never heard of BBC Select, let me briefly introduce you to the service, as it was.
BBC Select was a service that broadcast on the downtime of BBC1 and BBC2, usually between about 2am and 6am. Programmes were very specialist and usually only available by subscribing to them. An occasional free to air programme did occur, mainly towards the end of the service.
BBC Select began in January 1992. The programmes may have been scrambled but the bits between them certainly were not. You’d have this rolling identity with the station theme that carried on for about 6 minutes a time, then just before the programme began, you’d go to the ident, which faded out, and then the scrambling began, and the programme started.
The service ended in 1994 through lack of use. This all happened prior to the launch of BBC News 24, which didn’t happen until 1997. After BBC Select finished, BBC came up with the BBC Learning Zone for overnights on BBC2.
It has to be said that the logo is very simple, just a gold ring. It actually comes from the gold ring of communication that circles the globe on the BBC’s crest of arms.
Here’s the video of the signature theme to BBC Select, the one that aired repeatedly in a 6 minute loop.
I used to love that music. Sounded almost like a very extended fanfare. Reminiscent as well of the startups of old that used to occur on both BBC1 and ITV.
More later here on Ident City. Stay tuned!
BBC Parliament – New Look 2009
April 21, 2009BBC Parliament, the BBC’s channel for continuing coverage of parliament and the various assemblies across the country, got a new look at 2.30pm on Monday 20th April 2009. Two videos to bring you, one showing the end of the old look and the first highlights of the new look, and the second shows the first five minutes or so of the new look unedited.
There’s more to come here on Ident City, so stay tuned.
BBC News Channel 2008 countdown, 90 second version, plus hold
November 15, 2008This happened live on air, on the BBC News Channel, leading up to the simulcast BBC News at Ten. Because Children In Need on BBC1 was overrunning, the whole countdown was played, even the whole 30 seconds of hold at the end of the countdown, which is not usually seen at all.
Stay tuned. More to come from Ident City
TVNZ One News openers through the day
November 10, 2008A little journey through the day on TVNZ’s TV One. First off, Breakfast.
Breakfast runs from 6.30am to 9am. Next, One News at Midday, and from here on in, all the opens will look very similar.
Next, One News First at 4:30. 4:30pm seems to be quite a popular time for a bulletin in Australia and New Zealand, but less so in the US, Canada and Europe.
Just an hour after that bulletin finishes, the main evening news programme airs. One News at 6.
At about 8.30pm there is a quick One News Update, and this is what it looks like.
Finally, at some time around 11pm, though this varies, here’s One News Tonight.
The One News bulletins at 12pm, 4.30pm and 6pm, plus the TVNZ 7 News at 8pm are streamed live online at http://www.onenews.co.nz.
TVNZ 7 News at 8pm
November 10, 2008TVNZ 7 has a special hour long 8pm news programme. It’s bascially an updated version of TVNZ’s One News at 6pm. I’ll dig out the current One News open, for my next post so you can see how similar they are. But here’s TVNZ News at 8pm.
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