BBC News 24, or the BBC News Channel as it is now known, launched on Sunday 9th November 1997 at 5.30pm in the afternoon. There was a half hour ‘preface’ before the first bulletin, and before the preface, the very first BBC News 24 countdown…
Stay tuned for more from BBC News 24/BBC News Channel shortly here on Ident City.
With the new look to BBC News 24 just a couple of days away, including a rebrand to BBC News Channel, I thought it would be a good idea to fill out our BBC News 24 section a bit, so you can see how the channel has changed over the years. Recently, I posted the whole 90 second countdown from the 1999-2003 era of News 24. Now, I post an entire TOTH from recent times. This one was a bit different from normal in the sense that we got the spinning background for a moment before the countdown to the TOTH began. Your anchors for this hour are Louise Minchin and Tim Willcox.
More to come on the history of BBC News 24 shortly, and I hope to have some video from the new look added soon too. Stay tuned.
This has gotta be one of my all-time favourite pieces of presentation. The classic BBC News 24 90 second countdown to the top of the hour, from 1999. It managed to air in its entirity just once, on BBC1 just before they joined BBC News 24 to fill in the overnight hours. On that occasion, they managed to plan it so that they joined the channel at the top of the hour, hence the use of the full countdown.
One of the all time greats, and I’m so glad I’m able to present it here.
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