BBC 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.
The video I’m presenting here is BBC World’s output, but from an unsual day. It had been around 6pm when power got cut off to BBC Television Centre and the area around Shepherd’s Bush where TV Centre is located.
Now, there are standby generators that are used to keep channels on air, which cut as soon as a loss of power is detected. However, the power they provide is not enough to do much more than keep the gallerys and offices running. Certainly it does not provide the power necessary for studio operations. So, BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC Television News was decamped to Westminster where the power was still flowing nicely. For about a day and a bit, a combined BBC News service went out 24/7 on both BBC News 24 and BBC World, with both BBC1 and BBC2 dipping in at certain times. In fact, I remember that instead of a political programme at Midnight on BBC2, they took a news bulletin from the combined BBC News 24/BBC World service.
Here’s the video.
You will notice that the 10 second countdown is followed by an almost 1 minute long BBC World ident, before the news programme begins. The voice on the ident is Adrian Finighan, who these days can be seen anchoring CNN bulletins.
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