The only factoid I know, which might be widely known here but I can't be bothered to check, is that the real reason Simon McCoy had the A4 paper pad in his hand that time is because he used to cover up the autocue so Carrie couldn't see it. The floor manager passed it to him in place of usual paper notes not aware that he was the one due to start after the titles.
You can hear the full story somewhere probably, Radio 1 lolathon I think it was.
I recall this modified backdrop being introduced in 1980 to “jazz-up” the rather austere BBC News backdrop. And, at the end of the news in this short clip, an example of combined BBC1/BBC2 “coming up” slide. I’d forgotten all about those slides.
Richard Whitmore was a fairly good news presenter, I’d say.
This is an excellent TV Forum factoid that I never knew before
I'm almost certain I would have read it on here in the first place, but searching for 'Waterside' (the name of the building complex) doesn't bring up any relevant results.
Slides promoting what was on the other BBC Channel were still known as AVs (Alternative Viewing) when I started in pres in the late 90s. Took me ages to find that out.
Here is the ‘Nine O’Clock News and Election’87’. Similar idea, with a bespoke set as well. The news theme doesn’t work quite so well with the election intro.
Do we know the reason for the different endboard to usual here. Granted it was the final week of the Virtual look, had this been changed before hand or was it an error? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEVdaIfKS1U&t=281s
Did they really switch to N6 in 1998? Just i find it difficult to believe the bulletins came from there on the last day of the virtual look on Sunday 9th May 1999 right up to 10pm, then the new look was transformed literally overnight to be unveiled at 11am the following morning!
