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MB
Media Boy
JamesLaverty1925 posted:
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


Oh god - someone in NC1 was having a nightmare - I used to hate (secretly love) that 11am junction - live off the Vanessa show - - live city hospital trail - into live news (never allowed to be early) - opt - weather - into live City Hospital - so stressful - that City Hospital music just took me straight back to 1999 - and the lovely Hannah Scott Joynt in the con booth!
Halcyon days and the BEST fun
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Rolling News posted:
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!

Yes, see this thread from noggin’s post onwards: https://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post1186473#post-1186473
GE
thegeek Founding member
JamesLaverty1925 posted:
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

Perhaps a deliberate way to avoid any wide shots - for all we know Jennie Bond was sitting at the new desk with a temporary green screen rigged behind her.
DF
DrewF
The One O'Clock News from the same day looked totally normal:



These clips are probably Jennie Bond and Edward Stourton's last ever appearances as BBC TV newsreaders. It's the last weekday of the virtual era.

It's great to have these clips so close to the end of the virtual era, it's only a shame there aren't any from the very last day on 9th May (to my knowledge)
NG
noggin Founding member
The temporary blue set in N6 had a smaller desk than that used in N2 ISTR, but this wasn't that obvious once the live shot was stitched into the CGI rendered space.

I'm trying to remember if they managed to squeeze both sets into the studio at the same time to allow for piloting. (When N6 was up-and-running with the Lambie Nairn look there was also a separate green-screen area in N6 used for pre-records - which may have given them just enough space if the blue set was rigged in that space, before the chroma key area was built)
JW
JamesWorldNews
That sign-off from Edward Stourton was rather brusque and he actually looked quite angry somehow.
GH
Ghost
DrewF posted:
The One O'Clock News from the same day looked totally normal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwjcVUhyNDg

These clips are probably Jennie Bond and Edward Stourton's last ever appearances as BBC TV newsreaders. It's the last weekday of the virtual era.

It's great to have these clips so close to the end of the virtual era, it's only a shame there aren't any from the very last day on 9th May (to my knowledge)

There’s a clip of the final news bulletin from the virtual era here:
https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/562/archives/bbc-news-virtual-era-ends/
VM
VMPhil
JamesWorldNews posted:
That sign-off from Edward Stourton was rather brusque and he actually looked quite angry somehow.

He doesn't look angry to me, but focus groups did find him ‘too sombre’.
RN
Rolling News
VMPhil posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
That sign-off from Edward Stourton was rather brusque and he actually looked quite angry somehow.

He doesn't look angry to me, but focus groups did find him ‘too sombre’.

Did focus groups find other newsreaders 'too sombre' as well, which is why most of them were moved on to 'other things in the BBC'?
VM
VMPhil
Rolling News posted:
VMPhil posted:
JamesWorldNews posted:
That sign-off from Edward Stourton was rather brusque and he actually looked quite angry somehow.

He doesn't look angry to me, but focus groups did find him ‘too sombre’.

Did focus groups find other newsreaders 'too sombre' as well, which is why most of them were moved on to 'other things in the BBC'?

Ed Stourton - ‘too sombre’
Anna Ford - ‘too snooty’
Peter Sissons - ‘too old-fashioned’

From this HIGNFY clip.
CM
cmthwtv
VMPhil posted:
Rolling News posted:
VMPhil posted:
He doesn't look angry to me, but focus groups did find him ‘too sombre’.

Did focus groups find other newsreaders 'too sombre' as well, which is why most of them were moved on to 'other things in the BBC'?

Ed Stourton - ‘too sombre’
Anna Ford - ‘too snooty’
Peter Sissons - ‘too old-fashioned’

From this HIGNFY clip.


"Huw the little welsh man"

Didn't I read somewhere that they gave him a spruce up before he started the Six?
RN
Rolling News
cmthwtv posted:
VMPhil posted:
Rolling News posted:
Did focus groups find other newsreaders 'too sombre' as well, which is why most of them were moved on to 'other things in the BBC'?

Ed Stourton - ‘too sombre’
Anna Ford - ‘too snooty’
Peter Sissons - ‘too old-fashioned’

From this HIGNFY clip.


"Huw the little welsh man"

Didn't I read somewhere that they gave him a spruce up before he started the Six?

They must have. He looked younger and dapper in 1999 than he did in 1994. And even more so in 2020.

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