BBC Two Rebrand and Onwards

BBC Two have changed the font of the `Channel of the Year` in the COTY Seascape ident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_miNcwoOcNg

I think the other COTY idents used that font to begin with.

Top tracking.

Presumably the COTY text isn't meant to wobble like that? Hmm.

looks like a rush job in after effects with the motion tracking function. it wobbles like that if you don't track enough points in the footage. shame, because it would probably only have taken a couple of hours more to do it properly.

BBC TWO has scooped the Broadcast Awards 2013 'Channel of the Year' this evening.

Really?! Good lord.

I think BBC1 deserved it for 2012.

Anyone seen these clips of some of the original 1991 idents that have been put up on youtube in the last two weeks or so by user TV2Record1? They're poor quality but are clean, full length (apart from Water Reflection) and are logoless. The uploader doesn't appear sure but seems to believe they were broadcast overnight as a test. What would this test be for? Anyone aware to this practice of playing out clean and logoless BBC Two idents in the middle of the night?

Also, a couple of them have VT clocks (Paper Cut Out and B/W Copper Cut Out). They're both dated 16/11/90 and are numbered. Paper Cut Out is Number 9 and B/W Copper Cut Out is Number 10.

I've never heard the full version of the music to most of these before so it was nice to hear how they ended. I've added a couple of examples below...





There are others here...

http://www.youtube.com/user/TV2Record1?feature=watch

Ah yes, TV2Record1, previously cjb545. If I recall correctly these videos were mentioned in 2007 on this very thread under his old channel. It still baffles me how he was able to obtain certain clips like his collection of HQ, clean Red Dwarf idents but who knows, he's still a good source.

EDIT: Come to think about it, the aspect ratio and the black/grey bars appear and disappear in certain videos.

The BBC logo was generated live over each of the idents, I don't think they were 'burned in' until the 1997 scheme came in. Until then, there were occasions when the slanted BBC logo didn't appear, notably the ident's first TX in 1991. Also, you can see in the videos which Lambie-Nairn have put up (example) the BBC logo isn't authentic.

That doesn't explain why the captures appear in their full length, but it does explain why such copies were readily available. I guess it's within the realms of possibility that they were scheduled and played out as part of an engineering test on account of being readily available - possibly around the time BBC Select encryption was tested?

I'm sure someone's said on here before that they were played out clean and in full overnight at one point to allow the regions to record them and customise their own versions, and to give them a bigger selection than was initially provided. I guess it was easier than sending lots of tapes out.