Jersey.
Channel Islands News was provided by Plymouth.
Channel Islands News was provided by Plymouth.
October 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Jersey.
Channel Islands News was provided by Plymouth.
Channel Islands News was provided by Plymouth.
Best decision I ever made was getting myself a laser printer. It’s 13 years old now and still works, no silly ink requirements and the toner can be bought dirt cheap, and it has its own print server so you just do a simple CTRL+P and it works.
September 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Best decision I ever made was getting myself a laser printer. It’s 13 years old now and still works, no silly ink requirements and the toner can be bought dirt cheap, and it has its own print server so you just do a simple CTRL+P and it works.
Though I follow up with the fact that the original clock used an IPK LogoGen to overlay the BBC lozenge/region name. It may be this background came with the new logo/region name burnt onto it.
The newer, digital version, Miles used PCMCIA cards to store the background data.
The newer, digital version, Miles used PCMCIA cards to store the background data.
September 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Though I follow up with the fact that the original clock used an IPK LogoGen to overlay the BBC lozenge/region name. It may be this background came with the new logo/region name burnt onto it.
The newer, digital version, Miles used PCMCIA cards to store the background data.
The newer, digital version, Miles used PCMCIA cards to store the background data.
The easiest way would be to drop the hands/clockface cards and record the output. The image is Rec.601 and stored on an EPROM, with a separate option to take it from a slide/framestore.
September 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The easiest way would be to drop the hands/clockface cards and record the output. The image is Rec.601 and stored on an EPROM, with a separate option to take it from a slide/framestore.
It was determined by the music and not necessarily the visuals. There was a clock designed to launch alongside the idents, canned before launch - news was normally Acrobats, Tai-Chi, Capoeira and Skateboarders. There were some interesting choices in the regions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0vj...
BBC ONE Midlands - Haka Ident - April 2002
YouTube video by Daniel Mullins
www.youtube.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It was determined by the music and not necessarily the visuals. There was a clock designed to launch alongside the idents, canned before launch - news was normally Acrobats, Tai-Chi, Capoeira and Skateboarders. There were some interesting choices in the regions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0vj...
In a way it's good that it never saw the light of day, but my inner anorak loves the cut to Against the Clock midway through. Perhaps 'Surge' would've been current for the day. Missed opportunity for a CNN style doomsday video though...
March 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In a way it's good that it never saw the light of day, but my inner anorak loves the cut to Against the Clock midway through. Perhaps 'Surge' would've been current for the day. Missed opportunity for a CNN style doomsday video though...
Additionally, I decided to make a 'live' coded version of the clock recently
March 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Additionally, I decided to make a 'live' coded version of the clock recently
Consider my geeky itch scratched; incidentally here's a file from 'Miles' - assuming the source purely based on aspect ratio - in part inspiration for my profile pic!
The clocks I find very interesting at the moment!
The clocks I find very interesting at the moment!
March 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Consider my geeky itch scratched; incidentally here's a file from 'Miles' - assuming the source purely based on aspect ratio - in part inspiration for my profile pic!
The clocks I find very interesting at the moment!
The clocks I find very interesting at the moment!
Though my geekiness is intrigued to know what size the replacement device was, and exactly what hardware it was - there was something quite magical about 6U size rack mount equipment doing 'basic' tasks...
Incidentally the newer clock was sent to the regions on tape, and the logo was rather poor.
Incidentally the newer clock was sent to the regions on tape, and the logo was rather poor.
March 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Though my geekiness is intrigued to know what size the replacement device was, and exactly what hardware it was - there was something quite magical about 6U size rack mount equipment doing 'basic' tasks...
Incidentally the newer clock was sent to the regions on tape, and the logo was rather poor.
Incidentally the newer clock was sent to the regions on tape, and the logo was rather poor.
There was 2 used at one point, one for digital and the other for analogue (DTA/NTA -which used the older hw) - unsure if the nations had such a split.
The more modern clock could be identified by the thinner hands and smaller centre 'dot' feature.
tvark.org/bbc-news-at-...
tvark.org/bbc-one-cloc...
The more modern clock could be identified by the thinner hands and smaller centre 'dot' feature.
tvark.org/bbc-news-at-...
tvark.org/bbc-one-cloc...
BBC News at 10 O’Clock
Peter Sissons with the Ten O'Clock News September 11th 2001.
tvark.org
March 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There was 2 used at one point, one for digital and the other for analogue (DTA/NTA -which used the older hw) - unsure if the nations had such a split.
The more modern clock could be identified by the thinner hands and smaller centre 'dot' feature.
tvark.org/bbc-news-at-...
tvark.org/bbc-one-cloc...
The more modern clock could be identified by the thinner hands and smaller centre 'dot' feature.
tvark.org/bbc-news-at-...
tvark.org/bbc-one-cloc...
Surely the clock would have the balloon background on the background card, and a post 1991 clockface even if it was working?
February 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Surely the clock would have the balloon background on the background card, and a post 1991 clockface even if it was working?
Well certainly the last interesting sign, 1997 (as classy as the rebrand was) made the Mill just another generic BBC building, after years of having it's brand front and centre. The rules put paid to that
February 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Well certainly the last interesting sign, 1997 (as classy as the rebrand was) made the Mill just another generic BBC building, after years of having it's brand front and centre. The rules put paid to that
that reads as if somebody with an RP stereotypical announcers voice from the 1960s had dictated it. My brain read it in Patrick Allen's voice...
February 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
that reads as if somebody with an RP stereotypical announcers voice from the 1960s had dictated it. My brain read it in Patrick Allen's voice...
When I broke in to the site, there was still a sign on the then still standing security hut, unfortunately the letters had faded or been peeled off, and I had no tools but that nearly came away with me too, went back for it a year or so later and it was gone :(
February 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
When I broke in to the site, there was still a sign on the then still standing security hut, unfortunately the letters had faded or been peeled off, and I had no tools but that nearly came away with me too, went back for it a year or so later and it was gone :(
I was never staff, I acquired this at some point in 2010 as an urbex-er who went over a fence of a rather empty site, in the hopes of finding something left behind. I walked away with that, and a couple of loose mosaic tiles, my plan was to chip the tiles off (they just snap sadly).
February 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I was never staff, I acquired this at some point in 2010 as an urbex-er who went over a fence of a rather empty site, in the hopes of finding something left behind. I walked away with that, and a couple of loose mosaic tiles, my plan was to chip the tiles off (they just snap sadly).
I'll see your signs and raise you a lump of (probably asbestos ridden) mosaic and concrete:
February 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I'll see your signs and raise you a lump of (probably asbestos ridden) mosaic and concrete:
I can see why NI Schools programmes stopped using that code... bet naughty VT bods were taking the PIS.
February 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I can see why NI Schools programmes stopped using that code... bet naughty VT bods were taking the PIS.
No problem, though that document is a little out of date. I think NMR and NMB ended up with additional 3 letter codes depending on type of production (NMY and NBY?) - and LEG was the London Entertainment Group who too used the NPC facilities up and down the land.
February 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
No problem, though that document is a little out of date. I think NMR and NMB ended up with additional 3 letter codes depending on type of production (NMY and NBY?) - and LEG was the London Entertainment Group who too used the NPC facilities up and down the land.
www.vtoldboys.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Makes me intrigued as to how BBC 1 East Midlands had theirs done, I don't doubt it was generated live - was a separate crate installed at Pebble Mill, or a case of keying out the Midlands legend and overlaying East Midlands?
February 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Makes me intrigued as to how BBC 1 East Midlands had theirs done, I don't doubt it was generated live - was a separate crate installed at Pebble Mill, or a case of keying out the Midlands legend and overlaying East Midlands?
Yes you are correct, I expect the nations had Ceefax legend as a slide or aston ready to cue with the COW then?
It's quite funny given only 1 of these would actually have had Ceefax 888 as an option to be displayed, the remaining 11(12?) would have displayed a N/R that the switch is labeled ceefax
It's quite funny given only 1 of these would actually have had Ceefax 888 as an option to be displayed, the remaining 11(12?) would have displayed a N/R that the switch is labeled ceefax
February 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Yes you are correct, I expect the nations had Ceefax legend as a slide or aston ready to cue with the COW then?
It's quite funny given only 1 of these would actually have had Ceefax 888 as an option to be displayed, the remaining 11(12?) would have displayed a N/R that the switch is labeled ceefax
It's quite funny given only 1 of these would actually have had Ceefax 888 as an option to be displayed, the remaining 11(12?) would have displayed a N/R that the switch is labeled ceefax
Someone who owns one of these machines says that it toggles between 'Ceefax 888' or a regional/national identifier below the BBC 1 logo:
www.radios-tv.co.uk/community/bl...
So effectively the ROMs which would read 'Ceefax 888' on the network hardware showed the nation instead.
www.radios-tv.co.uk/community/bl...
So effectively the ROMs which would read 'Ceefax 888' on the network hardware showed the nation instead.
BBC1 "World" generator aka C.O.W
When I was in the beeb it was a clear ball with sea painted black* and a bulb inside. A bent mirror behind it and a small strip lamp behind the BBC NI...
www.radios-tv.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Someone who owns one of these machines says that it toggles between 'Ceefax 888' or a regional/national identifier below the BBC 1 logo:
www.radios-tv.co.uk/community/bl...
So effectively the ROMs which would read 'Ceefax 888' on the network hardware showed the nation instead.
www.radios-tv.co.uk/community/bl...
So effectively the ROMs which would read 'Ceefax 888' on the network hardware showed the nation instead.
Well looking at contemporary recordings, it inserted a 'Ceefax 888' legend to the right of the channel name and nation subheading, so I would imagine it does that if selected now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kY3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kY3...
BBC1 (Wales) | continuity | 1st May 1989
YouTube video by Sticky tape 'n' rust
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Well looking at contemporary recordings, it inserted a 'Ceefax 888' legend to the right of the channel name and nation subheading, so I would imagine it does that if selected now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kY3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kY3...