Mike

Jersey.

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.

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 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.

YouTube video by Daniel Mullins BBC ONE Midlands - Haka Ident - April 2002

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...

So out of boredom I did a thing, I've always been fond of the original BBC News rebrand in 1999. Some of the concepts I wasn't that keen on (including this) but I loved the colours, so I recreated the regional news titles in HD (as best I could in a few spare hours).

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!

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.

BBC News at 10 O’Clock Peter Sissons with the Ten O'Clock News September 11th 2001.

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...

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

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 :(

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:

I can see why NI Schools programmes stopped using that code... bet naughty VT bods were taking the PIS.

NBM*

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/pdf/Prognumb...

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

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.

YouTube video by Sticky tape 'n' rust BBC1 (Wales) | continuity | 1st May 1989

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...

2/2 - so even if they did try something outside of the existing setup, they'd have to come up with a way that didn't mean thousands of potential private prosecutions for their byelaw offence. An easier solution may be resident parking permits limited to a set number per household.

1/2 - Even within existing legislative frameworks a local authority *could* create a byelaw under section 235 of the LGA to cover this type of offence - I think the issue is then enforcement, it would have to effectively mirror the RTRA in terms of mode of disposal

The worst thing about this is the leisure centre there is a BCC owned building, with a car park. A very cheap and easy solution would be HVM barriers along the edge, then again it would probably 'make' those people just park on the verge or pavement. Here in London, this doesn't tend to happen.

Today's judgement reenforces that a process must be followed, and fairly, and also suggests that legislating vetting failures into the current regulations should happen, and vetting decisions should be allowed to be examined by an independent party rather than the employer

failing vetting was said to be grossly incompetent, so therefore dismissal was an instant thing as the hearing for that could not examine or overturn a vetting decision, it dealt only with the fact they had failed vetting while serving. This breached art 6.