The late great Peter Sissons

@@jacksugden8190 i always remember Peter Sissons or Michael Burke on the 9pm bulletin

Feels like a simpler time.

I agree, but the news keeps on changing, these days they have rubbish tv studios with too much clutter.

Pre 1999 with the switchover to the News Centre and David Lowe’s first scores for National News and News 24 along with Breakfast from 2000, George Fenton’s final Breakfast score was before this in 1997.

@@vhs_videohomesystem As compared to now, things were still pretty at the time thou.

​@@vhs_videohomesystem by chance do you have the tapes when princess diana died? that would be cool to see

I think it could be used nowadays too

I hope you’ve been whistling the theme tune?

@@vhs_videohomesystem It's not only me who love that theme tune but so do all my friends as well

@@vhs_videohomesystem i remember this look fir bbc news from 93 to 99 for the 1pm 6pm and 9pm news and 93 to 97 for Breakfast news (at the time)

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq George Fenton did all the scores with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in 1993, these were only a snapshot of the original session masters.

Very first virtual 6 bulletin was in 93

@@jacksugden8190 i remember the virtual look for bbc news from 1993 to 1999 for the 1oclock 6oclock and 9oclock bulletins and 1993 to 1997 for Breakfast news

@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Long memories like me, a dam sight better presentation then than now, that’s for sure.

@@jacksugden8190 i was born in 1991 but i do have a good memory (i don't remember everything and some bits i don't want to remember)

@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 35 year gap between the two of us, me being born in 1956, now retired and in a state pension.

Curious. Unless I got the date wrong? I researched a couple of the stories to find the date. Or Radio Times got it wrong!?

@@vhs_videohomesystem Either both of those 2 were sick or on holiday and were called as last notice.

Moral Maze on Radio 4

Yes that footage from Christie’s New York is very ropey! From my 90s newsroom experience it was probably fed overnight on an analogue satellite, and converted from NTSC to PAL. Very punishing on picture quality. America always looked blurry to UK viewers 😊 When I worked in that area I was asked to run off a sequence of the titles for a friend’s friend who was an enthusiast. I kept that broadcast quality analogue tape for years, then transferred it to a digital tape just before the analogue work machines were ripped out in the 2000s.

@@vhs_videohomesystem oh wow no wonder the quality is so high, do you have any other bits and bobs from the BBC of high quality?

@@KeiranCounsellKC1994 I’ve uploaded some stuff I found already, of varying picture quality. I’ve tried to look through the mountain of home tapes I have, but a lack of time prevents me from getting very far. “Watch this space”, as they say.

In the analogue days, no one would have ever noticed the quality change too much. Back in the analogue days, even those who lived close to a transmitter and had great reception still has the odd bit of fuzziness.

@@johnking5174 yeah, I remember the analogue era xD was very interesting, some channels were clear (on a clear day) others were barely watchable (on a clear day) xD as soon as everyone switched to the flat screens aswell all the unfortunate analogue stuff was fully visible, especially of stuff made before the digibeta era round the later half of the 90s. Ontop of that you had the other unfortunate side effect of analogue with the recordings, could have a clear as day tv signal but as soon as it went onto a home vhs it was like a stormy day picture

Sadly that’s all I have.

This "studio" is entirely CGI. You can't see the real lighting.

@@deathbyteacup Eh not exactly - Studio N2 had the curved desk and a curved blue backdrop. The panels behind the newsreader were replaced during the day - warm pink/blue panels for Breakfast News. Crisp blue for the 1pm and 6pm News. And very dark panels for the 9pm News. So not 100% CGI. They created a CGI studio for the opening titles of each bulletin, and then placed in part of the real set into the CGI world.

I agree

+Jack Sugden i tried a Big Mac once it was nice but don't like mayonnaise. This is the look i remember for bbc news when i was little

@@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 Think it was a normal burger, not a Big Mac, today’s BM is the size of a burger, and bad value for money, if I want a burger, it’s off to my local cafe, as offended by fast food joints like McDonald’s.

Yes I think you’re correct. There is a version of the glass coat of arms with the white blocks BBC logo that ran until 1999.

@@vhs_videohomesystem Yep, they introduced the "BBC" Gill Sans corporate logo in October 1997.

@@vhs_videohomesystem Hadn’t seen the white blocks one. Have you an upload please?.

@@Tbose54 It’s pretty bland now in 2022

@@jacksugden8190 I’m sure I’ve got the white BBC blocks one somewhere in my stash, but it might be VHS quality. I’ll try and find it and upload it in the near future.

If I do they will have originally been recording on VHS. I’m still searching my old tapes.

@@vhs_videohomesystem I love BBC News from this era it is miles better than the rubbish beeps so the current theme tune.

I think the BBC changed it because research told them the public found it too austere and serious.

@@vhs_videohomesystem Right but this theme tune will always be the best

They never had such, we just are in the know more today with the internet to see what they are neglecting to tell us.

There's the Daily Fail, NewsCorpse and GB Fake News for the likes of you.