They still do.

@@graemestarkey7524 What the Professor means is that all TV presenters should speak like they have plums in their mouths.

I vividly remember it too, I was only four myself, I was in a childrens hospital at the time and I had a bed next to the window, it was scary stuff, all the best

U was 1 i remember the news b4 it happened

I went near the local golf course in a high top van - that was nerve racking

The first clip is from 2pm the day before when Fish was showing the expected rain. At the end of the recording during the 9pm News is the famous off the cuff remark he made. It’s odd that 30 minutes AFTER he made the hurricane crack, he didn’t repeat it at 2pm.

@@bdavebaldwin Yes. He always said afterwards though that his remark referred to a report on the One O'clock News about a hurricane in Florida. I wanted to see if that was true or he was just 'covering his back' as he claimed tapes of it no longer existed.

@@jameswindle7065 looking around I don’t t think anyone has recorded that bulletin (I haven’t a clue why I recorded the 2pm but no American storm featured). Floyd in the USA had dissipated the day before so I doubt it would have been mentioned. Fish had variously altered his story about the phone call that wasn’t, then attributing it to a friend of a colleague. Truth is probably he made a smart remark that normally would have been brushed aside.

@James Mitchell James Windle was asking if I had the full news bulletin - one of the reasons Fish gave for his comment was a reference in the bulletin that no longer apparently exists.

@@bdavebaldwin Fish's off the cuff comment was indeed after the One O Clock News on the 15th October. Bill Giles repeated the forecast of winds but not storm force after the Nine O Clock news on the Thursday evening.

Just about right. No need to go over the top but……

I get real "The Day Today" vibes from that bit haha

You can just see the shadow of Kettley as he has to shuffle his chair into vision

In the east of England we have a town called Market Weighton (weeeton). BBC1 Leeds for ages used to say it wrongly

Everyone not from Cheshire seems to get Sandbach wrong. That morning I was going to school in Congleton which is not far the other side of Sandbach, and my memory is while it was a bit blowy it wasn't anything very unusual. Yes, Witchell is in the broom cupboard - as they say Lime Grove (where Breakfast Time was based) had a power cut.

I was 20 back then in 1987 and this was my first challenging driving experience in this storm after working nights. I remember it well..

@@darrenenever4662 I was driving a high top van and for only a few seconds I was running on the drivers side wheels. Talk about life wizz before your eyes.

Remember the broom cupboard on cbbc1 presentation…. That’s it without all the kids drawings on the wall.

@@bdavebaldwin Interesting! I always thought it was a regional news studio outside London

@@tomgreen663 No, the regional news for London on the BBC back then was based at Lime Grove studios which were blacked out, BBC Breakfast Time based there had to decamp to BBC Television Centre, which had back up generators.

Even radio newsreaders no longer deliver the script in a flat tone. Now raising and lowering their voices to imply which side of the story we should have sympathy with. During the Polish miners strike years ago someone pointed out to the BBC that anywhere else in the world what the miners were doing would be classed as terrorism not freedom fighting

@@bdavebaldwin Hi David, it is interesting watching this, as the main TV transmitters in the badly affected areas were all off air. Crystal Palace in London, Rowridge in the south of England, and more were off air, as power cuts forced them off air. BBC and the IBA had to ensure the rest of the country could receive television from London, so the links from BBC Television Centre in London to all BBC regions were via cable, as too were the links for the ITV network output from Thames to all other regions, otherwise there would have been no BBC One or ITV on air from London at all. Thanks to the coxial cable links.

@@johnking5174 i don’t know whether the air-force background of many BBC senior staff in the 1970s had anything to do with it but, for the 1972 Olympic Games the BBC had its own private circuit installed for its coverage. Thus when the plug was pulled on international coverage of the terror attack the BBC could continue broadcasting.

@@bdavebaldwin The whole of the country was linked together by the Post Office through coxial cable. This helped expand television across the country, feeding transmitters. Some relays relied on microwave links, but the cable link was always the backbone of the system.