yeah it has that 00's cheese, on the other hand I dont see them going after aesthetic trends like back in the day. I dont see how they could pull off a minimalist intro, with pastel colors
There's no point comparing them, it's all the same tune. It was composed in 1999 by David Lowe. There have been MANY variations of it, shown in various time slots and networks, but it's all basically the same tune. It was overhauled a little in the mid 2000s, but since then it hasn't changed much, and there are still MANY variations, so comparing the ones in this video is pointless.
BBC had the beeping sound long before 1999 at least for radio. But it didn't have all the extra music and drums. I remember growing up in Jamaica and hearing bip bip bip beeeeep right before the 8AM BBC news on the radio. Even as a child I thought it was cool.
+jamviator That is because radio uses that to let people know it was the news. and the bbc realised that people watch tv more than listen to radio, so they started using it on tv
Interesting how BBC not only did set a standard for TV news broadcasting but also radio. The Greenwich time signal is being used by a lot of stations in their news tune packages. For example NOS op 3 (Netherlands, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C_eCRBDdQpA.html) ^BB
i know this is a joke but in other countries they have music, while in my home country malaysia we have IJAIPOGJADIOGFAJDGIOAFJAFGDIOPADGFJAGFDAGFDFGDGFDAFGAF
The 1964-1981 intro is my favourite. As a little kid in the 70's I used to look forward to the news because I found that theme so exciting. It set the tone for my perception of the news.
One highly evocative of the olden days and one familiar nostalgic one before the chop and change of the identity crisis years of the 80s,and to some extent the 90s,in the face of ITV's classic old version of News at Ten with all its gravitas. Finally evolving into the theme we're so familiar with today,using the theme already on News 24 built around the "pips" from BBC radio.
88-93, I was just old enough to be allowed to stay up and watch the news after the watershed. This theme was then the most dramatic, the most scary, the most grown-up sound I remember. Serious things were about to be spoken about!
I would have been much older than you, as I was an adult then and between the ages of eighteen and twenty three. I remember the intros before 1981 in my formative years!
I never even noticed the change from the 2008 - 2013 to the 2013 - one because I just thought they did that on special occasions but now they use it for every report lol. You can also see in one before the 2000's to the one present to this very day how technology developed and made a huge impact in our lives today.
The 1993-1999 theme you have here was from the lunchtime and weekend afternoon bulletins. The main 9 o'clock news intro was a lot more grand and majestic with better music and darker lighting.
I've never been one for actually watching the news, I usually just read up on it. But since the pandemic the pure anxiety those beeps put in me from when I'd tune in to watch announcements I think will always be there.
For me, 1984-85 is the most dramatic and impactful, with great rhythm which matches the visuals. 1986-88 is my close second favourite with its crisp clear trumpet sounds and complex yet coherent textures. 1985-86 is quite futuristic with a hint of Star Wars, broadcasting the news from the commanding planet to a galaxy of inhabited satellite planets.
The first one sounds like The Archers. My first memory was the 1999 revamp, my favourite of the modern ones is probably the 2004 one. But if I had to choose one to represent the news the best it's the 1988-1993 one I think.
88-93 is my fave and always will be. It was like a punch in the face when it launched and nobody liked it. I love it for the bombastic discordant opening and the triumphant final chord. And it's short. Graphics were quaintly retro even at the time. The 1999+ has weathered better than I thought at the time, when it seemed funky but very lightweight with no gravitas. It's mellowed well, and of course has to promote a global brand like its predecessors didn't. The sweep to the newsroom is a bit hackneyed, but as the Beeb has the second largest news gathering studios in the world, it's obvious they'll show it off. It is time now for a change, but it will be a hard act to follow.
This is a very interesting video in terms of the music they used as intro. By the early 1980s they had moved away from including classical instruments then they go back to them again by the end of 1980s right up to the beginning of the 2000s when they go retro digital, using the radio pips sequence we all know (and occasionally laugh at thanks to Bill Bailey). Thanks for posting it.
The 1993 set was always my favourite. Some slight inaccuracies on the dates though; the 1986 One O'Clock presentation continued right up until 1993. There's some clips going around of this design with a 1992 copyright date.
I was expecting the BBC to be more "traditionalist" and keeping the same tune throughout the years. The intro of the first channel of the Italian state television for example has been the same since '54, aside from the updates in instrumentations. The current one is awesome btw
their is so many you have missed including the countdowns from like 2006, the old news 24 flags ident also the 2004-2007 one is some report on bbc world news! not a bbc news intro
1981 is most evocative for me. Only there for three years, but that seems like an age when you're a kid. You can sort of feel the mood of the nation/era at the time as well. 1954, echoes of Empire, with pomp and optimism. 1964-1981, Cold War, danger, military telex arriving, stay alert. 1981-1984, a world in change and on the edge of crisis, but not as threatened as in the 60s and 70s. 1985 starting to feel a little more optimistic, 1986 definitely a feeling of optimism (slightly reminiscent of John Williams' "Superman" score). By 1993, fairly self-confident, by 1999 relaxed if still on guard. If the 80s has the most chopping and changing, it's because it's the most dramatic decade in terms of switching from a war footing to a peacetime footing (even if the "war" was cold).
Your dates on the mid-1980s ones are wrong. The "Six o'Clock News" one wasn't replaced after a year, it ran well into the 90s *alongside* the "Nine o'Clock News" one and the "One o'Clock News". They didn't have a unified presentational style for the different shows at that time. Did you just assume that this was the case?
At least after 1999 they got some kind of brand consistency. Although for me those BBC World News idents are more iconic, it’s interesting that they don’t use those on domestic TV. Makes it see how big of news organisation BBC actually is
This is great, but the dates are all wrong I'm afraid. The 1, 6 and 9 all overlapped for several years and didn't follow on from each other. Each bulletin had a totally different into.
