Its what they do, or are trained to do as the BBC often insisted that all news casters attend 'Fake typing' courses. It makes the news caster look cool. Just when they use to do 'pointlessly' shuffle of their papers at the end of the broadcast. If they were co presenting they would turn to their colleague when the lights dimmed and pretend to start talking about something or or put their pen in the breast pocket of their suit jacket and look at the computer desk monitor and do 'fake typing'
@@sanchoodell6789 Can you actually prove this? Was this a thing that someone would be told "oh, before you go on air, you need to attend this course?" Who told you about this? Or is this just a thing you think happened?
ME TOO!! By one o'clock, the thrill of having a whole day off school was starting to wear off, and I would've been getting ready to feign sickness again in case my mum came home for lunch. I was fascinated by these graphics and the music, but I always felt that the bright jauntiness was telling me "naughty boy, there's nothing wrong with you, you should be at school"
This video was uploaded 12 years ago but is still pretty much up-to-date. The current opening graphics are only slightly varied from how they were in 2008.
I love how in the 80's there were three different sets and idents for the different times of day. 1 o'clock news, I associate with having my marmite on toast lunch. 6 o'clock my dad would watch when he got in from work. 9 o'clock I'd sometimes hear from bed if I wasn't asleep yet.
1:16 The 1985 one is without a doubt the best. A quiet start then space age 'Ulysses 31' style synths at the start. The build up of drama by way of trumpets and that crescendo of heavy punchy conclusive 3D drumming at the climax. Can't beat it.
I actually really liked the 2007 titles and accompanying graphics package. Why was is so short lived and then replace it with the blandest of graphics that we have today.
I remember loving the opening to the Six o'clock News. I also remember in 1993 being so disappointed that they changed it. I was not impressed with what replaced it.
@2:15 remember this so clearly - about the first "late" news I was able to stay up and watch (on the weekends) and the theme always sent shivers down the spine.
The BBC abandoned the Nine O Clock News in 2001 so they could compete more effectively with ITV, and also as News At Ten was being moved around the schedule. I think the eighties news opening titles are the best.
+Glenn Cumbria The mid 1980s openings all had a different brand, look and feel for the three main bulletins at 1pm, 6pm and 9pm. Later they brought it together with a single look with the blue backdrop and the CGI studio with the transparent BBC logo. I remember there being a bit of controversy about them bringing a unified brand together after having spent so much money producing separate brands. I even remember the reporters signing off at the end of their reports saying "This is John Simpson, reporting for the 6 O'Clock news, Washington." If you watched the later bulletin he'd say "This is John Simpson, reporting for the 9 O'Clock news, Washington." You could always spot the edit where they had to fix the audio for the 3 different takes.
I don't know. Being a German, I wonder why other countries don't seem to have that sense of tradition when it comes to themes. Our flagship news programme, ARD's "Tagesschau," has kept its theme for ages now, introducing only modest modifications with each re-design. So it's nice to see that BBC News has found its very own theme to stick to. After all, it still is unique, one-of-a-kind, and very BBC-like, despite all the copycats (e.g. Denmark).
The Greek public broadcaster has kept the same news theme since 1984-1986 or so. The country's major private tv channel, Mega channel, has kept the same news theme since 1989.
It feels like throughout the 80s and early 90s with news programmes everywhere, not just the UK, everyone was trying to use as much computer generated content as possible with all the animations.
1:42 reminds me being off school ill and my dad popping home on his lunch break to make himself sardines on toast - one of the few things he could cook at the time;)
Betaman I think it really represents news especially in its long version. This tone is perfect for news and i get a feeling of some sort of sequence and anticipation when i hear it and that what sets you in the mood for the coming news after this music
@@NSR95 Not only that but it manages to call back to the original BBC pips from the earliest days of broadcasting. A brilliant piece of music that just shouts "BBC".
Yup. That one continuous beep beep on one note, over two chords and a drum and bass pattern which was probably knocked up on pro tools in five minutes, sure beats all those beautifully orchestrated epics that went before in to a cocked hat! Lol
Love that news theme composed by David Lowe around the Greenwich Time signal, did not know they had been using it for about 15 years now. Good idea to have stayed with the white and red colour pallette for the graphics
+Graham Spilsted I read an article once where it was explained that the red and black combination was abandoned because the two colours denote negativity. The article praised ITV News's former black and yellow look because the yellow is positive against a backdrop of darkness. It was a very interesting article but I can't find it :(
It's such an impressive burst of music that is in sync with the graphics. The way the instruments swell into near-cachophony as the sparks intensify then shoots out the transmission rays. I think it's also a homage to the very early BBC news intro visual. Very understated formal typeface followed by the very serious-looking Michael Burke.
Ditto! 1993-1997 were my teenage years so I remember thinking how authoritative BBC News was given the graphics and music. Bring it back I say! I would have loved to have seen behind the scenes of BBC News in those days!
They reverted to the 1988 theme at some point. I remeber this theme with the 1993 set in the mid-late 90s when Michael Buerk and Peter Sissons were the principle newscasters on the 9 o'clock news. That theme was used right up until the first drums and beeps theme came in, which was shortly before the 9pm bulletin changed to 10 o'clock.
How dare you fade out the fantastic ending of the '85 9pm news lol ;). Love and remember all of the 80s themes and titles. Absolute favourite has to be 9pm from 1993, which you sadly don't have here, cos it's the bestest one!
endrightwinglunacy The 1993 Nine O'Clock News was fantastic. I loved how it showed so much of the "virtual" set, and the colours was excellent. The music was great, a big orchestral version of the 1988 theme. I remember seeing a programme about how they created the set and that at 9.30pm every weeknight they would take down the three panels which showed the globe of the earth, and replace them with the Breakfast News coloured panels.
Nihal Ahamed I do too. I was 3 when it launched, and it lasted until 1993. I remember it very well because in the early 1990s on Mondays to Thursdays it would signify that it was my bedtime. It used to scare me as a child the lightening bolts and thumping bombastic music. Wish they something like that now.
+[YT] Nihal Gaming (Sonic The King Taco Chill) The BBC News idents from the eighties looked so much classier with better music than the boring and uninspiring idents they've used since the mid nineties. I really do like the one they used for the Nine with the radio waves.
The intro example here from 1967 that everyone of a certain age remembers was actually a replacement of similar but less dramatic intro around in the early sixties but no-one seems to include it. Does anyone else remember it?
0:52 I strictly remember that being around when I was a kid sometime after 1986 which was the year I was born. Somehow the tune and the horizontal lines got stuck in my head.
Yes those opening titles are definitely from the late 70's early 80's because they have that kinda style and the BBC used similar titles for other news programmes around that time period.
News After Noon began in September 1981, but the clip at 0:33 has a blue background on the open titles, which dates it to either 1985 or 1986. Originally the background was a deep red colour
I remember everything from 1984 onwards. The 1988 'tower of power' style with the electrical lightning bolts and radio waves at 2:14 was a personal favourite but it didn't last long. The One O'Clock news always seemed softer than the Six, which seemed more informative and in-depth. The Nine O'Clock news never seemed to compete well with the then heavyweight ITN 'News At Ten', how things have changed! With the advent of 24 hour news and WWW television news isn't one of my primary sources for keeping up to date, like the radio used to be before it. I prefer the BBC 10pm news to the ITV/ITN news. I can't stand Sky News and BBC News 24 is often a bit wishy-washy. Thank goodness for the likes of Paxman or Wark on Newsnight and John Humphries and co on Radio Four. The Channel Four evening news with Peter Snow is quite frankly excellent and I always try to catch it. I used to have BBC Breakfast on in the morning with Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams but it's not gelled with me since they moved it all around, so it's R4 Today Programme now, which segues nicely into Start the Week, Mid-Week, The Life Scientific, In Our World, Desert Island Discs, etc. afterwards.
the 'tower power' came in in 1985 not 1988 and the 1984 titles are really 1980; they had the pink version and BBC 2 had the blue though sometimes the blue played on BBC1 and that may have been influenced by weekends being diff to weekdays.
Re your comment about the titles at 0.33 in the video, the 6pm and 9pm versions started in 1981 but I don't think that afternoon news actually started until 1984 (I'm just guessing since it was before I was born).
At 33 Seconds, what is the 1984 BBC News After Noon music called, does anyone know the name of this music theme, who composed it and what is the title.
Aaahhh nostalgia..I liked the flags motif in the 90's though any idea why the theme colours changed dramatically from blue in the 80's to the present red?
Love 1986. Very Michael Tippett scoring - love the harps, love the monochrome graphics with shadows, love the triplet theme and the off-beat emphasis, love the theme moving from instrument to instrument, love the modulation in the keys, then continuing (with those lovely harps) under the introductory voice. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K9i_ZdZaJlg.html
0:33 started from 1981 but the version on here was from 1984 and was used until 1988 but the 1985/88 use of the 1981 Music and titles was on weekends, bank holidays and the main holidays of Christmas and Easter the 1984 change was to the background colour the titles and music was the same
That's Leonard Parkin in 1967 just before he moved to ITN to present news at ten then he retired in September 1987 co presenting news at one with John Suchet..
Could never understand why when the newsreader comes on, they are tapping around on the keyboard to their computers. I reckon it's not even connected and possibly made of cardboard just for show
Yes definitely. Its probably some spare PC they borrowed from an upstairs office and shoved it in there or effect or set dressing.. Just makes them look good. Its kind of like a ritual when they use to shuffle their papers at the end of the news broadcast!
Yes, but not much of a retrospective that doesn't include Richard Baker, Bob Dougall or Kenneth Kendall! I also remember when readers were seconded from BBC sound radio and survived (just) into the period when newsreaders were in vision, with Frank Phillips, Bill Greenslade and John Snagge actually appearing onscreen (also Colin Doran and Alvar Lidell, apparently, though I don't personally remember those two onscreen, though Colin Doran and Jack de Manio announced 'In Town Tonight' on television for a while). (Of course Baker, Dougall and Kendall were originally radio announcers but moved over entirely to television.) I also clearly recall a period, probably after the arrival of ITN, when readers whose names I do not recall were brought in to ape ITN and gabble or shout the news - it was dreadful, and they soon disappeared. I'd love to know more about this phenomenon - who were they? (Readers were still anonymous at that time.)
@MrHammadmossop1988 I'm not British, and I never had a chance to watch the BBC news at that time, but my guess would be that this person sitting near John Humphrys was Jill Dando.
0.33s BBC News Afternoon is not 1984, that did start in September 1981 and here is news proof, remember the old president of Egypt was assassinated in 1981, here is the BBC News from 1981 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uc6G_4jaqDo.html
How long did the One o' Clock News intro from 1986 stick around? Until the pip beep remix in 1999? Because I was born in '94 and I think I might remember it...
Well I don't remember ever seeing the '86 one on TV, and I was born in '92, yet I very vaguely remember what ITV/ITN News during 94 looked like. Perhaps it lasted until the '93 CG studio overhaul?
pinkfakecheez It stayed until April 1993. On Tuesday 13th April 1993 the BBC launched their "virtual" set. The 1pm bulletin kept some of their music, albeit a re-arranged version of the 1986 music, but the opening titles were gone, and a corporate opening titles used for the Breakfast, Six, Weekend as well as One bulletins was used, just different music over them.
