BBC Power Failure - 20th June 2000 

This is why you need to test your backup power systems regularly.

BBC's designs and graphics way back then was ahead of its time.

"Glorious isolation and complete silence" Gotta love that Brit dry wit.

That old version of the BBC News theme is a bangin' mix.

Here's me casually thinking about "what if we re-introduce these breakfillers today?", this brought memories .

7:00 I really like the background music. It's so cool to hear this in 2023. The early 2000s were cool.

The 2000’s graphic gives me so much nostalgia and just a weird vibe

4:35 - I remember watching that Six O'Clock News and knowing it would more than likely fail as the lighting was appalling and Huw Edwards warned they might not be able to stay on air. The whole programme failed mid way through and we were left with music and a repeat of Dad's Army.

Idk why but I absolutely love the music

I, as a trainee, was the BBC One engineer on duty during this in Red TCR in the NTA. It was chaos which at one point included me standing out on Wood Lane with the BBC One network director, calling my mum at home so I could tell the director what was currently on-air on her channel. A very interesting evening to be on shift, as was the following day since a lot of old kit that had been powered on 24/7 for years hadn’t survived being powered off and on quickly during the failure. Thanks for posting this, I’d never seen this report!

As little respect I have for the BBC... You've gotta give it to Huw Edwards, he's still one of the BBC News hosts twenty three years on and was the host (for the BBC) who announced that the Queen had died.

Old BBC Television Centre has not had a great track record when it comes to power cuts. 1964 when the whole of west London was blacked out BBC 2 opening night was scrapped, as the centre had no back up generator. More power failures in 2001 and 2003 caused mayhem at the centre too.

I was 4 months old then... I feel so old, this looks and sounds so old fashioned already!!

I watched BBC during this and it cut to static and killed my TV.

5:43 EXCUSE ME THE BACKUP GENERATOR BURST INTO FLAMES

So, external mains power previously seems to have failed shortly before the blackout happened. Batteries might have succeeded to start the backup engine (plus for this transition essential system runs on a battery array) but that fuel-driven machine did not work for long then. bang. complete failure.

I remember that old Sky TV layout, love to see that BBC One in SD for your local region is still on 101 where it always has been

Our Sky still looks like this, with the blue and yellow menus. Fuck knows why we never had an update

Nearly 20 years since this and i wasn’t even around I just like the old aesthetics of vhs

I love that little aside glance at the end.

this happened on my 18th birthday. I'd give it all to be able to go back to that particular moment

Looking for this music for a while now, thank you. Takes me back to Schumacher F1 days

I know this might sound weird but it's true: This breakfiller music goes HARD!!! Edit: 100 LIKES?!?! I didn’t expect this.

This is really interesting, Im not from the UK and this was before my time, seeing the healines, old logos and the story itself were all new to me. High chance now that im gonna go back and watch other old news reports

Still keep that same backing beat during the news. A classic!

13:12 want the 1999-2001 countdown? Here you go! (Music at 13:17) 02:32 is also the 10-second BBC world countdown (Music at 02:33)

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The old version of the BBC theme music sounds so much better

Brings back a lot of memories back when I was watching my friend's dad's BBC recorded tapes (DVR) he archived

That literally happened on my birthday. Oh odd is that. 😂

BBC was really good in the early 2000s

9:30 Click On Line. Oh, the memories.

6:37 Sounds futuristic, new retro wave 80s vibe.

Thank the lords for David Lowe, this music is pretty damned funky!

I still remember this, because my mom loves watching cable news TV. I missed the old BBC news music too. This is part of my childhood.

rip (btw the power failure begins at 6:31)

BBC is so futuristic it doesn’t look like 2000.

Here's some timestamps 2:33 countdown then the bbc world logo appears for 45 seconds 2:44 the bbc world logo appears for 45 seconds 9:30 nostalgia time 3:39 news report (bbc news) 9:50 news report (bbc one) 0:01 sports,busness and more bulletins And 1:00 up next 1:23 commercial break (Edit thanks for 100 likes) (Edit 2: thanks for 111 likes 1.7.23)

What if the children's channels went off air? They weren't around in 2000 though, they launched in 2002, but just imagine!

5:15 stop at Huw's face and say wtf

Where in the video did the BBC studio have a power cut? (we call it a power outage in the US though)

Music: World TV Mix by David Lowe (the composer for BBC's music).

20:00 BBC News followed by weather 20:30:World Business report 21:00 BBC News followed by Weather 21:30 World Business report 21:45 World Sport 22:00 BBC News followed by Weather

Presenter: China-. BBC: no shut up

People keep saying u need to test ur backup power systems regularly , but like television centre had the worst power grid ever and the backup generator is connected to the grid until the main power system goes down , then when that happens the backup system gets off the grid and tries and automatically powers up but if it’s not tested or it’s dusty or even a little cable is faulty it will burst into flames expect the generator (Backup one ) it was faulty ever since the TVC was used by the bbc. That’s why channels like itv have a couple backup generators and like sky backup generators in every building as sky provides tv boxes as well what connect to a network and a satellite in the sky so if example skys power went the backup generators wouldn’t be bursting into flames they would be gradually calculating how much power they need to use before it swaps to the next one. While the bbc had 1 generator and if that one fails of course the studio would have a sizzle. As power isn’t made to go out instantly it goes out gradually.

6:34 lol he just like bye

Just out of interest, so those emergency back up tapes from a special machine that would switch on when power is lost almost immediately? Plus how would the alarm systems that got triggered twice stopped when the power was still off? Back up supply that still let them stop it on the main panel

Newsroom South East on BBC News 24? Logistic.

Damn I miss 2000’s graphics. Minimalism was such a downgrade

I really like the music played during the headline segment

13:13 LETS GOOOOOO! A countdown!!!

There was a power cut in 2001 with bbc two

Didn't you record Reporting Scotland (Breakfast News) from BBC One Scotland on Sky TV?

I just love vibing to the music at the start.

The Power Cut from News 24.

5:00 powercut

6:30 why did it cut again?

Anybody know the music at 9:19? Cheers

CBBC had the problems too I remember Against all odds failed to make on air so the first cupule of minutes were missed but it did broadcast in full during CBBC's breakfast show

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10:18 Quite apt that on that night when England were knocked out of Euro 2000, the programme following the news on BBC One is called England's Shame.

Just put a UPS on the moon

Bruh this has to be a powercut

3:00 U Now Know What The News is goin to be

I don't get this was this all on BBC 1? Cutting to different programs I don't follow

where can i find this theme song?

Shout-out to David Lowe, the creator of the theme music

Was BBC already broadcasting digital in 2000?

14:03 very dramatic music for it’s time, very dramatic now for 2020.

6:34

11:33 never knew car goin to door

There’s always something going on with the BBC lol

You may ask Why did it go to BBC World,That is Because The Power Cut Caused A network Glitch So Everything Connected To BBC World

BBC’s red graphics and music look and sound amazing

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News 24’s equipment was BAD not just badly hit

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3:39

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This could've used some serious editing.

sounds like Pipes from Ghostwatch got into the machine again

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