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How has the BBC News changed over the years watch!

news.bbc.co.uk — A video compilation of the opening credits for the UK's BBC News over the years - ever since that new fangled "television" thing was permitted to start broadcasting the news, long reserved for the radio.

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  • lattrig, on 04/22/2008, -2/+72A real trip down memory lane. Of course, if you believe Bill Bailey, the BBC News theme music is really from an apocalyptic rave ;-)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488yhG2OPrM
    • WhipTail, on 04/22/2008, -2/+6Thanks for that!! i thought of it whilst watching that clip and was aboot to go looking for it :)
    • acdcfanbill, on 04/22/2008, -0/+6Haha, Bill Baily is awesome.
    • nevpayne, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Agreed - that gig was so funny - his music more than anything.
    • xieodeluxed, on 04/22/2008, -0/+7Well, as an American who just stayed up to 2:30am watching ALL of part troll, Id have to say Bill Bailey is the ***** funniest guy i have ever seen!
      thanks for the link lattriq :)
      • Myonosken, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2I advise you watch his Black Books co-star Dylan Moran. He is nowhere near as popular but anyone who sees his stuff loves it.
    • rdas7, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1that link is so awesome, thanks for that!!! :D
  • chr0nic21, on 04/22/2008, -6/+0This reminds me of that one videoproffessor infomercial lady saying

    "My daughter knows a lot more about computers than I do.....and shes three years old!!!"
  • gothicform, on 04/22/2008, -10/+5Can anyone explain why we need near constant changes now... 2004...2007...2008. Whilst we're on this subject, why has news24 been renamed to the BBC News Channel. Are they copying ITNs oh-so-popular branding or something?
    • anagoge, on 04/22/2008, -2/+4The answer to your first question is simple. Reinvigoration. A fresh coat of paint. Making the old, new.
      The answer to your second question: "News 24" is now less relevant because BBC News IS the news. That is to say, it all comes from the same place - BBC News.
    • nevpayne, on 04/22/2008, -0/+5Well they've got to spend our license money some where - not like it goes into anything creative, fresh and "not previously thought off re-branded repeats.
    • Angostura, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Actually, compared to the previous changes, the recent clutch have been minor - they've kept the music and the overall design theme, it's mainly been small tweaks.
    • kalkin, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1from a graphics design point of view it's a very interesting study. brings back a lot of memories - playing with toys in the frontroom while the "adults" watch and discuss the news :)
  • luket13, on 04/22/2008, -0/+171988 might as well have been the intro to American Gladiators
  • northernmunky, on 04/22/2008, -4/+20Wow that brings back some memories, I was born in 1980, and I can still remember that second '84 look and the music vividly. Amazing stuff.

    Makes you proud to be British!
    • erhanaltay, on 04/22/2008, -11/+4I can think of a lot of more important things that Britons could be proud of... In fact, I can't think of anything less absurd to be proud of than the intro graphics of your major news provider...
      • northernmunky, on 04/22/2008, -5/+19Its not about the graphics, its the fact that the BBC is one the oldest, trusted and most respected publicly answerable broadcasting corporation in the world. Even most yanks I know admit to that!
        • luckyguy2000, on 04/22/2008, -10/+3what makes you proud about that? as long as you wasnt involved in the bbc for some time you definately didnt to anything you could be proud of. national pride is the biggest lie of all time, but worked for all centuries to control the small man.
        • Myonosken, on 04/22/2008, -0/+9@luckyguy: I dunno, maybe because we all are paying for it and have done for 64 years?
        • Shelby69, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Also, learn to speak our language properly.
          'Were not involved in the BBC', 'defINITely', 'didn't', 'National', 'but it worked'.
          Idiot.
      • rdas7, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1"its the fact that the BBC is one the oldest, trusted and most respected publicly answerable broadcasting corporation in the world."

        We'll assume you're being sarcastic.
    • Myonosken, on 04/22/2008, -0/+7I was only 4 at the time, but I thought that big crystal thing on 1993's version was actually real and in the studio.
  • moethelawn, on 04/22/2008, -5/+23And now some puppies will like your faaaaaaaaace...
  • luke374, on 04/22/2008, -1/+23I love how they don't pollute the screen with graphics ... nice and simple.
    • mackdaddy187, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3That is one thing I hate about American new channels. ***** just runs up and down the screen.
  • dualboy24, on 04/22/2008, -0/+10I think the 1954 version was perfect the way it was.
    • noots, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1yeah i love it, they all kinda go backwards untill 1984 after that point.
  • anagoge, on 04/22/2008, -3/+7I'm not sure if I like the new titles. They don't allow me to focus my eyes on on thing for long enough to realise what's going on.
  • keyratt, on 04/22/2008, -0/+7each year the intros just get more epic than the previous year.
    • thelimopit, on 04/22/2008, -0/+142011's intro is going to be all the Lord of the Rings films played back-to-back.
  • arcooke, on 04/22/2008, -1/+47Whoa.. BBC's video player volume goes up to 11.
    • luke374, on 04/22/2008, -2/+18Why don't they just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
    • BelatedHero, on 04/22/2008, -0/+24But these go to 11.
    • funkywood, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1Haven't you seen Spinal Tap?
  • SirChaos, on 04/22/2008, -9/+3Can someone say ... "Over the top?"
  • usgovterrorists, on 04/22/2008, -25/+1BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc
    BBC IS PURE PROPAGANDA!

    United States Government are terrorists, war criminals, and horrific liars.

    9-11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB! 9-11 official story was a lie! What happened to building 7?

    Depleted uranium is a weapon of mass destruction!

    Play Wall Street like a PONZI SCHEME!

    The elections are rigged, unsecure voting machines & ballots!
    • Anpheus, on 04/22/2008, -2/+3Hi, 2001 called, they'd like to let you know about two things:
      1) Time zones. They can mess you up.
      2) The building was known to be very close to destruction well before it did, and that's why there were few (I don't think any) firefighters in the building when it fell. It was decided that it was such a huge risk that they had to flee the building and clear an area well before it collapsed.
      • usgovterrorists, on 04/22/2008, -1/+0It must have been the secret 20 minute time zone, you're so in denial.
        The truth can be verified!
    • ByteGuerilla, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2We already know. Stop spamming.
    • TheCatsPants, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Wow. That was a whole bunch of crazy.
  • sigafoo, on 04/22/2008, -1/+18I can't believe I just watched 4mins of just news intros....
    Is it possible to be "newsroll'd" ?
  • lovelifenow, on 04/22/2008, -15/+3who cares what the intro is for BBC's pro jihadi lies?
    • daviejer, on 04/22/2008, -0/+7What? You can't seriously mean that? Pro jihad (not jihadi) would mean that the BBC has employees that are linked to (if not part of) the mujahideen; that these same people can seed their teachings and broadcast on the national news station?

      We would have noticed...

      Or (as I believe) you said that because you may have seen the BBC airing al jazeera footage. But then in a fair (and I am not sating the BBC is 100% impartial) journalistic democracy this is surely the right thing to do.

      Keep watching Fox
      • meatmcguffin, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3He might be confused because Al Jazeera was founded and run by ex-BBC Middle East staff. Although this also makes them mainly impartial.

        Or he might be a moron.
  • danubecities, on 04/22/2008, -2/+33Much better motion graphics than any US broadcaster.
  • erhanaltay, on 04/22/2008, -2/+39I cannot believe I actually sat through that whole video... Its 3:21am and I have nothing better to do than stare at the changing intro graphic of an overseas news provider...
    • davidlow, on 04/22/2008, -1/+7My Fellow Losers, Please read my meta-comment about this non-story.
  • nastronomical, on 04/22/2008, -21/+9What's sad is all the so called "intellectuals" on the left who will say American news is biased then try to drop the name of the "BBC" to come across as smart. I grew up outside America and listened to the BBC as far back as age 7. The BBC of yester year is not the BBC of today. It has been hijacked and ran into the ground much like the NYTIMES. I remember when it actually stood for something, the BBC would have called Al gore out, called the Brit govt on the utter failure of multiculturalism and severly critique the state of europe and its future...instead we have the utter crap we call the BBc today, a shell of its former self...hanging on to its pass glory in hopes of getting some today...sad indeed.
    • Roblodocus, on 04/22/2008, -11/+2Good comment, I have a feeling you'll be dug down for mentioning the failure of multiculturalism in this country though for the same reason the BBC would never report on it. People will think you're a nasty racist arsehole for pointing it out. Sad really.
    • bosssmiley, on 04/22/2008, -10/+2Dugg for acknowledging the moral bankruptcy of the BBC. They've been towing the party line recently coz Labour keep fbringing the TV license fee up for review. He who pays the piper...
    • Angostura, on 04/22/2008, -1/+11Yes, because the BBC would never commission a whole prime-time series on the difficulties of multiculturalism, would they. Oh wait: http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/

      In general though, you just seem a bit bitter that the BBC won't grind your political axes for you.
    • gincarnated, on 04/22/2008, -1/+4The BBC does tackle those issues, just not on BBC News. BBC News these days just reports on the current events without really taking a stance (as it should). For the opinionated stuff theres all the programs on BBC Radio and TV like Hardtalk, Politics Shows, Panoroma, etc. It's there if you look for it.

      When i lived in the US BBC World and EURO News were the only news channels worth watching.
  • dmac41, on 04/22/2008, -1/+18The clock effect in 1984 was so realistic!
    • snolan1990, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Indeed! if you didn't like that one the most then you should......ummm...... well that ones the best
  • nirvanix, on 04/22/2008, -11/+11The biggest change I've seen in the BBC over the years is that they've more or less dispensed with real journalism.
  • Hangly, on 04/22/2008, -1/+14I need a full-length mp3 of the 1999-2008 intro. That music kicks so much ass.
  • Erythroxylum, on 04/22/2008, -17/+3The one thing that remained constant in all that time was its so-massive-as-to-be-light-bending left-wing (anti-American, anti-British, pro-Communist, pro-Islamic, pro-dictatorship &c.) bias. The BBC can spend hundreds of millions of pounds of the money it extorts from the British taxpayer under penalty of imprisonment (you have to pay the BBC just to operate a TV - even if you never watch the BBC - in your home - how bizarre is that? And now they're trying to find ways of charging you to use the intertubes in case you have the misfortune of stumbling across their pathetic news website whose headlines are revised so many times, a la Nineteen Eighty-Four, that it makes you dizzy), but it doesn't alter the fact that the 'BBC News' is nothing more than a propaganda outlet which makes other news outlets and their respective biases look like boyscouts.

    biased-bbc.blogspot.com
    • Jio666, on 04/22/2008, -0/+6You're American so it's not surprising you're having trouble understanding the concept of a non-bias media, or even liberalism (check wikipedia). The TV license doesn't seem strange so long as you don't fear the government, and the BBC does way more than just TV, radio and it's website.

      Oh, and left wing means socialist.
  • prefan21, on 04/22/2008, -0/+16Dugg for the guy nonchalantly typing one-handed on the computer.
  • PoopSalad, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3the 50's one was totally baller they should bring it back
  • nevpayne, on 04/22/2008, -1/+6Oh man there a few there I remember late 80s early 90s - full of epic orchestral awesomeness.

    Have to agree tho the 1998-2008 theme is a deffinant listener - ITN's / ITV's got nothing on them.
  • doughboy334, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2reminds me of bill bailey
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9Ny7Tme2Y&eurl=ht ...
    • arcturus06, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Heh, I can't even watch BBC News anymore without thinking of that.
  • cheese06, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Graphics-wise, 1985 seemed like a landmark year in changes/adjustments. coincides with the increasing use of computers for motion graphics. i wonder what program they use now for motion graphics? after effects? avid?
    • ivantalboys, on 04/22/2008, -0/+21993 was a big change too, I think that was the year they started doing lots of green screen work and digitally building the set around the broadcasters.
  • nickcozy, on 04/22/2008, -17/+1BBC is a joke.
  • jameshighmore, on 04/22/2008, -0/+11A lot of the early 3D ones remind me of Brass Eye.
  • icianom, on 04/22/2008, -0/+12Brass Eye and The Day Today have the best news intro music and graphics ever.

    • benjorino, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Anyone who isn't familiar with either of these programs owes it to themself to correct that.
  • icianom, on 04/22/2008, -7/+2Brass Eye and The Day Today have the best news intro music and graphics ever.

  • Hanzomon, on 04/22/2008, -0/+5i bet that the computer typing from 1986 is completely fake.
  • gincarnated, on 04/22/2008, -3/+386 and 07 were perfect.The new one is awful.
  • WestEast, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1I cant believe I remember alot of them, liking the 08 one tho...so glad they keep the "pips" in the music theme too.
  • craighoxton, on 04/22/2008, -1/+7Did you notice how the music changed from serious to 80's power ballad? And how newscasters have lost their plummy BBC accents and we have people with regional accents now.

    "Why aye there's been a coup in Mogadishu, like"
  • starkly, on 04/22/2008, -0/+5More on old BBC news programmes (and more recent stuff) in this episode of Screenwipe:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLdHWng-3v8
    • northernmunky, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1haahaa, that was great... I'd not heard of this show... gonna have to watch them all now...
  • protogenxl, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4They left out the time that the news studio was used as a construction detour for the A219.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ytYCq81Jq4
  • n8to, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Hey, I have a request for anyone who is a BBC fan:
    A few years back on BBC World they had a montage that featured the Moby song "Natural Blues" over clips of news events from around the world. I think it was around 2000 and BBC had just revamped the BBC World graphics.
    Anyone familiar with the clip I am talking about? And if so, do you have a link?
    thanks
    -Zeqe
  • buddamus, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1Rick Ashly should make the new one
  • waspinator, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Hasn't really changed much since 1999. Started looking modern in 1993.
  • rdas7, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4The new idents are really nice, especially the progressive evolution from 2004 to present day. Too bad about the reporters though.
  • ukblacknight, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Brings back memories!! Shows how long I haven't watched the news on TV though, I thought the 2001 graphics were still in use!
  • MacMan88, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2For the 2nd 1984 clip, the two guy anchors reminded me of family guy....
  • bpbarrick, on 04/22/2008, -0/+8Wait, how can this be news? Where are all the American flags?
  • coldxrain, on 04/23/2008, -6/+1wow that was horrible. such a ***** thing to post on digg.
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