18-08-2021, 09:38 AM
Steve Williams post_id=34789 time= user_id=1326 Wrote:It's nice to look back on the virtual set of the mid-nineties and marvel at how clever it looks and how impressive it all is, which it was, but at the time it also seemed incredibly forbidding and pompous, and it put viewers off.
What really brought that into focus for me was when BBC News 24 began, and the last item on the Sunday early evening news on BBC1 was a report on the launch of the new channel. Cutting straight back from News 24, with its fresh and informal look, to the national news studio gave a stark contrast - the news on BBC1, with its blue set and over-the-top orchestral theme tune, immediately felt cold and old-fashioned in comparison. The May 1999 relaunch, perhaps fell somewhere in between the two - not as informal as News 24 was at launch, but warmer and more accessible than how it had been before.