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The first 'Blocks' logo with italicised lettering, used between 1958 and 1963. In 1953, Abram Games was commissioned to design an on-air image. [3] Nicknamed the 'bat's wings', [3] it consisted of a rounded brass contraption with a tiny spinning globe in its centre, with large wing-like protrusions flanked by lightning bolts on either side.
The history of BBC television idents begins in the early 1950s when the BBC first displayed a logo between programmes to identify its service. As new technology has become available, these devices have evolved from simple still black and white images to the sophisticated full colour short films seen today.
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2010. 31 January – The final 03:00 edition of World News Today airs as five editions are replaced on BBC World News are replaced.; 2011. No events. 2012. 25 October – Following the completion of digital switchover in the UK, the BBC News Channel is available to all UK households for the first time, almost fifteen years after the channel first launched.
15 September – Final edition of Breakfast News on BBC One and BBC News 24, the last conventional news broadcast in the morning. 2 October – The first edition of BBC Breakfast is broadcast, the new morning show on BBC One and News 24 from 6:00–9:30. (9:00 on BBC News 24). 13 October – Final edition of the BBC Nine O'Clock News on BBC One.
The strip held the slanted 'BBC TV' logo, with the BBC logo in the white section and the grey section containing the 'TV' logo. [8] The final variation of the globe was introduced on 7 July 1968 and was a variation on the watchstrap theme. The globe now spins on a black background with a white stripe below containing a black BBC1 logo.
Amongst his most prominent works are the original Channel 4 logo and idents created in 1982, the batch of over 30 idents for BBC Two that first aired on 16 February 1991, the 1997 corporate re-brand for the whole BBC, and the 2008 BBC Regional News titles. In conjunction with his agency, he also created launch packages for certain other BBC ...
1 June – BBC World News programmes Outside Source and Business Live make their debut on the BBC News Channel. They appear as a result of cutbacks which also sees the overnight simulcast of BBC World News beginning an hour earlier at midnight. 2016. 16 February – The final edition of 60 Seconds is broadcast on BBC Three. The programme ends ...