FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room
The early hours of New Year’s Day and BBC Two heads off for a few hours rest.
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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME: the late-night national weather forecast, presented by Michael Fish.
Our copy of this programme is incomplete.
[00:00:41] CLOCK: at fifteen-and-a-half minutes to three, it’s time for BBC Two to take a few hours rest. With a quick reminder about BBC Radio’s night-time offerings, it’s goodnight and Happy New Year from BBC Two.
[00:01:01] IDENT: an announcerless playout of the Optics ident.
There then follows ten seconds of black and silence before GLITS/test tone kicks in.
GLITS will have continued for c. two minutes, before the overnight shutdown of the transmitter network was triggered.
Acknowledgements
PICTURED: BBC Two ident. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
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