ARCHIVE: The TV Room
The end of the broadcasting day on BBC Two.
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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME: the closing credits from The Other Side of Alf.
[00:01:03] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: standard BBC One slide design – for Top of the Pops Christmas Party.
The programme airs on Christmas Day at 2pm on BBC One.
[00:01:15] PROGRAMME MENU GRAPHIC: a fairly random slide design for this menu, which lists out tomorrow evening’s programmes on BBC Two.
The announcer walks us through the programme line-up verbally.
[00:01:51] CLOCK: with a final time check – it’s a few minutes before midnight – it’s goodnight from BBC Two.
After 30 seconds of black and silence, test tone kicks in. Our recording terminates a few seconds later.
Test tone would normally continue for two minutes. The overnight shutdown of the national BBC Two transmitter network would then be triggered.
Acknowledgements
PICTURED: BBC Two programme menu graphic. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
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