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BBC Two comes to the end of its day.
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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME: the closing seconds of Weatherview, presented by Peter Cockroft.
[00:00:07] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for Day of the Pharaohs.
Starts 7am on New Year’s Day on BBC Two.
[00:00:49] CLOCK: the appearance of the standard BBC Two clock signals the end of the day on BBC Two.
The announcer acknowledges her colleagues (by first name) and bids us goodnight.
[00:01:23] IDENT: an announcerless playout of one of the Christmas 1997 BBC Two idents brings the day to a close on BBC Two.
The ident fades to black and we have about 25 seconds of black and silence before GLITS/test tone kicks in.
Tone would normally continue for about two minutes.
The overnight shutdown of the BBC Two transmitter network would then have been triggered.
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PICTURED: BBC Two ident. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
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