BBC one balloon idents

[AdFr1997]

why did the 2 rip the balloon?

[CrankyStorming]

@AdFr1997 Because Ben Elton dropped it.

[GinghamSpaniels]

The balloon represents the world, and the numerous locations it travels are supposed to show that the BBC covers everywhere.

[applesweeter]

How does a helium balloon relate with BBC????

[UK31337]

I remember the day of Prince Edward's wedding. It was my school sports day in the summer of 1999 and my mum taped the ceremony to watch later.

[djay4752]

lol in widescreen :P

[knicksfan89]

@channel4squares the first ident's announcer was not duncan newmarch or peter offer

[JimmyArnold23]

what was that bbc2 thing doing there???

[thepod96]

It was a spoof ident called "Channel hopping". The "2" symbol from the Blade ident on BBC Two seems to have channel hopped suddenly and fall onto to the balloon.

[jimmyass]

bbc went widecreen around 2000?

[CHANNELMICHAEL]

BBC was WS in 1999. The idents were filmed in 1996 in WS

[FrancisIdents]

BBC launched BBC One, and Two Widescreen in 1998. They produced Widescreen idents in 1997.

[knicksfan89]

and ripped from tv ark as well by the looks of it

[racrmimbpsvc]

Does anyone have a clean version of the Christmas version?

[itvhearts]

english 1: south dawns

scottish 4: trees

lifestyle: bungee, carnival, market, skateboarders

ben elton: 2

and christmas 2001: van, dog, dinosaur

[itvhearts]

are them right

[AJrockchannel]

Yep!

[itvhearts]

and how did you done that?

[itvhearts]

who is the announcer on the idents?

[AJrockchannel]

The 1st announcer is Peter Offer. Thats all I know.

[knicksfan89]

no it is not the first one is dean lydiate I think