BBC ONE - Handover to BBC News 24, December 1998

[2007TGD]

How stunning is the scenery at the beginning of that first Balloon ident?

*A lot* of untapped potential left in the idea, curtailed by the unnecessary "Lifestyle" set and then its ultimate, premature demise.

[JHollowayNetwork]

@steviegTVreturns it was 10 months until BBC News 24, adopted the BBC News graphics, and it was only 5 months, before BBC News, had new graphics, for it's bulletins.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Your N24 newscaster is Adrian Finnegan.

Great clip, with the "flags" ident used by both N24 and BBC World at that time.

The red cross that appears as the "thumbnail" of this video give an initial impression that this clip is going to feature a trailer for England football or rugby LOL.

[steviegTVreturns]

@AntarcticaTelevision Yeh I'll look into that, I might change the thumbnail for this, the balloon desveres the thumbnail... lol

[MrHammadmossop1988]

@steviegTVreturns If your wondering what date this was recorded on it was recorded on Friday 4 December 1998 as I have the same continuity for that programme at 0:15 as I remember watching David Braine on the BBC Weather on that day that is what date it was recorded on about before 12.00am on Saturday morning I guess but yeah the date is possibly something like Friday 4 December 1998 as that is what date this BBC One footage was shown if I remember correctly because I remember watching it then