If you hear a thud, that's just me fainting from alarm...

The article I linked to above states that the model of the spool tape with the launch would've costed £100 in 1964, which is rather scary thinking about how much that would be in today's money

Considering the average cost of tapes in the 60s, no less the fact that they were routinely bulk erased/wiped at the time, it's remarkable that an unexpected find at the BBC Research and Development is the sole reason footage of the launch exists at all
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Always nice when a memorable advert campaign from your generation gets reimagined by the same company 20+ years later for future generations

A YouTube comment quoting one of Jim Bowen's catchphrases on Bullseye, which is taken a bit too literally by the reply below it

Yesterday in YouTube comments

Oddly enough there was a period that computers under this and the Tiny Computers brands in mid 2002 after the former bought the latter which always struck me as unusual then
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Nickelodeon UK - Continuity and Adverts - 21st April 2003 (Footy Week) : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive After Rugrats and around a Brothers Garcia double bill. In vision continuity segments presented by Yiolanda Koppel and Aidan Power, in his short lived stint...

And re Yolly, a shameless Internet Archive plug on what she'd have been presenting nearly 23 years ago to the day well before ITV Play
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In hindsight, it's astonishing during the brand's short lifespan on how many obscure/well known TV personalities from yesteryear presented most of the shows (Yiolanda Koppel, Simeon Courtie etc). Almost as if the concept of phone in shows was a novelty for them as it was to night owls then

Paramount Comedy also did a few spoofs of that announcer style with their own voiceover for a while as well
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Channel 4 In-Vision Continuity

They did later bring back IVC for a while during the circles era around 1997, though it was slightly odd in that it was a camera in the announcer's booth, but they carried on as though it wasn't there
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Won't take a detective to figure out what's aged the most like milk out of this schedule... :/

Cartoon Network - 'BBC' ident (1996) YouTube video by Billy Hicks

Randomly remembered this overlooked spoof of the BBC One virtual globe yesterday from Space Ghost, probably one of the few CN shows of the era that parodied the globe symbol from the channel
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CBeebies Channel - Continuity - November 2004 (+partial Nick Jr UK ad break) : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Around The Story Makers, Balamory and Come Outside, also includes a partial advert break from Nick Jr.Presented by Chris Jarvis and Nicole Davis.Thanks to...

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Some CBeebies continuity (and a bit of an ad break from Nick Jr) from November 2004 is the last of today's uploads, around Story Makers, Balamory and Come Outside, including a trail for their Bedtime Hour slot as if we needed an explanation for it

Television Affair Episode 24 - UK local TV channels in the 90s and 00s YouTube video by jonkasonic

One of those rare occasions when a worthy upload gets recommended to you on YouTube, this one being a retrospective on local TV in the UK during the 90s and 00s, from the fondly remembered Channel M to obscure ones like Lanarkshire TV
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Boomerang UK - Continuity and Adverts - November 2004 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Leading out of Scooby Doo Where Are You (an episode with Scrappy in it...?) and into Taz-Mania. Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to...

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Second of today's uploads is some continuity and adverts from Boomerang UK around November 2004, between Scooby Doo and Taz-Mania, with promos for FHFIF on Cartoon Network and another for a red button game from when red button games were the real deal in UK interactive TV

Sky Sports - Adverts - February 1996 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive During coverage of the Lombard Under 15's Cricket World Cup.Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to BSkyB

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Well, that was a momentous day here yesterday, wasn't it?

Anyway, the first of today's uploads is an advert break from Sky Sports during coverage of the India vs Pakistan cricket match from February 1996, including ones for Nescafe, Littlewoods and Nissan

Edited bits of The Saturday Show, 2004 YouTube video by rir82005

Not quite the same thing, but for me it was when The Saturday Show had reached the end of it's second series in September 2003, and then being amazingly disappointed with how generic it looked from when it returned the following year as a summer replacement
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It certainly was still aired on the channel well into August 2004, so it had a decent run in terms of homegrown programmes on there
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I see BlueSky is running well today.

CITV - Breakdown - March 1996 : Tola Gemeda : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Around a few minutes into a Tots TV episode. Mocks of the breakdown are online from a capture the owner did in the early 2010s (a particular one being from a...

So from the outage here earlier today, I figured this upload of mine from December 2024 would be worth linking again...
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Granada Plus ident on a silver CRT TV

OnDigital placeholders on silver and black CRT TVs, with the price for OnPrePaid shown on screen for a price of £99

An example of a defunct TV channel appearing in a defunct retailer nearly 12 minutes in too, with Granada Plus and Comet being the case in this instance (and OnDigital for defunct digital service too)

LWT - Continuity and Adverts - 10th December 2000 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive During and after Cold Feet, seguing into an edition of Smash (tape ends during the opening titles).Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to ITV

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Today's upload is a compilation of continuity and adverts from LWT from the 10th December 2000, during Cold Feet and leading into Smash, featuring adverts for Rebok, BT, Babyliss and Coldplay amongst others

Discovery Kids UK Continuity & Close Down & Discovery Wings Startup - 10th November 2001 YouTube video by UKTVfromthepast

It's also funny to think that Gareth Jones presented one of Discovery Kids' original shows (seen here at the beginning to 3:01) too during his time on The Big Bang given that the show would later have a repeat run on the channel from the year after the below clip until 2007
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I'd imagine How 2 is probably the most memorable of the edutainment shows CITV had given that it had the longest run into the mid 00s, plus had a fair amount of show variations during said run. I've always felt that both that and Big Bang were great in their own right regardless though

Memories of seeing repeats of the first 6 series of this on Discovery Kids many moons ago, and them for whatever reason removing the YTV/Granada Kids endcap at the end on most eps they showed

Ah yes, the forgotten occasional supplement to Blu Rays of movies in the early to mid 2010s listed first there, which has faded out of public memory probably more so than CD ROMs or even HD-DVDs have

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An assortment of BBC Two continuity links (schools strand, CBBC Two and regular BBC Two) from April 2001 was the second of said uploads, around the likes of DynaMo, Come Outside and Trade Secrets, with trails for shows like Malcom in the Middle and Happiness throughout

BBC One Yorkshire - Continuity - 14th October 2004 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive After Neighbours and the BBC Six O'Clock news, before leading into Look North (notice a playout fault at the end).Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All...

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A slice of BBC regional continuity with BBC One Yorkshire from October 2004 was the first of yesterday's uploads, around Neighbours, the Six O'Clock news and Look North, accompanied by trails for a Panorama special on knife crime (sadly relevant 21 years later) and Venice

Saying that, the final 2 series of the show does have its moments here and there, like the clip below
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Always feels a tad ironic that Ant and Dec made an appearance on this edition specifically given that their own foray into Saturday mornings 2 years later was the main reason behind Live and Kicking's decline