A Newsday Revolution

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I watched this documentary over and over after I recorded it off the TV (on VHS of course). I was enthralled at the energy and speed needed to make a news bulletin. Around 10 years later I was working at the BBC in lovely old Television Centre. Another 10 years after that I was a video editor making news reports for the One O’clock News and BBC News channel and BBC World. Almost every technical thing has changed since this Horizon was shown. Even the Central Line tube trains!

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3:20 - The wasteland scene behind the broadcasting van here at 3:20 would become Stage 6 of BBC Television Centre, home to the BBC News Centre and BBC News studios from 1998 to 2013. In 1988 when this was filmed, it is just the end wall of Stage 5.

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It’s odd looking back at how the BBC management kept building and building and then left TV Centre.