01/11/1980 BBC 1 News and Weather

The late evening BBC1 news from 1st November 1980 presented by Richard Baker with David Cass covering the day's sport. Frank Greene then presents the weather before a promo airs for the following evening's viewing on BBC1. Sourced from a VHS tape.

[@5p004y]

For a 39 year old VHS recording the quality is remarkable.

[@CuriousBritishTelly]

The older VHS recordings always seem to be good quality. I've found plenty of recordings from 10 years ago which are terrible quality!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@CuriousBritishTelly These older tapes were made of better materials to say the least.

[@matthewseymour8972]

Better tapes and much better drive mechanisms in the machine. As a kid I used to buy old video machines from the car boot sale, somehow carried them home about 6 miles balanced on the old fold up child seat of my mum’s bike that I’d borrow.... early machines weighed an absolutely bloody ton, really over engineered.

[@iandann8788]

can't remember much of then but remember the weather that day

[@synthavision]

40 years ago....jesus christ. This is way before my time but it's interesting to see how the world was. Thanks for preserving history!

[@TheRagBag]

Thanks for the upload!

[@david230275]

40 years ago to the day!!

[@CuriousBritishTelly]

Thanks for the reminder! I'd forgotten this anniversary was coming up!

[@Terry.W]

Ahh proper telly.

[@matthewseymour8972]

The trailers go on longer than the news.

[@HappyBagger]

in the days when you could get more than one item in a news bulletin

[@daverhodes362]

Bill Bingham voicing the trail for Sunday - three years before becoming a regular C4 voice.

[@mjclark641]

That pass from Loveridge went forward at least five yards.

[@scottishwildcat]

John Humphrys looked about 50 even then. He was 37.

[@MarkPentler]

No outro on the news? Odd

[@johnking5174]

There was never an outro of BBC News back then, always went straight into the weather. The first proper outro of a BBC News bulletin started in 1985 with the revamped Nine O'Clock News, that was when it started.

[@pak8606]

@@johnking5174 only the 9 o'clock news had closing music then. It was September 1981 when the new titles started that all bulletins had closing music

[@lightsshadow919]

@@johnking5174 And these days they dont even have a proper close. (Except overnights/BBC World News programs and Breakfast)

[@ppotter]

Frank Greene looked a drab little man - and I see he was only on TV for a few short months, so I'm not surprised I don't remember him.