A nervous-sounding BBC announcer explains that there has been no news tonight due to a fire at TV Centre. But finally there is news - with Jan Leeming and David Icke (yes that one).
How would this guy react if there was Nuclear War? "Oh it just appears a Atomic Bomb has landed on Sally Taylor's head, no need for alarm. Here's some music."
Reminds me of the time that the BBC in Bristol had a power failure for the 6.30pm bulletin. They had one camera for the two presenters, one outside broadcast unit somewhere in Bristol, one video tape and that was it. Their news was that they were surviving and still broadcasting. Apparently they were given the option of just having the London feed but refused and stoically carried on. Wish I had recorded it. Does anyone else have it?
During our delay, we will be playing the following... Fire Woman - The Cult Heaven's on Fire - Kiss Rooms On Fire - Stevie Nicks I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel Fire Down Below - Bob Seger Smoke From A Distant Fire - Sanford and Townsend Band Fire and Ice - Pat Benatar Fire and Rain - James Taylor Fire - Jimi Hendrix Fire - Ohio Players Fire Water Burn - The Bloodhound Gang Please enjoy while I run out of the building screaming in fear...
Oh no there's a fire in the building! Never mind, I'll just sit in the burning building and play some crappy music..and who spelt Songs of Praise wrong! Damn!
The tape actually skipped to the end of the music, they actually played more songs, but since they went on for much longer, the person recording this just skipped over to the end.
I remember the WNBC fire There was some sporting event, and then the picture suddenly went black. After several minutes the signal came back with a black and white western. Then a news crew with the Washington DC skyline in the background, explaining the New York station had been evacuated and the signal the signal we were watching was from Washington, then cutting to the local NY reporters as "live remotes". WNBC reportedly has a "back-up" studio in New Jersey in case this happens again.
British people are so clam when it comes to telling bad news, just like that British airways 747 with all 4 engines not working: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
Tim Nichols announcing, perhaps sounding as he did simply because he had to ad-lib (and of course cue up a menu and music) and/or he was relaying information to the viewers just as he was getting them.
Forget 'The search for Eldorado' they were plugging in the 10.05 slot. They found Eldorado in the 90s and then decided to lose it again - for good! What they should have been looking for was the missing 'S' in Songs of Praise!
I contacted the BBC some years ago and they told me in no uncertain terms that they didn't want anything that was on VHS. Typical of the attitude that has led to the situation where vast quantities of stuff has been lost (look up TeleSnaps and what happened when the guy who did those died and his widow offered the archive of pictures to the Beeb).
Terribly sorry, there is a fire and I'm burning to death but I must maintain my post and let you know that the great 70s cinematic classic CAR WASH IS GONNA BE ON BBC 1!
Something similar happened to WNBC in New York City when there was a fire at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Through satellite links, the local news crews did live remotes that were sent from WRC-TV, NBC's Washington DC affiliate. It was rather confusing.
Emergency continuity is a very interesting thing in television for me. WGAL in Lancaster had a partial roof collapse at their studio that took them off air. Two continuity options were set up, they used a live truck (first outside and later they were generously given the use of a local government building) to run a live truck. For cable TV viewers arrangements were made to switch to WWBT 12 out of Philadelphia at least for Comcast Xfinity viewers (possibly satellite viewers as well) which restored network programs. Those limited to off air viewing and did not have the ability to stream unfortunately lost service. Another interesting case was with channel 5 in Nashville in April 1998. The television studio was destroyed by a Tornado, but they were able to get some on-air people and engineers with a live truck over to their transmitter site and restore a very limited service there.
You're right about the BBC not being interested. I contacted them some years ago about missing programmes and they made it clear they had no interest in anything that was on VHS. It beats me why anyone would be so bothered ('very' annoying???) about there being a logo on a UA-cam video anyway? It's strange.
That one remind me PTV 4 here in the philippines. When there is a war going on in August 1986. When they played the music when the PTV 4 logo was shown. I remember that time
I feel sorry for the announcer, i'm sorry for the interuption of BBC News at the moment speaking nerviously, but i'm afraid there been a fire in the building and i'm going to died as the BBC Bosses refuse me to leave the burning building, !! BOOM !! Test signal from the BBC tv Transmitters uk site and test tone, lol
Thinks: 'I get overtime if I stay in my seat and do my job. Perhaps, while playing some music, I can make up a new game! How to make a programme menu in 140 characters or less? Oh dear, one letter too many; I'll drop the 's' from 'Songs', thus 140 characters, exactly. That was difficult, it will never catch on. I wonder if anyone will notice?'.
It often depended on whether there was time to play anything else and what was available to use. In a dire emergency control would have been handed to Birmingham in any case.
The Search for El Dorado only aired over three Sundays - 15th and 22nd February and 1st March 1987, so it must have been the day before one of these three options.
@ awesomefan2010 "the news and sport" was prerecorded, the newsroom might be on fire, but not the airing room (where they aired programs out of) the news programme wasn't live, it was prerecorded. They did that to substitute for having there be no news
The news most certainly was not prerecorded, it was live. It would be a major breach of the BBC Royal Charter if it was prerecorded. Note that the announcer says "a fire in the building" not specifically in the newsroom.
If you listen to the announcer, he's stuttering and stumbling and sounding nervous. What's going on? Has he spotted the fire outside his door, but can't leave because his boss said he has to finish the announcement first? I know it's a stupid comment but that's what it sounds like.
Retro and crappy as the clip is, I saw a break in programmes on the BBC a few weeks ago, which simply had a red screen with the BBC one logo, a caption that said, "There is a fault. We will return to normal programming as soon as possible". And a VO ever 15 seconds that said, "There is a fault. We will return to normal programming as soon as possible." At least with the 80s-porn-style tune and a badly spelled list of the night's line-up, there was a modicum of hilarity there!
Bollocks....it didnt look like there had been a fire in the studio at all . why wasnt her face and clothes blackened.. more like they couldnt get out of the broom cupboard after a quicky .....
How would this guy react if there was Nuclear War?
"Oh it just appears a Atomic Bomb has landed on Sally Taylor's head, no need for alarm. Here's some music."
Heck, that's the British for you. "I'm on fire but I best finish this announcement first as it would be terribly unprofessional to do otherwise" :)
I remember the early 2000s fire and they just said ‘naw we on fire let’s not’
This is fine.
Aow en tha naim ov tha qoueain
Reminds me of the time that the BBC in Bristol had a power failure for the 6.30pm bulletin. They had one camera for the two presenters, one outside broadcast unit somewhere in Bristol, one video tape and that was it. Their news was that they were surviving and still broadcasting. Apparently they were given the option of just having the London feed but refused and stoically carried on. Wish I had recorded it. Does anyone else have it?
love the 'shakiness' in the announcers voice, he was obviously unnerved.
During our delay, we will be playing the following...
Fire Woman - The Cult
Heaven's on Fire - Kiss
Rooms On Fire - Stevie Nicks
I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel
Fire Down Below - Bob Seger
Smoke From A Distant Fire - Sanford and Townsend Band
Fire and Ice - Pat Benatar
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Fire - Ohio Players
Fire Water Burn - The Bloodhound Gang
Please enjoy while I run out of the building screaming in fear...
I don't want to set the world on fire- The Ink Spots
@@mango8616 This was 1987, not 1993. If was, Then that's Dan Hartman.
Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire;
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil - let’s jump forward and grab some futuristic songs!
And BTS-Fire.
@@darkheart8403 I love BTS.
That's pretty upbeat music considering the newsroom almost burned down...
Oh no there's a fire in the building! Never mind, I'll just sit in the burning building and play some crappy music..and who spelt Songs of Praise wrong! Damn!
Maybe the fire started in the Songs of Praise VT room and all they managed to save was one song?
BBC cut backs, they could only afford one song !
The tape actually skipped to the end of the music, they actually played more songs, but since they went on for much longer, the person recording this just skipped over to the end.
The building was on fire, no time for proofreading in that situation.
Am I the only person that gets shivers from this video knowing there's a fire at the time of the guy's announcement and the music?
I get the shivers watching David Icke talking to Jan Leeming. I wonder what he is talking about🤔
I remember the WNBC fire There was some sporting event, and then the picture suddenly went black. After several minutes the signal came back with a black and white western. Then a news crew with the Washington DC skyline in the background, explaining the New York station had been evacuated and the signal the signal we were watching was from Washington, then cutting to the local NY reporters as "live remotes". WNBC reportedly has a "back-up" studio in New Jersey in case this happens again.
the guy looks like he saw the fire and went "Well darn that's mildly inconvenient"
David Icke with sport. LOL how things change.
Because he was a nonce?
Jan Leeming. Wonderful. I met her at a friend's wedding, a few years ago. David Icke thought?! YIKES. Google him and be afraid!
lmao! i remember this, thought it was hilarious how they said the news had to be abandoned.
Peter...you've _lost_ the _news!
"Song of Praise"? Never heard of it! This is from Saturday 28th February 1987, for the record.
Is it the same studio used for the six o clock news?
How stoically British. Our TV station is on fire, but we're going to play some music so you needn't be alarmed.
“Sorry we can’t bring you any shows, the studio is on fire, but they have let me burn so I can tell you about it”
British people are so clam when it comes to telling bad news, just like that British airways 747 with all 4 engines not working: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
minakomel In the meantime we have some tea available, please bear with us while we correct the fault
Was 'Song of Praise' like the popular BBC show 'Songs of Praise'? Maybe it only featured one very long hymn.
It was a 30-minute rendering of that round “London’s Burning” - that edition of Song Of Praise featured that!
I recall this I was 5 my mum and dad liked news at 6pm
"Oi! Who's been fockin smoking a blem in the Newsroom?"
She is. Star Wars was the nickname of a space-based missile system that was planned by US President Ronald Reagan.
Bring back "That's Life"!
Yes maybe Jan's hair rollers overheated?
Tim Nichols announcing, perhaps sounding as he did simply because he had to ad-lib (and of course cue up a menu and music) and/or he was relaying information to the viewers just as he was getting them.
I think that one person in this youtube really liked the sentence "with some music"... guess it.
Forget 'The search for Eldorado' they were plugging in the 10.05 slot. They found Eldorado in the 90s and then decided to lose it again - for good! What they should have been looking for was the missing 'S' in Songs of Praise!
There had been a fire during the Six O'Clock news one weekday around this time as well.
Good evening. A few minutes ago a fire started in the BBC Newsroom. It is not yet known how the fire started.
'Live updates throughout the night are on Radios 1, 2 and 4. Cough, cough, splutter, there's no need for alarm'.
I've watched this before, but I just realised this would be Saturday night around 9 or 10pm, not Sunday :-)
Lovely. I was honestly just thinking about David Icke and what happened to his forum
I used to get a little excited when something fucked up on TV
I liked this video just because of the ending.
That's an irrational comment. Maybe it wasn't a big fire. Maybe it was a very small fire.
A match was lit inside the building?
I contacted the BBC some years ago and they told me in no uncertain terms that they didn't want anything that was on VHS. Typical of the attitude that has led to the situation where vast quantities of stuff has been lost (look up TeleSnaps and what happened when the guy who did those died and his widow offered the archive of pictures to the Beeb).
It's not 'broadcast quality', probably?
I wouldn’t mind. This music is cool!
Apparently, it's not dependent on Star Wars. Thanks for the heads up, Gorbachev!
Despite what Calvin Harris says, that big hair was DEFINATELY not acceptable in the 80's!
This is obviously before Health and Safety! I got told off for finish lunch when the fire alarm was going off.
Terribly sorry, there is a fire and I'm burning to death but I must maintain my post and let you know that the great 70s cinematic classic CAR WASH IS GONNA BE ON BBC 1!
@gavinpow77 Yeah, I'm sure the first programme should be listed as 'Songs of Praise'? I should know - I used to watch it religiously...
oh no..it cut off just as david icke was about to tell us it was the shapeshifting lizards that started the fire.
@amrj700 This was shortly before he went crazy and claimed to be Jesus, I don't know if he'd decided everyone's a lizard yet.
I remember him on Southern TV and claiming there were UFO's in his garden or somesuch. Then he was "let-go" (fired)
Something similar happened to WNBC in New York City when there was a fire at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Through satellite links, the local news crews did live remotes that were sent from WRC-TV, NBC's Washington DC affiliate. It was rather confusing.
Emergency continuity is a very interesting thing in television for me. WGAL in Lancaster had a partial roof collapse at their studio that took them off air. Two continuity options were set up, they used a live truck (first outside and later they were generously given the use of a local government building) to run a live truck. For cable TV viewers arrangements were made to switch to WWBT 12 out of Philadelphia at least for Comcast Xfinity viewers (possibly satellite viewers as well) which restored network programs. Those limited to off air viewing and did not have the ability to stream unfortunately lost service.
Another interesting case was with channel 5 in Nashville in April 1998. The television studio was destroyed by a Tornado, but they were able to get some on-air people and engineers with a live truck over to their transmitter site and restore a very limited service there.
WWBT is out of Richmond, Virginia.
I had nightmares about the music in this video
You're right about the BBC not being interested. I contacted them some years ago about missing programmes and they made it clear they had no interest in anything that was on VHS.
It beats me why anyone would be so bothered ('very' annoying???) about there being a logo on a UA-cam video anyway? It's strange.
we appologize for you not seeing the news right now as television centre is on fire.... (in his head) and i am inside the building
In the meantime, here is a picture of some toast and some music.
Music is top notch
Dang it Johny you had one job
The son of God
No the 'Song Of Praise.'. Must be related to Maradona? Oh, dear.
FIRE 🔥 STARTER PRODOGY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT OPTION
Or Relight my fire in a cheesy version from Ray Conniff in a ideal mood
Not to worry, the female news reader has used her head as a fire beater and put it out.
@RCast Fire, by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The Heat is On (forgot the name of the band or singer).
Glenn Frey, formerly of The Eagles!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - love he music and Jan's hair - did your mother ever give you a home perm?? Fab clip -where or where do you get them from?
how could you put music on in a burning building ?
A hot new tune that's burning up the charts?
What caused the fire?
(someone correct me if I'm wrong) I think it was a dodgy appliance (toaster or something?) .
Jan's hair spray before it made the hole in the Ozone layer?
Obviously they got the music from the same mysterious radio station you can only get in lifts...
My favorite station!
Carwash. Now there is a film to get burnt over.
Your Announcer is Tim Nicholls
nice music...
Umm..if there was a fire, shouldn't the broadcaster have vacated the building with everybody else??
@Identify597 I don't know. It could be. But it wouldn't surprise me if it was just a hand drawn animation in those days.
Man...I'dve actually hated to be in that announcers position then....I'd be hauling ass out of there and running down the street. X-D
@themacbox That's just the kind of music you'd want to hear as flames are erupting all around you...
Fire at Spur of TVC
Anybody know what the song is
Praise?
haha!
That one remind me PTV 4 here in the
philippines. When there is a war
going on in August 1986. When they
played the music when the PTV 4 logo was shown. I remember that time
I feel sorry for the announcer, i'm sorry for the interuption of BBC News at the moment speaking nerviously, but i'm afraid there been a fire in the building and i'm going to died as the BBC Bosses refuse me to leave the burning building, !! BOOM !! Test signal from the BBC tv Transmitters uk site and test tone, lol
And made her sit next to David Icke
Thinks: 'I get overtime if I stay in my seat and do my job. Perhaps, while playing some music, I can make up a new game! How to make a programme menu in 140 characters or less? Oh dear, one letter too many; I'll drop the 's' from 'Songs', thus 140 characters, exactly. That was difficult, it will never catch on. I wonder if anyone will notice?'.
WAS THAT THE TV BITE OF '87?
As in broadcast equipent i meant the control room and technical stuff.
dont they have standby pograms in the uk?
in oz, if something goes wrong, they just replay something else.
It often depended on whether there was time to play anything else and what was available to use. In a dire emergency control would have been handed to Birmingham in any case.
LOLOLOLOLOL How typical of Auntie Beeb. Keep that stiff upper lip!
"Next on BBC2: Me reading this announcement."
'Me, vacating the building?'.
it could be the broadcast equipment
Hi.
Does anyone know what caused this fire?
Gremlins? 😈
Anyone know the precise date?
The Search for El Dorado only aired over three Sundays - 15th and 22nd February and 1st March 1987, so it must have been the day before one of these three options.
okay, im being a little cruel..
but its true.
that is very annoying..very.
Did he say Car Wash was coming on?
uber comedy
@ awesomefan2010 "the news and sport" was prerecorded, the newsroom might be on fire, but not the airing room (where they aired programs out of) the news programme wasn't live, it was prerecorded. They did that to substitute for having there be no news
The news most certainly was not prerecorded, it was live. It would be a major breach of the BBC Royal Charter if it was prerecorded. Note that the announcer says "a fire in the building" not specifically in the newsroom.
david icke!!!!!! :D
#FAIL
:-D True. As you can see, most of my vids don't have a logo. Fact is it was done on a whim.
Perhaps it was a failed attempt at a certain 'sound reduction' logo? LOL.
This video was posted 6 days after I was born
LOL
If you listen to the announcer, he's stuttering and stumbling and sounding nervous. What's going on? Has he spotted the fire outside his door, but can't leave because his boss said he has to finish the announcement first? I know it's a stupid comment but that's what it sounds like.
No, his script had gone up in flames, so he had to make something up instead, then the music machine broke down, then the...
Retro and crappy as the clip is, I saw a break in programmes on the BBC a few weeks ago, which simply had a red screen with the BBC one logo, a caption that said, "There is a fault. We will return to normal programming as soon as possible". And a VO ever 15 seconds that said, "There is a fault. We will return to normal programming as soon as possible." At least with the 80s-porn-style tune and a badly spelled list of the night's line-up, there was a modicum of hilarity there!
Don't worry, the original recording doesn't have the 'dog'.
(Digital On-screen Graphic)
It has a 'cat' instead?
Wtf
flex like david icke
Is joke or real ?
It's real.
i sound like a airplane
How very British.
hahahahahaha funny
it was 1984 what would you expect lol
Bollocks....it didnt look like there had been a fire in the studio at all . why wasnt her face and clothes blackened.. more like they couldnt get out of the broom cupboard after a quicky .....
nice music...