BBC1 Start-Up
Broadcast
20th May 1983
© BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC TV replaced trade test transmissions with Pages from Ceefax at the start of May 1983 but for a short while, they kept the two-minute start-up sequence rather than broadcasting Ceefax it was time to announce the next programme. Here we present a lunchtime start-up following a brief Ceefax transmission to fill the gap between the end of the morning's schools programmes and News After Noon.