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**Terry Casey[_2_]**

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From http://www.hywel.org.UK/bbc2launch/

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When BBC2 launched on April 20th 1964, ...

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panto mode.

Oh no it didn't!

/panto mode

The launch of BBC2 was PLANNED for April 20th 1964 but a fire at
Battersea Power Station blacked out large areas of west London -
including the Television Centre - shortly before BBC2 was due to start.

As a result, BBC2 opened at 1130 on April 21st 1964 and the first
programme was Play School.

Nine years earlier, the BBC had wiped all news of the start of ITV off
the front pages by killing off Grace Archer in The Archers. Of course,
there was only one ITA transmitter in 1955, so only a small proportion
of the population could see it anyway.

But BBC2 started off with only one transmitter in exactly the same way
but still managed to get the 'non-event' on every front page the
following day!

I've always wondered if somebody might have been seen furtively slipping
out of the back door of Broadcasting House that Monday afternoon before
setting off to walk down to Battersea Bridge with a box of matches in
his coat pocket ...

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Terry