This video was originally uploaded as draught on 20 May 2022.

20 Jun 2000 saw a moment the BBC puts itself to the news for an unprecedented event like no other on British Television: A power failure subdued the national broadcaster's Television Centre, which was finally put into a halt during the report on Euro 2000.

It started as a substation failure on the same day at 5pm BST (as admitted by London Electricity, currently EDF Energy), firing up the TVC generators which brought the channels offair for a while. But as 6.20pm rolled in, the generators caught fire, putting a stop to broadcast operations in the facility where BBC News 24 (currently BBC [Integrated] News) is primarily broadcasting from, as well as some BBC Radio stations.

BBC One that was supposed to simulcast BBC News 24 was suddenly met with a "programme interruption screen" that played back Murray Munro's Against The Clock Version 1. But being a regionalwide channel, BBC One Regional has opted in to some of their schedule channels as normal. As per Duncan Kennedy puts it, "regional output was largely unaffected".

From the substation failure to the time the BBC News 24 went back on air a day later, the power cut took a total time of 16 hours.

17 years later (20 Jun 2017), in such an 'unexpected' commemoration to the TVC Power Cut, Huw Edwards' BBC News at Ten has met their fate at the start of the programme due to an 'outofcontrol' moment from the broadcast centre known as The Gallery. When the news crew noticed the silence ensuing the studio where Huw is designated, they resorted to a sudden panic in hopes to bring the programme back into action 4mins later.

This video shows the whole sequence of events from when the power cut happened to when the BBC News 24 went back on air. Subtitles have been reencoded due to YouTube's autocaptions breaking on the individual videos as cited here.

Resources:
Murray MunroAgainst The ClockVersion 1 by ‪@orgonon23‬:    • Murray MunroAgainst The ClockVersion 1  
BBC1 Power Failure (Tuesday 20 June 2000) by ‪@dalbsterlcfc92‬:    • BBC1 Power Failure (Tuesday 20th June...  
BBC Power Failure 20th June 2000 by ‪@randomtvuk‬:    • BBC Power Failure  20th June 2000  
BBC News at Ten Breakdown (20 June 2017) by ‪@TVNewsroom‬:    • BBC News at Ten Breakdown (20 June 2017)  

Read more about this report:
BBC Power Cut: 2000 by ‪@desandmick‬: https://desandmicktv.wordpress.com/20...
BBC Power Failure 2000 by United Kingdom television Wiki: https://unitedkingdomtelevision.fan...
Power failure takes BBC news off air by ‪@theGuardian‬: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/j...
Power cut hits BBC TV and radio by ‪@BBCNews‬: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/79...

This video is provided for entertainment purposes only, cited on Fair Use. Most of the resources are properties of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) via BBC Worldwide.

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