Editing University Challenge (section)

===Format continuity===
Despite periodic changes to the sets, studio layout, and presentation, ''University Challenge'' has preserved a high level of continuity from 1962 to the present. Some commentators have cited this as an essential element of its success.<ref name=mount>See [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10748721/Dont-ever-change-University-Challenge.html Don't ever change, University Challenge] by Harry Mount, the Daily Telegraph, 7 April 2014.</ref> Elements of this continuity include:
*The longevity of its quizmasters, with only three presenters in the programme's history;
*The split-screen presentation during the starter question phase, which appears to place one team physically above the other. In the final years of the original Bamber Gascoigne era, the studio set genuinely was two-tiered, although the split-screen effect returned for the revived series and has been used ever since;
*Long serving voiceover announcers, with only three in the programme's history – Don Murray-Henderson from 1962 until his death in 1971, then [[Jim Pope]] until his death in 2001, then [[Roger Tilling]]. Tilling's delivery typically becomes increasingly high-pitched as the episode progresses;<ref>{{youTube|HjFENtIZCjM|Roger Tilling Interview BBC Breakfast April 2017}}</ref>
*The theme tune "College Boy" by Derek New, which has been with the series since the 1960s (although the first series used "Ting A Ling" by [[Duke Ellington]]).<ref name=mount/><ref name="ting">{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3wF_vf1JDI|title=University Challenge Intros – 1962–2022 (UK, NZ & Aus)|publisher=University Challenge|date=26 Jan 2022|accessdate=21 August 2023}}</ref> "College Boy" was originally scored for an ensemble of [[tubular bells]], [[flugelhorn]], [[harpsichord]], brushed [[hi-hat]], [[bass drum]] and [[double bass]]. The original theme returned for the early Paxman-era episodes and was later replaced by a [[string quartet]] arrangement of the theme recorded by the [[Balanescu Quartet]].