Inconsistencies with re-branding?

To be fair to Grampian it was hardly ever used, expecting going into the news, nearly all over times it was invision.

I meant the BBC logo.

Playdays, as discussed here, was still using it inconsistently until it ended in 1997. The show would've still been in reruns beyond then.

http://i66.tinypic.com/jt76lx.jpg

Shows made by indies had all sorts of iffy interpretations of the BBC logo during the 90s.

Presumably its physical footprint existed simply as a board in CAR that wasn't taking up any otherwise useful space so to remove it would be unnecessary effort.

CAR?? That's one that needs to go in the dictionary, like ECP.

So... what the blithering flip does CAR stand for, then?

Central African Republic

Central Apparatus Room. Lots of TV facilities have them - in TV Centre, it was in the centre wedge, third floor, and was subsumed into CCA (Central Communications Area). You'll probably find some old-school engineers who still answer the phone with 'CAR', just as some MCR2 engineers will still call it SCAR.

(SCAR was SPUR Central Apparatus Room, or Sub-Central Apparatus Room depending on who you asked - originally in Stage 5, and later near the end of the News Centre in Stage VI. Some people referred to the second one as SCAR6.)

It’s a contraption that lets you get from one place to another by the use of petrol.

There is still a role/operation called 'CAR', which does all the stuff they used to in TVC, except the bits actually involving TVC.

I assume they just couldn't think what else to call it. CCA still exists, but again it doesn't - its not central or an area

There is also lots of debate about whether SCAR is the role and MCR2 the location...