Yes, Yorkshire were one of the regions who continued to put a frontcap on their shows after 1988, and continued to show the frontcaps of other regions, such as Granada, if they were present on the tapes. I assume YTV weren’t too happy about the IBA’s decision to discontinue them, having spent millions the previous year on their new Liquid Gold ident package.
Yet they took the ITV generic look the following year. And they weren't under any obligation to do that either, even if they felt they were.
Liquid Gold had already been dumped a few months previously for a 21st anniversary ident.
Yet they took the ITV generic look the following year. And they weren't under any obligation to do that either, even if they felt they were.
Funnily enough the fourth series of Home To Roost, that I mentioned, has the Liquid Gold frontcap at the start, but the 1989 generic endcap at the end!
Liquid Gold had already been dumped a few months previously for a 21st anniversary ident.
Besides themselves, what was stopping them from going back to Liquid Gold after the celebrations had ended?
I assume they felt that they *had* to adopt the generic look (although, of course, they had it modified after a while to make the chevron more prominent). Likewise Tyne Tees, whose Flowing Rivers ident was even younger than Liquid Gold yet almost as impressive and probably not much less expensive, either.
On the other hand, Anglia certainly didn't feel they had to adopt it - not after introducing an ident that cost over ten times as much as Liquid Gold...
Likewise Tyne Tees, whose Flowing Rivers ident was even younger than Liquid Gold yet almost as impressive and probably not much less expensive, either.
I've only recently seen a decent capture of this ident, and it was far better than anything I'd seen previously. All the other renditions were barely legible, as you couldn't see the name of the region in white lettering on a yellow background (a mistake ITV repeated in the 2000s).
Going back a few pages for the episodes coming from a zoomed timecoded copy, I'd guess that the 1" tapes were damaged, which is not uncommon - some 80s Dr Who's had long scratches on the tapes.
Another thing I've noticed in the Rovers since it was revamped after the fire is there's a sort of vertical "divider" at the end of one of the booths, that makes the gap between it and the bar VERY narrow, that seems to come and go between episodes. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, as if the set designers knew it was a nusicance. But it still comes and goes for years, it was doing its coming and going act into the end of 1988 at least.
Here's a screenshot of it:
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Well into 1988 now, important year for broadcasting and Corrie itself. Looking at the archives, it says an episode of Corrie cost the ITV companies £120,000 an hour, to NaT's £115,000. Winter Olympics cost £30,000 an hour in comparison.
The Coronation Street cast saw their pay double because of ITV's decision to air a Sunday omnibus. Greg Dyke said something like: "We think the rating system is a joke; we might as well join in."
Am I right in thinking the tours began in 1988 too?
The Sunday omnibus didn't start until 1989. And for whatever reason it never included the Friday episode once that started.
Actually it did. From late 1989, the Monday episode was repeated at 3.30pm on a Wednesday, and the Wednesday and Friday episodes were shown as an omnibus on a Sunday.
Most regions dropped the Wednesday afternoon episode at different points during 1990 and 1991 so it was the Monday episode that didn’t get a repeat for several years.
