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A former member
Only UK games are 16:9 normally, but Sky Sports had Rangers in 4:3 for some reason
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ohwhatanight Founding member
Hmmm -surely you can see that the ITV1 match (manchester united) was in pure 16:9 (as you put it!) - shown below.

Whereas the ITV2 match (chelsea) was actually broadcast in 16:9 but the action was only within a 4:3 portion contained within it ie - a 4:3 match!

Also ITV Sport had its very own spider for a few minutes of the second half!

http://members.lycos.co.uk/ohwhatanight/itvspider.JPG
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A former member
As said previously, games on the continent are generally broadcast in 4:3, while the games in the UK are 16:9.

I think SKY will broadcast every match in 4:3 due to the interactive nature of the broadcasts - one thing less for them to mess up I imagine.

I do like the new 'curtains' that are on ITV2 though.. and i'm surprised they never used the Scottish and Grampian logos on the menu.
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A former member
Did Scottish, Grampian, and UTV change their idents on 1st September. If they're using the old ones that might be why - they don't want to modify the graphics mid-season. That's probably why ITV2's logo was out of date as well.
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Andrew Founding member
Digifiend posted:
Did Scottish, Grampian, and UTV change their idents on 1st September. If they're using the old ones that might be why - they don't want to modify the graphics mid-season. That's probably why ITV2's logo was out of date as well.


Does that make sense to anyone?
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Square Eyes Founding member
A couple of ITV Sport related schedule changes to look out for on ITV1 :

Sunday 28th September

6pm ITV News
6.15pm F1: USA Grand Prix Live
9pm Boudica

no Corrie, Heatbeat etc. scheduled.

Tuesday 30th September

5pm Regional News
5.15pm Champions League Live
7.30pm ITV Evening News

with News at Ten scheduled for 10pm as well.
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Andrew Founding member
Although these listings are still subject to change, Digiguide have slotted Coronation Street in at 4.45pm which must be wrong as ITV would probably rather put regional programming here and Corrie directly before the Grand Prix.



Then on the Tuesday, the Celtic game is on at the normal time meaning STV, Grampian and Border Scotland are showing football from 5.15pm until 10pm, presented by Jim Delahunt
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Richards
Hi Sqware eyes, were do you get the information on the schedules from, for the last weekend of this month, thanks for any help given, Richards.
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Square Eyes Founding member
Richards posted:
Hi Sqware eyes, were do you get the information on the schedules from, for the last weekend of this month, thanks for any help given, Richards.

Hi, they are available from www.radiotimes.co.uk in the listings section. They go up to Tuesday 30th September, but the listings aren't fully complete and may be subject to change.
RI
Richards
Thanks a lot, and sorry for spelling your name wrong
RD
rdd Founding member
Digifiend posted:
Did Scottish, Grampian, and UTV change their idents on 1st September. If they're using the old ones that might be why - they don't want to modify the graphics mid-season. That's probably why ITV2's logo was out of date as well.


AFAIK STV and Grampian are still using the pre-Sept 1 look.

UTV has changed its trailers but not its ident(s). (Theoretically it has the full set pre Sept 1st + their own ones. In practice... they use only that damn blue ident!)
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A former member
Square Eyes posted:
A couple of ITV Sport related schedule changes to look out for on ITV1 :

Sunday 28th September

6pm ITV News
6.15pm F1: USA Grand Prix Live
9pm Boudica

no Corrie, Heatbeat etc. scheduled.

Tuesday 30th September

5pm Regional News
5.15pm Champions League Live
7.30pm ITV Evening News

with News at Ten scheduled for 10pm as well.


Your right..... the final schedule is Tuesday 30th September


1515 CITV
1700 Local News and Weather
1715 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE “Lokomotive Moscow V Arsenal”
1930 ITV EVENING NEWS AND WEATHER
2000 IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN.. ON A REALITY TELEVISION SHOW
2100 FILM: GOLDENEYE
2230 ITV NEWS AND WEATHER INCLUDING Local News
2300 FILM: GOLDENEYE CONTD

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