GMTV's Regional Blunders

I'll start with three:

1. Emma in Anglia looks at herself in the mirror before realizing she's on air.

2. Yvonne in Anglia is caught turning on her mic and fiddling with her bra.

3. Sally in Anglia was turned on correctly however she was knocked off 10 seconds after she is on air.

Notice they're all... weird?

P.S. I'm only new so please PLEASE reply! thanks a bunch!

Well the general way GMTV works is if the STC regions are not opted in that means most places below Central (excluding Anglia) are knocked off and not going to appear. If it happens in one region it's more than likely to happen in all others and vice versa for NTC regions (Central to Border and Wales)

Central's way of avoiding crashing back to GMTV's holding slide is a simple one. They have a GMTV Caption with "GMTV Continues Shortly" on it. Should anything happen with their local systems they just throw that to air and try and get the news reader to give a message like "We apologise for the loss of programming, GMTV continues with XXX and YYY in just a moment" whilst playing the 1993 music.

Doesn't the holding slide look exactly as you describe anyway?

It actually doesn't. It's hard to describe it but it's not the same.

Are you referring to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKWSZGogRMs ?

No. This one I'm on about has no thought in it at all. It's GMTV's logo with "CONTINUES SHORTLY" in ITV Medium on top. It doesn't animate and they use the full titles track and not the holding track.

[quote="Michael W" It's GMTV's logo with "CONTINUES SHORTLY" in ITV Medium on top. It doesn't animate and they use the full titles track and not the holding track.[/quote]

That's the name of the ITV font! Where can you find it?

The ITV font is called "ITV", in 4 weights; Regular, Bold, Medium and Light. It's only available within ITV (Although others have got it now). It can't be distributed here as it's a custom font for ITV and the foundries (font libraries) get annoyed if it's publicly available. It was designed by Fontsmith for ITV.

OK then, Michael. Would you know any similar fonts to it except Calibri (free aswell!)

Calibri is probably the closest.

Just looking at the above and I swear Yvonne from Central was fiddling with her mic/talkback and her bra. I don't think she's from Anglia.

I thought so aswell. Well, thanks anyway! Have a nice day.

Oh my gosh! I just found the perfect match for it! You have to pay for it but it would be great for just a one-off small use. http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/preusstype/phoenica-std-office/regular/