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the stv thread

john04 posted:
Problems again at stv. A few minutes ago we had the ITV1 still caption, and now we just had two ITV1 branded trailers. No stv ident into the news just a stv still.


Yes, I noticed that too cos I was watching the programme on Freddie Mercury. Looked as if there was a problem with the ad break
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ITV50 Promos

mauritius posted:
Are SMG & UTV going to use them?


Not sure, if they did it would be with their own branding.
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New ITV1 promotions

SMG are showing the new drama promo as well but with their trademark 'squares'. I think the promo looks rather good. They are also showing the X-Factor break bumper too.
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ITV to ditch yellow and blue identity

Antz posted:
...and hopefully, SMG might think of changing their pres aswell!


Yeah I hope so. They're STILL using the first batch of Celeb Idents, some of whom are no longer in any of the programmes. Even if they updated them to something similar to what the main ITV1 idents are now, it would be a step in the right direction but I don't see that happening any time soon.
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ITV Day

scottishtv posted:
rdd posted:
If it is ITV Day Wales in Wales, is it ITV Day Scotland in Scotland???


Nope, nope.

I think it's been mentioned, but Scottish have stuck with their old style blue Celebrity 'Mark I' idents. They ran the long new promo for ITV Day just before Loose Women (the one that features the 'faces' of the daytime schedule) but it had a blue Scottish/Grampian generic endboard with the heading simply 'Daytime'. Complete colour clash really - orange themed promo with a blue endboard.

A bit disappointing really considering ITV Day branded posters have been heavily promoting the new schedule on bus stops and outdoor billboards across Edinburgh. Not sure about the rest of the country.

Pretty poorly thought out in terms of brand recognition there then. I'm guessing ITV decided to promote the new scedule UK wide but weren't willing to tailor the outdoor adverts for Scotland. Seeing as SMG probably wouldn't pay for alterations or meeting the advertising costs, I guess decided to just let them go ahead with the ads as they were.


As usual, Scottish & Grampian haven't bothered at all. I can't say that it surprises me. Like UTV, although they are part of ITV, Scottish & Grampian are fiercely independent. Anything to do with ITV1 on air is frowned upon.
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ITV Day

tvguy posted:
Maybe Scottish,Grampian,UTV and Channel aren't going to network ITV Day.Maybe they'll just use their normal idents and pres.


That sounds about right I think. Not sure about UTV, but I don't think that Scottish or Grampian will use any ITV Day idents or pres at all.
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SMG now/next/later continuity

Antz posted:
As much as I hate the celebrity idents, they should at least get the updated package (if any package at all!). I still feel they should take ITV1 though and rename Scottish to ITV1 Scottish but making sure theres no drop in the small amount of regional TV we already have.


I would agree with that. The current celebrity idents are very outdated and feature some people who no longer feature on the programmes. An update of some sort is well overdue. I would have ITV1 Scottish and ITV1 Grampian because their regional identities are very strong up here.
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2005 regional programmes in Scotland.

p_c_u_k posted:


Weir's Way is scheduled in the middle of the night, btw, because it's a joke in this day and age to repeat a programme that old. Can you image that in prime time? It appears only to exist to a) meet the regional quota and b) attract a cult audience of students etc.


Is it also used as a schedule filler as well perhaps cos they can't be bothered to find anything else?
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Blackhill Transmitter Fault?

Steve in Pudsey posted:
Off-air or showing the apology caption?


Off air completely - just white noise on screen.
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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone Smile
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Blackhill Transmitter Fault?

Does anyone know if there's a problem with the Blackhill Transmitter? It seems that both Scottish TV and Channel 4 have gone off air. It seems to be fine on DSAT though.
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Christmas Idents Thread 2003

Lewis c posted:
Well STV have a festive ident . It is the same as the mock of the ITV 1 ident here on this thread with the snow flakes on the blue background (Or is it a mock ?.) It has Scottish TV on the ident obviously .Looks realy nice well done to SMG take it all back about you being meangie .


Yes, I 've just seen that Ident actually, better late than never I guess.