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dazza1976

Goodbye TVF Gallery

pip2 posted:
Forgive me... but I just wanted to post one last time, to say thank you for taking the time to wander through the Gallery over the years, and for your feedback. I'll miss this place.

Goodnight, and thanks for watching.



pip2, your mock for HTV's Report West, using the TF1 start-up theme, was always my favourite. Thank you.
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dazza1976

Best and Worst Regional Titles and Themes

Markymark posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
NorthTonight posted:
An example of North Tonight “ Summer Edition “. Judging by the ITV corporate logo and the presenters, this is early 90s. I don’t think the summer version lasted much longer than this. Hard to believe from the titles or the set there going to be any news, although they had the good grace to have the news from the “ news desk “.

https://youtu.be/i0szmbiSW5U

That used to be quite common. The nightly programmes were more regional magazine shows with some news rather than a full news bulletin that we're used to now.

Sourthern's Day by Day and Westward Diary are good examples, they had the news read from a seperate news desk while the main presenter did the more featurey stuff:


In the case of Day by Day, the news slot was also the point were there was an opt out for SE news, presented from Southampton's IVC studio?


Unless it was on a Friday (or in later years, on a Wednesday as well) as it would have been Scene South East / Scene Midweek from Dover with a (pre-recorded?) news summary from Southampton.
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dazza1976

What was your favorite regional ITV station growing up?

Did the TSW continuity studio move location during the franchise? In it's later days it looked so much bigger than originally - or was that just a wider shot?
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dazza1976

ITV News

itsrobert posted:
Sad to hear about Richard Lindley. I've got his book about ITN somewhere, it was a good read from what I can remember.

While we're on the subject of ITN in years gone by, I've come across a newly uploaded video that is the earliest example of a News at 545 bulletin that I've ever seen. It's from 1977 and is from the time when Alastair Burnet was still at the helm. Sadly, it's only the closing moments, but interesting to see the wideshot of the studio and the luminous pink/purple (can't quite tell which due to my colour blindness) background behind Alastair. It seems they made some tweaks to the bulletin's presentation at some point by the early 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuKqs60wQDM


HTV using the same theme as Southern did for 'Scene South East' there!
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dazza1976

BBC regional news - Now with added Reith

rob posted:
theTOTHlad2002 posted:
thegeek posted:
Are any nations or regions using a title sequence older than BBC Alba's An Là, which has been on its original look since September 2008?

Wales Today

Reporting Scotland
Newsline
South Today
South East Today
Look East (I think)


South Today's current titles have been in use since 2014.

http://newspres.co.uk/bbc-news/bbc-regional-news/bbc-south-today/bbc-south-today-2010-2019/


South East Today's titles and theme have also been in use since 2014, when the new set was introduced.
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dazza1976

Saturday morning TV memories

One of my earliest ever memories was recovering in Maidstone's Ophthalmic Hospital after having my tonsils out, watching Noel Edmonds on Swap Shop. Wasn't allowed to watch Tiswas!

After that finished, I watched a bit of Saturday Superstore but, being a Maidstone kid, had to watch No. 73. This lost it's charm when Sandi Toksvig left and it morphed into "7T3" so went back to the other side and Going Live. I may have watched a little bit of Motormouth, but I was getting a bit too old by that stage!
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dazza1976

Twenty Years of the Thunderclaps

For me, the best versions were the blue English Regions titles. Would love a clean version of these, especially the ending - were there two edits of this?

Off topic I know, but I wonder what South East Today would have been like before the corporate era had come in (a challenge for any mockers out there)?
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dazza1976

Split Personality

noggin posted:

I think there was a circuit from (and a remote control DTL studio in) Chatham in the Elstree days, not sure if it went back as far as London Plus, and
ISTR that Robin Gibson was largely the main (only?) Newsroom South East reporter based in/reporting on Kent back in those days?


There was a remote control studio in Radio Kent's Sun Pier studios. They opened in 1986, I wouldn't have thought the previous studios in the High Street would have had the room.

When Radio Kent moved to Tunbridge Wells, they kept a Medway radio studio and TV inject point in Pier Chambers, next door to Sun Pier. Think that quietly closed a couple of years ago or so, the building is now missing all of it's BBC signage.

You're right about Robin Gibson - and he's still here! Laughing
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dazza1976

The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Steve Williams posted:
dazza1976 posted:
The pilot was from Lincolnshire?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46966424


Yes, and a local man dying in a high profile plane crash that is the main story on the national news is absolutely a legitimate story for the local news. You may wish to compare it to the Scunthorpe Telegraph website which has it as the top story and three of the top five stories, plus rolling live coverage - https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe. So it's clearly big news in Scunthorpe.

BBC Wales are covering it in great depth despite it not happening in Wales and neither person involved being from Wales. Presumably that's not right either.

By this regard you can suggest they shouldn't feature anything a local MP does in Parliament. They're not doing it in the region.


Many thanks, but I was just pointing out the local connection 😉
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dazza1976

The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Brekkie posted:
radiolistener posted:
Tonight's top story on Levy Live.

The lost plane over Alderney.

You cannot make this up.

How did they justify that. Can't see any tedious link at all.


The pilot was from Lincolnshire?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46966424
Steve Williams and London Lite gave kudos
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dazza1976

Tyne Tees & Border/Look North (NE & Cumbria)

Inspector Sands posted:
Isn't the ITV region formally known as HTV West still in it's original building?


Yes, but I think only a small part of it now?
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dazza1976

26th Anniversary of the biggest shake up in ITV

Markymark posted:
Markymark posted:
noggin posted:

I hadn't realised TVS split Hannington for News in the latter part of its tenure.

As you describe it as an opt (which were a bit unusual for ITV) was it an opt-out during Coast to Coast from Southampton ?


Yes, started on Dec 12th 1988, (the day of the Clapham Rail crash, total co-incidence)

It was a five minute opt-out within Coast to Coast (as mentioned thrown to from a DVE image of both presenters)

The 22:30 weekday bulletin was completely separate. Also there was a local arts show that had a separate
'what's on' segment. Probably that was a three way split ? Split ads for Hannington also came in at the same time too, if not a few weeks prior to Dec 12th ?

Edit: Additional. Heathfield also had a similar opt out from Maidstone's Coast to Coast programme. How did that work ?


And here is a screen shot of that Heathfield opt from summer 1991, sent to me by someone who has been following this thread. A young Philip Hornby I think, and interesting there's a left hand cue dot ?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r8ilo0dbj153ku3/heathfield.png?dl=0


Markymark posted:
dazza1976 posted:
Markymark posted:

I think the Heathfield opt must have been presented from Maidstone, I just wonder what the studio and playout arrangements were ?


Yes, that is definitely a young Phil Hornby. Thank you for posting the picture, never saw the opt-out at the time as I received the main Maidstone programme.

That looks like the small studio used for the short TVS News bulletins, just with different signage?


Then most probably pretty much a mirror of arrangements at Southampton for the Hannington opt.

Perhaps the cue dot was there 24/7 on Heathfield for survey purposes. Hannington had one, albeit a very fiant small white square for a couple of months. Heathfield has quite an overlap with usage with Dover and BBH (as Hannington and Rowridge do, and that caught Meridian out when they launched a full sub region on Hannington)


Actually, now I've looked at it again, is Phil sitting in front of a chromakey setup? There's a bit of a blue tinge around him... 🤔