25 years since ITV Schools ended.

Here's S4C's version of the roto:


Here's a long ITV Schools on S4C roto (IIRC they had to butcher the Channel 4 versions of these to make S4C ones) complete with small technical error at the clock:


But as a general rule very long gaps between programmes on ITV Schools on Channel 4 was quite rare, on average about two minutes was the norm. Here's a video that claims to be from the first day of the then new service which has actually very short gaps between programmes, even from the initial slide-in/start-up to the first programme:

Did S4C air Welsh school programmes before ITV Schools moved to C4?

I wonder if he quit work the next day?

Yes, it appears they did. English-language HTV Wales schools programmes remained on HTV Wales itself until 1987 but from S4C’s launch in 1982 (or shortly afterwards) Welsh-language HTV schools programmes moved to S4C, along with Welsh-language schools programmes made by BBC Wales.

How gloriously 80s!

I always loved the music on that clock. Also reminds me of being back in primary school and being all excited when the TV was rolled in on the cart as it meant we could stop learning and watch the telly for a bit!

Am I imagining things or did I hear that Yorkshire showed selected How We Used To Live in a late evening slot? Perhaps as part of commemorating a war related anniversary?

The video from the first day of ITV Schools on 4 is genuine, but the thing is, I would suspect that a couple of the junctions were longer than in the video. It's probably been edited to meet any youtube restrictions on time.

On ITV, when a region opted out to show its own programming, I assume they had copies of the national slides. On the now defunct Sub-TV website, it showed a "SCHOOLS ON STV" slide, which it said was used when the local programme finished early, and before the national continuity returned.

But did every ITV region have their own slide like STV, or a stock of the national slides?

Ahh so many memories of going into the TV room at Primary School. Even back then I always wondered how that was created

The same site also shows that Westward had it's own slides.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160304182407/http://sub-tv.co.uk/itvschools.asp

Grampian never had branded slides even before regional opt outs. They just had he generic ITV Schools picture “ slides “ before going into the countdown clock with name of the programme.

When you watch the bit where the "rotomotion" fades into the clock, I think they were both on different tapes and mixed between each other, you notice the fades can be quite different when you watch different videos of different junctions.