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Out of the regions I got to see back then. London, Central, TVS, and TSW, I only ever saw Thames and LWT do the announcements. Thames used the option to promote Thames News at six.
It always looked to me, that the announcements were pre recorded, so I think they were just loaded up on the cart machines that ran the C4 breaks.
Every ITV company had a 'playout suite' for the C4 ads. I think continuity suite is too strong a word. I recall one evening the main network feeds (for all four channels) into Southampton failed. It took about 10-15 mins for TVS to punch up an apology card on C4, and even longer for music to appear. However they still ran the ad breaks in the allotted slots.
That's not to say that other ITV companies might have had more extensive facilites. Don't forget that the S4C 'suite' at HTV Cardiff, was used from Jan 1 1993 to provide Westcountry's playout, although the pres studio itself was was still located in Plymouth.
As for IVC at closedown, yes, had that from day 1, and here is day 1:-
Note the funky C4 chair, from 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6ZobKTlQM
Yes, I have heard an ex-LWT person refer there being a 'Channel 4 continuity suite' at the South Bank. Yes, as they had to put adverts into the channel all day it would have been straightforward as long as they had the correct slides for the ready in advance.
Presumably the reason it had to be done locally and not networked was because Bullseye was at a different time in every region although if that was only going out in London I'm surprised they didn't brand it 'LWT' rather than 'ITV'.
It must have been quite a regular thing if they hired someone especially for it, again presumably because the weekend schedules weren't as networked so there was less cross-promotion
Presumably the reason it had to be done locally and not networked was because Bullseye was at a different time in every region although if that was only going out in London I'm surprised they didn't brand it 'LWT' rather than 'ITV'.
That clip would be from LWT, I believe Trish started her career with LWT announcing for channel 4 only.
It must have been quite a regular thing if they hired someone especially for it, again presumably because the weekend schedules weren't as networked so there was less cross-promotion
Out of the regions I got to see back then. London, Central, TVS, and TSW, I only ever saw Thames and LWT do the announcements. Thames used the option to promote Thames News at six.
It always looked to me, that the announcements were pre recorded, so I think they were just loaded up on the cart machines that ran the C4 breaks.
Every ITV company had a 'playout suite' for the C4 ads. I think continuity suite is too strong a word. I recall one evening the main network feeds (for all four channels) into Southampton failed. It took about 10-15 mins for TVS to punch up an apology card on C4, and even longer for music to appear. However they still ran the ad breaks in the allotted slots.
That's not to say that other ITV companies might have had more extensive facilites. Don't forget that the S4C 'suite' at HTV Cardiff, was used from Jan 1 1993 to provide Westcountry's playout, although the pres studio itself was was still located in Plymouth.
As for IVC at closedown, yes, had that from day 1, and here is day 1:-
Note the funky C4 chair, from 1:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6ZobKTlQM
Last edited by Markymark on 16 December 2011 7:54am