Ever so slightly OT, but I've just found this on ITV Local Cymru, probably a rare Tiswas (which really showed off Broad St studios) clip, featuring Afron Haines Davies.
Hey chaps, sorry to bump this thread, but I haven't been around for a while and I've only just noticed this thread. You may be interested to hear that the ATV sign/logo is alive and well (and has been repaired, as the demolition people actually broke it in two... as can just about see in the first 'rubble' photo!).
It was rescued from the rubble by a member of the ATVLAND.net forums. We spotted the logo in the rubble from the same photo shown above and quickly got on to the people who currently own the building (it hasn't been ITV for a number of years). Thankfully they were more than happy for us to go along and collect it... so we did. That's not me in the photo BTW, it's one of the chaps who helped obtain the logo, which is now in the safekeeping of another member of the team based in Manchester.
We got onto this quite quickly. You see I'm actually serving as Producer of a new video documentary about the ATV Centre, being made by the team on ATVland.net - it's an in depth look at the actual history of the Centre as a production facility, concentrating on the people who worked there. We're filming many interviews with famous people and behind-the-scenes staff alike, and we're hoping to feature footage of the Centre in action dating from many years ago up until the present day (some of you may have seen a clip of me re-visiting the Centre in a Central News report - on Tiswasonline.com - we got a good deal of footage in the can on that day I can tell you!) and so obviously we've been in close contact with the developers of the site for a long time.
As for the logo/sign itself, it made its first official public appearance at the recent ATV Land met-up, last Sunday, in Birmingham (photos on the ATV Land forum). It's being cleaned up, safely repaired, and remounted on a new background soon, and hopefully will be making an appearance at future meetings too (it'll no doubt be there for the Programme's launch party... as and when).
As I say, more details about the programme and the logo (article coming soon) via the site and forums at ATVLAND.net
Hey chaps, sorry to bump this thread, but I haven't been around for a while and I've only just noticed this thread. You may be interested to hear that the ATV sign/logo is alive and well (and has been repaired, as the demolition people actually broke it in two... as can just about see in the first 'rubble' photo!).
It was rescued from the rubble by a member of the ATVLAND.net forums. We spotted the logo in the rubble from the same photo shown above and quickly got on to the people who currently own the building (it hasn't been ITV for a number of years). Thankfully they were more than happy for us to go along and collect it... so we did. That's not me in the photo BTW, it's one of the chaps who helped obtain the logo, which is now in the safekeeping of another member of the team based in Manchester.
We got onto this quite quickly. You see I'm actually serving as Producer of a new video documentary about the ATV Centre, being made by the team on ATVland.net - it's an in depth look at the actual history of the Centre as a production facility, concentrating on the people who worked there. We're filming many interviews with famous people and behind-the-scenes staff alike, and we're hoping to feature footage of the Centre in action dating from many years ago up until the present day (some of you may have seen a clip of me re-visiting the Centre in a Central News report - on Tiswasonline.com - we got a good deal of footage in the can on that day I can tell you!) and so obviously we've been in close contact with the developers of the site for a long time.
As for the logo/sign itself, it made its first official public appearance at the recent ATV Land met-up, last Sunday, in Birmingham (photos on the ATV Land forum). It's being cleaned up, safely repaired, and remounted on a new background soon, and hopefully will be making an appearance at future meetings too (it'll no doubt be there for the Programme's launch party... as and when).
As I say, more details about the programme and the logo (article coming soon) via the site and forums at ATVLAND.net
Hope you guys don't mind the site plug!
Thanks for the info, nice to see that the logo was salvagable (sp). Shame that it wasn't treated in higher regard by it's previous owners
So was the photograph taken by chance? I suppose it was lucky that the photo was made. Also it was lucky that the right people found the pohtograph otherwise the sign wouldn't have been discovered! I dread to think how often things like that happen!
Who took the photograph, and where was it distrubuted/publicised?
