They've been showing that for a few years now (according to Digiguide, this is the 6th year).
It's been going longer than that. Presumably Digiguide either doesn't go that far back, or Betway has only had their name in the title for the last six years. I've got a feeling it used to be sponsored by Lloyds TSB.
Kinda on topic - is Channel TV now played out from Chiswick, along with the other “southern” regions? I read a while ago that they still relied in part on a feed of Meridian - but I assume that’s no longer the case? So Channel Report and other live content is fed to the mainland and inserted into the “Channel TV broadcast feed” in a similar way to any other region, with no local switching taking place on the Islands? Therefore opt outs and time-shifting is all handled at Chiswick?
I would have expected in this day and age for Channel to “get to air” the same way as any other ITV region, but the mention relatively recently of a “slightly soiled” Meridian feed being used by/for Channel has left me a little puzzled.
I would have expected in this day and age for Channel to “get to air” the same way as any other ITV region, but the mention relatively recently of a “slightly soiled” Meridian feed being used by/for Channel has left me a little puzzled.
Channel did used to take a dirty feed from Meridian, which meant that if Channel opted out of the network for a regional programme, and then showed the network programme in a different slot, it was shown as it was originally broadcast on the network (like an off-air recording), i.e. with the network voiceover and ECP on the end credits, which would have been a bit confusing for Channel viewers.
That's now a thing of the past, and is now the same as regions like Wales and Border Scottish in terms of opt-outs, so I'm assuming that means playout is now done from Chiswick.
Sometimes in the past I think they'd show adverts for companies that didn't operate in the Channel Islands, because they often took a Westward/TSW/TVS/Meridian advertising feed. Certainly there is, or was, a YouTube clip from 1985 - the last year they followed TSW - where they take a British Rail advert, and the Channel Islands have no railways at all.
In their early years they were notable for having extremely posh female announcers, as in the audio clip (from 31st August 1969, both an important 30th anniversary period and, much less commonly known, an important 10th anniversary period) Transdiffusion made available years ago where they plug Chelsea vs Palace in The Big Match. I have no doubt this came from a feeling that the elderly tax exiles who lived there might, in that strangely paradoxical way where supporters of the party that supported commercial broadcasting were less likely actually to watch or listen to it than supporters of the party that didn't, have an instinctive BBC loyalism and wariness of commercialism, as indeed similar people often did in regions like Southern, so they felt a need to present themselves in such a way as to lure such people in. And they did do very well locally, if anything better than the English "shire" franchise holders.
Sometimes in the past I think they'd show adverts for companies that didn't operate in the Channel Islands, because they often took a Westward/TSW/TVS/Meridian advertising feed. Certainly there is, or was, a YouTube clip from 1985 - the last year they followed TSW - where they take a British Rail advert, and the Channel Islands have no railways at all.
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They relied on Westward, then TSW, and finally TVS to provide them with national advertising. For this, they were simply paid a percentage commission to rebroadcast the ads. When I've been on the CIs they either opted out at the start of a break, or (more usually) at the end with their local cinema style local ads (presumably when the mainland stations were showing theirs).
I don't think 1982 to 93 Channel provided any local ads on C4. I think C4 off air from the mainland was fed directly to Fremont Point, and TSW/TVS paid Channel a percentage ?
When Channel took TVS's dirty feed, those of us living in the TVS region used to frequently see "(Except in the Channel Islands)" or "(Not in the Channel Islands)" disclaimers on adverts. I'd assumed this was because advertisers and the IBA were aware that commercials broadcast on TVS would also be seen in the Channel Islands.
Wasn't an OB link of some sort taken over to Jersey for one of the Telethons?
You might be right. I also remember an edition of TVS's version of Question Time (called I think Questions) coming from Jersey. Rather like the BBC TV version, it was recorded earlier in the evening, and shown after News at Ten, on a Monday I think. Same format, in fact it was a TV version of Radio 4's programme, both at the time were presented by David Jacobs. It was topical, so the Jersey show must have been recorded the same evening. Either the IBA turned up again with their uplink, or quite possibly they charted a plane to fly the tape to Southampton (or booked a normal scheduled flight !)
When Channel took TVS's dirty feed, those of us living in the TVS region used to frequently see "(Except in the Channel Islands)" or "(Not in the Channel Islands)" disclaimers on adverts. I'd assumed this was because advertisers and the IBA were aware that commercials broadcast on TVS would also be seen in the Channel Islands.
I remember seeing this quite regularly even well into the Meridian era but assumed at the time that it was included in adverts for all ITV regions rather than specifically included only for adverts in the south and south east region. I can also remember adverts with not in the IOM on them that weren't being broadcast by Border.
I think this tended to be the case when the advert was for insurance products such as car and home. I suspect it may for legal reasons. I remember seeing insurance adverts as not available in Northern Ireland With the same disclaimer.
