Classic Nickelodeon Presentation

Going back to the earlier discussion of Paramount and Cable TV....

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From August 1997, a Promo they started showing at 6.58pm to annoy people who don't have the channel, instead for us we always had The Performance Channel

But Good News was on the Horizon...
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....but a bit of Bad News to go with it....(well not that bad)
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Blimey! Good to see the old Channel Guide again! This must've been just before the "TV Today" era...

Of course, in my area the channel numbers were slightly different.

It was a useful service, with a useful Teletext service, plus it also played some dodgy German Radio station usually, and it was on Channel 50, which in our area now is ITV News for some reason.

We got Cable installed when Nynex was changing, so where it says Cable & Wireless, it used to say NYNEX Channel Guide.

Yes, the main Guide Channel was on Channel 50 in my area too (Videotron then C&W) but I think there was a duplicate on channel 5 as well - and It used to be on a few channels when they weren't on air. I think the audio accompaniment in our area was Virgin Radio (and before that in the early 90s Videotron used to relay the Dutch Sky Radio!)

Interesting that your captures show C&W logos on 30th August '97, as I think C&W didn't officially take over till 1st September 97? I think this was also the same day Paramount came to our area too.

It was certainately that month they started to phase in the C&W brand, again like you said it appeared on loads of channels when they were off the air, some in that month had special 'Engineering Notice' captions instead telling people to not switch off the box.

They also made a promo to explain the change, they showed it on the channels they sometimes opt-ed out of the adverts from such as Carlton Select and UK Gold.

You're not wrong there!

I only watched those 2 channels once.

SKY 2 on it's first night, when they were showing X Files, & Talk was probably one of Frosties old progs!

Granada Talk TV had basically lots of phone-in programmes, the only one I remember was F2F hosted by Sacha Baron Cohen before he metamorphasised into Ali G.

And it spawned the TV career of N*t**ha K*p**n**y.

And those screen caps of Nickelodeon have brought back some great memories, most of which seemed to be watching back-to-back episodes of Rugrats... I remember Helen Chamberlain presenting on the channel around 1994 before she moved to Sky Sports, Sarah Cawood definitely suits being a redhead though!

I too remember Nick Pirate TV - the presenters gave the impression that the channel was closing down for the night, played the closedown ident, then popped up again about a minute later. Great stuff indeed.

Anyone remember when Paramount first launched that their time-keeping was often erratic? Most nights programmes would run late, sometimes run early, and didn't they have Phill Jupitus as a continuity announcer at some point? And of course, the legendary Mailbox on PText... happy days.

Yes and Andrea Boardman wore a huge split skirt, so much so she spent the whole of that show sat in the one position.

They had Phill Jupitus as their only announcer for quite some time. He even did a couple of in-vision links, as a bit of a piss-take of Channel 4, who were occasionally doing them too.

Aaaah, and Mailbox. Pissed my parents off no end by reading that...

Some more stuff for you

What's happening here then, a Bradford Traveller bus with a Nickelodeon logo in the window
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Yes Nickelodeon opened a studio at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. Here's Mike McClean
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Basically a studio and display was built in the old TV-AM space on Level 6. There were huge cabinets of broadcast equipment with the aim of broadcasting live from there and a new Bradford based presenter was introduced
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Sadly the whole thing was a farce, the studio was never used, they never broadcast live from there and the presenter was never seen on air. The area was closed when the museum closed for it's refit. I don't think you can access Level 6 anymore.

When was each studio bit actually on?

Thats going back a few years, we went when it was the TV AM set but i always wanted to go when Nick where there.