Maybe Mr Currie will be able to put a name to that face?
I'm not being funny, but the title of that YouTube clip is
Scottish TV end of Scottish News Headlines Fraser Coutts in-vision into Charlie 20th January 1987
Maybe Mr Currie will be able to put a name to that face?
I'm not being funny, but the title of that YouTube clip is
Scottish TV end of Scottish News Headlines Fraser Coutts in-vision into Charlie 20th January 1987
So, erm, Fraser Coutts by any chance ?
I think the YT title has been edited recently, as it didn’t name the announcer last time I checked.
Not sure if these help with the Tyne Tees timeline, but the documentary 'Meanwhile Back in Sunderland' - first seen locally on 7 May 1973 has the TTTV colour animation. https://youtu.be/XO0RmJTUgu8
And the 'Doing Things' documentary on racing pigeons, networked on 25 June that year carries the still version of the above. https://youtu.be/GSL6kWoAMIo
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So its possible the animated version come in to use in 73? but the Slide was used until 74 and there was a mix? Maybe the still was only used for front caps?
Last edited by A former member on 24 January 2018 6:55pm - 2 times in total
From memory, the 70s animated ident was rarely, if ever, used as part of continuity, only as a frontcap burnt onto TTT-produced programmes. I can’t remember it even being used on Northern Life, the flagship regional news magazine, but I may be wrong. Most programmes in that era were introduced with IVC, or in the case of the ITN News, a clock.
Not sure if these help with the Tyne Tees timeline, but the documentary 'Meanwhile Back in Sunderland' - first seen locally on 7 May 1973 has the TTTV colour animation. https://youtu.be/XO0RmJTUgu8
And the 'Doing Things' documentary on racing pigeons, networked on 25 June that year carries the still version of the above. https://youtu.be/GSL6kWoAMIo
If you look at the ident on the first clip, it freezes as its being faded to the programme -- while it's entirely possible the programme went out like that, that has been added to the video by the uploader. IIRC this show was repeated in its entirety by TTTV in 1991.
TV Ark had a grainy capture of the TTTV clock from around 1971. It matched the "TTTV COLOUR" ident, which would further suggest that the TTTV logo came in around that time.
Tyne Tees showed a clip from an extant copy of "Mr and Mrs" from the early 1970s, in one of their historical clip shows. It had the TTTV static ident at the start -- so if that date of that can be worked out (I believe it was produced in Newcastle for one year while Border were still in B/W) that will further narrow down the date.
It seems someone over at the ark FB talked about Border and siad the following:
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Tyne Tees letting Border use their facilities. Colour came to the Border region in 1971/72, when they did get colour equipment, it was all second hand from Scottish, Tyne Tees and Yorkshire!
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You have to wonder what was wrong with the kit that was only a couple of years old that was sold to Border, presumably at a considerable loss, when YTV and TTTV were both suffering as a result of the Bilsdale/Belmont transmitter fiasco.
You have to wonder what was wrong with the kit that was only a couple of years old that was sold to Border, presumably at a considerable loss, when YTV and TTTV were both suffering as a result of the Bilsdale/Belmont transmitter fiasco.
It could have been a good will gesture? Tax right off?
Tyne Tees letting Border use their facilities. Colour came to the Border region in 1971/72, when they did get colour equipment, it was all second hand from Scottish, Tyne Tees and Yorkshire!
Not unusual, BBC Oxford was equipped with kit from BBC Oxford Road (Manchester) (Just realised the irony !)
Someone from YTV told me when they ditched their EMI-2001s in 1980, BBC Leeds took them for spares.