Happy Birthday Border!

BB

BBCnewsemployee 2 September 2001 8:31am

Today marks 40 years of independent broadcasting in Cumbria, the South of Scotland and the Isle of Man by Border Television. Just thought that it should be mentioned.

DB

dbfriends Founding member 2 September 2001 8:38am

No! Don't mention it - you'll only encourage them

BP

Big Phil 3 September 2001 1:29am

So I guess it's also happy 40th birthday to the Lookaround graphics, then?

DB

dbfriends Founding member 3 September 2001 1:32am

And happy 40th anniversary to Eric Wallace...

AN

Andrew Founding member 3 September 2001 2:15am

I notice the Border News titles feature a Border Van, complete with 'ITV' logo.

Can Border viewers expect to see this for years to come?

SU

SpiringUnhacked 7 September 2001 3:22am

No. The ITV logo is out of date. Hope the news titles and endcap have been altered to match the main ident.

BB

BBCnewsemployee 7 September 2001 4:00am

I've been told that the titles have been slightly modified so that the logo in the presenter background now has the '1' in it.

RB

RB 11 September 2001 12:57am

The BORDER itv logo is very much in evidence at the studios in Carlisle.

They've put up a sign with it on.

They're so proud of it, the cheesecake came with sprinklings of chocolate in the shape of the logo at the 40th birthday party.

They also had balloons with it on at the tables.

CR

The Crowdman 15 September 2001 3:32am

But does all this 40th birthday thing mean Border is the oldest ITV company (bearing in mind that most of the 50s lot - ABC, ATV, Rediffusion - are no longer on air)?

BH

BillyH Founding member 15 September 2001 3:41am

Nope:Granada was 40 in 1996.

SU

SpiringUnhacked 15 September 2001 4:05am

Billy Hicks88 posted:

Nope:Granada was 40 in 1996.

Why aren't they celebrating their 45th birthday then?

Happy Birthday Border!

(September 2001)