DB
Yeah, it's definitely a recent thing. I imagine the resources are quite stretched/distant atm, with a lot of ITV office staff working from home. I can see the logic in using a line up menu to show the last minute changes in the schedule.
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GE
Does it not give the crew in the studio a moment to move from London mode to national mode? I'm not quite sure of the logistics involved there, but the 30s or so may be a bit of a breather for them.
(I'm not imagining that they both come from the same studio, am I?)
thegeek
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I feel completely the opposite about not having an ident before the regional news. It’s an absolute waste of time closing the national news, running a trailer and then an ident for the regional (or the other way round). Slows it all right down and for absolutely no benefit.
Does it not give the crew in the studio a moment to move from London mode to national mode? I'm not quite sure of the logistics involved there, but the 30s or so may be a bit of a breather for them.
(I'm not imagining that they both come from the same studio, am I?)
IS
They did that in the early years of national continuity after they’d scrapped regional branded versions of ITV1 idents and in my opinion it was naff, programmes would just start off the back of the last advert, like it was an after thought.
I can see that point but why do they need to say 'this is ITV Central now here's the news' when the programme is called Central News. That's not the case in Yorkshire of course.
Look through some examples on TV Ark or YouTube and you'll see this wasn't always the case. A lot of the title sequences started with the station logo (Thames' last titles, Tyne Tees' Northern Life and TVS's spring to mind)
Because its not called 'BBC One News'
They did that in the early years of national continuity after they’d scrapped regional branded versions of ITV1 idents and in my opinion it was naff, programmes would just start off the back of the last advert, like it was an after thought.
I can see that point but why do they need to say 'this is ITV Central now here's the news' when the programme is called Central News. That's not the case in Yorkshire of course.
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In the days of the regions you’d get a grandiose ident at 6pm
Look through some examples on TV Ark or YouTube and you'll see this wasn't always the case. A lot of the title sequences started with the station logo (Thames' last titles, Tyne Tees' Northern Life and TVS's spring to mind)
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Why are you singling out the BBC for needing an ident, surely they don’t either?
Because its not called 'BBC One News'
IS
Does it not give the crew in the studio a moment to move from London mode to national mode? I'm not quite sure of the logistics involved there, but the 30s or so may be a bit of a breather for them.
(I'm not imagining that they both come from the same studio, am I?)
In London they do and there I imagine a bit of a junction is necessary.
IIRC at lunchtime and the evenings it's the same presenter for both, they just change the background
A good excuse to post this of how that sort of thing was done in the old days (spin through to 4:30)
I feel completely the opposite about not having an ident before the regional news. It’s an absolute waste of time closing the national news, running a trailer and then an ident for the regional (or the other way round). Slows it all right down and for absolutely no benefit.
Does it not give the crew in the studio a moment to move from London mode to national mode? I'm not quite sure of the logistics involved there, but the 30s or so may be a bit of a breather for them.
(I'm not imagining that they both come from the same studio, am I?)
In London they do and there I imagine a bit of a junction is necessary.
IIRC at lunchtime and the evenings it's the same presenter for both, they just change the background
A good excuse to post this of how that sort of thing was done in the old days (spin through to 4:30)
NT
A good excuse to post this of how that sort of thing was done in the old days (spin through to 4:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgu1bJ0uB00
Some corking whistling along to the News at One theme and a few raises of the eyebrow at around 1:00 too.
Some things never change, I guess - I always remember the early 80s in London used to be News at 5.45 end credits/paper shuffle -> Thames ident -> Thames News (or LWT ident -> 6 O'Clock Show; whenever it was something different it jarred horribly); it just seemed a brisk and efficient way of cracking on with the news, though it may well have been an excuse to give the announcer a break!
A good excuse to post this of how that sort of thing was done in the old days (spin through to 4:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgu1bJ0uB00
Some corking whistling along to the News at One theme and a few raises of the eyebrow at around 1:00 too.
Some things never change, I guess - I always remember the early 80s in London used to be News at 5.45 end credits/paper shuffle -> Thames ident -> Thames News (or LWT ident -> 6 O'Clock Show; whenever it was something different it jarred horribly); it just seemed a brisk and efficient way of cracking on with the news, though it may well have been an excuse to give the announcer a break!
DB
There's another version of the filmed before Coronavirus slide, but with generic titles and not Corrie.
LN
All ITV channels (yes, including CITV) have the ''Britain Get Talking'' DOG next to their logos. ITV2+1's one is kinda messy and is behind the ''+1'' circle...
I guess this is with all +1 channels now?
I guess this is with all +1 channels now?