ITV 90's start up?

True, in the 1980s though when they showed schools programmes in the mornings they had longer start ups

Yes in the Tyne Tees region, we got the ident then more about This Morning, Yorkshire TV used to play the extended ITV music underneath all of this but this practice was discontinued in 1992 to accomodate Tyne Tees who used to take a YTV dirty feed at the time IIRC.

Of course these days its a non event which is sad.

For quite some time TV-AM finished considerably earlier, at 9:15 which gave BT time to repatch things so that the transmitters were fed from the local studio rather than TV-AM

even in 1999 STV had an Extend ideant at 0925, it was only ( like the the one before it SEE ABOVE ) 10 - 15 sec longer and there

good morning

Thsi is Scottish Televsion

ON 28th a april

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AIUI it was only from February to May 1983 when this occured, when BT found an automated way of doing this, the IBA allowed TV-am to broadcast straight to 9.25am.

The PP had an MP3 file of the Last Engineering Announcements programme that was shown on ITV, they switched to Channel 4 when the process was automated.

It's biaazre that almost 25 years later, ITV1 (and ITV2) still have come on air at 9.25am, in that sense.

That's because the airtime on 'Channel 3' from 6 until 9.25am still belongs to the Channel 3 breakfast franchise holder (i.e. GMTV)

Slightly more bizarrely, until they took over responsibility for selling their own advertisements, the breakfast franchise holder also owned the national airtime on Channel 4 . This led to another minute interval on the channel while BT performed a similar reconfiguartion of Channel 4 to allow the regional franchises to insert ads into CH4 (as was also the arrangement back then - i.e. Granada inserted the ads into Channel 3 and Channel 4 North-West (for want of a better description) )

The 5 minute interval before ITV Schools (which was what the morning on Channel 4 was then called) was an excellent chance for anoraks to enjoy the full version of their 'rotomotion' holding graphics and music which ISTR is called "The Journey"!

I think ITV2 is governed by similar rules, in that GMTV also own the airtime on that channel too ... it's a long time since I've tuned in ... is it still branded as GMTV2?

I think that they just air CITV programmes on both the CITV channel and ITV2, surely they could put it to better use. Maybe even an alternative breakfast programme.