ITV National Weather

Erm...wasn't the ITV National Weather supposed to be sponsored by esure?
Sheilas' Wheels have just led into and out of the forecast.

God how horrible was that?

They tried to cram the Shelia's Wheels jingles into 5 seconds of sting before and after the Weather and you couldn't even make out what they were trying to say!

Weathergens back to grace our screens for 2008 I say! ITV could do with a touch of class somewhere along the line.

There was a different sponsor on UTV, it was Gocompare.com...

Sheila's Wheels is owned by esure. Maybe they'll rotate them between esure and Sheila's Wheels.

I agree that the stings were very rushed, particularly the one at the end.

Sheila's Wheels isn't available in Northern Ireland, which is why there's a different sponsor (it's also unavailable in the Channel Islands, so there's probably a different sponsor there as well).

That's going to become very annoying. By Easter we will be offering to pay Eon to take back the sponsorship!

Oh, for goodness sakes, Sheila's Wheels? Tripe, if you ask me.

Seems like the GoCompare sponsor stings are being played out from Havelock House on UTV - the sting was played by accident into the ITV News, and at the end of the forecast, there was a cut through black which to me looked awkward.

Oh dear oh dear. WeatherGens to that in just a few years

Probably just me but Martyn Davis looked positively embarrassed at being introduced by that.

Then the odd fade to black and sped up song at the end? Sheesh.

And here on UTV we had the GoCompare sting before crashing into the Sheila's Wheels one mid-way through!

I know this is the national weather thread but...

I thought Jon Mitchell (ITV Yorkshire) was a dedicated forecaster for Calendar. But he regularly appears on ITV Tyne Tees.

I know it could be just because its christmas but Debbie Lindley was on at lunchtime but not this evening. He must just be for North East Tonight, for some reason, I wonder if he will be a regular on Tyne Tees when Bob Johnson departes (he's getting on)!

Edit: He got a nice introduction.. Kenny told viewers Phillipa wore 'skimpy knickers', following a report on a big pair of knickers.

They couldn't handle their laughter, what has regional news come to...

I've now changed the topic description from "1993 - 2001 PowerGen sponsorships" to "general discussion", to reflect current posts.



There's a team of forecasters (based at YTV) who do the weather reports for the Northern regions (YTV, Granada, Tyne Tees, Border). Jon and (later on) Debbie started with Calendar back in the 1990s.

I know about YTV forecasters doing the weather for Northern regions. E.g. Kerrie Gosney.. But I thought Jon just did Calendar now, but obviously not then.