ITV National Weather

Wasn't she one of the original ITV National Weather team?

Truly awful. My condolences go to her friends and family. Trish, thank you for brightening our screens with your presence.

Esure becomes the new sponsor of ITV Weather...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a80312/esure-becomes-new-itv-weather-sponsor.html

Ugh... cue endless variations on "Calm down, dear! It's only a light shower!"

Esure? Yes well...

Let's hope we'll get some interesting opening sequences, unlike the unimaginative post-Weathergen ones put out by PowerGen/EON.

ITV trials new weather presenter...

I have fond memories of the WeatherGens and would love to see them brought back, or at least something more imaginative than the current idents. I have a vested interest due to the fact that I finally managed to publish my book "Cloud People" a children's story about people who create weather, which I first wrote way back in 1993 while still at school.
http://www.lulu.com/content/741796
Anyways, I did contact ITV1 and some other companies a few weeks with ideas for new idents, haven't received any replies yet though. Oh well I'll keep hoping that one day I'll get the chance to work on some kind of creative project.

Anyone else think the current graphics are cheap and tacky? Let's hope they change with the News in February.

I don't mind the map or the symbols as it offers something different to the BBC's. I just don't like the amount of blue, especially as they didn't change it last year, and just opted for replacing the ITV weather symbol.

I was thinking along the lines of a teal-blue sea, and then fit it around that, but now that the news is heading away from teal, I doubt that the weather will head that way.

The other things are why haven't they changed the white lettering in the ITV logo with the weather logo also being yellow?
And why didn't they put the weather logo on the left in line with the other dogs, and then swap the information?

Definitely, GMG regions (and ex-Carlton, National Weather) previous graphics looked far more classier:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/723/job220804004rr7.jpg
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3522/beckyitv110105002qr3.jpg



The current just looks like it was done on paint, it has no depth:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6420/cap00002rk0.png

I'd keep it very simple.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4275/weathercf6.jpg

Something like pads design would be nice. Its classy.

I always thought the colours on those maps looked very drab and a bit washed out.