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(December 2001)

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DA
DAS Founding member
Oh dear. This really is quite bad. So this is in all Granada regions then - including LWT, Anglia and Meridian?
HA
harshy Founding member
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CraigV on 6:32 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
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harshy on 6:28 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
Oh dear, so we are going to see generic idents, what a shame, I was hoping those purple endcaps would be made into nice regional ITV idents, and you say the idents are boring do you, oh dear better stick to CARLTON then!


I'm not supposed to be telling people where I work for obvious reasons, so I won't. And yes, regional idents have been designed which are in the purple endcap style. These will be used before regional news and programmes.


Will the regional idents have GRANADA added at the bottom?
DA
DAS Founding member
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CraigV on 6:29 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
The new idents have the GR/N/DA logo at the bottom, beside the [itv.com] symbol. Haven't heard the music for these yet, but it was suggested that they will simply be using the hearts music for now.
WH
Whataday Founding member
I think a new thread should be started about this, as we don't want to go off topic and have any newcomers going through 9 pages to get to this.
CV
CraigV
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harshy on 6:35 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
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CraigV on 6:32 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
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harshy on 6:28 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
Oh dear, so we are going to see generic idents, what a shame, I was hoping those purple endcaps would be made into nice regional ITV idents, and you say the idents are boring do you, oh dear better stick to CARLTON then!


I'm not supposed to be telling people where I work for obvious reasons, so I won't. And yes, regional idents have been designed which are in the purple endcap style. These will be used before regional news and programmes.


Will the regional idents have GRANADA added at the bottom?


I don't know if the regional idents will have GR/N/DA added at the bottom because I haven't seen them. I just know that they are using this purple endcap style ident before regional news and programmes.
DA
DAS Founding member
Craig - can you start a new thread on this please
HA
harshy Founding member
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CraigV on 6:23 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
Right, lets explain. The Chritmas itv1 ident which is currently being shown on all GMG stations was designed at Leeds, as were the Christmas trailers which are being shown on most stations, Carlton included. They were not designed by Carlton or ITV Network Centre as some of you might think.

Also, it's been mentioned that people do not like this generic look, well I'm afraid the new itv1 idents which are scheduled to start on January 7th are also generic and do not contain a regional name or logo. They are blue, yellow and white and are actually quite boring. I would upload a copy, but I don't actually have copies - I've just seen them at Leeds. What bothers me is the fact that they plan to restart using the hearts idents the day after new years day, just until Sunday 6th January, before these new idents take their place!

Expect to see Anglia and Meridian gobbled up by Leeds in February.


So are you saying that ITV1 network trailers are produced in Leeds all year round?
CV
CraigV
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DAS on 6:32 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
Oh dear. This really is quite bad. So this is in all Granada regions then - including LWT, Anglia and Meridian?


Yes, all Granada regions will be using them. They are actually quite similar to the Christmas itv1 ident currently being used, but they are boring. Obviously all the christmassy things have been removed. If you take the christmas ident, remove the stars etc, make the [itv1] logo blue and yellow and change the background to yellow and white, you basically have the new ident. It's not very well animated either, and you can tell it's a Leeds job a mile off.
JA
james
Well one thing is for certain if this is true then im not watching Granada Stations again. I suppose the Anglia and Meridian thing moving to Leeds could be true, because if the idents are generic then the announcer only has to say something like `here on itv1` before programs and Leeds could record regional announcements for all Granada stations before the local news ect. This may also explain the number of miststakes coming out of Leeds at the moment.

And as for Network Centre taking over, I can actually see Leeds having more influence
WH
Whataday Founding member
There is now a separate thread for it HERE
HA
harshy Founding member
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james on 6:48 pm on Dec. 23, 2001
Well one thing is for certain if this is true then im not watching Granada Stations again. I suppose the  Anglia and Meridian thing moving to Leeds could be true, because if the idents are generic then the announcer only has to say something like `here on itv1` before programs and Leeds could record regional announcements for all Granada stations before the local news ect. This may also explain the number of miststakes coming out of Leeds at the moment.

And as for Network Centre taking over, I can actually see Leeds having more influence


Oh please don't say that, that's the last thing we need, more misery from Leeds!
AN
Andrew Founding member
ITV National Weather have started to use this year's Christmas animation at the start of the weather forecast.

Remember last year featured drawings of Sian, John and Martyn throwing snowballs.

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