ITV50 Anniversary Special Bash

So can everyone give a brief paragraph explaining what their regional ITV50 programme was like, what format did it take, how was it presented, the split between regional programmes and network commissions, any presentation highlights etc?

The Tyne Tees programme was presented by Pam Royal and focussed on the early years of the station, news, entertainment/music, childrens, gameshows, weather presenters, sports, politics, regional productions and programmes made for the network. Coming back after every break was an old ident including the original Tyne Tees Channel 8 anchor, The Flowing Rivers from the 80's, the Tyne Tees Colour from the 70's and the corporate ITV Tyne Tees from '89. The section at the end about new network productions from the station seemed totally false to me; since when have Wire in the Blood and Distant Shores been Tyne Tees productions? All in all a good hours worth of nostalgia.

Not the only aspect of ITV's output that has been overlooked by the festivities - what about schools programmes, adult education, ITV Telethon?

Royle.

Yorkshire's effort was fronted by Ian Clayton, from locations including the Photography Film and TV museum in Bradford, where advances in technology were discussed, the Emmerdale set, various other sets, and Emley Moor where the story of the mast collapse was told. Unfortunately the research was a bit inaccurate claiming that the current mast is the second, when it's actually the third permanent one. Also a feature on Good Morning Calendar (which actually bore quite a resemblence to Look North Hull!) and interviews with the likes of the bloke from Mike's Carpets.

No specific mention of the pan-north Granada service although it was alluded to, and no mention of Belmont carrying Anglia for quite some time after it opened.

A presentation highlight was a montage of idents, the b&w 1968 one, the 1970s version, the liquid gold late 80s one and... the current 2005 ITV1 ident. Why do they keep ignoring the 90s!. Its alienating any viewers under 30 really.

There was also an interview with Bob Warman, with a Central News logo in the background

All that they said was that network productions on ITV1 continue to be made in the north east.

The programme in the London region didn't have a presenter. Not sure who the narrator was.

It was interesting enough, I suppose. A few old idents here and there. Nice to see some clips from the Six O'Clock Show.

ITV Wales's programme was presented by Arfon Haines Davies. They gave a history of ITV in Wales including Granada making Welsh Language programmes at first, then the arrival of TWW in 1968. It showed many clips of TWW programmes including their final night, and the takeover by Harlech. It also covered the arrival of S4C and Welsh Language programming moving from HTV to S4C. Also covered was the opening of the Culverhouse Cross studios in the mid 1980s, and clips of lots of HTV's different regional programmes made since then including soaps such as Nuts and Bolts, and Wales This Week, the Ferret, Birdwatcher, Crime Secrets to name a few.

It also mentioned what networking programmes HTV used to make for the ITV Network.

Idents that they showed included the TWW ident, the original Harlech ident and a Christmas HTV ident from the 1980s.

Overall a good programme.

central's programme was a good watch. presented by bob, who did a few links from the broad st studios, standing by the old reception desk with the cake logo on, with central cake-esque art on the wall. fab crossroads, supermarket sweep, family fortunes, new faces, cook report, police 5 clips. no mention of the ABC weekend service, i noticed behind tinger and tucker it had associated british picture corporation (aka abc), where as i thought they were ATV stars.

shame there werent any idents or announcers menioned and all the central news clips were early 80s - not even the opening of central south was mentioned.

in-vision citv wasnt mentioned either.

One thing I did meant to mention about YTV's programme - thankfully they did it in 4:3 - I had visions of 14:9 crops, but they did the sensible thing

Switched between the Granada and Wales one, which I think have both been covered - but the interesting thing for me was that the breaks in both programmes were inserted at exactly the same time!