Jobfinder

The shows are probably dirt cheap to produce and are were all made ages ago. The copyright at the end says 'ITV Yorkshire 2005'

Basically there is a link at the start from Nicola Sands in the (soccer night) studio, then around 25 mins of job listings, possibly compiled by the Job Centre themselves at no cost to ITV Yorkshire (?). Then at the end Nicola is joined by a guest to chat about some element of work, i.e how to write a good CV, joining the Police, Interview techniques etc, and then its the end.

Were the other region's versions of Jobfinder this basic?

centrals were rather good. presented by derw thomas in the old central east studio. used to have filmed reports about job-related issues and rather nice features like "star jobs" - where they'd ask stars of central tv like the central weather girls/crossroads stars etc about their careers, then there would be a studio guest, then pages of jobs.

centrals was produced in association with CSV media - who are involved with bbc wm action and no doubt other bbc local radio stations action desks.

central job finder was followed by asian eye - an asian news round up, just before the itn morning news - did ytv do similar?

How I loved Central Jobfinder. All those nights of top class music. What was your favourite tune? I used love all those adverts for welders in Holland.
I also remember the fantastic Asian Eye. Do you remember Romi Gohill, now there was a god of tv presentation. I once had a Romi Gohill t-shirt.

Did any other regions do Jobfinder apart from YTV, HTV and Central?

Tyne Tees did. Think they broadcast the same version as YTV (most of the jobs were in the Yorkshire area).

No asian eye in Yorkshire although at one time YTV used to opt out of the entire Sunday night/Monday morning overnight schedule to show hours and hours of an asian film. An asian version of Community Link was shown just before it

Tyne Tees used to show this as well (whether they liked it or not! )

oh yes there was some great tunes. they had some rather odd ones with vocals - one with the word chocolate repeated over and over - and one about dancing in the snow spring to mind

i do remember seeing a couple of asian eyes with romi, ill have to dig out some captures of it. hard to believe that only a few years ago central actually put time and money into such public service broadcasting.

Granada did their own version too, though I am too young to remember it, there's a chance their version would have been shown in other regions as it was part of their Night Time service (1988 to 1994) that was shown in some areas.

I'm just surprised how Yorkshire are still committed to producing the programme, as they don't have to produce it and it's also shown at 5.00am...

Yeah, Nightscreen does count towards the subtitle requirement - think it also does something for regional quotas as the North regions have different music!

I'm pretty sure it isn't there just so Yorkshire can show Jobfinder. Initially there was a rule that Jobfinder could only be shown if Nightscreen began earlier than about 0455 so it looked like it wouldn't survive Quizmania when that started, but got a stay of execution when they allowed it to be a little shorter. Now they've finally given up the ghost but it's been more a question of when than if for sometime....

It was indeed shown in other regions. I know *somewhere* on tape I have an old snippet of it from off Tyne Tees. Basically for the most part back then, teletext pages with music, just over a coloured background rather than black. I'm guessing it was with Granada's involvement, as at one point one of the pages credits it as 'Jobfinder, produced by Granada Television and Oracle'.

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There's more jobless here, that's why

errr, a quick trip to google and a look at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D7699.xls suggests otherwise.