LWT at 40th

It's archive you mean? Presumably FreemantleMedia have anything of use. I don't think they sold it on to LNN



Yes, they had several programmes in that slot - The 6 O Clock Show, 6 O Clock Live and Friday Live. There was also Weekend Live which was a kind of magazine programme/ in vision continuity that was shown between the programmes at various times across the weekend. Of course LWT made lots of other regional programmes too

There is a diffrence though, that was the start of a new servcie for a new region. It still exsists more or less today whereas LWT has been subsumed into the big 'ITV London'

The fact that a company that provided the TV on a weekend in London but isn't really around any more started 40 years ago is a bit tenuous

Carlton were 15 years old back in January -- don't recall anything being said at that point.

The only chance I feel we have left for a celebration of a station after these YTV programmes is those stations who started in 1959 -- by the time 2011 comes along (covering Grampian and Border) I doubt there will be enough of regional ITV left to be of any significance at all.

So TTTV, Anglia and UTV next year. Maybe Channel in 2012, I'm not sure. But that'll be it.

I very much doubt Central will get to 30 in 2009!!!

Erm... they won't. Central will be 27 in 2009.

I daresay TTTV and Anglia will get something. Granada (sorry, ITV plc)seems to have a soft spot for stations which it owned before it took over (sorry, 'merged with' Carlton). UTV, as the only truly independent station left (Channel might technically be one, but operationally they just don't play the game any more. They are no different to any ITV plc station now - in fact in some ways they are worse) really ought to do something big whilst they still can.

Unfortunately, considering there's another year of regional cutbacks to go through yet, TTTV and Anglia's efforts will probably be restricted to an utterly predictable one off programme using cliched ident clips (TTTV will get that B/W ident with 'Tyne Tees Television Channel 8' v/o that's probably seen more use as a nostalgia piece than it ever did as an ident, whilst Anglia will get the 70's colour knight on record player ident) followed by rehashed material from both station's 40th celebrations and 2 or 3 minutes of new stuff tacked on the end. Still, better than nothing. Carlton didn't let poor old Westcountry have a 5th OR 10th anniversary (not of any significance anyway) and Granada didn't let them have a 15th.

Incidentally, totally off topic for this thread, but thought you'd be the best person to ask Jason, I recently came across this endboard on the internet:

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/tttv.jpg

When exactly was that used? Although clearly from the C3NE period, I thought endboards at that time had the big 3 on them. Was this some sort of interim presentation from after Granada decided to ditch C3NE but before they decided what to replace it with?

I've never seen a big 3 production endcap. That's the only version I recall seeing from that era.

I'm sure I've seen one in the same style as this but with a big 3 and proclaiming itself to be a 'Tyne Tees Television Production for Channel 3 North East'. This one I've never seen before.

That Tyne Tees abomination (referred to on the ITV thread as well) was shown at the end of network programmes during the C3NE era (throughout, from 1996 to 1998).

Essentially they either didn't want, or were not allowed by the ITC, to name their programme production wing C3NE, but there was no such thing as a TTTV logo at that point.

So they came up with that thing -- probably the most creatively bankrupt piece of garbage I've ever seen. That was, to all intents and purposes, Tyne Tees's "logo" from 96 to 98.

I have a few copies of that on VHS -- indeed I wouldn't be surprised if that were my cap, our aerial wasn't great at that stage (problems with water ingress -- it was replaced a year or so later).

Mind you, can you imagine the alternative?

"A Tyne Tees Television Production for Channel 3 North East and ITV"

They'd run out of space for the big 3 -- not that that would necessarily be a bad thing...

That slide also shares the badly-proportioned ITV logo with YTV's version from the same time.

Incidentally this was the point at which they started to call the station "Tyne Tees Television " rather than just "Tyne Tees". Always rankled with me that.

Yeah, this'd be one:- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqJZGDgCLE&feature=related

Yuck, that's simply awful.