Networked ITV - 1990s and before...

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It does seem STV/GTV and borders kept the series up to S5 ( 1987) IN Peak time, by 1988 it was at Tuesday Day time (S6) for STV. It seems GTV Took Central feed on a Thursday. UTV did have it 10.40pm during that year.

1989 had S7 still on Daytime on Fridays at 2pm. I do believe S8 and S9 were show on ITV but a much later days: STV had bundle for one summer 8 years later.

I final Found S2 of Crazy like a fox in STV land it went out March - June 1988 Daytime:

Murder she wrote it seems kept getting moved to 10.40 slot in some area, At least STV kept it on prime time slot 8pm.

Season Eight of MSW was broadcast on ITV during Saturday peak time, not sure what year. Maybe 1993?

I did found Dallas episodes in 1980 November 9, 1980 (UK) first episodes

Does Anyone remember the Scottish TV Game show "now you see it? I can only found it being broadcast South of the border 3 times:

* Summer 1981:
* Spring/Summer 1985 - On Sundays
* Spring/Summer 1986 - On Sundays

Can anyone from doon south remember seing it during 1982/83/84?

Here a strange thing to appear, "End of part one" series 2 was given a repeat airing by one STV , During July and August 1981, in the wonderful timeslot of 18.30. I dare say is what David Renwick and Andrew Marshall were looking for in the broadcasting the series.

The Monte carlo show, anyone remember this gem from 1981?

That's interesting. As far as I'm aware, End of Part One was never repeated nationally after its initial screening. STV must have had copies of these episodes in their own archives.

Well the excite date were

* 9, 16, 23 July 1981
* 6, 13, 20, 27 August 1981

No episode on 30 July, a network show by ATV was broadcast instead called "Years of lightning: 1967" It went out on a Thursday following by the STV classy Gameshow Now you see it.

Maybe it was Series one instead? either way someone in STV liked it.

Was Houseparty: the delight from Southern TV the first daytime programme to get networked?

Did STV or Grampian ever show it? I know Border did....but I always thought it was only broadcast in certain ITV regions. Some regions ran it for years.

Lunchbox was, apparently, the first networked 'daytime' programme, which Noele Gordon talks about on Russell Harty http://youtu.be/dotVUtLygFo?t=9m22s as the organ fused and the network was left wondering why they'd bothered. (Of course back then not every region was 'on air', but networked as far as the ITV regions on air at the time so it seems .)

Yes there did, by 1977 it was going out everywhere, sometimes 3 times a week, before that it seems every company jumped on the band wagon, thus the 2pm slot had mish mess of programmes going up and down lines: STV did have it during 1976.

Other programmes in that 2pm slot were:

* Good Afternoon: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/990 This was not networked either,

* Woman only: ??Any ideas?

* Housecall; STV version of Houseparty, but with more interviews, guest, mechanical, medical issues: Borders did take some eps per week,

House party it seems not even one were happy about Houseparty from southern tv

* From 18th Oct: "Nealry as funny as Monty python":

From Jan 1976

However it was only networked to London, because everyone else did their own local lunchtime programmes. Granada didn't do lunchtimes, STV had "The One o'Clock Gang", Southern had "Flotsam's Follies", Anglia "The Midday Show", Tyne-Tees "The One o'Clock Show", Westward has "Meet for Lunch". Border took a mix of STV's and Tyne-Tees' shows. When they launched, Grampian took "Lunchbox" for a while (on the basis that Noele Gordon claimed a loose Aberdonian connection) but that didn't last.

On a slightly different tact, I'd like to ask a few questions about the franchise handovers on that fateful night of December 31st 1992.

For a start, looking at the youtube clips, it appears that TVS never took the ITN bulletin just before midnight, unlike Thames & TSW. Now, as far as I'm aware, ITN bulletins have always been mandatory and cannot be not shown or timeshifted. I guess the most obvious answer to this would be that TVS had lost their franchise, so had nothing to lose, but surely they risked a fine doing this, did they not? Or, did they somehow get permission from the ITC and/or ITN to not show it?

Also, on Thames' handover to Carlton, you can see on the stroke of midnight where the screen goes all squally for a second or so. I understand that this is due to lack of frame synch due to the switch being made from linking the transmitters from Thames to Carlton; I assume more precisely from Teddington to the South Bank. On TVS's handover to Meridian, there is no awkward moment on the stroke of midnight, though some sound difficulties during the few preceding seconds, which would've still been TVS's franchise period. I guess this is because Meridian were also coming from the Northam Studios, so no transmitters needed switching?

Finally, which company was filming the Big Ben chime sequence that all the ITV companies seemed to show, including TVS?