Networked ITV - 1990s and before...

Think local news was 12.55 (usually after the 12.30 local programme - Goals on Sunday in YTV land)

Guess this fits here as well as anywhere (seems to be a couple of threads around of this nature), but the Radio Times this week has articles with "famous faces" talking about their regional TV routes.

http://beta.radiotimes.com/news/2011-07-12/famous-faces-recall-their-regional-tv-roots

I suspect both STV and Grampian bought these episodes of End of Part One for use as filler material, rather than due to someone 'liking them'. It's interesting that they did so as my understanding is that the show never received a network repeat.

If you look on Tv Ark's Anglia page, there's a clip of Anglia starting up after GMTV on 08/01/96.

Could this have been the very first transmission of Anglia from Northam, considering that this was probably the first non-Christmas new week?

Additionally, Wikipedia seems to think that continuity was moved to Northam in March 1998. Was there a period where Anglia retained their own Norwich-based announcers after transmission was taken off them by Meridian?

There a high chance that wiki page is wrong, I could added to the list that need to be sorted out:

08/01 wouldn't have been the first 'out of Christmas' surely, even the Christian holiday has finished by the Sixth (and usually it's a distant memory in telly-terms by the Third!).

No, but it was the first Monday, bar New Years Day. These things tended to happen on a Monday, it seems.

Here a new soap on my books "Glenroe" from Ireland, it seem to be going most days in utv land

Bizarrely, the ITV regional variations box template on the Glenroe Wiki page - which I had a hand in putting together - is still intact. Don't tell anyone though, or it'll get deleted

The first two series of RTÉ's Sunday night staple of pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, Glenroe, were shown in most regions - except Central and perhaps Grampian - in 1984 and 1985, and Anglia were still showing episodes in 1986.

From what I recall, UTV started re-running the series from the start in 1989, firstly in a daytime slot and then moving it to early evenings in the early 1990s, but kept stopping and starting its run of episodes that by the last time they showed it around 2001, they'd only reached episodes shown on RTÉ in 1994/1995. Funnily enough, when Tara closed down in 2002, that's about as far as their run of Classic Glenroe episodes had got to.

One question I have about the 1980s ITV airings of Glenroe is - was it broadcast with the ident of the regional station showing it beforehand, or was it "An Ulster Television Presentation"? I'm sure I remember a reference on a website, perhaps on an older version of TV Ark, to an off-air link with the "telly on a stick" appearing before what was described as a soap opera or a drama series in a daytime slot, and I can't think of what else it could be (possibly "The Irish RM", but any ITV airings of this I'm aware of - mainly in the UTV region - were in evening slots).

I have made some minor updates to it, I hope there are some use Sons and Daughter and ACP still contains a full details of ITV airing BUT NOT in a box.

Back on pages 38-40 we were talking about the franchise changes at the end of 1992.



Thames:
(no regional news programme and showed Emmerdale half an hour earlier than the rest of the network)
20:00 The Bill
20:30 John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality
22:00 News
22:45 Farewell to Thames
23:55 News

TVS:
22:45 Goodbye to All That (to 0:00)

All other regions:
22:45 End of the Year Show (from previous posts I believe this is the same programme as Thames)
23:55 News

then...

Carlton:
0:00 A Carlton New Year
1:30 Best Defence
3:15 Micky Spillane's Murder Takes All
4:55 Backtrack '92

Central
0:00 Best Defence
1:45 Murder or Mercy
3:15 as Carlton

Yorkshire:
0:00 Best Defence
1:45 Murder or Mercy (as Central)
3:05 Phenomena**
3:15 as Carlton

Meridian:
0:00 Meridian: The First 10 Minutes
0:10 Best Defence
1:55 California Kid
3:15 as Carlton

Channel:
0:00 Hello '93
0:10 as Meridian

Anglia, Granada, HTV & Westcountry*:
0:00 Best Defence
1:45 Micky Spillane's Murder Takes All
3:20 Tommy
5:25 Cinema Cinema Cinema


*as video posted earlier suggests Westcountry did their own thing and introduced their service so must have not stuck to published schedule

**not sure how Yorkshire managed to squeeze in another programme here, perhaps they took less breaks during the film.

The introduction was basically an extended trailer, only a couple of minutes at the most and it came in quite soon during Big Ben's bongs. I suspect the others just filled that time with some trails to meet the start of the programme



What was 'Hello '93'?