The following day Meridian opted out of Family Fortunes at 19:00 to show their own "First Night of Meridian" programme, which Channel subsequently had to opt out of, and presumably not being able to get a tape of Family Fortunes, had "On Location with Heartbeat" scheduled instead.
Other than that, every region stuck with the network on New Year's Day.
Looking at the week before ITN introduced the ITV Evening News (at 18:30) on 8 March 1999, it seems Central and HTV were still doing their own thing at 17:10 right up to the Friday before - Shortland Street in the case of Central - and were the only regions showing Home and Away at 18:00 with their regional news going head to head with the BBC at 18:25. Carlton, Yorkshire, Anglia and Westcountry were showing Home and Away at 17:10 and doing half an hour of regional news at 18:00 while Granada were doing a whopping 65 minutes of Granada Reports at 17:55.
Come Monday, Home and Away was at 17:00 everywhere, regions did their own thing at 17:30 - mostly showing local filler, and all did their regional news at 18:00. Granada did an hour of regional news. Lunchtimes would be then be when you would find the same shows at all different times depending on your region, mostly made up of Home and Away, Jerry Springer and Shortland Street - the latter now at 17:30 on Central, they must have thought it popular enough for the evening but of course now it was up against Neighbours on BBC1.
I'm assuming a ten minute long 'nothing' programme about the new year as they didn't want to show 'Meridian TV - The First Ten Minutes'. Almost certainly, Channel wouldn't have bothered doing it if Meridian sticked to the network schedule.
The following day Meridian opted out of Family Fortunes at 19:00 to show their own "First Night of Meridian" programme, which Channel subsequently had to opt out of, and presumably not being able to get a tape of Family Fortunes, had "On Location with Heartbeat" scheduled instead.
Other than that, every region stuck with the network on New YIear's Day.
Unless things had changed by 1992, Channel didn't have the standard VTR machines the rest of the network used so they wouldn't have been able to play a copy of FF supplied by Central. There was no way the programme could be clean-fed to them at an earlier date to record either. So they could only timeshift programmes they'd recorded from the dirty Westward/TVS/Meridian feed (not that this happened very often).
The following day Meridian opted out of Family Fortunes at 19:00 to show their own "First Night of Meridian" programme, which Channel subsequently had to opt out of, and presumably not being able to get a tape of Family Fortunes, had "On Location with Heartbeat" scheduled instead.
Other than that, every region stuck with the network on New YIear's Day.
Unless things had changed by 1992, Channel didn't have the standard VTR machines the rest of the network used so they wouldn't have been able to play a copy of FF supplied by Central. There was no way the programme could be clean-fed to them at an earlier date to record either. So they could only timeshift programmes they'd recorded from the dirty Westward/TVS/Meridian feed (not that this happened very often).
That makes sense. I guess Channel have an easier job now than in the days when Meridian could pretty much do what they wanted and they'd have to go along with it.
By the way I've just been looking at the old Thames running order you posted way back in the thread and compared it with the listings in the Guardian on the same day. Makes interesting reading especially things like "ANG REC" when they are scheduled the same programme (perhaps should be "HTV REC"?).
I think it was A Country Practice Anglia were recording from Thames, wasn't it? They may have been showing the same programme, but not the same episode, hence Anglia recorded the Thames episode to play back a few days/weeks later.
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).
The only UTV programme shown elsewhere on the network with that telly ident that I'm aware of is Password, the game show. TTT showed Glenroe for a while, but I don't recall it having any UTV branding.
The following day Meridian opted out of Family Fortunes at 19:00 to show their own "First Night of Meridian" programme, which Channel subsequently had to opt out of, and presumably not being able to get a tape of Family Fortunes, had "On Location with Heartbeat" scheduled instead.
Other than that, every region stuck with the network on New YIear's Day.
Unless things had changed by 1992, Channel didn't have the standard VTR machines the rest of the network used so they wouldn't have been able to play a copy of FF supplied by Central. There was no way the programme could be clean-fed to them at an earlier date to record either. So they could only timeshift programmes they'd recorded from the dirty Westward/TVS/Meridian feed (not that this happened very often).
In 1993 the Stockland Hill SABRE was still in use, primarily for BBC 1 and 2 South West, which became the Beeb's primary Channel Is feed (They refused to use the SABRE initially, dunno why, they had a funny attitude towards it). TSW/WC was still available to CTV as a standby feed, should the Rowridge (TVS/MER) SABRE fail. I'm sure CTV still had access to the TSW/WC feed for network progs that TVS/MER had opted out of until at least the mid 90s ?
Well the excite date were * 9, 16, 23 July 1981 and 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.
Its seems someone else broadcast a repeat as well:
Grampian tv did it at 5.15: ON **30 June** ---- 7th 14th 21st, 28th July -- 4th 11th August:
I dont see it on Borders or UTV, so did anyone else give it nice repeat? I cant see two random Scottish companies showing it again?
Well I have had look and I cant found it being broadcast in other are during July, unless the other compaines network ealry in the year?
Can anyone else remember "End of Part one" being repeated?
The following day Meridian opted out of Family Fortunes at 19:00 to show their own "First Night of Meridian" programme, which Channel subsequently had to opt out of, and presumably not being able to get a tape of Family Fortunes, had "On Location with Heartbeat" scheduled instead.
Other than that, every region stuck with the network on New YIear's Day.
Unless things had changed by 1992, Channel didn't have the standard VTR machines the rest of the network used so they wouldn't have been able to play a copy of FF supplied by Central. There was no way the programme could be clean-fed to them at an earlier date to record either. So they could only timeshift programmes they'd recorded from the dirty Westward/TVS/Meridian feed (not that this happened very often).
In 1993 the Stockland Hill SABRE was still in use, primarily for BBC 1 and 2 South West, which became the Beeb's primary Channel Is feed (They refused to use the SABRE initially, dunno why, they had a funny attitude towards it). TSW/WC was still available to CTV as a standby feed, should the Rowridge (TVS/MER) SABRE fail. I'm sure CTV still had access to the TSW/WC feed for network progs that TVS/MER had opted out of until at least the mid 90s ?
In practice, how often did this happen though? Was it a case of just flicking a switch if the Rowridge feed went down or would this involve having to get other parties involved, etc? I can see the benefits of having the Stockland feed at hand, because I assume any number of factors in the link could take Channel off the air.
EDIT: I assume Meridian rescheduled the New Years Day edition of Family Fortunes, which could be another reason CTV didn't show it - otherwise they'd have ended up repeating it, or having to opt-out again.
Looking at the week before ITN introduced the ITV Evening News (at 18:30) on 8 March 1999, it seems Central and HTV were still doing their own thing at 17:10 right up to the Friday before - Shortland Street in the case of Central - and were the only regions showing Home and Away at 18:00 with their regional news going head to head with the BBC at 18:25. Carlton, Yorkshire, Anglia and Westcountry were showing Home and Away at 17:10 and doing half an hour of regional news at 18:00 while Granada were doing a whopping 65 minutes of Granada Reports at 17:55.
Come Monday, Home and Away was at 17:00 everywhere, regions did their own thing at 17:30 - mostly showing local filler, and all did their regional news at 18:00. Granada did an hour of regional news. Lunchtimes would be then be when you would find the same shows at all different times depending on your region, mostly made up of Home and Away, Jerry Springer and Shortland Street - the latter now at 17:30 on Central, they must have thought it popular enough for the evening but of course now it was up against Neighbours on BBC1.
On Tyne Tees, the start time of North East Tonight was moved to 17:30 so that the programme could still air for the full hour. At the same time a new segment of the programme, PrimeTime, began - this focused on lighter stories and lifestyle issues, before the main news at 18:00 with Mike Neville. It did mean thought that the programme appeared to start three times; at 17:30 Mike would introduce the programme, do a summary of the headlines and then hand over to Pam Royle at 17:35 for PrimeTime, and Pam would then hand back to Mike at just before 18:00 for the news! This rather clumsy arrangement didn't last long (only a few weeks IIRC) before the PrimeTime segement was dropped, becoming part of the main programme.
Well the excite date were * 9, 16, 23 July 1981 and 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.
Its seems someone else broadcast a repeat as well:
Grampian tv did it at 5.15: ON **30 June** ---- 7th 14th 21st, 28th July -- 4th 11th August:
I dont see it on Borders or UTV, so did anyone else give it nice repeat? I cant see two random Scottish companies showing it again?
Well I have had look and I cant found it being broadcast in other are during July, unless the other compaines network ealry in the year?
Can anyone else remember "End of Part one" being repeated?
I don't think "End of Part One" ever received a network repeat, so any repeats would have been screened by the individual regions themselves. In fact I don't think it was even networked when it first aired, as some regions chose not to screen it.