Networked ITV - 1990s and before...

No. The ident slide was only used at the start of STV-produced programmes. Our house style was to use either the Continuity Announcer in vision, or over a 'building' slide. Many variations existed (I still have most of them) including 'Building by night with snow', 'Building by day overcast' and so forth.

Newsbriefs were used to 'fill' junctions with something more useful than yet another COI. The shortest Newsbrief I ever read was a mere seven seconds in duration!! The slides for the News Bulletins were variants of the main Scotland Today design, which didn't include the building.

I don'tremember crossroads being made by stv I think bryce just forgot. Thanks for the explaintion, any chance of any clips? Or slides?

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Not quite sure what you mean about Bryce - he made a standard introduction to Crossroads over a slide. So what was the point of your remark?

I have mis read your first quote, about ident slide only stv show. I believed building slide was only for stv made show.

So buildings side or CA used for most junctions, and local ident/ slide for many local show broadcast by stv.

There's a copy of a newsbrief on Youtube, with yourself reading it Tony. It was about the planned march to save the gartcosh steelworks (sadly it did close). A similar thing was done by Granada, only this was to give out local sports results, such as, in one case, Speedway, though for these the announcement was done over a slide, wheras newsbrief was always done in vision.

ISTR a few Anerican sitcoms in afternoon slots on Granada and Border in the late 80s/early 90s, which may not have been seen elsewhere?

Why couldn't the 15 stations create a schedule where most of the day there had the same shows going out the same time. As it been said most of the time it was the same show but at different slots and times etc. or was there a rule against this outside peak?

Did Crossroads get broadcast anywhere outside the uk?

Until the creation of the ITV Network centre in 1989, the rights to shows were often bought up individually by each or most ITV franchises. This also applied to many people. As an example, when Morecambe and Wise left the BBC for ITV, they were actually contracted to Thames Television, although the shows were networked. Similarly, Thames had the rights to "The streets of San Francisco", but STV never showed it; the difference here was Thames only had London rights, not UK rights.

This also explains the issue of Take the High Road, an STV production, not being shown at the same time elsewhere. It was established later down south, and so was behind in the schedules. Although it was networked for a time, STV, as the owners of the show, could easily have awarded the English rights to Channel 4 or Sky, if they wanted to.

STV did broadcast The streets of San Francisco

How does this explain 'World Of Sport' produced by LWT, & its weekday Bank Holiday equivalent produced by Thames, but Dickie Davies presented both shows ISTR.

Was Dickie under contract to LWT & 'borrowed' by Thames, or was Dickie under contract to a 'generic' ITV Sport?

What was 'ITV Sport' in the early days?

Basically any sports programmes networked by the London companies that couldn't be flagged as a LWT or Thames production?

Would any sport been networked by companies other than LWT/Thames, eg any athletics from Birmingham would have been transmitted by ATV/Central, but under the ITV Sport brand?

According to the IBA archive a 'Central Sports Unit' in 1966 was set up. World of Sport was launched as an ABC-ATV Co-Production. So the presenter for networked sport would be open to present any networked programme from any region producting or co-producing a production for the ITV Sport output..

I do recall for a while, in the end credits of World of Sport a line that read, 'Complied on the behalf of the ITV Network, by LWT'.