It's now a Carlton for London production

Firstly, the BBC1 English network is a national network, ITV is supposed to be a regional network - and there is a big difference in the way that national networks and regional networks are intended to be branded.

Anyway, they have scaled their regional branding below the level of the BBC. All regional programming from BBC South West comes with a BBC1 South West ident and a 'This is BBC1 South West' anno in front of it (ditto BBC2 South West idents and annos when they very occasionally appear these days). In contrast, on Westcountry those dual branded ITV1/Carlton idents are slowly disappearing - and even when they appear you are more likely to here about 'ITV1' than 'ITV1 Carlton for the Westcountry'.

It's not doomsday speculation, I think it's a fairly safe reasoned assumption that ITV don't want those regional idents at all. They only have them there to maintain some semblence of caring about their regions. But in the meantime if they can 'forget' about using them, they will.

The original team of 4 comprised of 3 network announcers and 1 'regional' announcer who would do all the regional links (they claimed the fact that they had a dedicated regional announcer showed how comitted to the regions they were). The regional announcer was Westcountry very own Chris Langmore. With the regional links being so bland and so few (but yet so many for him to record), Chris's capabilities (which, having heard him in action on Westcountry for many years I can confirm as being sigificant) were wasted and the idea of having a dedicated regional announcer was very quickly ditched (although Chris's prerecorded regional links can still be heard sometimes).

Instead of that meaning anyone does a regional link, I now see quite a bit of a standard live network links going out at regional junctions (although obviously not mentioning the programme that follows the link because it will be different in different regions).

And, for example, after Emmerdale on Thursdays, there is no ECP, or whatever its called thesedays, like there is the rest of the time, & I think, no anno at all !

It's just full screen credits.

The other day I did hear a London CA announcing to the whole of England (and no doubt the Channel Islands too) a London regional programme which followed - no doubt the CA wasn't quite clear on what was network and what was regional.