STV continuity is always live from 9.25 am-until round about midnight .
Angus Simpson read the short bulletin on Scotland Today the set is purple and blue after the bulletin he then joined Sarah Heaney on a mauve sofa where they told us what to expect on the lunchtime show .
Looks very good the music is the same only jazzed up a little the endcap is diffrent gone is the square box.
The locally produced idents aren't that bad as people idents go, infact SMG have undertaken this with a lot more professionalism than the cheap cover job done by UTV.
As long as they don't use the network celebrity idents too much (or preferably, not at all, which I think is a distinct possibility in time with there appearing to be quite a large selection of local idents), this won't actually be too bad.
The trailer boards somehow look a lot more better than UTV's too.
And on the idents they even manage to get the logo to appear at the right time and not right at the start of the ident.
A sad day that they went down the corporate route, but imo it's not actually that bad for SMG.
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StuartV
OK - I did a quick capture this morning to show the Scotland Today new set.
Yes, you all rekoned ITV1 Scotland was only a short amount of time away, when in reality, the look SMG have gone with is much less-ITV1 than UTV's efforts.
Its a pitty SMG couldn't have done a bit of editing, and recoloured the yellow cloth on the network idents to blue, so they match SMG's own idents.
The reason for no promo at 9.25am was probably because, what would network have done in the meantime?
And a blast of the past, at the end of the very strange "The Passport Quiz" at 2.30pm, the endcap was the old Thistle logo from 1999
The reason for no promo at 9.25am was probably because, what would network have done in the meantime?
They would have done what SMG did on October 28th morning, and showed 90 seconds more adverts. The adverts this morning between LK Today and Trisha lasted nearly 5 minutes, which is a long time -- the last GMTV commerical break usually is long. But on October 28th, ITV-1 and ITV-1 Wales showed only around 3mins of ads, then the promo, then Trisha [repeat], whereas SMG showed more ads and trails. Like UTV cut out a trail or two when Julian Simmons is on weekend IVC.
I guess SMG decided they preferred the revenue they got from the ads -- or couldn't be arsed. The GMTV endcap was played before the commercial break, which is not usually how it's done.. The GMTV endcap comes around 09:24 after the ads, couple of trails and then the first ident of the day.
Well, looks like a fairly poor revamp for Scotland Today. The new titles and sidebars are quite nice, but the rest of the graphics are dull, and the set just looks cheap and nasty - nowhere near as good as the last one, IMHO.
TV Dragon GMTV have not had an ident at 9.24 for a couple of months now ..
Probably because its just a tradition really, in reality, people don't need to know that the 9.20am ads are GMTV's, so GMTV may as well stick up their endcap at 9.20
Emm.... I thought grampian would only use it's own specially created idents but it would appear their actually using some of the generic ITV idents with the grampian logo on them. Don't know about STV though???
