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STV 50th Birthday

(July 2007)

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MA
mauritius
Anybody know if Scottish Television have any plans to celebrate their 50th birthday next month with some special idents?
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A former member
According to STV there lots happening there can't tell us what!

I would like like to see

Glen Michael
High road
a Programme Franky and Joisse
Parliamo Glasgow

Maybe a repeat of 40 years of Scotland today
MA
mauritius
[quote="623058"Glen Michael
[/quote]
The man is a legend. Laughing
GM
GMc
stv posted:
In 2007, stv central will be celebrating its 50th birthday. We plan to run a series of reports on Scotland Today and we are currently considering programming ideas, offering viewers a look back at 50 years of stv, from our first broadcast to our very latest. Many of our viewers will appreciate an affectionate look back at our archives and this will be an interesting project in terms of how far we, and television in general, have changed over the past half century. Plans will be confirmed mid 2007.


The above quote from stv's 2007 Annual Statement. Sounds good. We shall have to wait until September... Cool
WE
Westy2
Have they got much of an archive?

I thought they had a fire years ago!
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A former member
but the fire destroyed a theatre not the tapes

23 days later

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A former member
Is there any ideas yet?
RJ
RJG
The fire, in 1969 I think, did destroy a lot of early material, including a lot of Scotsport football match footage. IIRC. In the old 405 line transmission days many parts of the Borders could receive STV on channel 10 from Black Hill...Border was regarded as an English station (still is!). Also, IIRC, Grampian and Border rallied round to provide backup programming for STV at the time in the way of feature films etc, which used to be screened by individual companies rather than networked.
AL
Allan100
Quote:
In 2007, stv central will be celebrating its 50th birthday.


sorry if its been mentiond before but do SMG brand scottish as "STV central" durring local programs?
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A former member
nope
GM
GMc
Allan100 posted:
Quote:
In 2007, stv central will be celebrating its 50th birthday.


sorry if its been mentiond before but do SMG brand scottish as "STV central" durring local programs?


No, that's the new legal name for Scottish Television, and stv north is the new name for Grampian Television. The stv name is used everywhere else.
SA
saturdaymorning
Would anyone have had a video recorder before 1969?

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