Just before the street STV screens went black for about 5 secs after a promo, for Alibi , i think that there should have been another promo before the junction a slide did appear blue background and Scottish TV logo ,the announcer filled , then the ident for the street appeared .
Just before the street STV screens went black for about 5 secs after a promo, i think that there should have been another one before the junction
If there was meant to be a promo which wasn't there there should have been a Back Soon caption, but it's more likely that they just had a few seconds spare and decided not to play the ident early.
Just before the street STV screens went black for about 5 secs after a promo, i think that there should have been another one before the junction
If there was meant to be a promo which wasn't there there should have been a Back Soon caption, but it's more likely that they just had a few seconds spare and decided not to play the ident early.
Back soon maybe on ITV 1 ,but i have seen a few STV breakdowns and they NEVER have a back soon caption they usually put a slide or frozen ident up on screen and waffle on . One i remember a few months back it took 45 secs for an announcer to fill !!! .No i believe that something went wrong i have had a quick look at the tape as i was taping corrie the screen was black for 13 secs the slide came up and was on screen for a further 10 secs before the announcer filled he was very slick too and went straight into the link for corrie .
I would have thought the same happend on Grampian as it's the same transmission and announcer.
Just before the street STV screens went black for about 5 secs after a promo, i think that there should have been another one before the junction
If there was meant to be a promo which wasn't there there should have been a Back Soon caption, but it's more likely that they just had a few seconds spare and decided not to play the ident early.
Back soon maybe on ITV 1 ,but i have seen a few STV breakdowns and they NEVER have a back soon caption they usually put a slide or frozen ident up on screen and waffle on . One i remember a few months back it took 45 secs for an announcer to fill !!! .No i believe that something went wrong i have had a quick look at the tape as i was taping corrie the screen was black for 13 secs the slide came up and was on screen for a further 10 secs before the announcer filled he was very slick too and went straight into the link for corrie .
I would have thought the same happend on Grampian as it's the same transmission and announcer.
Yep the same thing happened on Grampian - still grampian tv caption and the announcer (Craig Wallace I think) did a very slick and unruffled fill to the link for Coronation Street.
The Back Soon caption appears if the station goes to a break but there simply are no ads to play out. The big ITV1 caption is generally the first thing thrown up by the region if they have a fault (or "Anglia" or "Meridian" in the case of Anglia and Meridian - surprisingly enough - respectively). If the network itself has a fault, they throw up (or at least used to throw up) the programme name concerned.
Sounds as if STV are still aware of the reason for having a live announcer in the first place..... Nine times out of ten, and this was even before continuity moved to London, GMG North viewers would have had a black screen for the full 30 seconds then continued on as if nothing had happened.
Well done to SMG though... it pays to have announcers on the ball for when everything goes belly up!!!
Yep the same thing happened on Grampian - still grampian tv caption and the announcer (Craig Wallace I think) did a very slick and unruffled fill to the link for Coronation Street.
Craig Wallace was on air at Clyde 1 till 7 tonight.. (I didn't even know he did stuff for SMG anyway - you sure it was him?)