Sunday Morning Production Side

Has anybody seen the production slide on Anglia TV's Sunday Morning programme?

it reads:

A GRANADA PRODUCTION FOR ANGLIA

© ANGLIA TELEVISION LTD MMI

Since Anglia and Granada are the same company, this slide therefore doesn't actually make any sense.

Not only that, but the slide itself is a solid purple.

Does anybody know why?

Yeah that was weird, it's getting ridiculus Granada has more endboards, it is truely baffling why they have got so many!

Norwich commissioned Manchester to produce it?

It's like locally produced BBC Programmes '(C) BBC NORTH'
But it's all the same BBC isn't it?!!

good point, but Anglia has been making sunday morning religious programmes for many years... why would granada commission them to make a programme that they have been making before they were brough by granada.

Just an excuse for another production slide if you ask me!

I think the reason is that the United Productions brand has been scrapped, which Anglia network progs used to fall under. Therefore the use of the Granada name. The Sunday Prog, Trisha, wright Stuff are still all produced in Norwich.

Yes but the production slide is suggusting that it was GRANADA who produced for Anglia, which isn't right is it!

Any Chance of a screenshot

I'll try and get one next week.

I also saw the generic ANGLIA production slide with the various facets of the company logo in shiny purple glass. The anglia logo itself retains none of its color and is just white triangles on the soft purple bezel in the middle of the slide.

Again it looks a bit cheesey.

And the Meridian one was shown on Soccer Sunday! Asa, keep an eye out this weekend!

I was wondering when they would turn up.

Those endcaps weren't supposed to be used until December. So it would appear that Anglia and Meridian started using them at the right time, but Granada, YTV and Tyne Tees jumped the gun and used them in November. No surprise there, the United channels always were more professional than the GMG North ones.

So the only ones missing then are LWT and Border. These have been produced, so I wonder where they are. Anyone seen them yet?

Think I may be able to clarify this.

When Granada Media Group re-organised on their recent purchase of Anglia and Meridian from United News and Media, all the network production teams at the various franchise centres, wherever they were working in the UK, were folded into one huge production company, 'Granada Production', in the case of Meridian and Anglia this replaced 'United Production'. Therefore Trisha, made in Norwich, is now a Granada Production.

Therefore 'Network' programmes made by Granada production teams in Norwich, Southampton, Leeds, Newcastle etc. will now be branded as Granada productions, but with a copyright of the local franchise which made it/commissioned it.

A possible exception may be LWT - LWT Production was a very strong production company - and has a very strong brand.

Local, non-network programmes, are likely to retain a local production credit (Soccer Sunday being a local show - different regions use the same name for different local footy coverage) as the 'local' programmes need the 'local' branding, a uniform branding across stations for regional production makes far less sense, and arguably would reduce the feeling of regionality.

The production teams for regional production may not have been folded into Granada Production - though the people making the shows work for stations owned by Granada Media Group...

So in other words, the Heartbeat/YTV and 100 Greatest/TTTV endcaps should never have been used, and should instead have had the GRANADA Production endcaps, whereas the Meridian/Anglia usage (and Granada's during Soccer Sunday/Granada Rports) is correct as these are local programmes?