Television related merchandise and tat.

You mean the one with this logo?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Radio_5_1990.png

I had the same one! It was in a Radio 5 goodie bag I got at a roadshow at Alton Towers in 1990 to launch the station, hosted by Mark Curry.

I've added a couple more pics... and another photo of some AVAGO tat for David. How do small stations have money to produce som much stuff when a network like ITV don't issue much?

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/7725551

What is that brown thing above the magnet and that round thing above the mug? I think the pack of cards were a bit of a waste of money on Avagos part. AFAIK the cards were never mentioned on air and when I recieved mine in the post (completely out of the blue, I didn't 'win' them or anything) the channel had already moved to channel 181 and were soon to abandon The Big Shuffle altogether.

Avago = Lizzy Duke; BBC = Cartier.

A good friend of mine has a Yorkshire Transmission Centre mousemat with logos of YTV, TTTV, Granada and (I think) LWT on it. I'll try and get a picture sometime.

My newest prized possession

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/cen2.jpg

And an old favourite, a network switching panel from inside ATV Centre which sits on top of my TV looking important

http://files.myopera.com/wowandflutter/blog/switching%20panel%201.jpg

geeky branded tat? oh yes!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/2306795315_6472c7f782.jpg
top (l-r) : BBC Breakfast, BBC Alba (says 'Craoladh nan Gaidheal' on the back), BBC Training & Development (with a picture of a man peeling an orange on the back, from this style of branding)

bottom: BBC Broadcast, Sky, Virgin Radio, Clyde 1, UKTV Gold travel mug.

Sadly the Red Bee mug had an unfortunate meeting with the kitchen floor last night.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2306794285_e45e672b8c_m.jpg

I couldn't find the Living TV mug (suspect the flatmate may have had something to do with that one), the Ginger TV branded condom, or the UKTV golf umbrella.

Maybe you would like to write a full review of these mugs?

I think you're stretching the point with that large tumbler on the left that clearly says, "Asda". Have they started a TV channel?

I think we should be told.

Pathetic though it may sound.. sorry, as it is, I'm now in a state of intrigue about how anyone gets a hold of such paraphernalia and if it's just as simple as dashing a letter off to a public relations officer.

Somewhere I have in this house a Westward Ashtray c.1966 - With Channel 9 / Channel 12 sidebars.

You can sleep with directors and make off with lots of tat. You might even get a walk-on part depending on what they're doing.

Its easier now there's only ITV plc to cope with. In my halcyon days there were 15 ITV companies.

What a weekend that was.