If you look at the clip where it goes into the ITN News, the video flickers which may suggest that Thames were using the sustaining feed probably from Central.
Not at that point, Thames did indeed produce Midweek Sports Special at the time. As I said earlier, on the night it began they were supposed to be showing highlights of an England match and they couldn't show it anywhere. Presumably it would be the same as any other programme, as it was a Thames production the other regions couldn't or wouldn't show it. The two weeks after that it was the Beeb's "turn" to cover midweek football so it presumably wasn't much of a problem.
If you look at the clip where it goes into the ITN News, the video flickers which may suggest that Thames were using the sustaining feed probably from Central.
If you look at the clip where it goes into the ITN News, the video flickers which may suggest that Thames were using the sustaining feed probably from Central.
There wasn't a network feed as such back then - the network was reconfigured after every junction - everyone linked up to Granada for Corrie, then Thames for Benny Hill, then YTV for That's My Boy etc... that's what the Inspector is correctly implying.
The ITN News was fed to Thames or LWT and all stations linked to them at newstime rather than to ITN directly. With Thames off the air, the news was obviously routed via Central or another company. I take it your point is that it still appears to be coming from elsewhere due to the sync jump when Thames join ITN - quite possibly this was still the case.
A 'sustaining feed' would be something that can sustain the network as the name implies - i.e. it's a continuous supply of programmes etc that could be broadcast, something to fall back on
ITV never had such a thing, each station was it's own channel taking feeds of programmes from others when necessary. There was nothing for one of the stations to fall back on, unless one just rebroadcast the other (which was rare and not something they'd like to do for obvious reasons
A 'sustaining feed' would be something that can sustain the network as the name implies - i.e. it's a continuous supply of programmes etc that could be broadcast, something to fall back on
ITV never had such a thing, each station was it's own channel taking feeds of programmes from others when necessary. There was nothing for one of the stations to fall back on, unless one just rebroadcast the other (which was rare and not something they'd like to do for obvious reasons
I suppose the nearest thing to any sort of sustaining feed within ITV was the Westward/TSW/TVS/Meridain off air link to Channel TV, and even then the mainland company had to make their pres 'generic' when Channel were using it for junctions.