the stv thread

Yep I have, to be honest I didn't like the font/design of it. It kinda looked ugly.

UTV don't use it either because it doesn't appear on the clean ITV1 feed and they probably can't be bothered doing it themselves.

Channel 4 haven't used a Subs aston for years!

I just noticed that Scotsport uses the ITV font on its credits, has that got something to do with the show being on ITV Border, or is it just to tie in with the network programming shown on stv?

I think Watch to Win is getting a new look from next week, and they're giving away 10K: http://www.stv.tv/win/watchtowin
stv have been showing breakbumpers with words/phrases like 'Next Monday', '£10000'...

It's about time!

I'm glad it's getting a new look. They still seem to be in the Easter era (I preferred the pre-Easter graphics).

Not too sure of the new logo though. I'll reserve judgement until it appears properly.

Jim White is to replace Jim Delahunt on Scotsport's Champion’s League coverage.
More HERE.

TV Forum wasn't the only thing to have a technical problem yesterday. STV fell off the air for a good five minutes.

Scotland Today finished and went to the endcap, then froze for about one minute. Then what looked like an emergency tape (the terminology is a bit local radio - I have no idea whether this is how it works on TV or whether they just flipped to another video) came on with scenic shots of Scotland, some odd music and the message at the bottom 'normal programmes will resume as soon as possible'. A bit odd really - a still is more traditional. There was no announcement as STV continuity is presumably recorded at that time of the day.

As to what went wrong? Either Talking Scotland or the weather failed, or they just finished early presumably. No idea if the same thing happened in the former Grampian region.

Came on here to tell you all yesterday but we had a technical problem of our own, of course...

"Altogether ahead of the game."
What a stupid announcement before the Champions League match.

I agree. If they have to do the "Altogether" catchphrase, keep it to "Altogether Scotland" perhaps before the news. It's getting a bit annoying now.

Problems again at stv. A few minutes ago we had the ITV1 still caption, and now we just had two ITV1 branded trailers. No stv ident into the news just a stv still.

Yes, I noticed that too cos I was watching the programme on Freddie Mercury. Looked as if there was a problem with the ad break