the stv thread

It was car crash presentation on Saturday from the end of the Bond film. The announcer was caught on the hop and left garbling over the 118118 sponsorship. Later there was a loss of commercials with the usual, “normal programming will resume as soon as possible” slide, and there were other glitches too. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of errors that are made by the STV continuity team. For example, Donny was still telling us on Friday that the rugby would start on Saturday at 7.45 p.m.
The new style ECP is diabolical and I cannot believe any professional broadcaster would allow the standard illustrated below to continue. The credits are not scrolling, so the names of several personnel are either partially seen or not seen at all. Obviously either nobody at Pacific Quay monitors their own output or they are prepared to accept sloppy standards.

It's better than ITV's horrible go at it.

and remember Classic TV New show can be viewed at :

http://www.stv.tv/content/news/features/scotlandyesterday/

30 glorious years of Grampian TV (part 3) coming this week:

*hands over reading glasses* ITV'1s menu design is rubbish, but STV's isn't any better either. At least they got the trailer design right.

It's quite better IMHO, as there's no wasted black space.

...however half of them are missing.

Two nights in a row now STV has had a problem with its 'next' trail shown after the news. It initially tries to show 'Emmerdale' with the STV background, then goes wrong and just shows the word 'Emmerdale' randomly plonked on the middle of the screen with a solid black background. Weird.

From the ITV thread,

The “Next” slide also failed on STV, and not for the first time in recent weeks. They are having a real problem with it at the moment. Below is an example of what has been broadcast lately.

http://aycu09.webshots.com/image/29768/2003278826066661692_rs.jpg

The standard of presentation on STV is appalling. The missing word on the slide is Highlights.

*cough*They need new Promo graphics, that at least look decent rather than restrictive and paint-ish*cough*

A few changes have been introduced to STV presentation tonight. The rotating S is a mess, but the promos are better than the previous effort. My favourite is the Scotsport type of trailer, where there is no grotesque S at all.

I'm loving the tweaks that have been made. I especially love the stv promos, using the 'S' as different objects, if that makes sense.
It's just the ECPs that are very annoying, as they still squash the credits upwards. Why can't they just push the credits up?