the stv thread

Shame to see Grampian bite the dust, the new ident is typical of an ident today, boring and unimaginative.

why can't there use glasgwo neds?
OAP form edinburgh?,
famers form the highlands
or umemployed people form dundoneins ( dundee)

Because no one likes to be stereotyped!
Do you think that all neds come from Glasgow, OAPs fill up Edinburgh, and unemployed people stay in Dundee?
That was a very immiture post.

So it now looks like SMG's cutbacks are so great that their ident now involves people reduced to holding their logo on a bit of cardboard ... :p

NO
fine then there can use ned form edinburgh and aberdeen, you can;t hide from the FACT scoltand Has alot of NEDS, oap , Framers,Business people, you denay that fact!

You've unwittingly stumbled on the problem with this set of idents (and the blue square ones in 2000) - they're too exclusive for the audience. They may resonate with advertisers who want to think they're on an aspirational channel, but ideas of models parading and going to a posh restaurant don't really match with what STV viewers do in their day to day lives. It's not quite as out of place as the style awards, but it's on the same level - like everyone at STV would really like to be working on Channel 4, but they're actually on a station which resembles a poor cable channel.

Incidentally the standards are slipping on the adverts - there's a factory shack advert going out with blatant spelling mistakes on locations - "Cyldebank" anyone?

I'm watching Soccer Aid. it's the ads right now, and there was a black screen for about 20 seconds, then the new STV logo appeared with this message underneath:
STV Productions 2006
It looked quite nice, actually.

Anyone got a pic of that?

click on the link below
there is a news clip to download about the new look and a picture of the new logo (what a load of rubbish)

http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=11633&newsType=

I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Grampian doesn't have a website at the moment. www.grampiantv.co.uk just goes to the Scottish TV website.

I guess they have pulled the plug on it so that it wont crash with all the complaints it would have got through it on Tuesday!!!!

According to RadioTimes, from Saturday, 3rd June, North Tonight will be no more, it is listed as Scotland Today.
Will there still be two seperate programmes for the two regions?