The Watchnight Service was originating from the Quarrier's Homes, Bridge of Weir with Moira Anderson as star guest singer. It was networked to Grampian, Border, UTV, and two or three others although I never found out which ones. I suspect it might have been HTV, Westward, Channel?
The papers state HTV and TSW it seems went with English option, but its possible that not what happened. I've seen it a few times the paper tv guides got it wrong. Some of the papers claim STV took the network Church service on xmas day at 10.20, but never did and opt-ed out to broadcast Glen Micheal instead.
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The thing was, David Johnstone (the Director of Programmes, who rang me on Christmas morning before I was even properly awake) never told me who my contribution had been networked to, he simply referred to "the network". I knew it didn't mean the entire network, because I was fairly sure they had a Watchnight Service of their own (which we would never have taken anyway because it was C of E) but I'm still fairly sure that there were regions outwith Scotland who took the feed.
If I could be bothered I'd look out the TVT.......
:-(
A former member
Either way, it is a very interesting tale of CA during your time at STV!