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A former member
No, just silent ITV1 idents.
Although I fail to see how an ITV1 with idents, but minus the announcers and ECP graphics qualifies as a "clean feed". Still very much dirty really.
Although I fail to see how an ITV1 with idents, but minus the announcers and ECP graphics qualifies as a "clean feed". Still very much dirty really.
GB
That's unusual
No, that's cheap.
They are bound to have spies here, and will never employ you, you know.
marksi posted:
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SOL posted:
[quoteThere are no announcements before that time at all.
That's unusual
No, that's cheap.
They are bound to have spies here, and will never employ you, you know.
AN
Andrew
Founding member
So in summary, UTV show idents with no announcer all day during the day, provide shoddy random idents during the evening except at weekends when a camp man advertises a competition in every junction and then has no announcers again overnight but this time its the ITV1 idents they show.
And to think some people on some forums think UTV is the best thing since sliced bread. It seems as long as they manage to show UTV Live Features at 5.30pm nothing else matters!
And to think some people on some forums think UTV is the best thing since sliced bread. It seems as long as they manage to show UTV Live Features at 5.30pm nothing else matters!
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A former member
Idents in the form they are used on British TV are a waste of time in any case. The same old form of an ident that's too long anyway followed by a voice-over telling us what's on in 3 seconds is so dull and tedious, and pointless as well.
Either, have the US-style "This is CBS" or whatever going straight into the programme or on the hour, or do it properly, ie the way most ITV companies did it before the bean-counters took over. UTV is the last bastion of this vastly superior method of informing the public about future attractions, ie the in-vision announcer.
UTV don't do it very well, and if any other companies did I probably wouldn't watch it, but the dull approach all Brit TV stations take to presentation grates on me so much that I will avoid it wherever possible.
Indeed, the fact that UTV still utilise in-vision, and have at least two other announcers that are very good at it when given the chance (Robin Taylor and Gillian Porter) only serves to accentuate how crummy UTV is. What a wasted opportunity. Given some time and effort UTV has the potential to put ITV London to shame, but they don't grasp it.
Either, have the US-style "This is CBS" or whatever going straight into the programme or on the hour, or do it properly, ie the way most ITV companies did it before the bean-counters took over. UTV is the last bastion of this vastly superior method of informing the public about future attractions, ie the in-vision announcer.
UTV don't do it very well, and if any other companies did I probably wouldn't watch it, but the dull approach all Brit TV stations take to presentation grates on me so much that I will avoid it wherever possible.
Indeed, the fact that UTV still utilise in-vision, and have at least two other announcers that are very good at it when given the chance (Robin Taylor and Gillian Porter) only serves to accentuate how crummy UTV is. What a wasted opportunity. Given some time and effort UTV has the potential to put ITV London to shame, but they don't grasp it.
RI
I would have loved to be able to have had an argument about TV pres at uni: the only people I knew who were into it were on the internet!
jason posted:
I got so much stick that year. It was my first year at Durham Uni, and somehow I let out that I was a TV pres fan whilst drunk, and TTTV in particular. My how they laid in when everything went totally arse-about-face.... 
It didn't help when I got totally plastered a following time and tried to defend Tyne Tees against a bunch of Mancs who thought the sun shone out of Granada's bottom, and a heated drunken presentation shouting match ensued. This was in the middle of a student bar, and virtually the entire place got involved, you'd be amazed how much "ordinary" students seem to take in. We had Puffin's Plaice brought into the conversation and everything. I never quite lived that down
It didn't help when I got totally plastered a following time and tried to defend Tyne Tees against a bunch of Mancs who thought the sun shone out of Granada's bottom, and a heated drunken presentation shouting match ensued. This was in the middle of a student bar, and virtually the entire place got involved, you'd be amazed how much "ordinary" students seem to take in. We had Puffin's Plaice brought into the conversation and everything. I never quite lived that down
I would have loved to be able to have had an argument about TV pres at uni: the only people I knew who were into it were on the internet!
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A former member
It was an interesting experience, I'll give you that.
The spectacle of a bunch of drunken Mancs chanting "Granada! Granada!" at the top of their voices was one of the more surreal moments of my time there
I knew from the word go that it was going to be interesting when my room-mate started criticising TTTV for having the in-vision announcement before the break rather than immediately before Corrie (something even I had never thought about). This was on something like day 2 of the first term. I think he was worse than me in some ways!
The spectacle of a bunch of drunken Mancs chanting "Granada! Granada!" at the top of their voices was one of the more surreal moments of my time there
I knew from the word go that it was going to be interesting when my room-mate started criticising TTTV for having the in-vision announcement before the break rather than immediately before Corrie (something even I had never thought about). This was on something like day 2 of the first term. I think he was worse than me in some ways!