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).
UTV do this sometimes as well. Usually if there's a film or something starting after the break they would do the in-vision announcement before the break and then lead directly into the film without an ident or announcement.
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).
UTV do this sometimes as well. Usually if there's a film or something starting after the break they would do the in-vision announcement before the break and then lead directly into the film without an ident or announcement.
Certainly outside of prime-time (and before the merger with YTV), Tyne Tees didn't always plan the junctions in advance. They would allocate promos and ads to the break, but during the previous show would just say to the announcer something like, 'You've got twenty seconds Bill, do you want 10 and 10, slide or in-vision, etc". Some announcers like Bill Steel liked to appear in-vision as much as possible (he had it written into his contract that he was allowed to do IVC as long as he stayed at the channel). For a while, Alan Cartner chose not to appear in-vision at all. A lot of what we saw was down which CA and/or TC was working that day.
Yeah Colin Weston has said in an interview that TTTV was his favourite station because of just that. Tyne Tees really did have a truly unique feel to it before the takeovers; Bill used to take a great interest in productions made at City Road, and asked frequently for extended IVC announcements so he could tell the world about the latest and greatest productions coming our way. Announcements were also usually ad-libbed (especially by Bill) rather than being formally scripted as happened on virtually every other station in existence.
As you say, depending on which announcer/TC was on duty, the station had a very different feel from day to day, it was completely unpredictable as well which made the regimented style of YTV and its successors appear all the more alien to North East viewers. Announcers would sort things so that they could talk about a couple of programmes in vision, then introduce a trailer for another programme, then switch back to introduce the main programme, something I don't think I've come across on other stations ever. It's that sort of fluid approach, whether done in- our out of vision that modern presentation lacks.
Anyone notice the UTV day ident today Sunday on UTV?
Do you mean during the day or at night? If you mean during the day, UTV show UTV Day idents every Saturday and Sunday. I don't think they understand it's supposed to be a weekday thing!
Anyone notice the UTV day ident today Sunday on UTV?
Do you mean during the day or at night? If you mean during the day, UTV show UTV Day idents every Saturday and Sunday. I don't think they understand it's supposed to be a weekday thing!
They have shown them at the weekend as an intro to the late evening news.
UTV have always taken the ITV1 (before that ITV Nightime / LNN) feed overnight, for as long as I can remember. Its just recently, since this clean feed came in, that the idents overnight have been announcer-less.
UTV have always taken the ITV1 (before that ITV Nightime / LNN) feed overnight, for as long as I can remember. Its just recently, since this clean feed came in, that the idents overnight have been announcer-less.
Does that mean there would have been a clean Christmas 04 ident? I wish I knew as I would have recorded it!