[madmusician]

This is a similar classic from the UK: www.youtube.com 

[dbl]

www.youtube.com 

Another one to the awkward ad/promo placement category...

[lookoutwales]

Not so much awkward placement as awkward promo - TV-am plugging a forthcoming Richard O'Brien interview in their final months on air.

Evidently trying to save up the cash before their franchise expires, they couldn't even be bothered to buy at least even a few seconds of Crystal Maze footage!

Granada takes over once they go off air - and with no This Morning/TTTP promo business to go through, they opt for a relaxed in-vision welcome from Charles Foster (IIRC, Granada usually handled nominated contractor duties for the network during daytime)

www.youtube.com 

[Bluecortina]

Did Channel 4 turn off the colour burst for black and white programmes like the BBC and ITV companies did at the time? If they did, that could explain it being black and white, somehow it didn't come back on when it was meant to.

Channel 4 never turned the colour burst off during black and white programming. That doesn't preclude a fault of some sort of course.

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Not so much awkward placement as awkward promo - TV-am plugging a forthcoming Richard O'Brien interview in their final months on air.

Evidently trying to save up the cash before their franchise expires, they couldn't even be bothered to buy at least even a few seconds of Crystal Maze footage!

Granada takes over once they go off air - and with no This Morning/TTTP promo business to go through, they opt for a relaxed in-vision welcome from Charles Foster (IIRC, Granada usually handled nominated contractor duties for the network during daytime)

www.youtube.com 

Thames and LWT were always the nominated contractor - that being a network managing role and nothing to do with the physical networking of programming.

[Stooky Bill]

Not so much awkward placement as awkward promo - TV-am plugging a forthcoming Richard O'Brien interview in their final months on air.

Evidently trying to save up the cash before their franchise expires, they couldn't even be bothered to buy at least even a few seconds of Crystal Maze footage!

www.youtube.com 

Why is that an awkward promo? Sure the style is very much of its time, but it seems perfectly fine to me. For something so short, with so much else moving on screen I don't see what a video clip of Crystal Maze would add to it

[Wrekin Havoc]

Thames and LWT were always the nominated contractor - that being a network managing role and nothing to do with the physical networking of programming.

... and Central was the deputy nominated contractor, should either have found themselves unable to perform that role.

[Stooky Bill]

Here's part of a Tyne Tees close down from 23rd November 1985. There's an ITN branded News Flash straight after the late film
youtu.be 

The notable thing about this is that there's two other clips of the same newsflash on YouTube, one from TVS:
www.youtube.com 

and here's Granada's
youtu.be 

Not sure what was so notable about that evening or film that meant that it was recorded and kept so much.

And if you want to see how the TVS and Tyne Tees clips look side by side (there's not enough of the Granada one):
www.youtubemultiplier.com 

newsflash itv nov 85 - Youtube Multiplier
Mix of 2 videos from youtube : newsflash itv nov 85
  Source: www.youtubemultiplier.com

[lookoutwales]

Not sure what was so notable about that evening or film that meant that it was recorded and kept so much.

I think it might have been the network premiere of The Postman Always Rings Twice (or the Jack Nicholson version, anyway). Coincidentally, BBC1 had shown the original, much less racy, version the week before.

And I'm pretty sure it was established on the blue place that Granada did have at least some network playout duties in daytime, particularly around the early 90s.

Certainly, they took their turn to playout certain films for the network - hence Charles Foster reading the newsflash in this instance.

[Stooky Bill]

Certainly, they took their turn to playout certain films for the network - hence Charles Foster reading the newsflash in this instance.

Yes, it makes sense the newsflash coming from Granada because that's where the film was being played out from. Although, I wonder if it was networked? Possibly the reason it was coming from Granada was because some regions like them, Tyne Tees, TVS etc were showing it at a different time to some other regions

[Milkshake]

Im sure this has been highlighted before anyways, but the film was NOT networked:

LWT had
10pm Time for Murder: The Lighting always Strikes twice
11pm A reason to live which finished at 12.41?

Everyone else had that film as above.