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Way back, many many moons ago... yes further back than that.  Certain ITV companies would take great pride to promote their company programmes and talent with specially made promotions. LWT were of course the best known for doing this.  How often did you ever see something like this from Granada or even Yorkshire?  Tyne Tees did give us "We are Tyne Tees people", but it was never really showcasing the talent the company produced.  ITV tried to do something similar a while ago but it just come across rather flat.  Of course that could be down to the fact ITV has a much smaller pool of talent now. 

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Reading details in another forum , saw some moaning about itv's soaps dominating from 7.30 till 9 on 3 nights...

If itv had same schedule as ones in early 1990s with less soap more 30min 7pm gameshows ratings would be far lower than with extra soap time like now as times have changed.
Also in the 90s itv did have similar 
amount of soap as the bill was on 2 hours a week wed, Thurs 8pm 

The tv landscape has changed
dramatically. There's too many options for entertainment now away from liner tv channels as streaming impact felt more. 

(Away from live sport events) say if focus on BBC one weeknights output...outside say MasterChef and repair shop from 7 till 9pm what other shows bring in the ratings on regular basis?

On channel 4 can only think of bake off between 7 and 9pm 

 Surprised bbc one not helping EastEnders this year at all first moving it against Emmerdale then booting it onto bbc two...
Shouldnt channels try to hold onto stand out shows as long as possible now and help them as harder than ever get regular ratings on weeknights between 7 and 9 pm? 

Look at other channels between 7 and 9pm and how very few shows rate above 2 million, outside of bake off, master chef, repair shop what other shows actually stand out now? 

Honestly believe in future there will be more live news in primetime and shows like the one show type chat shows to fill up to 9pm and very few commissioning anything else.

Even if itv's soaps decline to 2 million per episode by then will still stand out as high ratings as nothing will slow the tide now. As very few alternative shows offered by other channels from 7 till 9 hardly grabbing great ratings.

Prediction in coming years that itv fills evenings with more (this morning) type live filler shows up to 9pm but keeps soaps as they are as no matter how low ratings get as years pass nothing would stand out now and going back to 30 minute gameshows at 7pm is in the past.

Kaye Adams!! Well I never! lol.

It's become a common topic of recent months how often the BBC have missed changing a logo as part of what has been quite a slow brand rollout. I suppose its understandable as our biggest broadcaster they are held to quite high standards, and maybe we have been spoiled by some very efficient rebrands elsewhere which have stuck in the mind. But it's certainly not always been that way, and I thought for a change of pace it might be interesting just to look at some of the other less-than-smooth branding switchovers from other broadcasters over the years, particularly bearing in mind some of those had so much less estate to actually change at the time.

To kick things off one of the ones that I always think of, being my region of the time, was Tyne Tees in the latter few years of the regional brands in the late 90s and early 2000s. Their surprisingly lovely rebrand of 2000 brought with it a whole new corporate logo for the station which was thoroughly applied to nearly everywhere. Only for the network idents in use for the majority of the day to continue with the old rushed-out-in-an-afternoon corporate logo from 2 years prior, even after they themselves were tweaked with the ITV1 update. I guess by that point it's probably fair to say there was no real incentive from the powers-that-be on really keeping things in the regions looking smart - but even after they went all out with the national branding in 2002, that old local corporate logo doggedly lived on through the teletext service in the North East, and teletext services were still being quite heavily used by audiences in the early 2000s. Unlike some regions this was never replaced until all the ancillary text services were closed down nationwide in late 2004, meaning it would have been 4 years and probably about 2 or 3 pres refreshes before they finally removed the last traces of that old logo from active broadcast.


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And finally, that old corporate logo still clinging on as of July 26th 2004:-



So any other examples of really slow branding crossovers that spring to mind over the years?

Interesting evening on Sky News with the (long awaited) 'debate' with Sunak and Truss. 

It all went a bit Pete Tong at the end when they tried to do their 'Ask The Audience' act and it all crashed, but otherwise, I thought it was interesting, and was well chaired by Kay Burley.

Seems there were some power supply issues this evening in Southampton meaning the Oxford edition was broadcast in that part of the region instead.  Normal service was resumed (albeit with a brief appearance from the BBC News Channel) at 6.45pm.

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Today's episode of Countdown (2:10pm, Channel 4) will be Les Dennis' first of ten programmes standing in for Colin Murray.

"If it's up there, I'll give you the teapot myself."

The latest RAJAR data is in for Qtr 2 and MediaGuardian is reporting that Commercial Radio outperformed BBC Radio in terms of share for the first time since 1999.

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(Not sure if I posted this in right place, should it be in Industry News?)

The director of BBC Wales Rhuanedd Richards announced the increase in transmission hours for BBC Radio Cymru earlier today - from 15 hours/week to 60 hours/week.

"A Welsh language music-based schedule is something that’s missing from the kit of parts for Welsh speakers – I’m really excited about bringing that to listeners in the autumn."

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