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RE: ITN Nostalgia - lookoutwales - 09-11-2023

Rather appropriately, considering yesterday's ITVX-only coverage, the latest ITN Archive treat is coverage of the 1976 State Opening of Parliament - an ITN/Thames co-production apparently, with Sir Alastair Burnet on commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeO3r5toi6Y 

RE: ITN Nostalgia - James2001 - 09-11-2023

They should post up their old election coverage!

RE: ITN Nostalgia - JMT1985 - 09-11-2023

(09-11-2023, 02:38 PM)James2001 Wrote:  They should post up their old election coverage!
I believe their 1983 election night along with 1997, 2001 and 2005 are on YouTube

RE: ITN Nostalgia - James2001 - 09-11-2023

Although not in full or from ITN themselves.

RE: ITN Nostalgia - JMT1985 - 10-11-2023

(09-11-2023, 10:53 PM)James2001 Wrote:  Although not in full or from ITN themselves.

Well the BBC have given up airing repeats of their archive general election coverage - be thankful we have anything on YouTube from both of them

RE: ITN Nostalgia - James2001 - 10-11-2023

(10-11-2023, 12:19 AM)JMT1985 Wrote:  Well the BBC have given up airing repeats of their archive general election coverage - be thankful we have anything on YouTube from both of them

Several of the BBC's are on the iPlayer though.

RE: ITN Nostalgia - Roger Darthwell - 22-11-2023

60 years ago US President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, so to commemorate this, I would like to post this rare recording of an ITN News bulletin the evening of the assassination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jGAK-zYHWU 

RE: ITN Nostalgia - VMPhil - 22-11-2023

That's not an ITN production, that was a Granada programme, that I think was regional only to Granada? It was recorded on 405 line videotape and preserved, unusually.

Granada were I believe the first channel in Britain to announce the news he'd been shot before the BBC during Scene at 6:30.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary Granada produced a programme which featured an interview with Mike Scott which has just been uploaded in full by Neil Miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTaPqmDTsU 

RE: ITN Nostalgia - lookoutwales - 22-11-2023

(22-11-2023, 02:00 PM)VMPhil Wrote:  That's not an ITN production, that was a Granada programme, that I think was regional only to Granada? It was recorded on 405 line videotape and preserved, unusually.

Yes. Definitely Granada rather than ITN, and regional - think this was catalogued as 'Late Scene Extra' in the archive ('Scene' was usually spun off into late night editions - that oft-repeated chat between Ken Dodd and The Beatles was recorded just a few days later)

I think there was a story somewhere that ITN weren't prepared to allow Granada to break news of the shooting first until they had verified it themselves (Granada's source was a phone call from CBS in New York)

Also worth noting the hastily-arranged epilogue - very unusual practice from Granada at the time, who usually left such things alone to ABC at the weekends.

Kaleidoscope's podcast does feature (in audio only) ITN's late news summary, preceding a Rediffusion epilogue and closedown - which somewhat surprisingly, diverges into other news, including a report on that night's TV awards that ensured most of the industry had been caught on the hop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMctPkkBwE 

RE: ITN Nostalgia - JMT1985 - 22-11-2023

(22-11-2023, 03:21 PM)lookoutwales Wrote:  Yes. Definitely Granada rather than ITN, and regional - think this was catalogued as 'Late Scene Extra' in the archive ('Scene' was usually spun off into late night editions - that oft-repeated chat between Ken Dodd and The Beatles was recorded just a few days later)

I think there was a story somewhere that ITN weren't prepared to allow Granada to break news of the shooting first until they had verified it themselves (Granada's source was a phone call from CBS in New York)

Also worth noting the hastily-arranged epilogue - very unusual practice from Granada at the time, who usually left such things alone to ABC at the weekends.

Kaleidoscope's podcast does feature (in audio only) ITN's late news summary, preceding a Rediffusion epilogue and closedown - which somewhat surprisingly, diverges into other news, including a report on that night's TV awards that ensured most of the industry had been caught on the hop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMctPkkBwE 

About the epilogue, you are quite right, Granada avoided religion if at all possible. Usually in the pre-1972 restricted TV hours era, Granada tended to start their proper schedule at 5.00pm or 4.50pm and run right through until midnight - and a fairly curt "Good Night" was the end phrase for the last bit in their schedule at midnight, whereas other regions had an epilogue around 11.30pm/11.45pm

Granada often used adult educational shows as a replacement for any epilogue. I remember one programme was "Music for Guitars" which replaced any epilogue.