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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Allanbuzzy - 21-03-2024

https://youtu.be/D0ZqMOLkhFg 

Not everyday you see a pretty faithful 8-bit recreation of the Central ident. And official too. Seems to have been made on an Atari 800, according to an article about Dave Beeson and the game show Magic Micro Mission: https://www.crashonline.org.uk/23/tv.htm 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Neil Jones - 21-03-2024

Didn't they also stick that on one of the Christmas tapes?

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 22-03-2024

(21-03-2024, 08:37 PM)Neil Jones Wrote:  Didn't they also stick that on one of the Christmas tapes?

At the front of the 1983 tape, IIRC - and Dave Beeson was still working on graphics on a lot of networked Central productions well into the Carlton era, too.

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Some rare footage from the early years of C9TV, the local TV channel for the North West of Northern Ireland - including its Aussie-inspired early ident, a cheap-as-chips what's on guide and promos for both local news and Sky News simulcasts (complete with mock-up logo!)

By the time it finally closed, local output had long been abandoned and the channel had apparently become a full-time Sky News relay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tmwiJB0Yg 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRd7JkKfEGc 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - BillyH - 22-03-2024

On the same lines of regional continuity I've uploaded what appears to be the only video on Youtube of the later incarnation of ITV Westcountry's 'Birthday People', featuring the puppets Flotsam and Jetsam from June 2001 - a few hours before the infamous BBC power failure that evening!

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

Westcountry's version of this isn't remembered as much as the Gus Honeybun days of Westward and TSW, but it did stay throughout the Carlton era and seems to have ended in 2004, but that is based on a slightly oddly worded Wikipedia article about the show that I don't completely trust.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 22-03-2024

(22-03-2024, 11:29 AM)lookoutwales Wrote:  Some rare footage from the early years of C9TV, the local TV channel for the North West of Northern Ireland - including its Aussie-inspired early ident, a cheap-as-chips what's on guide and promos for both local news and Sky News simulcasts (complete with mock-up logo!)

By the time it finally closed, local output had long been abandoned and the channel had apparently become a full-time Sky News relay.

Wonder why they chose 9 for a name? Because there were 5 UK channels and the 3 Irish ones?

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - James2001 - 22-03-2024

Even though there were 4 Irish channels by the time it launched. Though I guess the name might have been concieved before TV3.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 22-03-2024

(22-03-2024, 03:30 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote:  Wonder why they chose 9 for a name? Because there were 5 UK channels and the 3 Irish ones?

Apparently so - not sure how many RSL stations branded themselves as channel 6 (apart from Oxford, perhaps?)

More recently, there was this rather curious attempt by an artist at recreating the abandoned state of their offices.

https://www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-90-after-the-fall-david-haughey-every-square-meter-every-hour/ 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 23-03-2024

(22-03-2024, 02:17 PM)BillyH Wrote:  On the same lines of regional continuity I've uploaded what appears to be the only video on Youtube of the later incarnation of ITV Westcountry's 'Birthday People', featuring the puppets Flotsam and Jetsam from June 2001 - a few hours before the infamous BBC power failure that evening!

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

Westcountry's version of this isn't remembered as much as the Gus Honeybun days of Westward and TSW, but it did stay throughout the Carlton era and seems to have ended in 2004, but that is based on a slightly oddly worded Wikipedia article about the show that I don't completely trust.

Always surprised me they managed to persevere with it in the post-Gus era for as long as they could (McDonald's was apparently a sponsor during the early years) - but then, Westcountry did at least try to maintain such elements for as long as they could.

Used to think Birthday People's axing coincided with the end of the 3pm regional news but it probably preceded that?

IIRC, Puffin's Pla(i)ce continued on Channel but simply moved to the extended regional slot in the ITV Lunchtime News, of all things (Channel always being an area where even trying to fill 15 minutes with news could be a challenge)

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Si-Co - 23-03-2024

Nothing special about this clip, except I’m curious to know which region it comes from. I don’t recognise the announcer, and both the continuity backdrop and the slide are generic. Possibly one of the smaller companies?

https://youtu.be/RqejQr-HOVk?si=PI5wiDl_sg-r6BWW 
Credit: 80s and Retro TV Clips - YouTube

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Steve in Pudsey - 23-03-2024

Could it be BFBS? This is from a few years earlier but you can see that they used different lighting effects too vary the backdrop even within one evening, the plain blue seen in your clip seems like it could have been an option.

https://youtu.be/qxl6uksYYoo?si=gETMzVBlvsGceZXH 

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