Don't forget to turn off your set. - Printable Version
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RE: Don't forget to turn off your set. - Neil Jones - 12-12-2022
According to a Digital Spy post, "The 'ident' is where the audio track would contain a short passage describing what's about to appear - there is no set convention for what you say during that period but it should tie up with other information on the clock such as programme title (part number - don't forget many progs are divided into several parts), Production number etc."
See from nine seconds in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Pa0grZUK8
RE: Don't forget to turn off your set. - Si-Co - 12-12-2022
Thanks Neil. Come to think of it, I’ve heard this many times but never put two and two together.
RE: Don't forget to turn off your set. - Steve in Pudsey - 12-12-2022
(10-12-2022, 03:54 PM)Larry the Loafer Wrote: Something just came to mind. Did either BBC channel ever remind viewers to turn off their sets? If not, why was it only an ITV thing?
I mentioned it in passing earlier in the thread, but yes - the regional announcers sometimes would. Here's Alistair Yates in the Midlands, for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ClNRPoyhA
John Mundy in the North West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91INexy73YQ
There's a Paul Harris BBC South one out there, but it was websnatched from TV Ark so can't be posted here.
These sequences were largely intended to mimic ITV so perhaps not surprising that the practice continued.
RE: Don't forget to turn off your set. - Si-Co - 13-12-2022
A very moving final closedown from John Mundy there. I have very vague memories of seeing the BBC One North East globe between programmes at home, and when visiting the Channel Islands in 1979, seeing the South West variant.