04-05-2023, 10:52 PM
(04-05-2023, 10:30 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: An ad break falls off the air on Central in 1991 and as in-vision continuity had been dropped four years previously, the 90 second gap is filled by a throwback to a promotional package introduced, um, four years previously:
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Somebody in the comments suggests the machine playing the adverts keeled over and died. Not sure if Central were using cart machines for adverts as late as 1991 or something else, or whether a cart machine was just to play Channel 4 adverts.
Looks to me as if it's more likely they hadn't programmed it correctly and it simply ran out of commercials to play out.
I know at Tyne Tees they tended to not put out ads live from their BCN100 as they'd been bitten a couple of times with just this sort of thing happening, and preferred to dub them onto another tape, only doing them live if there were last minute changes etc. I get the impression that other companies were similar.
What other systems would have been available in 1991? I thought YTV were still using a cart system in the late '90s that had been put in in 1993 when the new joint centre was opened.