27-10-2022, 10:29 AM
20 years ago today the very last local announcers and local idents were screened across the ITV English regions. From the following morning on 28th October 2002 there was a single service for every one under the banner of ITV1, and featuring all the biggest ITV1 Stars of the day inlcuindg Des O'conner, Cilla Black, Ant n Dec and even the cast of the Bill.
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Of course it made sense now they went with a singe announcer since most of ITV took the same schedule expect for Tuesday at 19.30 and Friday at 14.40? Yes lets not forget the local news...
Of course they could have keep the local names on screen, but just not ref them.
Unfortunley the blue place doesn't have a thread about this as this was around the time of the great forum crash.
youtu.be
Of course it made sense now they went with a singe announcer since most of ITV took the same schedule expect for Tuesday at 19.30 and Friday at 14.40? Yes lets not forget the local news...
Of course they could have keep the local names on screen, but just not ref them.
Unfortunley the blue place doesn't have a thread about this as this was around the time of the great forum crash.
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