[TVFan]

Can’t say if this was a breakdown or not but I’ve definitely not seen it before.

Just before 7am this morning Comedy Central Extra was showing a red screen with the yellow Comedy Central logo bouncing around the screen like a screensaver accompanied by background music.

That’s the filler they show just before Teleshopping begins.

[Wrekin Havoc]

A large company like Granada would have more than one incoming circuit and the fact that we see BAT3 rather than say LS3 is of no real significance - indeed the first programme might just as well be off a local Granada VT. But of course we will never know. 

Granada’s source for God’s Story may well have been Central on BAT3. Newspaper listings confirm that ITV regions were running a local schedule at 09.30 that morning. Granada and Central took God’s Story at 09.30 but most others did not, including LWT and Yorkshire (who made the programme).

[Steve in Pudsey]

So does that lead us to a theory that they rehearsed the opening junction before coming on air and didn't reset?

[Neil Jones]

Here's an LWT KRS3 red bar type thing from 1988 going into of all things TV-am:


From www.youtube.com  - see 1min 3 in)

[Steve in Pudsey]

That one makes sense - BT switching the transmitters to TV-am microseconds before they switched TV-am to the circuit instead of LWT

[W. Knight]

Countdown clock from Sky Creative shown for F1 Qualifiers:
twitter.com 

[channel4squares1]

I wouldn't say this is a breakdown as such, but it appears LWT has used the wrong master tape during "Nobody's Perfect" and accidentally shown the wrong take near the end.
If you listen carefully, you may just about hear an "action" when part 2 begins.
www.youtube.com 

www.youtube.com 

[Steve in Pudsey]

That one is being discussed on the Social Media Gold thread

[Patrick]

Found this a few days ago while looking at andrewcbo's channel, interesting to see another POV of the 2008 ITV Power Cut.

www.youtube.com 

[Bennyboy84]

Found this a few days ago while looking at andrewcbo's channel, interesting to see another POV of the 2008 ITV Power Cut.

www.youtube.com 

There was an ITV Power Cut? 

What a mess the sound was when pictures finally came back, oh my god that would probably blow your tv speakers if you had the sound up and didn’t realise!