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Interesting about ITN playing the ads. To muddy the waters, the first episode of the Big Breakfast (September 92, so under the same arrangement with TV-am) has cue dots into the breaks so I assume C4 pres were playing them out?

I can't immediately find a clip of the C4 Daily going to a break to check if there were cute dots but I imagine they wouldn't have been necessary

Not sure I'd read too much into the presence of cue dots. The programme gallery wouldn't have been responsible for the ads and undoubtedly, would have been somewhat chaotic whilst the programme was on air.  Firing up a cue dot would've been a fairly standard means of communicating with a separate group, responsible for playing out the ads - even if they were based in the same building.

One other interesting nugget - we were also led to believe there was a possibility that Channel 4 was playing out some ads post-midnight during the C4D era and these would've been on the feed coming out of Charlotte Street and passed to the ITV companies.