01-07-2023, 10:50 PM
Here’s a Granada startup from July 1983, with a minor cockup and colour bars appearing from somewhere.
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Credit: tv68 - YouTube
However, this seems to raise a few questions. The ads at the start appear to be coming from Granada, but they are then followed by TVam’s end-caption, quickly cutting to colour bars labelled “BAT3” which fade and Granada then appears to start up.
If the video is genuine (not compilation of more than one recording) then I’m not sure why we see Granada ads at the start - before startup and before TVam appears to close. I don’t think there were any local inserts into TVam in that era (and even later, they wouldn’t have been this kind of hyper-local ad). Perhaps the TVam caption is the anomaly here, and Granada cut (back?) to it in error? It still seems unusual to start the day with commercials though.
Any theories or explanations? Who was BAT3?
youtu.be
Credit: tv68 - YouTube
However, this seems to raise a few questions. The ads at the start appear to be coming from Granada, but they are then followed by TVam’s end-caption, quickly cutting to colour bars labelled “BAT3” which fade and Granada then appears to start up.
If the video is genuine (not compilation of more than one recording) then I’m not sure why we see Granada ads at the start - before startup and before TVam appears to close. I don’t think there were any local inserts into TVam in that era (and even later, they wouldn’t have been this kind of hyper-local ad). Perhaps the TVam caption is the anomaly here, and Granada cut (back?) to it in error? It still seems unusual to start the day with commercials though.
Any theories or explanations? Who was BAT3?
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