[Stooky Bill]

The Central "globe logo"? It looks even less like a globe than it does a cake!

It was originally a globe - a spherical or rounded object.

That does seem to suggest my suspicion that 'cake' was a modern day name and not used by Central themselves. As you say it's not like a cake

[VMPhil]

A compilation of BBC closedowns from the 1980s when the clock went forwards or backwards.

They don't all entirely go to plan.

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[Pompeytv]

Evadne Fisher  doing some live in-vision from February 1986, explaining Central Easter goodies.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NptxFjRCbRQ

Looks like Anne Hegarty on the clip of Catchphrase there

[W. Knight]

Slightly deviating from the archives, a great 2-part documentary on a wild breakfast show experiment on FX/Fox in US, with the original hosts' approval:
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[W. Knight]

From TVArk: Opening for The Tube, featuring an announcer booth with a squeezed C4/TTTV co-production symbol:
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For context, the endcap in question:
youtu.be 

[Stooky Bill]

Not just a pretend announcer but Professor Stanley Unwin. That sort of language was his act

[Si-Co]

A 1973 commercial break on Ulster Television. Interesting for a few reasons - the government warnings related to the Troubles (toy guns, unattended vehicles, confidential helplines), a (somewhat sexist these days) appeal for trainee prison officers, a black and white ad, and the cheap and partially cheerful VO/slide ads accompanied by cheesy music. I’m assuming the latter were voiced live, possibly by the duty CA, as he stumbles over a telephone number?

youtu.be 

Credit: Kaleidoscope

[Nini]

I do find that ad break fascinating because it feels like one from 5-7 years earlier than the 1973 mentioned.

[Si-Co]

Evadne Fisher  doing some live in-vision from February 1986, explaining Central Easter goodies.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NptxFjRCbRQ

Looks like Anne Hegarty on the clip of Catchphrase there

By ‘eck, she sounds proper northern on there - if it is her!

[Jon]

Looks like Anne Hegarty on the clip of Catchphrase there

By ‘eck, she sounds proper northern on there - if it is her!

It’s not, she didn’t look like that then.

She looked like this.
www.thecoast.net.nz 

And she apparently only moved to Manchester in the 80s, so if anything she’d sound more Northern now.