01-01-2024, 04:06 PM
Yes they went through a phase of showing mini series on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday and they were normally promoted as being on ITV.
CNN presumably had some sort of deal with ITN at the time, a few years later when the Gulf War started their rolling coverage was mostly simulcasting CNN
Lots of clips of New Year television posted on YouTube over the last couple of days, this one of TSW opening on NYD 1989
youtu.be
... matches up with this clip of Grampian doing the same thing. If you play them together they sync up nicely:
youtu.be
I know there's multiple examples of that party political broadcast breakdown, I wonder how many other examples there are on YouTube of parallel clips
CNN presumably had some sort of deal with ITN at the time, a few years later when the Gulf War started their rolling coverage was mostly simulcasting CNN
Lots of clips of New Year television posted on YouTube over the last couple of days, this one of TSW opening on NYD 1989
youtu.be
... matches up with this clip of Grampian doing the same thing. If you play them together they sync up nicely:
youtu.be
I know there's multiple examples of that party political broadcast breakdown, I wonder how many other examples there are on YouTube of parallel clips