[lookoutwales]

That's certainly how I remember the Setting the Standard package.

In terms of the 1996 idents, I remember most of the ones listed - there was one with a traditionally animated flickering candle that used to appear at the tail end of the night (usually the last local junction before handing over to LNN)

'Soap' appeared a bit during daytime (and I think was used for Corrie etc.) while Rocket generally appeared around CITV - and 'Frost' / 'Glass' were in general use a fair bit, especially the former. But the main ident generally remained front and centre.

The trouble with the package was there was such a variety in production techniques, themes and even lengths that the result was quite an inconsistent on-air brand - built around the classic G logo, but other channels were leaning towards a more corporate approach, something that the Setting the Standard campaign had achieved rather well, IMO.

And when playout moved to YTV, such variety of idents posed a problem because there was often a pregnant pause while the duty announcer (provided they were live across the regions) was awaiting their cue from YTV's Ilkley Moor Bar t'At sting.

It does always seem that Granada is massively under represented in Internet clippage. For some reason there seems to be a lot fewer recordings of its continuity etc.

I don't think it's too underrepresented - bar maybe Channel, we've seen most regions become better represented in terms of footage over time (even Border) especially in recent years.

Granada never relied too heavily on in-vision as the likes of TSW did - even before in-vision junctions were reduced - though it didn't stop making stars out of CW, Jim Pope etc (if not quite to the same degree as Ian Stirling)

And of course, they had the wonderful Keith Mansfield station theme at closedown.