[Former Member 443]

Seeing the earlier post about the Tyne Tees endcap made me remember an oddity in the 1989 reruns of Supergran, before the generic ITV look. The series was first shown 2 years before and was filmed in 1986, but for the repeats they had a new Tyne Tees endcap with the 1989 date.  I remember on one episode the endcap went off and for about 2 seconds the original one appeared, the familiar blue and yellow Tyne Tees logo, with the original and correct date of MCMLXXXVI.  I don't understand why they wanted to repackage a 2 year old programme as "new"

Iirc it was done live by TTTV, in the North East the frontcap was always replaced as well. They did this a lot, they didn't appear to have preprepared end caps with old dates entered. The silliest example of this was when they repeated a 1973 special on Sundetland's FA Cup win and actually dated it 1992. It wasn't a repackage either, they just masked the old boards with the then-current versions.

Sounds as if when they were networking that episode they cut away from local continuity for the network feed (it was common practice to switch in the originating company's pres desk to network when, for example there was a promo for some merchandise at the end, and they would do this for endcap replacements as well - and then switch back to a clean copy of that frame to avoid dirty-feeding to network), either forgetting that this would expose the original logo on the tape, or switching to the wrong source in error.

It was Tyne Tees policy and standard practice to put the copyright on the endcap, from when this was mandated by Trident in 1976 (prior to this they either had it on the credit roll or omitted it altogether), and continuing into the 2000s,although after 1996 it did alternate with a credit roll copyright.

To underline the point about TT tending not to have endcap with prior dates (or even lacking a date) available - in November 1992 YTV insisted on TT placing a presentation slide at the end of imports and films as per YTV practice. For the first couple of days, these programmes were all marked as "a Tyne Tees Presentation for ITV/(C) MCMXCII"