[Mike]

Did North West Tonight only go widescreen after they moved on to the LDN-inspired titles. Was trying to find a clip on TV Ark but even the 14:9 clips are from that bizarre era where they put 14:9 black bars on top of the 4:3 picture just to make it *look* like it was in widescreen, complete with a split second at the start every night before they appear, revealing the ruse.

NWT didn't get any gallery updates until 2006, when it switched to widescreen. Quite late on in that arena but I think it was because of the impending move to somewhere else.

Here's a post on the blue place about it from March 2006
www.tvforum.co.uk 

Which is surprising how close the technical refit came to the very good 2007 graphics (18 months).