26-12-2022, 12:13 PM
I remember the watching the build up to the franchise changes on news bulletins on New Year’s Eve and the handover from TSW to Westcountry at midnight.
Ruth Langsford and Ian Stirling bid farewell to TSW viewers, only to appear again shortly afterwards in the opening trailer for Westcountry with its "space age" technology.
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Whilst TSW had warmth with its in vision presentation, graphic design wasn’t its strong point. Westcountry looked much smarter. Though I recall Westcountry Live had a revamp to make the set much brighter not long after launch.
1993 was indeed a bad year for ITV. Carlton, whose PR was a man who went by the name David Cameron, had a terrible reputation. Sir Paul Fox, in The Story Of ITV, remarked Carlton hadn’t “produced one single decent programme in all the time they were on the screen”.
On the transition from Oracle to Teletext, I have a vague memory they had few technical issues on launch. Some writers, like its TV critic Sam Brady, moved over. I remember Oracle had decent music coverage. Teletext launched the infamous games magazine Digitiser. There was also a short lived adult orientated page After Hours that appeared after 10pm, only to disappear for a break and never return.
Ruth Langsford and Ian Stirling bid farewell to TSW viewers, only to appear again shortly afterwards in the opening trailer for Westcountry with its "space age" technology.
www.youtube.com
Whilst TSW had warmth with its in vision presentation, graphic design wasn’t its strong point. Westcountry looked much smarter. Though I recall Westcountry Live had a revamp to make the set much brighter not long after launch.
1993 was indeed a bad year for ITV. Carlton, whose PR was a man who went by the name David Cameron, had a terrible reputation. Sir Paul Fox, in The Story Of ITV, remarked Carlton hadn’t “produced one single decent programme in all the time they were on the screen”.
On the transition from Oracle to Teletext, I have a vague memory they had few technical issues on launch. Some writers, like its TV critic Sam Brady, moved over. I remember Oracle had decent music coverage. Teletext launched the infamous games magazine Digitiser. There was also a short lived adult orientated page After Hours that appeared after 10pm, only to disappear for a break and never return.