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Going back to "Thames Weekend News" and this is a pernickety point. I understand the basis behind the bulletin and everything but I wonder how many people at the time considered Friday evenings to be part of the weekend. To me the weekend is Saturday and Sunday but were the IBA so determined to give LWT a greater share of the ratings in the area that they were prepared to play fast and loose with definitions of when the weekend started?

As a child of the 80s growing up in London, to this day there's still something in the back of my head that says the weekend starts on Friday at 17:15 because that's when LWT came on.