27-01-2024, 10:08 AM
Quite a few TV shows used to say "the weekend starts here", albeit it at like 6pm on a Saturday night. 
But yes I think the general consensus is it's 5pm, it's Friday, work can wait, I'm outta here.
Unless of course your working pattern happens to be either most Saturdays or every other Saturday or one in six or whatever your arrangement it, and then your weekend starts... whenever your two days off begin.
Must also be remembered LWT (and probably Thames for that matter) lost a chunk of coverage from was it Bluebell? and it was given to TVS, although I'm not sure if that's the main reason why the LWT startt time was changed.
But yes I think the general consensus is it's 5pm, it's Friday, work can wait, I'm outta here.
Unless of course your working pattern happens to be either most Saturdays or every other Saturday or one in six or whatever your arrangement it, and then your weekend starts... whenever your two days off begin.
(25-01-2024, 09:14 PM)Humphrey Hacker Wrote: 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?
Must also be remembered LWT (and probably Thames for that matter) lost a chunk of coverage from was it Bluebell? and it was given to TVS, although I'm not sure if that's the main reason why the LWT startt time was changed.