[W. Knight]

In fact, Granada must've assumed those generic idents were cancelled outright, considering that on the same day the generics launched they also launched a whole set of idents for Yorkshire which was relegated to local usage along with Tyne Tees's 1998 ident. There was also plans for a new Granada ident with a new logo, which was scrapped. I assume Tyne Tees's 2000 logo was part of those plans too - they didn't even update the generic package to use it, which frankly was inexcusable once they edited it to add the ITV1 logo in 2001.

At least GMG regions did get something new - the same couldn't be said for UNM! (Yes, I know Meridian technically was updated, but come on )
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These seemed like a last-minute job even more than Granada's, especially for Anglia. I think internal fights among different groups could've been possible that led to the botched launch of the new ITV - but we still can't be sure, 25 years later