[JAS84]

You’ve just made me think I’ve been missing something obvious for the past 34 years.

But looking at the logo now, I’m not seeing it. If the V had two horizontal lines to create a 3 shape around them, maybe. But I think you might be seeing things (unless I’m being thick)!

certainly on the non regional variant.

You can see why some of those were rejected. Anglia's triangles are the wrong colours (yellow was on the inside of the A, not the outside). Granada's is missing the line linking the arrowhead to the G. Ulster's is unrecognisable. TVS's doesn't use it's symbol at all (which by then was part of the animation but not the final lockup), the graphic in the V is instead based on the bevelling effect from the letter S in the wordmark, which doesn't make a lot of sense.