[nwtv2003]

I don't remember Granada Weather ever having this awful, twee sting...

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It wasn’t used for long, but as stated it was used when there were no available sponsors. This was during the period when the duty announcers were no longer reading the forecast and was the responsibility of the weather team at Yorkshire who kept it out of vision until 2002 when Granada standardised all of its weather presentation for all of their regions bar LWT.

I’m guessing the same may have also applied to Border. Tyne Tees still had in vision forecasters at that time (Bob Johnson or whoever was available in Leeds). Obviously Granada had a certain Mr Talbot but his duties were kept to the main Granada Tonight programme, but his appearances were few and far between in this period.

By the time Granada did standardise the weather, United Utilities were the main sponsors and their stings were a vast improvement of that, and those we have now… Wet wipes?