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NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
james-2001 posted:
Animal Hospital titles on the TV at 8 seconds in- surely the BBC would rather forget that existed Laughing


Harris aside, it was a successful programme for the BBC, running for ten years. Don't believe it was repeated anywhere after its initial run so it's not like it was actively on air and then yanked after the revelations.

But anyway, "set top box costing several hundred pounds" - that appears to be suggesting what launched as onDigital, weren't all those boxes given free when you signed up?
LL
London Lite Founding member
Neil Jones posted:


But anyway, "set top box costing several hundred pounds" - that appears to be suggesting what launched as onDigital, weren't all those boxes given free when you signed up?


If I recall, at launch OnDigital STB's were £199. I remember joining OnDigital in 2000 after the boxes became free with a sub.
JA
james-2001
I'm sure it was the same with Sky when they launched digital too.
LL
London Lite Founding member
james-2001 posted:
I'm sure it was the same with Sky when they launched digital too.


£159.99 for existing Sky analogue customers to upgrade as shown on the Sky Digital Information Channel and I think the same as OnDigital for new customers?

JA
james-2001
I remember seeing that Sky Digital loop when I was on holiday in Center Parcs at the start of 1999 (during the downtime of one of the Sky Sports channels, I think). IIRC it had bits with people popping up and saying "I've seen the future"- doesn't seem to be any of those in that video though.

Unless I'm mistaken, people with SD Sky boxes are still using that same EPG design nearly 18 years on too!
VM
VMPhil
Note at 0:38 - the original Sky Digital remote with the old lozenge logo at the top, which was instantly outdated as that logo was replaced the day Sky Digital launched!
VM
VMPhil
This is a real find - video of the Westward/TSW handover on New Year's Eve 1981. Previously only available online in audio form.

MA
Markymark
VMPhil posted:
This is a real find - video of the Westward/TSW handover on New Year's Eve 1981. Previously only available online in audio form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9zoXkhVfKA


I'm speechless, quite a contrast to the wrist slashing going on along the coast in Southampton !
LL
London Lite Founding member
Now that is what I call a handover. Co-ordinated between the two franchises to ensure that it was really business as usual.
VM
VMPhil
Technically TSW had bought Westward a few months earlier though. So really it was just TSW using their brand on screen for the first time.
TV
TVMan
If that was the case, could the Westward and TSW continuity sets have been in the same studio so just a simple case of cutting to another camera?
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
TVMan posted:
If that was the case, could the Westward and TSW continuity sets have been in the same studio so just a simple case of cutting to another camera?


Easily, but if you notice the clip its the same people in different outfits. One or the other (or possibly both) of the links would have been recorded.

Apparently Kaleidoscope found the footage and aired some of it at one of their events in 2012:

http://www.petford.net/kaleidoscope/kaleidoscope-christmas-event-and-grand-charity-auction-2012.html posted:
6:30 pm The final evening of Westward Television - A major recovery of missing material found in the collection of the company working with Kaleidoscope to restore the John Henshall archive. Rediscovered in October 2012, we present all the continuity, the final closedown and a complete missing television programme, The Hogmanay Show from Westward Television's final evening of transmission on New Year's Eve 1981

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