Did Challenge try to renew the licence to broadcast TVS gameshows after 4 years or did they drop them from their schedule? If so, then who was involved in trying to extend the licence and who did they ask about the documentation?
STOP ASKING QUESTIONS FOR WHICH WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO ANSWERS!!!!!
unless you believe the rumor people at TVS were already destroying the paperwork in 1992/93
Rumour from where exactly?
Sounds like a misunderstanding, it would be incredible if, in the run up to closure of the station, that their staff didn't throw away some paperwork of some sort. That's just what happens when a company winds down operations.
This thread could run to 1000 pages and I don't think we'll get close to any answers. I personally believe that the truth is, anything commercially valuable is knocking around, and anything that was throwaway was... well... thrown away.
Just to lighten the load a little, found these idents based on some original storyboards for ideas of TVS' launch ident:
This thread could run to 1000 pages and I don't think we'll get close to any answers. I personally believe that the truth is, anything commercially valuable is knocking around, and anything that was throwaway was... well... thrown away.
Just to lighten the load a little, found these idents based on some original storyboards for ideas of TVS' launch ident:
This thread could run to 1000 pages and I don't think we'll get close to any answers. I personally believe that the truth is, anything commercially valuable is knocking around, and anything that was throwaway was... well... thrown away.
Just to lighten the load a little, found these idents based on some original storyboards for ideas of TVS' launch ident:
Is anybody able to provide a reasonably good figure to how many hours it would take to watch every TVS produced programme broadcast on ITV and C4 apart from news? This figure could then be used to estimate the number of tapes in, and therefore the physical size of, the TVS archive. There are two notable margins for error which are broadcasts not archived and tapes containing unbroadcast material such as rushes and stock footage.
I once came out with a statement that if Border had lost in 1991 then its archive minus the news would probably fit on a shelf unit in your living room and may even be smaller than your own video collection.
This thread could run to 1000 pages and I don't think we'll get close to any answers. I personally believe that the truth is, anything commercially valuable is knocking around, and anything that was throwaway was... well... thrown away.
I want to believe that, but there is a few other commercially valuable programmes which aren't knocking around. Challenge want TVS Catchphrase and all cluded up and its asked upteen times. some of the other drama, maybe the sky channels dont want to waste its time. Im sure most of the Documentaries & Features went to Med or the local archive group.
Is anybody able to provide a reasonably good figure to how many hours it would take to watch every TVS produced programme broadcast on ITV and C4 apart from news? This figure could then be used to estimate the number of tapes in, and therefore the physical size of, the TVS archive. There are two notable margins for error which are broadcasts not archived and tapes containing unbroadcast material such as rushes and stock footage.
Are you serious? What's a whopping great four, five, six, seven digit figure going to prove, apart from the fact you can count and work with huge numbers?
Don't forget tapes can and do come in various lengths, formats and styles and hold various amounts. Coming up with a speculative figure of number of hours of the archive doesn't mean anything in terms of the number of tapes, especially if you insist on speculating on how many hours of stuff that wasn't used is included and as Buzz Lightyear would say, we're probably heading into infinity and beyond...
I think everything any of us knows has already been posted in this thread after all. Anything else is guesswork and speculation (which a fair amount of it is anyway!).
I once came out with a statement that if Border had lost in 1991 then its archive minus the news would probably fit on a shelf unit in your living room and may even be smaller than your own video collection.
That really does show how ignorant you are on the subject.
What about (the few Network programmes) the hours of regional news items / programmes since the start of transmission and all the local half-hour documentaries? It will all be at Leeds now anyway - and I can tell you it was alot...
