CA
Providing an image couldn't hurt.
My personal favourite CITV logo was the 2009 one with the TV in the style of a C.
Providing an image couldn't hurt.
MA
That was, notably, the first or second day of the 'stripped' era, as you can see from Dog and Duck and Kipper being trailed for the following day. There used to be a YouTube video of the continuity later on that day with Tom joined by Fearne on links duty.
Speaking of the Milkybar sponsorship, here is the VHS which the sponsorship was featured on:
...and here is an example of the post-Telly Tots continuity and Milkybar sponsorship:
That video also includes one of the great TV theme tunes - Tiny Planets! The full dance mix is something else!
One thing I recall from Telly Tots is how they used to run the credits from both the featured shows, at the end of the strand (as shown here).
Interesting that they went to the bother considering how the credits for the ‘grown up’ would be routinely squashed or shortened, or just played on the video wall in the background during various eras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-HkXRrqPM
Interesting that they went to the bother considering how the credits for the ‘grown up’ would be routinely squashed or shortened, or just played on the video wall in the background during various eras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-HkXRrqPM
That was, notably, the first or second day of the 'stripped' era, as you can see from Dog and Duck and Kipper being trailed for the following day. There used to be a YouTube video of the continuity later on that day with Tom joined by Fearne on links duty.
Speaking of the Milkybar sponsorship, here is the VHS which the sponsorship was featured on:
...and here is an example of the post-Telly Tots continuity and Milkybar sponsorship:
That video also includes one of the great TV theme tunes - Tiny Planets! The full dance mix is something else!
NJ
Back around the turn of the century before Facebook and friends came along email was primarily (but not exclusively) the domain of the grown-ups. Social Media required everybody to have a unique email address and of course Facebook didn't (and still doesn't) allow under 13's to join (or at least those who said they were under 13 and it was ridiculously easy to bypass anyway).
I can't find a working example of the "email us" on the wayback machine for this time period (there seemed to have been some sort of identity crisis because the URL in the video sent you to citv.co.uk (which they previously used to advertise)) as none of it seems to have been archived unfortunately. Pretty sure it was just a standard email form but I can't recall if it actually needed an email address, it probably didn't - you probably just said you were Fred from Bedrock and that you love MPAA.
Neil Jones
Founding member
According to the thumbnail, they want you to visit a web page to e-mail them, rather than just give out the e-mail address itself.
Back around the turn of the century before Facebook and friends came along email was primarily (but not exclusively) the domain of the grown-ups. Social Media required everybody to have a unique email address and of course Facebook didn't (and still doesn't) allow under 13's to join (or at least those who said they were under 13 and it was ridiculously easy to bypass anyway).
I can't find a working example of the "email us" on the wayback machine for this time period (there seemed to have been some sort of identity crisis because the URL in the video sent you to citv.co.uk (which they previously used to advertise)) as none of it seems to have been archived unfortunately. Pretty sure it was just a standard email form but I can't recall if it actually needed an email address, it probably didn't - you probably just said you were Fred from Bedrock and that you love MPAA.
JA
Yabba Dabba Doo!
you probably just said you were Fred from Bedrock and that you love MPAA.
Yabba Dabba Doo!
:-(
A former member
you probably just said you were Fred from Bedrock and that you love MPAA.
Yabba Dabba Doo!
That not according to Neil Buchanan..
VM
Never come across a contact form?
itv.com/citv became the address they used on air from around the time of the late 2001 dark blue mini-revamp. However for many years afterwards it simply redirected to what they’d used on air previously, www.citv.co.uk - back when CITV actually had a proper website.
According to the thumbnail, they want you to visit a web page to e-mail them, rather than just give out the e-mail address itself.
Never come across a contact form?
itv.com/citv became the address they used on air from around the time of the late 2001 dark blue mini-revamp. However for many years afterwards it simply redirected to what they’d used on air previously, www.citv.co.uk - back when CITV actually had a proper website.
JA
He did have a different name back then, to be fair. When he was on CITV, he was Tom Darvill, but as an actor, he's called Arthur Darvill.
I always forget that's Rory!
BU
Directing viewers to the website and a form also had the effect of driving up traffic to the website. And if they're going there to get in touch, they might stick around and look at the rest of the site too.
Back in the dial-up days, I used to hate it though. Using an email client, you could compose your email, go online briefly to send & receive and then go back offline again. With a form on a website you were online throughout, blocking the phone line and potentially costing more too depending on your package. God it feels like a millions years ago when you type out what going online used to be like
Back in the dial-up days, I used to hate it though. Using an email client, you could compose your email, go online briefly to send & receive and then go back offline again. With a form on a website you were online throughout, blocking the phone line and potentially costing more too depending on your package. God it feels like a millions years ago when you type out what going online used to be like
VM
Same thing as the CITV address - smtvlive.co.uk was still the website up until the show ended but they went all in on promoting the itv.com address across ITV.
When SMTV ended the site was replaced by a weird message that said 'I am afraid the SMTV web site is no longer available'
https://web.archive.org/web/20040827213714/http://www.smtvlive.co.uk/SMTVFINISHED/index.htm
SMTV used to direct viewers to their own website, and to "click on Postbag". It became a bit of a catchphrase but when they had to start promoting itv.com/citv instead they continued saying it even when there was no such button.
Same thing as the CITV address - smtvlive.co.uk was still the website up until the show ended but they went all in on promoting the itv.com address across ITV.
When SMTV ended the site was replaced by a weird message that said 'I am afraid the SMTV web site is no longer available'
https://web.archive.org/web/20040827213714/http://www.smtvlive.co.uk/SMTVFINISHED/index.htm