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bluecortina
Markymark posted:
bluecortina posted:
Markymark posted:



I've seen an electronic LWT clock, it had the Orange/White/Blue corporate ribbon as a circular band around the clock face?


Markymark posted:

I've seen an electronic LWT clock, it had the Orange/White/Blue corporate ribbon as a circular band around the clock face?


I don't remember anything electronic like that in the bays.


No, I think we decided with the clip posted above, it was mechanical, and faintly scary I'd say !


I think it was in the announcers studio and the camera was swung round to look at it as required. The camera being on a PTZ system.
MA
Markymark
bluecortina posted:
Markymark posted:
bluecortina posted:


I don't remember anything electronic like that in the bays.


No, I think we decided with the clip posted above, it was mechanical, and faintly scary I'd say !


I think it was in the announcers studio and the camera was swung round to look at it as required. The camera being on a PTZ system.


A bit like the Beeb's 'NODDY' then ! Cool
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Inspector Sands posted:
Lots of ITV on screen clocks here:
https://www.transdiffusion.org/2000/01/01/time-2

That first Rediffusion clock I remember seeing in a museum, either Bradford or Momi


It was in the Bradford museum at one time. Wasn't it named Mitch, after Leslie Mitchell?
DE
DE88
Mr Kite posted:
I don't ever recall Granada using a clock in the 90s. Think they stopped using clocks with the 1990 blue stripe corporate look.


Here's the clock they used at Christmas 1989. Was this their last new clock?

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Meanwhile, was Central the first ITV station to abandon the use of clocks altogether - and also the very first terrestrial station in the UK to do so? When they first came on air they used ATV's digital clock superimposed on one of their captions, but this didn't last long.

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AndrewPSSP, Mr Kite and Brekkie gave kudos
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
I do not recall Central having a clock as a presentation device beside the one you've posted. They may have done, but I don't remember it (and I've lived in so-called Central land all my life).
JA
james-2001
Though I've never actually seen any off-air recordings of that Central clock, just a couple of screengrabs, and a video (I think from the Meldrum private parts, but could have been somewhere else) which seemed to be a recording of a raw stream of the clock.

Starts to make me wonder if it was ever actually broadcast, or just tried out behind the scenes.
HC
Hatton Cross
Neil Jones posted:
I do not recall Central having a clock as a presentation device beside the one you've posted. They may have done, but I don't remember it (and I've lived in so-called Central land all my life).

And given that it's a graphic designers sitting duck to cross fade the clockface from the Central globe/planet type thing, you would have remembered it. I don't recall ever seeing a clock on Central.

Talking of clocks...
JA
james-2001
Am I meant to be able to sleep again after watching that?
GH
Ghost
james-2001 posted:
Am I meant to be able to sleep again after watching that?

If you want to sleep again, you need to listen to 15 minutes of music Razz
TJ
TedJrr
Hatton Cross posted:
Neil Jones posted:
I do not recall Central having a clock as a presentation device beside the one you've posted. They may have done, but I don't remember it (and I've lived in so-called Central land all my life).

And given that it's a graphic designers sitting duck to cross fade the clockface from the Central globe/planet type thing, you would have remembered it. I don't recall ever seeing a clock on Central.

Talking of clocks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eynCy63onIE


What was "Q" TV, and why did it use a picture of Tolsford Hill? Y-ZTH, or perhaps Q-ZTH?
HC
Hatton Cross
it's a spoof. But a very well made one
MK
Mr Kite
DE88 posted:
Mr Kite posted:
I don't ever recall Granada using a clock in the 90s. Think they stopped using clocks with the 1990 blue stripe corporate look.


Here's the clock they used at Christmas 1989. Was this their last new clock?


If you mean counting the "wallpaper" then I don't think so. I recall seeing evidence of its use with the green Spring presentation Granada used in the early part of 1990. I think that may well have been its final incarnation. I assume the clock was used right up until the rebrand.

The design of the clock itself appears to have come in around 1986/7, looking at the TVArk page. Presumably, this coincided with the move away from the same static blue ident and towards seasonal pres.

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