UTV Christmas Presentation

Another observation on UTV these days, is Pamela the only announcer who now does UTV-produced adverts for local shops of the Spinning Wheel/McBride's Fashions ilk - which now have progressed from PowerPoint slides to mostly being animated?

Part of me still wishes those kind of adverts remained slides where the announcers read the scripts out live with muzak playing in the background Then again, that would mean an actual person being in the continuity studio in daylight hours.

Rose Neill has just referred to "ITN" linking into the news - that's the ITV News, not UTV Live - regional news for ITV in Northern Ireland today? You must be joking.

To be fair, I think all of the UTV announcers refer to the news "from ITN". I suspect this is an edict from above rather than just coincidence. Anything to avoid the utterance of the 'ITV' brand. Incidentally, Aidan Browne continues to use the phrase "from the studios of ITN".

I do wonder why they consistently let the ITV 1-branded holding captions go out during movies though. STV slot in their own graphics.

They're not really that wrong as the news is produced by ITN.

Sorry it took a while but I've just uploaded quite a few clips to my YouTube channel including

All twelve 50th Anniversary Christmas promos

Christmas in-vision continuity with Julian, Pamela, Rose and Gillian

An in-vision weather forecast from David McGeagh

Click on the little YouTube logo above to go to my channel!

Today, the Christmas ident has given way to a New Year ident, as is UTV tradition.

They've also been running two New Year "archive" trails; one with vox-pops and the other the 2001 Big Ivan claymation. And from the looks of it, they've removed the Christmas icons from the "Dancing on Ice" trailer end board - but kept the "icy effect" on the UTV logo.

Julian has just used it on his last UTV IVC link of the Noughties.

No seasonal greeting/namecheck for the technical staff from Julian this year - indeed, the link into "Midnight Run" was done out-of-vision.

UTV are right tight bar-stewards.

And to wrap the thread up, *cymbal* regular UTV presentation returned yesterday - as well as, seemingly, the last on-air use of the 50th anniversary logo and the morphing old logos in idents and trails.

So, now UTV have put reminiscing to bed (UTV Rewind repeats aside as filler for the future or when BrainDead breaks down), what can we look forward to from the guys at Havelock House in 2010?

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Well?!?

Noticed that too!