|
||||||||
Do the Nations have a copy of every BBC programme? |
![]() |
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|
#51 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: East Perthshire
Posts: 1,591
|
Quote:
On New Year's Eve BBC1 Scotland will get the main national news at 2125 and then go into Hogmanay programming; the rest of the UK will get it at 2205. As BBC news bulletins are always live they will do the national news twice.
Checking the schedule on the English BBC1's on Freesat, there was a 10/15 minute news at another time. By national bank holiday, I mean what are the traditional English (Mondays) when almost everything closes and most people are off (except for the poor buggers in service industrys). We do it differently up here although it's not unusual for the Glasgow holidays to coincide with English ones. |
|
|
|
|
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
|
|
|
#52 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 8,076
|
Quote:
By national bank holiday, I mean what are the traditional English (Mondays) when almost everything closes and most people are off (except for the poor buggers in service industrys).
We do it differently up here although it's not unusual for the Glasgow holidays to coincide with English ones. and being amazed how light the traffic was at 8am from the airport to the centre. I don't think we discovered it was a local Bank Holiday until about lunchtime, when I noticed a post office was shut. |
|
|
|
|
|
#53 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 9,700
|
Some ITV regions didn't take programmes right from the start eg Coronation Street.
What arrangements were made for them to show the old episodes to catch up? Did they show two a day or something similar in order to catch up? |
|
|
|
|
|
#54 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 8,076
|
Quote:
Some ITV regions didn't take programmes right from the start eg Coronation Street.
What arrangements were made for them to show the old episodes to catch up? Did they show two a day or something similar in order to catch up? |
|
|
|
|
|
#55 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 31,434
|
Corrie was fully networked from the start apart from Tyne Tees and ATV who picked it up quickly once they saw how popular it was.In 1961 and 1962 new companies began showing it as soon as they went on air Westward, Grampian, Channel and Teledu Cymru. There doesn't seem to have been any attempt to allow new viewers to catch up.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#56 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 25,455
|
Quote:
On New Year's Eve BBC1 Scotland will get the main national news at 2125 and then go into Hogmanay programming; the rest of the UK will get it at 2205. As BBC news bulletins are always live they will do the national news twice.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#57 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 9,700
|
Oh right! I wondered if Granada had played out the back episodes on a private circuit for the relevant regions to record.
Maybe Coronation Street was a bad example, I definitely remember something (Crossroads?) that was being shown by region(s) that picked it up late and were showing past episodes to catch up. |
|
|
|
|
|
#58 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 31,434
|
Back in the 60s, 70s and even into the 80s ITV had far more regional variations than it does today including some fairly major programmes being played at different times in different regions.If you lived in an overlap area it was like having an extra channel, even the feature films were different.
|
|
|
|
|
|
#59 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,693
|
That's an interesting point - if you watch early episodes of a soap there are plot devices that are used to introduce the characters, often contriving some need to introduce them to somebody who is assumed to be new to the narrative.
Where a new region started to take Corrie or Crossroads etc would they do anything like that for the benefit of viewers new to the series? |
|
|
|
|
|
#60 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 31,434
|
Quote:
That's an interesting point - if you watch early episodes of a soap there are plot devices that are used to introduce the characters, often contriving some need to introduce them to somebody who is assumed to be new to the narrative.
Where a new region started to take Corrie or Crossroads etc would they do anything like that for the benefit of viewers new to the series? |
|
|
|
|
|
#61 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 8,076
|
Quote:
I suspect there were references in the TV magazines (most of the ITV companies published heir own magazines in those days) but there seems to have been no attempt to introduce the characters to viewers on screen.The same applies to ITV's other long-running soap of the time Emergency Ward 10 (1957-67).
|
|
|
|
|
|
#62 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 6,467
|
Quote:
A bit early but Merry Christmas red16v, Dans Dad, and of course everyone else on the forum.
Merry Christmas broadcasting engineers everywhere
|
|
|
|
|
|
#63 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,026
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
#64 |
|
Forum Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Posts: 2,373
|
Quote:
Merry Christmas broadcasting engineers everywhere ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8MJlwA2hoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSKRhOhKRA |
|
|
|
![]() |
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 09:10.



Merry Christmas broadcasting engineers everywhere