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Old 19-12-2016, 12:28
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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.
Although I've not noticed it in the last couple of years, on some "national bank holidays" which are really England and Wales bank holidays as bank holidays are local in Scotland and vary from area to area (see note below), I've seen the half hour BBC1 6 o'clock news presented from London on BBC 1 Scotland, with the presenter saying at the end, "now for the news in Scotland" as opposed to "where you are".
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.
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Old 19-12-2016, 13:15
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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.
Yes, I can remember flying to Edinburgh on a Monday morning (for a city break holiday)
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.
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Old 19-12-2016, 13:33
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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?
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Old 19-12-2016, 13:45
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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?
In the case of Corrie, and other soaps, I don't think there were any catch up broadcasts. The region just started showing the programme. When there was a lengthy industrial dispute in a single region, there was often a short catch up piece recorded by one of the key actors. I remember a short 3 min précis of Crossroads presented by Noele Gordon after Southern had been off the air for a week or so
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Old 19-12-2016, 14:59
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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.
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Old 19-12-2016, 18:34
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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.
Isn't that usually (always?) done for BBC Scotland on New Year's Eve (I hope BBC network charge them for the extra news bulletin).
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Old 19-12-2016, 23:09
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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.
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Old 20-12-2016, 05:54
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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.
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Old 20-12-2016, 08:54
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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?
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:33
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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?
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).
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:47
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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).
It doesn't take long to pick up on, and get hooked into a soap. An episode or two, and that's it
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Old 24-12-2016, 07:18
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A bit early but Merry Christmas red16v, Dans Dad, and of course everyone else on the forum.
Merry Christmas broadcasting engineers everywhere
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Old 24-12-2016, 22:36
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Merry Christmas broadcasting engineers everywhere
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:13
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Merry Christmas broadcasting engineers everywhere
Should that not be "Merry Christmas VT"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8MJlwA2hoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSKRhOhKRA
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