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The Carltonisation of ITV
Revised Th 2-Feb-06
The story
of the disappearance of Central and Westcountry, swept away by the
Carlton branding machine.
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The Consolidation of ITV
Revised Th 2-Feb-06
The story
of the disappearance of LWT, HTV and the regional announcers, despite
assurances from the Government that ITV's regional identities were safe
in their hands.
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The Unification of ITV
Revised Tu 20-Jun-06
The
story of how Carlton and Grampian disappeared along with hours of
regional programming.
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Digital TV - Beyond
the Hype
Version 5.5 Fr 6-Aug-99
A TV
revolution is upon us. The television of the future has better
pictures and sound. Or does it? This guide attempts to read
between the lines of the marketing men and explain the reality
of Digital TV and the proposed digital TV licence fee.
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DOG Watch!
Revised Th 6-Feb-03
Some channels
have taken to branding their output with a permanent on-screen logo
or "DOG". Viewer power has already managed to get DOGs dropped from
Channel 4, BBC One, BBC Two and, in our latest victory,
Channel 5. BBC News 24 has now freed up a corner, and
BBC 2W's new DOG lasted only a week. But ITV2 is now on
its fourth DOG. And other stations are turning to animated DOGs to distract
us even more. A continuing look at the mess in the corners with details
of how to complain plus a link to an on-line anti-DOG campaign,
which already has over a thousand members.
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TV Logos Index
Revised We 25-Jun-08
TV Station
logos from yesteryear, including another update to Dave Jeffery's
authentic re-creations in Flash of clocks, test cards and schools
presentation plus a selection of screensavers.
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Public Information Films Index
Revised We 4-May-05
Memories of "Charley Says" and Jo &
Petunia and more. There are films available to download and
transcripts too.
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Channel 5
Revised Sa 29-Mar-99
Channel 5,
Britain's newest and last terrestrial analogue TV network, was
launched on Easter Sunday 1997 by The Spice Girls. (There were
five of them back then!) Read on for the Facts on Five.
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Programme Delivery Control
Version 5.6a Tu 2-Dec-03
Everything
you always ever wanted to know about PDC, the amazing invention
which enables you to set your video recorder to tape a programme
safe in the knowledge that it will be recorded even if the
programme is shown later than advertised.
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Celebrity Swears
Children's
TV favourite Zippy from Rainbow lets rip with a 4-letter word
in the name of entertainment. Yes it's really Zippy. Don't believe it? See for
yourself!
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TV Themes
Revised Tu 7-Feb-06
Trying
to get hold of an old TV theme? Here are the track listings from
the TV Sets collection and This is the
Return of Cult Fiction, which includes White Horses, judged to
be the best tv theme ever!
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Web Snatcher!
In
1996, Dave Van Staveren created a web site that turned out to
consist almost entirely of other people's web pages. The other
people weren't happy - especially when Dave accused them of
copying from him! That December he visited the BBC and
apologised for his actions. But that wasn't the
end of the story..
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Fifteen to One
Find out
how you go about inventing a popular quiz show and what it's like
to appear on one.
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Full Contents
A full
list of contents for the pages at this web site. New and Updated
pages are indicated as are those featuring RealVideo.
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