Typical post modern ugliness

The last ident is the Generic Ident that was dropped by many of the franchises in the early 90’s except for Yorkshire until 1996 and Grampian used theirs until they folded and were bought out by Scottish ( which only used their version for 3 months ) in 1998. Some of the franchises didn’t use it all, in fact gave it the finger, I am not surprised though since the designers really messed up some of the stations logos in the triangle. An interesting concept in theory but not so good in practice.

Widespread World of Rediffusion

I don't know what was ABC doing here

@@michaelpardo625 abc is part of ITV…

they were the weekend tv until 1968

ABC was the weekend itv franchise for the North and the Midlands regions until 1968, when they lost their franchise and both areas were covered all week by Granada ( North West ), Yorkshire ( Yorkshire and from 1974, North Norfolk and Lincolnshire) and ATV ( rebranded as Central in 1982 ) the merged with the then London weekday franchise, Rediffusion London ( aka, Associated-Rediffusion) albeit Rediffusion was reluctant to do so, the merger though became Thames Television and began broadcasting from Rediffusion’s former studios in Teddington, whilst a new weekend franchise for London and the ITV network was formed called London Weekend ( aka London Weekend Television or LWT ) and began broadcasting from Friday evening to Midnight on Sundays from a newly built studio on the South Bank.

@ハンク・ハンキー Something like that, it’s not the same tv company as the the American one of the same name put it that way if @npfooty was referring to that.

I live in the Tyne Tees area (Middlesbrough to be specific) so used to see the 70s, 80s logo all the time. It took me years to realise it was just basically two capital Ts on top of a capital T and capital V 😂. In 1996 they inexplicably decided to drop the name Tyne Tees as an on air name and introduced the bizarre name of Channel 3 North East in the form or North East 3 on the on screen ident. It was a blue background with gold lettering. The Tyne Tees name appeared as if it was the parent company.. Then everything either became a Tyne Tees Television production or presentation for Channel 3 North East (North East 3). This was about as popular as Hitler at a bar mitzvah. Needless to say it only lasted for around 2 years because in 1998 the old TT TV logo returned before ITV swallowed everything. Apart from Tyne Tees my favourite was Thames as it ment The Sweeney, Minder and sooo many other great shows were about to start. The ITC didn’t do any favourers to ITV as a whole by not renewing Thames’s licence. I think they just wanted to cause a big shock in the industry for no other reason than they could.

Anglia was just beautiful to me as a child.

Yes, true. I loved the Anglua one but seemed only ever to see it before Sale Of The Century

@Mello Yello YTP: To me it always looked like an abstract Palm Tree [ they have palm trees on the Cornish coast ]with a River flowing beneath it.

@@jane1975 yeah