ATV adverts, weather & closedown announcer Mike Prince 19th January 1979 7 of 7

[@ChrisTobinSingerGuitarist]

I remember Michael Prince presenting the links between programmes. A time when we lived at a different pace, the presenter was friendly and reassuring and a few seconds of dead air time was acceptable. Goodnight and you won’t forget to switch off your computers will you!

[@darryllharden9141]

Nicely put when he mentoned returning from Spain to the ATV Region for the Weather Forecast.

[@mrgobrien]

2:45 - ironically the american comedian george burns lived to be exactly 100 years old!

[@rotonda4068]

It would appear that ATV, like LWT and (I think) TVS, didn't go in-vision at closedown when they did at other times in the evening. I wonder why?

[@spig021]

John Cross, another YTV announcer voicing the other 2 ads.

[@christopherhulse8385]

You don't see local advertising seen here anymore, or even community messages.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Is it known whether ATV were using their electronic clock at this point? Or did it just not appear for this closedown?

[@toTVset]

Wondered the same thing myself. Probably it had broke down or there was a technical issue with overlaying it.

[@dooplissanimate]

I think that was not used until 1980.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

@@dooplissanimatewhy would you think that? The hardware used to generate it - which was a feature of a time code character generator for the Ampex AVR2 - was introduced in 1974 and installed at ATV a couple of years later.

[@atincemerlang3995]

Ok