One of the few times that Coronation Street was ever shown on Channel 4, but the reason here was justifiable due to the Granada strike the previous Monday meaning that the episodes were displaced, at the peak of the Ken, Deidre and Mike storyline. Unless you were there at half time at Old Trafford on the Wednesday… the rest was history.
They even kept the Granada frontcap at the start - but they had three options: Leave the frontcap attached (which they did); Play the music in full over a black screen; Leave off the first few notes! In those days, Channel Four was considered to be ITV 2 - on some old television sets, it was on the button marked ITV 2 - or even ITA 2 on older tellies - that spare button could be used to play TV games on or get an out-of-region second ITV channel - up my way, depending on where you lived, you could have picked up Border or Yorkshire, if you lived close enough to the boundaries - doesn’t matter today, as the only regional output on ITV is local news and the adverts!
His mention of Coronation Street at 00:43 reminds me of Victoria Wood's snarky announcer who says "He's not very popular with me, but I suppose working-class people find him amusing."
Like I said above, he’s probably a film buff and wants to be Barry Norman and hates soap opera’s, but this bit of late night continuity at channel 4 was all he could get at the jobcentre!!!!
![[720p/50p] Channel 4 | closedown | 9th April 1983](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Aa-dRVaK2T8/mqdefault.jpg)
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One of the few times that Coronation Street was ever shown on Channel 4, but the reason here was justifiable due to the Granada strike the previous Monday meaning that the episodes were displaced, at the peak of the Ken, Deidre and Mike storyline.
Unless you were there at half time at Old Trafford on the Wednesday… the rest was history.
They even kept the Granada frontcap at the start - but they had three options:
Leave the frontcap attached (which they did);
Play the music in full over a black screen;
Leave off the first few notes!
In those days, Channel Four was considered to be ITV 2 - on some old television sets, it was on the button marked ITV 2 - or even ITA 2 on older tellies - that spare button could be used to play TV games on or get an out-of-region second ITV channel - up my way, depending on where you lived, you could have picked up Border or Yorkshire, if you lived close enough to the boundaries - doesn’t matter today, as the only regional output on ITV is local news and the adverts!
His mention of Coronation Street at 00:43 reminds me of Victoria Wood's snarky announcer who says "He's not very popular with me, but I suppose working-class people find him amusing."
Like I said above, he’s probably a film buff and wants to be Barry Norman and hates soap opera’s, but this bit of late night continuity at channel 4 was all he could get at the jobcentre!!!!
Who is the continuity chap? He's hadn't found his true calling judging by this clip!
How bad does this bloke want to be Barry Norman?! Strewth!!!!
David Stranks