STV went downhill when they moved to smaller studios at Pacific Quay in 2006. They can’t film any TV programmes there without renting facilities from the nearby BBC Scotland.
From checking the listings on the Glasgow Herald online archive, the HTV West series is "Eye to the Future", and the date for this is Friday 13th December 1985.
Indeed, Granada did similar brief news bulletins during what for other regions were the intervals between schools programmes. I wonder if whatever is ending at the start was a sort of PIF or at least a COI production, a shortbread-tin-Scottishness equivalent of the 'British Army, Winter Warfare Training, Norway' one. Scottish had time to show 'Farmhouse Kitchen', and sometimes their own shows, in the pre-CITV slot in part because they were the only ITV region never to show The Young Doctors.
And how symptomatic of the time - ample TV coverage that weekend for both show jumping and snooker, but no football unless you lived in Scotland. And rather symbolically, apart from both BBC Scotland and Scottish/Grampian continuing to show football during the blackout in England, BBC Scotland missed the first half-hour of that night's show jumping coverage.
I wonder if it was a COI production rather than STV themselves? Wouldn't entirely surprise me. I prefer all three of Grampian's start-up pieces to the rather dull and static STV one. Even though the first two Grampian ones are still traditionally Scottish, they are so in a more dynamic and memorable way than their Central Belt equivalent.
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STV went downhill when they moved to smaller studios at Pacific Quay in 2006. They can’t film any TV programmes there without renting facilities from the nearby BBC Scotland.
From checking the listings on the Glasgow Herald online archive, the HTV West series is "Eye to the Future", and the date for this is Friday 13th December 1985.
Indeed, Granada did similar brief news bulletins during what for other regions were the intervals between schools programmes.
I wonder if whatever is ending at the start was a sort of PIF or at least a COI production, a shortbread-tin-Scottishness equivalent of the 'British Army, Winter Warfare Training, Norway' one. Scottish had time to show 'Farmhouse Kitchen', and sometimes their own shows, in the pre-CITV slot in part because they were the only ITV region never to show The Young Doctors.
That HTV ident music freaks me out! Like a wonky mouth organ! And I would strongly advise against microwaving the turkey!
And how symptomatic of the time - ample TV coverage that weekend for both show jumping and snooker, but no football unless you lived in Scotland. And rather symbolically, apart from both BBC Scotland and Scottish/Grampian continuing to show football during the blackout in England, BBC Scotland missed the first half-hour of that night's show jumping coverage.
I wonder if it was a COI production rather than STV themselves? Wouldn't entirely surprise me.
I prefer all three of Grampian's start-up pieces to the rather dull and static STV one. Even though the first two Grampian ones are still traditionally Scottish, they are so in a more dynamic and memorable way than their Central Belt equivalent.
It's about 5 minutes worth of Scottish marching and bagpipes with no voice-over - which could have made a good start-up film.