Scottish Television - STV - Continuity - Newsbrief - 1985

[@peterglass8657]

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.

[@ColmORourke1981]

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.

[@jedimaster708]

That HTV ident music freaks me out! Like a wonky mouth organ! And I would strongly advise against microwaving the turkey!

[@RobinCarmody]

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.

[@RobinCarmody]

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.

[@RobinCarmody]

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.

[@sdaonline]

It's about 5 minutes worth of Scottish marching and bagpipes with no voice-over - which could have made a good start-up film.