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You don't see much of this these days....

NickHNickH
edited December 2009 in Chit chat
When was the last time you saw one broadcaster putting up a "Good Luck" message for another broadcaster?

This was captured from 1983 when TV-AM launched and Channel 4 wished them luck. OK, so Channel 4 didn't start broadcasting until 4pm each day, but it's a nice gesture.



Ummm... I'm only talking about the slide you see - I'm not one of those people who are into test card music! :)

Although I *am* a sucker for old teletext (lowercase 't') footage...
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  • milemile
    edited December 2009
    i've never seen the like.

    you often get tv stars plugging other channel shows on, well, another channel.

    watching that five show with ian wright the other day. the presenters were all saying they will be watching the x factor final, even though they work for channel 5.

    suppose there isn't a great ammount of competition.

    look at harry hills TV burp and all the other shows putting the 'knitted character' on their sets.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited December 2009
    There was a time when C4 and ITV used to announce what was on the other channel going into an ad break.

    I can remember when Day by Day the local news programe for Southern did it's last broadcast, and one of the letters they read out was from the BBC.

    and, I also remember not so long ago when a Alan Bennet play was serialised and sown part on BBC and part on C4.
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited December 2009
    That reminds me doesn't Teletext finish today.

    Must check it out.
  • NickHNickH
    edited December 2009
    murtceps wrote: »
    That reminds me doesn't Teletext finish today.

    Must check it out.

    I'm secretly hoping that one of the teletext websites is capturing these final days...
  • frobushfrobush
    edited December 2009
    murtceps wrote: »
    That reminds me doesn't Teletext finish today.

    Must check it out.

    I thought that was the 12th/13th. And Ceefax is still going, without the graphics, on some digital channel, I think.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited December 2009
    text on digital is rubbish :(
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited December 2009
    frobush wrote: »
    I thought that was the 12th/13th. And Ceefax is still going, without the graphics, on some digital channel, I think.

    Teletext (with a capital) is the name for the teletext (lowercase) service on ITV. That is finishing yesterday/today, on various platforms. Ceefax the BBC's teletext service is staying a bit longer on analogue.


    http://www.teletext.co.uk/aboutus/companyinfo/
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited December 2009
    thx1138 wrote: »
    text on digital is rubbish :(

    Virgin Media haven't even got around to implementing theirs yet. It's been "coming soon" for years now.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • DanforthDanforth
    edited December 2009
    NickH wrote: »
    I'm secretly hoping that one of the teletext websites is capturing these final days...

    I'm confident the transdiffusion lot are on it. It's how they roll :)
  • NickHNickH
    edited December 2009
    Danforth wrote: »
    I'm confident the transdiffusion lot are on it. It's how they roll :)

    *Googles*

    Oooh, nice lead...
  • frobushfrobush
    edited December 2009
    murtceps wrote: »
    Teletext (with a capital) is the name for the teletext (lowercase) service on ITV. That is finishing yesterday/today, on various platforms. Ceefax the BBC's teletext service is staying a bit longer on analogue.

  • GrunakiGrunaki
    edited December 2009
    That sucks. I remember when Teletext took over from Oracle. That sucked because I was used to Oracle and it had a few pages I used to go to every day. Teletext wasn't so bad though - they had Bamboozle!
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