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Category: News
Why the same old idents on UTV?
ITV launched its year-long ITV Creates campaign on 1st January 2019, where channel idents produced by a different artist/designer are aired each week. The campaign didn’t quite stretch across the Irish Sea though – UTV …
ITV Creates: Katrina Russell Adams
This week it’s the turn of Katrina Russell Adams – a south east London-based printmaker and visual artist, whose practice is deeply informed by the joyful clash of diversity, shapes and people and places in …
RTÉ relaunches television news service
RTÉ launched their new look television news service at 6.01pm tonight.
ITV Creates: Mark Titchner
Another week and another designer/artist has an opportunity to showcase their skills on ITV. For the next seven days, we’ll be viewing the work of Mark Titchner.
ITV Creates: Patricia Volk
Week 4 of ITV Creates gets underway just before 6am this morning on ITV. This week it’s the turn of Patricia Volk, who works in painted fired clay and is a Fellow of the Royal …
ITV Creates: James Brunt
At 6am on Monday 14th January 2019, ITV will launch week 3 of ITV Creates. This week’s featured designer/artist is James Brunt. Here’s a preview of what’s to come:
Rare footage of 1978 BBC Two Christmas ident released
Last updated: 23rd December 2019. The TV Museum group has today released footage of a 1978 BBC Two junction which includes 7 seconds of the Christmas ident from that year. No copies of the ident …
Lengthy playout of BBC Two Christmas ident
A small treat for pres enthusiasts from yesterday’s 10am junction on BBC Two. An almost 30-second playout of the Glamorous ident. The announcer is Anthony Lewis. With thanks to Darren Page for drawing our attention …
BBC One lottery results delayed
BBC One was forced to delay news of last night’s National Lottery results until after The Graham Norton Show. The apology was read out over a slide graphic by announcer Kate Walsh (on BBC One …
ITV confirms plans to update channel identity
ITV this morning issued a press release confirming plans for a refresh of their main channel’s on-air identity. The changes will be implemented as part of a year-long project called ITV Creates. The press …