The YTV logo was never a chevron, it was a stylised letter 'Y' for Yorkshire. With the early jingle for the early and late 1990s idents taken from 'On Ilkla Moor baht hat'.
If you listen carefully you can hear the last bit of the Yorkshire Television "Liquid Gold" ident just before the Emmerdale Farm theme tune. This must have been from post-1987 as front-caps were abolished on 1st Jan. 1988. A sad day for us all!!!
well YTV carried on showing the frontcaps until the generic ITV look of September 1989.
That's why on TV-ark there is a clip of Thames in 1988 keeping up the Thames skyline announcer's ident to cover up the Granada frontcap on the front of Corrie. Granada still put it up on the front of their programmes for YTV, so did Thames, LWT etc.
@AidanLunn Sorry to reply quite so late, but I imagine that would have been a networking nightmare to _intentionally_ carry on for 20 months! Instead of a clean (silent, black) feed right up to the start of the programme's theme tune, the network receives a feed with an inaccurate clock (because it would have counted down to the ident they didn't want to show) and a soundtrack and graphics they had to cut out with split-second timing right before the programme began. All to keep YTV happy?!!!
@AidanLunn I was in London in 1988 and regularly saw the prolonged hold of the Thames ident over the start of Granada programmes. I always imagined it was just a transitional thing with pre-88 recordings - and that the titles of World In Action, Corrie etc had not yet been re-created with new visuals to fill in the first couple of seconds where the ident still used to appear.
WHAT IS ALL THIS TALKING ABOUT YORKSHIRE TELEVISION
razgar02 2 months ago
worst ident ever
ededdneddyfan1000 7 months ago
The YTV logo was never a chevron, it was a stylised letter 'Y' for Yorkshire. With the early jingle for the early and late 1990s idents taken from 'On Ilkla Moor baht hat'.
geography27 2 years ago
@geography27 It is a chevron, but it's arched to resemble a letter Y. Anyway, it's just a nickname, like G-arrow for Granada's logo.
JASpiring 1 year ago
To JASpiring, We'll agree to disagree.
geography27 1 year ago
Aha! I knew I wasn't going mad! No-one ever seems to remember this sort lived ident, just the ones either side of it! Thank you so much for posting!
RedButton 4 years ago
I could have sworn that was the end of the YTV Liquid Gold ident jingle you hear at the end...
col2006ie 5 years ago
If you listen carefully you can hear the last bit of the Yorkshire Television "Liquid Gold" ident just before the Emmerdale Farm theme tune. This must have been from post-1987 as front-caps were abolished on 1st Jan. 1988. A sad day for us all!!!
dublinbrazilianblue 5 years ago
well YTV carried on showing the frontcaps until the generic ITV look of September 1989.
That's why on TV-ark there is a clip of Thames in 1988 keeping up the Thames skyline announcer's ident to cover up the Granada frontcap on the front of Corrie. Granada still put it up on the front of their programmes for YTV, so did Thames, LWT etc.
AidanLunn 4 years ago
@AidanLunn Sorry to reply quite so late, but I imagine that would have been a networking nightmare to _intentionally_ carry on for 20 months! Instead of a clean (silent, black) feed right up to the start of the programme's theme tune, the network receives a feed with an inaccurate clock (because it would have counted down to the ident they didn't want to show) and a soundtrack and graphics they had to cut out with split-second timing right before the programme began. All to keep YTV happy?!!!
MQsCues 8 months ago
@AidanLunn I was in London in 1988 and regularly saw the prolonged hold of the Thames ident over the start of Granada programmes. I always imagined it was just a transitional thing with pre-88 recordings - and that the titles of World In Action, Corrie etc had not yet been re-created with new visuals to fill in the first couple of seconds where the ident still used to appear.
MQsCues 8 months ago
Brief shot of Keith Burnside on continuity duty... and the start of Emmerdale Farm :)
col2006ie 5 years ago