Granada continuity Boxing Day 1992

Granada Television continuity from Boxing Day 1992: a Careline promo (which still continues each Christmas to this day, now in conjunction with BBC North West and local radio stations), Boxing Day lineup and snow-shaker ident into ITN.

All copyright remains ITV plc/ITN, 26.12.92.

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Entertainment

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• Granada
• ident
• Christmas
• careline
• ITN
• Nicholas Owen

[RobinCarmody]

This may have been the first time these ITN titles were shown - they were definitely new at the time, and to be honest I associate them with the decline in ITN's news values that followed (though compared to today it seems positively heavyweight).

I think that's Jim Pope announcing into the news.

[JB1601]

Would they really debut them on Boxing Day?

The final TV-am a few days later has Rory Bremner making a comment about these titles - remarking that they seem an advertisement for the 7 floors of office space ITN had to let in their new building! (much of which is now occupied by ITV - ITN no longer owns the building and is a tennent itself)

[anxresi]

Oh, so sincere!! (not)

[lfc231914]

I remember the Gold & Blue ITN logo, and the "I-T-N" opening titles, which seemed to disappear from the weekend News in early 1992, but remained on the News bulletins through the night, and the ITN Morning News, until the early hours of Saturday 28th November 1992, I think. The clip you say from 17/10/92 had the Gold & Blue ITN, but the same music in this clip. I think the new White & Blue ITN, like in this clip, was first used lunchtime on 28/11/92, also replaced "I-T-N" night news titles.

[scorpiofootiemad]

David Bobin,now on Sky Sports News is your sport reader.

[knicksfan89]

yes that is jim

[ITVWeatherFans]

I know that many believe these titles came with ITN's decline and I can see where people like Robin are coming from. I mean, I actually like them, but the opening speeches were a bit laughable as much to say "Hello, the news, later the sport, the main headlines and coming up in the sport..."!

[RobinCarmody]

Yes, you're right that they didn't introduce them on Boxing Day - I've found the titles to the Saturday early evening bulletin from 17th October 1992, and they were in use by then. They may have been introduced in September 1992, or thereabouts. The earlier weekend titles, which always seemed much more authoritative (the ones to which you could sing "I-T-N") were still in use at the end of June that year (hey, I knew you when you could only *guess* at these things).