ITV Schools on Channel 4 (yes, really!) - June 1987

A rarity here. Before the official moving of Schools programmes to Channel Four, they transmitted the morning's programmes on Channel Four a couple of times during Summer 1987 (ITV were showing General Election broadcasting or something similar).

This is the standby junction into schools programming on Thursday 25 June 1987. Rather than playing a 'standby edit' of the track Nothing Doing at 09:28, Channel Four simply backtimed it (unlike ITV). Note also the different font in use for the programme title caption on the clock. Channel Four dug out this schools slide a year or two later during a breakdown.

Other notable differences from the ITV presentation were that there were no 'publication announcements' before the programmes (mentioning associated booklets etc) and the out-of-date versions of the YTV logo were shown on some programmes (these were replaced live with the Liquid Gold ones on ITV). Regional variations for STV and UTV viewers were shown at the end of the morning's programmes, meaning schools programmes ran until after 12 noon that morning!

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Education

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• schools
• standby
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• channel
• four
• june
• 1987

[benriggers]

Did C4 use the same pieces of music throughout the morning?

[CaptainSiCo]

@benriggers Yes, Ben - they used the standard tracks for that term during each junction.

[cwilliams1976]

The ITV presentation was slightly different in that Channel 4's own announcers were not working until 2.28pm and so I cannot see how Channel 4 would make such announcements anyway plus also as it was coming to the end of the academic year I think that schools would start ordering the new wallcharts and publication material for when the new academic year began that September anyway.

[CaptainSiCo]

@cwilliams1976 True, although 'pub annos' normally continued until the very last day of term, and also this summer there were a lot of promos about the move to Four during the final part of the term.

[cwilliams1976]

@benriggers That's because the magazine may have printed the schools programmes in their What's On Tomorrow Listings in a small box in the previous day's edition.

[cwilliams1976]

@benriggers 2000 What the Papers Say

2015 A Week in Politics Analysis of the results from the general election.

2100 Crown and Shamrock

2130 Plants to Free

2200 Cheers

2230 Chateauvallon

2330 Best of Paul Hogan

0000 After Dark

Open-ended discussion.

[cwilliams1976]

@benriggers The listings are: 0800-0845 Teletext Pages Followed by the test card. 0930 Schools Transferred from ITV due to the general election. 1242 Test card 1430 Channel 4 Racing 1630 Countdown 1700 Mister Ed 1730 Solid Soul 1800 Revid 1830 The Chart Show 1900 Channel 4 News 1950 Book Choice

[cwilliams1976]

@CaptainSiCo Channel 4 was also controlled by CATS (Computer Automated Transmission System) which cued every logo, caption and announcement on air as required.

[cwilliams1976]

@jx866 Channel 4 couldn't, like when BBC2 had to use BBC1's schools clock until the Daytime On Two presentation began in September 1983 minus the schools clock.