dmc1200 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

They were all broadcast on channel 3 from different transmitters i.e. Winter Hill for Granada, Sutton Coldfield for Central, Emley Moor for Yorkshire etc

willysplodge (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Nov 2001, Those were the good old days!... the economy was booming, I brought a house for £33,000!..and the carlton star idents were about!!!

DJFairborne77 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Sorry, I don't have it at the moment...

shoiab17 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Have you got the ITV Evening News

573W1E6R1FF1N (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Where all the regions broadcast on one channel or on regional variant channels

Johnny1989a (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Ah the good old days, I used to hate the Hearts Idents although kind of miss them now, any more ITV Digital Monkey ads out there?

DJFairborne77 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

The black boxes each represent one of the 16 different regions of the ITV network. This footage was recorded when ITV first launched on Sky Digital way back in late 2001, so maybe they used it as a way to identify each region or something? They were only seen during the test transmissions though & were gone before the 'official' launch of ITV on Sky a few weeks later.

Thesurus01 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I think now Independent Televsion should be named Idiotic Television. ITV Stood for a independent channel with different region idents across the UK but now it's a corporate company and now it's all pointless.I come from Northern Ireland and lived in Scotland and London and it's great we still have the Ulster Television logo but it was better when we had all the regional idents. It's a sad day for idents IMO.BBC1 is bland with stupid music, BBC TWO idents are boring the only good ones are C4

dacrlit (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I'm sorry I missed this particular nights viewing. What are the black boxes on the left please?

BeadlesGhostClaw (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

What an intensely dull video