Granada developed an innovate way of extending the broadcasting day with 'Granada in the North' (later called 'Granada On Air').

Taking advantage of the ITA's rules that ignored presentation, local and national news and outside broadcasts, Granada gained a valuable extra 30 seconds of peak-time advertising by showing 10 minutes of this type of material before their first programme.

Loathe to lose this gain over the Christmas break, they ignore the fact that they came on air at 12.45pm (today is Boxing Day, December 26 having been a Sunday and therefore not counting) for racing, followed by 'Great Expectations' with John Mills and Alec Guinness starring in the Dickens classic.  The programme remains 'Good Evening from Granada in the North' but sits less comfortably a quarter of the way into the day!

The following programme - in a slot now expected to be handed to children's programming - is another programme that doesn't count towards advertising averaging.  The companies made a good claim that Southern's 'Go!' was an educational programme.  Being a Southern production, it features Fred Dinenage - there must be a law demanding this of ITV in the south.

Only Ken(neth) Barlow remains in the cast, though it would take years until after their characters left that Ena Sharples and Hilda Ogden  were forgotten and their mark disappeared from the series.