Presentation

Granada tries to find its place in the new, post-1968 ITV world

TWW’s Bruce Lewis describes the preparation that goes into an evening of continuity announcing in 1966

What jobs are available in television presentation in 1965?

A 1954 interview with the BBC Television Service relief announcer Noëlle Middleton

How to be a Granada announcer in 1969

Could the last major outpost of in-vision continuity in the UK lead to a general rebirth of the style, asks Colm O’Rourke

Russ J Graham looks at a ‘what might have been’ for Central Independent Television’s on-screen design

Russ J Graham on the ATV Midlands logo design that never was

Colm O’Rourke assesses the renaissance of in-vision continuity on UTV

BBC2 Christmas Idents, 2002 – Present

Three’s New Look

BBC1 Christmas Idents, 2002 – Present

BBC TV Christmas Idents, 2002 – Present

In-Programme Pointers are here to stay.

How has British TV changed after three decades?

BBC One – from globes to dancers to circles

The unused ‘Sunrise TV’ name and symbol

Annoying ways of getting your attention

Bad branding or bad programmes?

The habit of slapping “ALL NEW” on everything

Don’t blame the agency

The BBC3 logo that comes and goes

At Independent Television

We ask the question

A relaunch for BBC-2

Modernity vs those things that have always been done

ITV’s bulk presentation is bad for you

A positive view of BBC One’s globe replacement

A negative view of the new look BBC One

Good on-screen bugs

The best in modern presentation?

The new ‘five’ is awful, apparently

How Granada pointed the way

Goodbye to the BBC One globe

The changes of style in a small region

Finding old habits die hard. Good.

The genesis of a new service for the Midlands

How to brand output for children

The changes of style in a major minor

Telling the time on television

The three section triangle

Watching BBC-1 change to 625 colour

The shadowed eye

An interview with designer Alan Scragg

The Cake