12/2/10 - 10 years of providing television presentation on the Internet

Despite the growth of TV Ark, The Ident Gallery, YouTube, and the falling of TV Room, TV Home & TV World, t|v|a has now reached the 10 year milestone.  Thank you to all that have supported either by providing videos of television presentation, or by viewing the site over the past 10 years.

As a thank you, two new main sections have gone live today, ITV Millennium charts the abandoned set of GMG idents celebrating the arrival of a new Millennium which would have been used merely 2 months before t|v|a went live.

Secondly, MTV is to celebrate 30 years of broadcasting next year.  So with a logo change imminent, t|v|a looks back at MTV's idents over the past 30 years.

Thank you once again for supporting t|v|a over the past 10 years, there are still many gems of television presentation from all the ITV stations that have closed over the years that have never been seen on the Internet.  They'll be lurking in viewers attics on the old VHS or Betamax.  Dig them out, and view them again just to remind yourself how good television used to be.  Here's to the next 10 years!

8/2/10 - Nearly 10 years

The final preparations are being made to celebrate t|v|a into a second decade of showcasing British television presentation.  The aim of the site remains as strong today as it always has done, to allow a historical archive of television presentation to be made available for all to reminisce, remember and research; cementing the history of ITV, C4 & C5 for now & the future. 

The site really found its niche in the launch of digital:satellite in February 2001, and still to this day is the only site to offer every digital channel's television presentation offerings, with the added bonus of being able to offer every digital channel's offering over the past 10 years.  Those that remember the high-profile channels such as UK Play, Tara TV, BBC Choice, whereits.at (is their old studio's still signed up at the Trocadero?!) and Granada Plus.  You can still re-live the presentation of those channels, along with the history of ITV, C4 & C5.

It's with great disappointment that we are not likely to be re-hosting content from the imminent closure of The TV Room.  Addition of this content to the extensive 1700+ videos available through t|v|a would have made one of our original objectives complete, the completion of the ITV archive.  It is with regret that Mike has made the difficult choice to close down the availability of the site so imminently.  The TV Room was and still is up there in the ranks of TV Ark & TV Home as being notorious for popularity & rich with relatively unseen content.  In recent years, it's content has moved away from offering videos to view to an image resource.  However, The TV Room's main assets moved to The TV Room+, an ITV2 version of the main site, offering more behind-the-scenes views.  Good luck to Mike McGonagle, and Martin Anderson who provided site design in recent years, and most noteably the television station fonts downloaded, and thank you guys. 

3/9/09 - ITV 1999 unused hearts uploaded

7 idents covering ITV 1999's unused hearts, featuring live action seen in the final edits have now been uploaded here. This features some of the highest quality videos featured on t|v|a at full resolution and 1Mb/s.  Looks great in full screen! Please contact us if you can help with more ITV's coverage.

25/8/09 - UTV 2001 uploaded

8 idents covering UTV's 2001 ident package have now been uploaded here.  Please contact us if you can help with more UTV's coverage.

17/8/09 - UTV 1996 uploaded

8 idents covering UTV's 96 & 98 ident package have now been uploaded here.  Please contact us if you can help with more UTV's coverage.

11/8/09 - RTÉ ONE uploaded

23 idents covering RTÉ's 2000 ident package have now been uploaded here.  Please contact us if you can help with more RTÉ coverage.

5/8/09 - RTÉ, UTV & ITV Generic 1999 Unused ... RTÉ coming tonight 11/8/09

Coming soon to t|v|a, the arrival of RTÉ in the form of idents from 1999. Also from 1999, UTV gets a minor update and the main update will be the release of previously un-published ITV Generic 1999 Hearts idents.

These idents are the full length v2 ident package that was dropped before the v3 we all know and have seen. The idents are complete with ITV endboard as opposed to regional versions. You may have seen regional variants on The Continuity Booth or YouTube. These will also be full length versions with one containing a VT clock.