Last Updated: February 11, 2020
Taken from a recent repeat showing of the first episode of Coronation Street came this front-cap. It is debated whether it is authentic or not, however it does recapture the original style of the 60's Granada ident very well if it was re-produced.
...and this is the 1960 end-cap. It has been said that this version of the end-cap was used for export only, therefore a copyright date was added to the bottom. Copyright dates were not introduced for regular use on productions in the UK until the 70's.
The production slide of the 70's and early 80's, from the north as always.
World famous for the "arrow in a G" logo, this front-cap from 1987 smoothly represents Granada's presentation in the 80's. Silent, still, super!
Apologies for the poor quality, this ident was used throughout the summer of 1989, continuing on a theme for Granada to use a large, see-through version of their logo that had been running throughout 1989.
Production slide from the "generic" era.
A presentation slide from Granada, starting a small trend for "minimising" the film into a window. This style of presentation caption stayed with Granada until 1993, used only for the repeat showings of movies.
Under the unified banner of ITV, Granada changed their presentation to adopt the 1999 Generic Look.
August 11th saw another re-branding exercise for ITV, now a family of channels & platforms. A minor change to idents UK wide (apart from Ulster, Scottish, Grampian & Channel TV) saw the change from ITV to ITV1.
A return for Granada Reports, not seen on North-West screens for 12 years.
As regional identity goes out the window, Granada along with other English & Welsh contractors have now joined the ITV1 branding exercise.
In an update for the "blocks" of ITV, the GMG variants all adopt this style.
Aah, how erm... un-regional. Are there any programmes that require this anymore?
As part of a celebration of 50 years of Independent Television in the UK, Granada's (the oldest ITV franchise holder) version of the ITV50 ident; and corresponding review show intro. Any reason why the intro is a stretched version of the main ident?
SAFETY ADVICE: Do not strain too hard to see this regional variant of the ITV1 national look. I can assure word Granada is on screen, and copious amounts of zoom are required to be able to see it... And for historical value, the caption used for Granada night on BBC2 in the mid '90's.
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Posted by ps2e on Monday, 21.09.20 @ 12:34pm | #8751
It brings a lot of memories back to see the granda arrow good times
Posted by Barbara. Burton on Sunday, 16.03.14 @ 14:51pm | #8627
It's great to see these classic Granada idents again.
I miss that big pointy arroow thing at the end of Corry!
Bring back regional ITV!
Mike.
Posted by Mike Brown on Friday, 13.06.08 @ 15:15pm | #1403