15th Jan. 1959 - at least
9th January 1971 |
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29Kb (Tyne Tees Logo Page)
The late start of ITV in the North East, lead to this
ident, the "Three T's" being created. VHF numbers on the idents were
very common throughout ITV, preferably used as a good marketing tool to
let viewers know what there watching and where. This version of the TTTV
ident is a common version used in the black and white era, but it wasn't
the only one. Other variants on the theme of the "anchor" were also
used during this time.
July 1970 - 6th August 1979 |
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157Kb (TV Ark)
Colour arrived to the North East, and this heralded the
arrival of one of the greatest television logos ever. The joining
T and V was to last with the company for 33 years. A long time for
one company logo (Yorkshire?!)
24th October 1979 - 5th
September 1988 |
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99Kb (Tyne Tees Logo Page)
The "Colour" tag was dropped for this '79 remake of the
now famous logo, using high-tech video effects or its time. This would
have been the most famous company logo for Tyne Tees, if something didn't
happen later on in it's history... The logo was introduced as ITV
restarted from the 1979 strike.
5th September 1988 - 1st Sep. 1989 |
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290Kb (TV Ark)
A relatively unseen ident apart from viewers in the North
East. ITV has stopped using front-caps on all of its programmes, so
most of the ITV companies had to re-edit their idents to allow for this
different use. Tyne Tees' remake was this, known as the "Flowing Rivers",
and with its first computer animated logo, it was a nice effort. However,
in its prime, it fell short to the Generic era...
1st Sep. 1989 - 28th Feb.
1991 |
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276Kb
(TV Ark)
This is the Tyne Tees variant of the ITV 1989 Generic
Logo. Tyne Tees were a regular user of this ident, lasting for a couple
of years. Tyne Tees graphics department also made a re-edit of this
ident, where the animation for this ident is run backwards forming a dark
blue Tyne Tees logo. However, this ident has not been found/seen on
the web... yet.
1st Mar. 1991 - 6th
January 1992 |
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194Kb (TV Ark)
Tyne Tees' keenness to play itself as part of ITV was
forthcoming in these idents, which used the ITV jingle in full, and visually
a very similar look to the Generic ident. Lack of inspiration?
6th January 1992 - May 1992 |
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76Kb (TV World)
Lack of inspiration was evident in this ident as well.
Not much more can be said between the last ident and this, except for what
you can see.
May 1992 - 5th October 1992 |
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118Kb (Round The Regions)
The last ever TTTV ident where the T joins the V!
Not much variation from the last ident, except for the end (which you can
see above!)
5th October 1992 - 2nd September
1996 |
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286Kb (TV Ark)
Tyne Tees ditch their trusty graphics department, and
go to an external company for this ident. Tyne Tees, now a brand of
ITV needed a fresh new look to push themselves into the 90's. Did
it work? Well, this time, the company was fully bought-out by its
closest rivals Yorkshire Television, but the poaching wasn't going to stop
there...
© ITV plc.
2nd September 1996 - March
9th 1998 |
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249Kb (TV Ark)
...Yorkshire had to poach Tyne Tees' identity as well.
This is a very good example of branding going too far. A bad use of
colour, graphics, animation and sound, in fact a bad use all round!
March 9th 1998 - Sep. 3rd
2000 |
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203Kb (Tyne Tees Logo
Page)
GMG bought out the Yorkshire Television establishment
and with it gained Tyne Tees (Channel 3). From this, possibly the
best decision Granada have ever done (apart from actually entering Television)
was to bring back the regional identity of Tyne Tees.
There were many variants of the new TTTV logo created,
some like the above example from Tyne Tees' graphics department.
© ITV plc.
642Kb (Tyne Tees Logo
Page)
In 1999, Tyne Tees celebrated its 40th Anniversary.
In celebration of this the Tyne Tees Graphics Department created this special
"ruby" version of the current logo, with the distant sound of the original
1959 jingle for the soundtrack. A very nice ident that only
lasted a week...
November 8th 1999 - October
29th 2002 |
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214Kb
(TV Ark) (as ITV)
648Kb
Run in use with the current ident is the latest ITV branding
package, the 1999 Generic Look. This Tyne Tees variant is standard
to all the versions of the Generic look, it has it's logo at the top, and
the text is in the "station" font.
Sept. 4th 2000 - October 29th
2002 |
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122Kb (Round The Regions)
New for Tyne Tees, ident no. 11, the stations tenth
regular ident in 13 years. These latest idents from TTTV features
images from its region. This ident is currently relegated to a "regional"
position, due to the extended use of the ITV Generic 1999 look. Shame
really, it would make a good, regular ident.
October 29th 2002 to October
31st 2004 |
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451Kb (used
between 1st September 2003 to 31st October 2004)
Spinning squares, and more generics; this is ITV1.
November 1st 2004 to 15th
January 2006 |
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383Kb
Tyne Tees look accustomed to being consigned in name to
the bottom of the screen. Nothing new in this ident.
16th January 2006 - current |
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428Kb
Can you make the franchisee's name any smaller.
Small print was never this small...
Other TYNE TEES sites
Transdiffusion -
Tyne Tees
The Tyne
Tees Logo Page
Tyne Tees History - ITW
Tyne Tees - TV50
With thanks to the following people for
the use of their captured material on this page: Andrew Bowden (Tyne
Tees Logo Page), Steve Hackett (Television Ark), James Edwards (TV World),
Damien McCaughan (Round The Regions). 1993 Production image from Richard
Bell.
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Current Comments
1 comments so far (Add Comment)The yellow TTTV logo that is joined up is a classic. Why they felt the need to seperate the letters in the 90's is beyond me.
I wonder what Bill Steel does now a days?
Bring Back Regional ITV!!!
Mike.
Posted by Mike Brown Radio Show on Friday, 13.06.08 @ 16:10pm | #1405