FROM THE NORTH

THIS IS GRANADA

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Is it mere coincidence? (3 November 1986, The Times)

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The always good value Colin Weston - who should be presenting on our screens to this day and shame on those that haven't hired him - closes down Granada for the night, most likely following a promo voiced by someone else. Good night, Colin!

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Granada starts the day with some early computer graphics, 1980s

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Boy, this programme is good - full of famous stars who appeared on various Granada programmes, especially their news programme 'Scene at 6.30'. But copyright law is copyright law and many of the performers - or their record labels - don't want their stuff to appear on here, even monetized. So this programme sits on a tape here and you just get Jim Pope throwing us to it.

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Jim Pope on Granada in the autumn.

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Granada is 25 years old and to celebrate it is reshowing classic episodes of its biggest production, Coronation Street. In this brief clip, we come in just as the credits end to hear Jim Pope telling us about tomorrow's retro visit to the Street followed by 80% of an advert for St Ivel Gold butter substitute with Michael Jayston on v/o.

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Colin Weston on Granada.

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Richard Madeley and Tony Wilson introduce Granada Reports on the day that a petrol train derailed in Summit tunnel near Todmorden, bursting into flame and polluting local water.

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Yeah, so everything you knew about broadcasting is wrong. Sorry about that. Here's the jingle Granada used on its local news programme frontcaps in Autumn 1968

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This is the NEW Granadaland, July 1968

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A quick promo for tonight's Granada Reports, then we're off to the execrable Mr Merlin.

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Views of Quay Street and its surrounding area, late 1990s.

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Graham James takes us off to bed for the night with an uneventful closedown of Manchester station Granada.

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Granada’s schedule for 17 October 1991.

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Coronation Street and World in Action are wiped out across the network and replaced with filler, while Granada viewers in the northwest have just a blank screen. We come in just as the industrial action comes to an end, allow Charles Foster to pop up out-of-vision to tell us what happened, when the missing programmes can be seen and to throw us into 'Quincy'.

Meanwhile, HTV Wales and Central react to the missing the programmes in their own regions. It's Sue Powell Reed* at the HTV continuity desk and Linda Cunningham* at Central.

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An unusual Granada export: the format for The Krypton Factor was sold to ABC in America in 1981.

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Graham James sees us Granada to bed one night in the 1980s.