Initially, the La Pouquelaye centre housed two production studios the smaller studio B was latterly converted into offices and a continuity studio, later used exclusively for Puffin's Pla i ce.

Channel's Guernsey operation was founded upon the station's launch in a hotel in Saint Peter Port , moving to Market Square in , from where a microwave link with the Jersey headquarters was established in , allowing live studio contributions from the island to be broadcast for the first time. In , Channel in Guernsey moved again to larger facilities at St George's Esplanade, from where Channel Report was presented on a regular basis. The current Guernsey base in St.

Sampson , including a small multi-camera studio, was opened in Channel Television's first on screen logo featured six hexagons, laid out five below linked together with one on top with a stylised cat's head inside it. The five hexagons below represent the five main channel islands: Jersey , Guernsey , Alderney , Sark and Herm.

The ident was animated so that each hexagon appeared in turn accompanied by one note of the jingle along with the name. This ident lasted until colour came to the region in the mids with only one slight variation in the positioning of the channel name. The first colour ident used by Channel involved a striped CTV, which would serve as the station logo until The first ident featured this static logo made of orange stripes on a white outline against a blue background with a soundtrack of a brass fanfare titled "Superstar Fanfare", composed by Keith Mansfield.

This same fanfare was later used when Channel launched its next ident, featuring the lines of the CTV logo spinning into place, coloured gold against a black background. This was introduced around and was utilised for the station's 25th Anniversary in , when each line of the CTV logo was drawn out before spinning back to be joined by a striped In the early s Channel aired its first computer generated ident, featuring the CTV logo, initially silver but turned gold by two sideways flashes, falling backwards onto the gradiented blue background.

This logo was accompanied by a dramatic score which was later improved, along with the ident, in The improvements kept the theme and repositioned the logo, changed the background to a navy blue, made the logo itself bigger and gold throughout and, most noticeably, improved the music making it less dramatic and giving it a softer feel.

Both during this period and before, Channel used an on-air clock. The other ITV regions in the s up to the very early s, commonly used a clock as well, but it had been gradually been dropped.

Channel kept the clock up to , using it to introduce news and, more unusually, announce the local temperature and tide times prior to the following programme something not seen elsewhere in the ITV network. In , Channel adopted a different style of presentation. The CTV logo remained, both on end captions and as the company logo, while on screen Channel utilised the device of the word 'Channel' written in a variety of fonts arranged in circles and moving, spinning and pulsating to a tune of a simple jingle.

This look was not to last as the second ITV generic look occurred in , which Channel adopted. This look, based on the theme of hearts, also provided Channel with a new logo, featuring a globe with the Channel Islands on it being orbited by two comets whose trails make a heart shape. Channel used the generic look, albeit with its own soundtrack, until The generic look was used for network programmes with regional ones using a large Channel logo over the spinning hearts background.

When the celebrity idents came Channel used a variation, where the left side of the screen was taken up by its logo. A number of idents were used featuring different celebrities and some local ones made by Channel themselves were used; in a special ident to celebrate the channels 40th Anniversary was introduced featuring former station logos.

In late Channel used idents of scenes from around the Channel Islands , with the logo in a stripe down the left side of the screen. Some elements of the network branding were also used. In , Channel, whilst being fiercely independent and regional, adopted a variation of the national ITV1 network branding and shared continuity, due to it receiving a non-clean feed of networked programming from ITV Meridian.

While the branding was very similar to regions owned by ITV plc Channel Television used an older ITV1 logo with white letters on its idents supplemented by the wording 'Channel Television' and pre-recorded local continuity announcements are used at key junctions - including prior to national and regional news and on the handover from ITV Breakfast at 9. These idents also use music from the original emotion idents rather than the updated jingle and music.

Following the takeover in November , Channel began using ITV1's logo and updated its idents. SM Entertainment. Aston Villa appoint Steven Gerrard as new head coach - 14h. Real Madrid 'keen on January move for Wilfred Ndidi' - 19m. Xavi arrival 'has boosted Barcelona's chances of keeping Ousmane Dembele' - 1h. Tottenham Hotspur 'ready to explore January move for Dejan Kulusevski' - 5h.

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Meridian has two sub-regions, with a minute opt-out to allow for greater localisation in the 6pm news and separate programmes after the News at Ten. The western sub-region is the larger of the two, spanning from the Isle of Wight to Oxford, because of the difficulty of getting an analogue or digital TV Freeview signal over the South Downs.

A blog post explaining the changes by Robin Britton, head of news for Meridian Tonight, has attracted hundreds of negative comments, with viewers threatening to defect to the BBC.

Who wants to hear about news in some small town that is four hours' drive away! An ITV spokesman said the programme was launched after approval by Ofcom and would focus on "the stories and issues that matter to people across Southern England and includes dedicated opt-outs for at least 15 minutes of local news".

Anglia Tonight relaunched last Thursday, 12 February, with a six-minute opt-out for the old Anglia East and Anglia West regions, which once had their own bulletins. The main studio remains in Norwich, which was already headquarters for both bulletins, with bureaux in Northampton, Ipswich and Cambridge.

Jonathan Wills, the existing co-anchor in the eastern region, and Becky Wills, previously a part-time presenter, will host the programme. The new Calendar programme for Yorkshire is due to launch on Thursday, 19 February, with six-minute opt-outs for East and West Yorkshire in the 6pm bulletin and fully local news in the late bulletin.

ITV Yorkshire's revamped programme will still be based in Leeds, with satellite offices for Hull, Lincoln and Sheffield, while the small York office is closing.