15 November – The public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK takes place. The logo shines several times as the word "WALES" or "WEST" zooms-out and stops in its usual place.
FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The turning lines, which are quite astonishing, really. This design would have been clearly seen to viewers of the service then, however viewers today would have encountered lots of black lines and a barely noticeable 'Harlech'. 1 September – ITV introduces its first official logo as part of an attempt to unify the network under one image whilst retaining regional identity. Music/Sounds: Same as the 1st logo, except the pitch is lower.
28 June – HTV is fully taken over by United News & Media. Huntsville Regional Airport in Huntsville, Texas, United States; H-II Transfer Vehicle, a Japanese cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station; Hypersonic Technology Vehicle, part of DARPA Falcon Project; Television. As the screen folds out of view, the blocks revolve around to the right and zoom out to a blue background, forming the HTV logo as seen before. Eric Reguly. The accompanying music was stronger than its predecessor, and the colours were warmer than previous, with a gold HTV and a changing blue, green background and remained on screen for four years until 7 March 1999.
Music/Sound Variant: Before commercial breaks, a much more soothing re-arrangement was used, sometimes accompanied by a continuity announcement. FX/SFX: The shimmering background and flipping letters; beautiful CGI that holds up very well today. Availability: See 3rd logo. Draconian cost-cutting measures took effect – including a wage freeze, the cancellation of annual bonus payments and further substantial job cuts, beyond the job cuts which had already halved staff numbers to 460.In 1994, HTV finally cleared its £19 million debt when Flextech brought a 20% stake in the company for £27 million Granada and Carlton were subsequently permitted to merge in 2004 to form the single company In 2009, as part of plans to reduce ITV's regional news service to save costs, ITV West's regional news service was merged with that of The company originally operated production studios at In 1984, HTV opened a new £14 million television centre at The property eventually passed to United Business Media (then United News and Media) following the takeover of HTV by the group in 1997.
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1998. 2001-2004. Availability: See 3rd logo. In August 2013, ITV Wales announced it would leave Culverhouse Cross by June 2014 and move into a new facility on the ground floor of 3 Assembly Square, located next to the Welsh Assembly in The Wales and West franchise area operated by TWW was originally confined to the West (comprising Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire and Dorset) and south east Wales (broadly as far west as Swansea) and served by a single main VHF transmitter located at (Kilvey and Pontypool were classed as 'relays' prior to Digital transmission as they were not 'line-fed'). Council to 'take action' against bar after lack of social distancing. Part of ITV plc. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 28 June 1997; pg. 8 November – A new, hearts-based on-air look is introduced and HTV adopts its version of … This is due to the fact that the ident was designed for 405-line television system used at the time, and due to the use of 625-line UHF system, the ident appears differently on sets that receive the 625-line transmi… Logo: We see two sets of lines, one black and one white, turning at opposite directions. Predecessors: Granada plc | Carlton Communications. For Wales, the words "CYMRU WALES" appear below the T (or just "CYMRU" for Welsh-language programmes), and for the West of England, "WEST" appears above. 2001–2002. Scare Factor: Low to medium. Music/Sound Variant: Before commercial breaks, a much more soothing re-arrangement was used, sometimes accompanied by a continuity announcement. However, it was not particularly useful for programme purposes but sometimes exploited for the transmission commercials.
At the same time, the background on both this logo and HTV West's was changed to royal blue. Music/Sound Variants: In the extended version, the music plays as normal. Logo: Against a shimmering background of colors (mostly blue), the letters "HTV", now made out of glass, and written in a font similar to that of the '80s ITV logo with the "V" composed of a smaller triangle protruding from a slightly larger triangle, slowly zoom-out and flip around from the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Today, those services are known as From January 2014, the dual-region licence was split in two, with Harlech Television was awarded its contract by the Initially, the station used the name Harlech Television (after the head of the company, In Wales, there was an additional requirement to provide a quota of television programmes in the Welsh language.