ITV Schools: Business Studies - GTR: How NOT To Run A Railway

ITV Schools: Business Studies - GTR: How NOT To Run A Railway
If you are over 40 then you will probably remember when you was at school being taken as a whole class or year group to the 'TV room' or the assembly hall to watch schools programmes on the schools BIG 28" TV that was usually in a big mahogany wooden cabinet on a metal stand with wheels.
This educational piece from 2016 shows how easily excuses roll off the tongue and how it is always easy to blame someone else for poor performance. It is now 2018 and commuters are still suffering at the hands of GTR and its amended, amended timetable!
ITV Schools (full name: Independent Television for Schools and Colleges) was the educational television service set up in 1957 by the Independent Television Authority, broadcasting learning programmes for children ages 5 to 18 across ITV-affiliated stations.
It was an example of public service broadcasting on a commercial television network (as opposed to the public BBC and their service BBC Schools).
ITV moved its schools programming to Channel 4 in autumn 1987 although ITV continued to produce programmes and the service continued to use the ITV name for another six years. The last ITV Schools programme on Channel 4 aired on Monday 28 June 1993; Channel 4 continued to produce their own schools programmes for many years afterwards.
Between programmes, interval music was played and a holding slide (also known as an Aston) shown onscreen, identifying the service as Independent Television For Schools And Colleges and thus differentiating the service from the similar schools TV service run by the BBC, which were listed as "For Schools, Colleges" in the Radio Times until BBC Schools broadcasting moved to BBC2 in autumn 1983 with a new title of Daytime on Two. This holding slide could be shown for anything from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the length of time required to fill. A different theme for the holding slides was used each term, and each week a different slide would be used.
Exactly one minute before the start of the programme, the slide was replaced by a clock showing sixty second-marks, which gradually disappeared until there were none left. This gave the teacher one final minute in which to calm the class down before the programme began.
A suitably timed piece of library music, changed once a term and often taken from the Bruton Music library, accompanied the animation.
The two pieces of music used on Channel 4, the Journey and Just A Minute, were both written in 1986 by "James Aldenham", which was a pseudonym for Brian Bennett, former drummer with The Shadows, and who has, for many years, written TV themes, such as the BBC Golf theme tune. Just a Minute also featured as background music on Coronation Street on 22 March 1998.
After 30 years on ITV, the service moved to Channel 4 and S4C from 14 September 1987, allowing ITV to concentrate on building a fully commercial daytime schedule.
The transmission times were the same, 09:30 - 12:00. At 09:28, the four ITV logos glided onto stage, followed by the first minute of The Journey, before gliding off stage. The 3D countdown clock spun onto screen at this point. For all other programmes the holding device would be faded up, and the music faded in at where it had reached. Once the tune had reached the end, the ITV logos glided off stage, and were replaced by the clock.
Presentation was handled by Channel 4 in London with announcements for support material pre-recorded and voiced mainly by Central TV announcer Ted May in Birmingham.
The image of the 'schools countdown clock' has taken on something of a cult status, as referenced in programmes such as Look Around You, and produced a memorable image fondly remembered by generations of British schoolchildren.
• Song
The Journey - UPPM - FirstCom
• Artist
James Aldenham
• Album
MHA12 Panorama
• Licensed by
AdShare MG for a Third Party (on behalf of MusicHouse), and 2 Music Rights Societies
• Song
Just A Minute - UPPM - FirstCom
• Artist
James Aldenham
• Album
MHE15 That's Entertainment
• Licensed by
AdShare MG for a Third Party (on behalf of MusicHouse), and 2 Music Rights Societies

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4:00 Funnily enough this programme features Southern Railway, one of the predecessors to GTR.

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