Monday, June 21, 2010

Group D results & Group E matches

You join us live at the Tom Edwards Space Centre, Teddington Lock, Middlesex, TW11 9NT, for the thrilling stand-off between some of the greats of identdom. As Tanya Jones of Gypsy Creams pointed out, this was a strong group, but I think honour has been served. The rule of thumb so far has been 'black and white idents don't make it', and this round doesn't buck that trend, with Rediffusion London winning one of its games and drawing another, but failing to overcome the might of the BBC2 stripes on 6 points or the original Channel 4 blocks on 7 points.

And so to group E (the way you like it, really like it). Pick the bones out of this little lot:

Channel 3 North East vs Border chopsticks
Border chopsticks vs Yorkshire Television Colour Production
Yorkshire Television Colour Production vs ATV in Colour Zoom
ATV in Colour 'Zoom' vs Border chopsticks
Channel 3 North East vs ATV in Colour 'Zoom'
Yorkshire Television Colour Production vs Channel 3 North East

I think I know the way this one's going to end up. Can one of the most hated rebrandings of broadcasting history and a still ident with no music overcome the majesty of two of the ITV system's biggest hitters? I'm going to go out on a limb and say no chance. Vote with your hearts and heads, please, and don't just be perverse to prove me woefully wrong.




7 comments:

That Bloke You Know said...

Channel 3 North East 0 Border chopsticks 1
Border chopsticks 0 Yorkshire Television Colour Production 1
Yorkshire Television Colour Production 0 ATV in Colour Zoom 3
ATV in Colour 'Zoom' 3 Border chopsticks 0
Channel 3 North East 0 ATV in Colour 'Zoom'3
Yorkshire Television Colour Production 1 Channel 3 North East 0

Dear me! ATV Zoom by a mile. Poor Border.

office pest said...

Channel 3 North East 1, Border chopsticks 0.
Border chopsticks 0, Yorkshire Television Colour Production 1.
Yorkshire Television Colour Production 0, ATV in Colour Zoom 1.
ATV in Colour 'Zoom' 1, Border chopsticks 0.
Channel 3 North East 0, ATV in Colour 'Zoom' 1.
Yorkshire Television Colour Production 1, Channel 3 North East 0.

When's full time, Ref?

Unknown said...

C3NE 0 - Border 4
Border 2 - Yorkshire 3
Yorkshire 0 - ATV 5
ATV 7 - Border 4
C3NE 0 - ATV 625
Yorkshire 8 - C3NE 0

Nice jingle, nice colour scheme - if only Yorkshire had made a little effort on the animation front. Perhaps something like this...

Westengland said...

Channel 3NE 0 Border 1
Border 0 Yorkshire 1
Yorkshire 0 ATV 1
ATV 1 Border 0
Channel 3NE 0 ATV 1
Yorkshire 1 Channel 3NE 0

Re your new template background: an example of : "..in the end, it all comes back to the BBC"? - how many ITV (as was) buildings were and still are instantly recognisable?

Tilt Araiza said...

Channel 3 North East 0 Border 1
Border 0 Yorkshire 1
Yorkshire 0 ATV 1
ATV 1 Border 0
Channel 3 North East 0 ATV 1
Yorkshire 1 Channel 3 North East 0

Gary said...

C3NE 0 Border 1
Border 1 Yorkshire 0
Yorkshire 0 ATV 1
ATV 1 Border 0
C3NE 0 ATV 1
Yorkshire 1 C3NE 0

Upset win for the plucky underdog........

Ian said...

C3 1-0 Border chopsticks
Border chopsticks 0-1 Yorkshire
Yorkshire 0-1 ATV
ATV 1-0 Border chopsticks
C3 0-1 ATV
Yorkshire 1-0 Channel 3 North East

Border's static frame is like playing with 10 men.