TTTV Break Bumpers

This break-bumper first appeared in the 1970's. Bizzarely it was re-introduced during the generic ITV period. (Thanks to Jase for mentioning that - it certainly gave me a good laugh!!)

When the first ITV generic look was dropped by the station in 1991, Tyne Tees finally introduced a nice computer-generated bumper, using a 'spotlight' effect.

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At first, when TTTV changed the last few frames of their ident, altering the background, the bumper above was still used. However, they soon introduced this bumper to match the ident.

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A festive version of the then still quite new corporate grey Tyne Tees logo. It's the same as usual, just with some more akin-to-the-station cheap and cheerful snow overlaid over the top!

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When the modern 'chunky' lettering was introduced in October 1992, the break-bumper was changed to match. The way it is formed, however, is very similar to the one above.

Despite just being a sped up version of the regular ident, this additional piece of branding didn't appear until after the main Channel 3 North East 'launch'.

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The break-bumper for the hastily reintroduced TTTV Ident in 1998.

An alternative version of the above bumper. This time only the outline of the lettering is seen. Apologies for the quality of this clip!

In 1999, the ITV-branded bumpers appeared, several months before the Generic idents. At first on TTTV there was only the splash version(The one below!), however they later introduced the full set of heart-Bumpers provided by ITV.(alternating them on different days!). This example is just one of them!

As with most of the ITV stuff, when ITV changed its name to ITV1 in August 2001, there was only a slight change to the Break Bumpers.

The new break bumper for ITV1 (No more Tyne Tees even on the idents now) from October 2002.

One of the new break bumpers from 2004, based on the limited selection of idents that were introduced in November of that year.