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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 2d

I love that there was one week in UK chart history where Destiny’s Child were outsold by the theme tune to ITV’s World Cup coverage #totp

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 9d

They were using that cat sound effect on Live and Kicking twenty years later…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 13d

“It’s like the broom cupboard except it’s nothing like it”

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 13d

First two, yes - not sure how I managed that. Third has literally just been replaced and I only have a photo as had to hand it back in

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 13d

As the song goes, it was twenty years ago today…

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Gareth Joy @lookoutwales2.bsky.social · 14d

Central is ITV.

Lovely. #itv70

The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 14d

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Preswatch | And this evening, we have a second ident, featuring the mid-80s Central TV ident soundtrack and alternative visuals.

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 15d

Even the toilets are celebrating at work

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TV Live @tvlive.site · 18d

Special breakbumpers on ITV1 today to mark 70 years of ITV.

#itv70

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 18d

A love letter to the past - full kudos to ITV Creative for this beauty.

(Can neither confirm nor deny there’ll be some full outings later)

Gareth Joy @lookoutwales2.bsky.social · 18d

Lovely. #ITV70

www.tvhome.co.uk/itv1/2025/09...

ITV1

Ident introducing ITV Lunchtime News, 1:30pm 22nd Sep 2025

www.tvhome.co.uk

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 18d

Hard to remember a time when that kind of shiny chrome effect looked “good”

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 18d

Also I remember once something clearly had gone very wrong on the ITV News Channel and the really long version went out about 5 times in a row

Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 18d

Loved this, particularly as they had to cut out the line “I don’t need no TV, I don’t need no news”

Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 18d

20 YEARS AGO TODAY, also 50 years before then, so really 70 YEARS AGO TODAY onwards.

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 18d

Happy birthday ITV. Been scheduling it for nearly 20 of the 70 and today was a lot of fun for reasons that will hopefully become apparent!

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 20d

Been waiting since 1976 for this #totp

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 21d

Hepburn: I Quit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Minister Jamie Hepburn resigns after assault claim

Conservative MSP Douglas Ross said the parliament minister grabbed him as he left the Holyrood chamber on Wednesday.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 27d

Looks like they’ve got the memo about the presenter never appearing to be in the same place as the acts though. They also superimposed Zoe Ball on top of one of the pre-records and even did a fake pan via a pillar at one point #totp

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 27d

I will admit I quite liked Bus Stop’s Kung Fu Fighting at the time. It’s fun and doesn’t take itself too seriously, unlike a lot of the acts on the show #totp

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · Sep 9

#OnThisDay 1985: 40 years ago today, the block of childrens programmes on BBC1 was branded as Children's BBC and for the first time,dedicated idents & an in-vision presenter was used in a place affectionately known to us as the Broom Cupboard.

An empty CBBC Broom Cupboard that we also know as the BBC1 continutiy booth.

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · Aug 31

I like playing the game with the news section is seeing how much of it could have been written during the week, as opposed to referencing something that actually happened yesterday…

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