ITV Day of Promise: GMTV Newshour 02 May 2000

Because I haven't uploaded any video from ITV's short-lived and lesser-known Day of Promise for quite a while, I thought I'd grab the remainder of the footage and upload it in bits.

For those who need reminding, here's the original description of the telethon below.

ITV's Day of Promise, and the consequent Year Of Promise, was when the ITV network tried to get people to make helpful promises for the new millennium, from giving blood to helping out in a charity shop one morning every month, climaxing in a telethon between the programmes and Bond films on Bank Holiday Monday 1 May 2000, where people could either telephone into the live show and state their promise on-air to celebrity phoners (if chatting to an S Club 7 member or Home and Away cast member was your thing) or log on to a website and leave your promise on a on-line form there to be put into a national register free of charge. Otherwise, for the princely sum of GBP25, you could have your name and promise inscribed on a Promise Site, situated at major landmarks around the United Kingdom [cheap at half the price! ;-)]. Some viewers didn't get the gist, however, and phoned in to pledge money instead of promises!

The beginning of the GMTV Newshour on Tuesday 2 May 2000, where Penny Smith & John Stapleton interview Eamonn Holmes on the ITV Day of Promise the previous day, before he starts presenting GMTV Today, after the Newshour. [Bit handy, innit?]

The Weather Services International test pattern glitch is not my doing, as ITV happened to have a bit of a dirty switch at 6am into the transmission circuits used nationally by GMTV, which involved the circuits formerly used by the London News Network, the news agency formed by LWT and Carlton Television in 1993 which eventually turned into the main ITV transmission programme broadcast hub. The standby test signal depended on what the LNN feed had last been used for. WSI is now known (in its native Atlanta, Georgia) as The Weather Company, and originally responsible for the US pay TV channel The Weather Channel. A UK version of The Weather Channel was broadcast on analogue satellite between September 1996 and January 1998.

Hope Mrs Dora Rylatt's still riding her bicycle!