TVS AND SOUTHERN Posted Sat Jul 1 19:43:40 BST 2000 by cheshirecat

Can we please all try to clear something up!
I have heard people calling the TVS logo a Shell (southampton) and also the flower of the south...which is it?
The southern logo...compass or star?
People say it is a compass pointing south, yet looking at the handover from Southern to TVS in 1982 again seems to me like it is a star..? !? Anyone please..

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Posted By Anonymous on Sat Jul 1 23:42:12 BST 2000:

TVS logo was supposed to be a rainbow of colours, but later on became a shell.

Southern's logo was a star.

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Posted By Mr Ree on Sun Jul 2 13:19:00 BST 2000:

The original 50s Southern logo was definitely a compass as the southern point of it stretched down as though it was pointing south. By the 60s, when the familiar logo we all remember was launched, it had become a star, with the southern point the same length as the northern, western and eastern points.

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Posted By Dan F on Sun Jul 2 14:06:45 BST 2000:

The Southern logo was a compass with a (slightly) elongated southern point.

The TVS logo was a flower (from the garden of England - geddit?), using rainbow colours to distinuish it from the plain old blue and white of Southern.

And while we're about it the Meridian logo represents the Sun (in ths ky not on the newsstands), representing the sunny south!

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Posted By Jase on Sun Jul 2 16:28:42 BST 2000:

I thought the Meridian thing was just some sort of abstract representation of day/night, relating to the (rather meaningless) name "Meridian". Don't forget Meridian existed before they took over the Southern England franchise, much like Carlton. To be honest all those meaningless names (Meridian, Carlton, Harlech and Granada) annoy me.

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Posted By Dan F on Sun Jul 2 16:37:48 BST 2000:

> To be honest all those meaningless names (Meridian, Carlton, Harlech and Granada) annoy me.

Look up Meridian in the dictionary. Roger Laughton once remarked that when his team bid for the franchise they wanted a name that didn't have TV or Television in in, nor anything like south or southern. Then they went to the dictionary!

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Posted By Anonymous on Sun Jul 2 18:03:13 BST 2000:

To be honest all those meaningless names (Meridian, Carlton, Harlech and Granada) annoy me.

Harlech was the name of the founder, Lord Harlech

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Posted By cheshirecat on Sun Jul 2 20:13:28 BST 2000:

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that Carlton is using 'A talent for television' as its slogan on the central website?
Wasnt this the slogan Thames used before it finally closed down?

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Posted By Dan F on Sun Jul 2 20:42:03 BST 2000:

>Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that Carlton is using 'A talent for television' as its slogan on the central website?
>Wasnt this the slogan Thames used before it finally closed down?

What's that got to do with TVS or Southern?

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Posted By Richard on Mon Jul 3 09:51:21 BST 2000:

> To be honest all those meaningless names (Meridian, Carlton, Harlech and Granada) annoy me.
>

Meridian isn't meaningless. The Greenwich 0 meridian goes through the region (as it does many others). Is Greenwich itself in the region. I think the logo is something to do with time too - as is South Today's old sundial. Are they obsessed with time down there?!

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