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57-689: However, the word is still used in the local Doric dialect of north-east Scotland. Here it may be directly translated as 'fellow' or 'man' into Standard English. For example, a working childe would mean a working man, while a dour childe would indicate a taciturn individual. The term is used in application to an expected next stage in human evolution in the Childe Cycle novels by Gordon R. Dickson . Childe in Stephen King 's The Dark Tower is, in Roland Deschain 's own words, "...

114-456: A change which the station had already capitalized upon in January 1980 when Grampian Today was relaunched as North Tonight as part of a major expansion for Grampian's news operation. The Broadcasting Act of 1990 led to a significant change in the way ITV franchises were awarded - as opposed to the straightforward review process utilized by the outgoing Independent Broadcasting Authority ,

171-460: A development of luxury flats. In March 2006, the owners of Grampian Television, then known as SMG plc (now STV Group plc ) announced that the Grampian TV brand would be retired and renamed, along with Scottish Television , as simply ' STV ', with a new logo comprising a large, stylized letter 'S'. Anne Scott made the final announcement for Grampian. The two regional news programmes in

228-468: A former tram depot belonging to Aberdeen Corporation Tramways in 1960. The depot was converted for use as television studios with completion planned prior to October 1961. The complex housed two main studios and a third smaller studio for continuity, which was updated in the early 1980s when £4 million worth (2009: £10.5m) was spent on a new Central Technical Area and presentation facilities. These studios continued to be of importance to Grampian well into

285-652: A further district newsroom and remote-controlled studio was opened at Huntly Street, Inverness , aimed at improving coverage of the Highlands and Islands. The Inverness operation relocated to Stoneyfield Business Park during the summer of 2020. Grampian also had a studio in Edinburgh , despite it being in Scottish 's franchise area, which had closed by 1969, and a new £4 million studio complex in Stornoway , opened in

342-453: A further year) in 1964. In 1967, they went unopposed by any other consortiums to win a further six-year contract from July 1968 - a contract expanded by a further eight years in 1974. Six years later, Grampian won another eight-year franchise (later extended to ten years), effective of January 1982. The only change made to the license was the classification of the franchise as North and North East Scotland , as opposed to North East Scotland -

399-752: A newsroom and sales office in Dundee at the entrance of the Angus Hotel in Marketgait, which also contained a film studio for interviews. In 1978, the Dundee operation moved to a new remote-controlled studio at Albany House, before moving again to Harbor Chambers in the City Quay area in 1998. As of April 2008, STV's Tayside operation is based at Seabraes in the Greenmarket area of Dundee. In 1983,

456-401: A publication now in the public domain :  Wood, James , ed. (1907). " Childe ". The Nuttall Encyclopædia . London and New York: Frederick Warne. This European history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a poem is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Doric dialect (Scotland) Doric ,

513-421: A small number of networked or part-networked productions including the daytime adult education series Katie Stewart Cooks and the light entertainment show Melody Inn . Prior to this, Grampian had expectations of becoming one of the major players in networking new programming for ITV2 (this was before Channel 4 was created, and the inception for ITV2 was discussed at that time which never came to fruition. This

570-552: A television service entirely. A solution was eventually reached when it was agreed that the record could show that Mr Bacon had resigned voluntarily and the service resumed on 18 September 1974 (10:30AM). Grampian was slower than most other ITV stations to begin colour broadcasting which, after the company invested £180,000 (equivalent to £3,200,000 in 2023) in new equipment, promptly started in September 1971—an occasion timed to mark their 10th anniversary on air. The launch of

627-408: A term that describes a knight – or a gunslinger – on a quest. A formal term, and ancient. We never used it among ourselves ... for it means holy, chosen by ka . We never liked to think of ourselves in such terms, and I haven't thought of myself so in many years." (p. 859, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower , Pocket Books, 2006 ed.) [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

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684-429: A week. Grampian also developed its own outside broadcast unit, initially using studio equipment. Later developments would allow Grampian to further enhance its regional news service and on air presentation, which relied heavily on in-vision continuity. Following the station's earlier troubles, Grampian Television, along with all other ITV companies at the time, won a three-year extension to their license (later extended by

741-670: A year later, before Grampian sold it off in July 1996 to the Independent Radio Group for £5.25 million. At the same time, Grampian also owned shares in Moray Firth Radio , until they were sold off to Scottish Radio Holdings . With encouragement from the IBA, Grampian and other small ITV companies were encouraged to produce more network output following the 1980 franchise round. The station had previously produced

798-630: Is Strong , Alternative Energy and Scotland the Grave . The long-running schools programme Living & Growing transferred from ITV to Channel 4 in September 1987. Grampian's later networked contributions were minimal, with the few exceptions including co-production of The National Television Awards from 1995 to 1997 and a daytime repeat run of local documentary series Medics of the Glen in 2004. Grampian remained independent until June 1997 when Scottish Media Group , owner of Scottish Television, bought

855-418: Is held by STV North, which is owned and operated by STV Group plc (formerly SMG plc), and the southern licence by STV Central (previously known as Scottish Television ). As an independent company, Grampian had a very distinctive local personality which was quite different from STV's. After the station was bought, it gradually assimilated with STV, culminating in the change of name in 2006. STV did not adopt

912-423: Is less and less often the case. As is usually the case with marginalised languages, local loyalties prevail in the written form, showing how the variety "deviates" from standard ("British") English as opposed to a general literary Scots "norm". This shows itself in the local media presentation of the language, e.g., Grampian Television & The Aberdeen Press and Journal . These local loyalties, waning knowledge of

969-641: Is not to be confused with the ITV2 which is now known on the digital platform). In the franchise period following, the station was commissioned to produce networked series of the local film magazine programme The Electric Theatre Show (following a successful run on London Weekend Television ) alongside new series including occasional variety show Magic of the Musicals , lifestyle series Pennywise & Hot Property , networked one-off documentaries such as A Prince Among Islands and children's cartoon series James

1026-693: The Aberdeen Evening Express and peppers her humour column with "Doricisms" and Doric words. Doric has also featured in stage, radio and television, notably in the sketches and songs of the Aberdeen-based comedy groups Scotland the What? and the Flying Pigs . Gin I was God by Charles Murray (1864–1941) Doric Translation In 2006 an Aberdeen hotel decided to use a Doric voice for their lift . Phrases said by

1083-639: The Middle Scots period writing from the North East of Scotland adhered to the literary conventions of the time; indications of particular "Doric" pronunciations were very rare. The 18th-century literary revival also brought forth writers from the North East but, again, local dialect features were rare, the extant literary Scots conventions being preferred. In later times, a more deliberately regional literature began to emerge. In contemporary prose writing, Doric occurs usually as quoted speech, although this

1140-594: The switchover to digital transmissions , with the eight transmitters covering the STV North region (Angus, Rosemarkie, Knockmore, Eitshal, Durris, Bressay, Rumster Forest and Keelylang Hill) switching over from May to October 2010. Applications for the new North East Scotland contract area were sought by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) in the spring of 1960. From the original seven applicants, three serious contenders emerged and

1197-474: The 1968 contract round, smaller regional stations sought an affiliation with one of the four major ITV companies, who would provide the bulk of their programming. Grampian chose to link up with ABC Weekend Television . On 5 September 1974, a visiting company executive caught staff in the studio control room, who should have been rehearsing for a local programme, watching the banned pornographic film Deep Throat instead. The staff director in charge, Tony Bacon,

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1254-529: The Bible. The North East has been claimed as the "real home of the ballad" and, according to Les Wheeler, "91 out of a grand total of (Child's) 305 ballads came from the North East – in fact from Aberdeenshire", which makes the usual name of "Border Ballad" a misnomer put about by Sir Walter Scott . Contemporary writers in Doric include Sheena Blackhall , a poet who writes in Doric, and Mo Simpson, who writes in

1311-555: The Cat . The station also produced various editions of several series co-produced by most ITV regions - namely the religious programme Highway , current affairs debate The Time, The Place , documentary strand About Britain and the Saturday morning children's shows Get Fresh and Ghost Train . Grampian also contributed to Channel 4 in the form of various documentary series including Oil (co-produced with NRK ), The Blood

1368-423: The Doric dialect include John M. Caie of Banffshire (1879–1949), Helen B. Cruickshank of Angus (1886–1975), Alexander Fenton (1929–2012), Flora Garry (1900–2000), Sir Alexander Gray (1882–1968), Violet Jacob of Angus (1863–1946), Charles Murray (1864–1941) and J. C. Milne (1897–1962). George MacDonald from Huntly used Doric in his novels. A friend of Mark Twain , he is commonly considered one of

1425-578: The Doric dialect. The term "Doric" was formerly used to refer to all dialects of Lowland Scots , but during the twentieth century it became increasingly associated with Mid Northern Scots. The name possibly originated as a jocular reference to the Doric dialect of the Ancient Greek language. Greek Dorians lived in Laconia , including Sparta , and other more rural areas, and were alleged by

1482-753: The Independent Television network and we're very glad to have in our studios, to switch us into the network, the chairman of the Independent Television Authority, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick : Good afternoon. I am glad to be in Aberdeen today to welcome you into the great family of Independent Television viewers. You now have your own television company in the North East and I hope that you'll very soon come to regard Grampian Television as an essential part of your everyday life. I wish you and Grampian

1539-485: The Northern and Central Scotland regions (previously known as North Tonight and Scotland Today respectively) were still broadcast in their respective regions after the "STV" rebranding, which occurred at 9:25 am on Tuesday 30 May 2006. Both North Tonight and Scotland Today were rebranded as STV News at Six on Monday, 23 March 2009 but continue to air as separate programmes. The decision to rebrand Grampian

1596-515: The Tayside and North East Fife area receiving its own opt-out service, featuring a dedicated news bulletin within STV News at Six on weekdays and separate local advertising. Up until September 2011, both areas also received their own version of the overnight strand, The Nightshift . Grampian's first studios and headquarters were located at Queens Cross , Aberdeen , where the company purchased

1653-570: The amount and relevance of its non-news regional output with more and more programming being produced from outside the region, chiefly in Glasgow - local production was gradually phased out with the station's final non-news programme broadcast in 2008. In June 2003, the company moved to new premises at Craigshaw Business Park in West Tullos , Aberdeen , and the original headquarters at Queen's Cross were subsequently demolished, becoming home to

1710-585: The ancient Greeks to have spoken laconically and in a language thought harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the Attic spoken in Athens . Doric Greek was used for some of the verses spoken by the chorus in Greek tragedy . According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature : 18th-century Scots writers such as Allan Ramsay justified their use of Scots (instead of English) by comparing it to

1767-748: The best of luck and now, let us join the network. Following the brief opening, the station handed over to ABC 's networked coverage of Racing from Catterick Bridge . Later in the opening day at 7pm, Grampian's first chairman, Sir Alexander B. King, presented a half-hour introductory programme about the station. At the time of launch, Grampian served a potential audience of 332,000 people in 98,000 homes. In its first year, Grampian produced nine regular regional programmes - namely News and Views (a thrice-weekly magazine programme), Country Focus , Women's World , Serenade , Scotland for Me , Points North (a long-running current affairs programme), Grampian Golf , local news bulletins and monthly church services. In

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1824-539: The colour service led to a strike over Christmas 1971. A new film editor had signed a mutuality-binding three-month contract, and Grampian's decision to offer him permanent employment was not exercised. For the Christmas period, Grampian had hired colour studio cameras especially for the Hogmanay programmes and the filming of a networked documentary. The station resumed broadcasting at 10 pm on Boxing Day, which allowed

1881-481: The contract was awarded in August 1960 to North of Scotland Television Limited on the provision that board positions were offered to the other two final applicants, Caledonian Television and North Caledonian Television . The company's first managing director was G.E. Ward Thomas who later established Yorkshire Television in 1968. The name North of Scotland TV was considered too cumbersome for use and to reflect

1938-487: The early days, Grampian struggled as viewers in a key part of its transmission area, the city of Dundee , were still tuning into coverage from STV via the strong signal of the Black Hill transmitter . Three months after its first transmission, the station was only attracting 13% of the available audience in Dundee while viewing audiences across the region turned out to be less than had been hoped for. Viewer correspondence

1995-550: The fathers of the fantasy genre and an influence on C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien . Lewis Grassic Gibbon 's Scots Quair trilogy is set in the Mearns and has been the basis of a successful play and television series. It is very popular throughout Scotland and tells the story of Chris, an independent-minded woman, mainly in a form of English strongly influenced by the rhythms of local speech. A version of Aesop's Fables has been published in Doric, as well as some sections of

2052-405: The franchise by default with a bid of £720,000 per year. After retaining its franchise, Grampian sought to expand its media business interests. In May 1994, the company won the new Central Scotland FM radio licence in partnership with Border Television - the new station, Scot FM (now Heart Scotland ), had an uneasy start as it struggled with ratings and programming. Border pulled out of Scot FM

2109-475: The generic ITV branding that is now used in the other Channel 3 regions which are owned by ITV plc . STV's regional news programme for Northern Scotland is called STV News at Six and is supplemented by short news bulletins on weekdays. The station also produces regional television commercials. In 2008, the United Kingdom began its 5-year programme to end analogue television broadcasts as part of

2166-529: The input of the other applicants, a new name was chosen on 11 January 1961– "Grampian Television" after one of the key Scottish mountain ranges, the Grampian Mountains . Grampian planned to launch on 1 October 1961 and had already bought and converted their studios for the start date. However, four months prior to launch, the Post Office announced that the links which would connect Grampian to

2223-447: The lift include "Gyaun Up" /ɡʲɑːn ʌp/ (Going up), "Gyaun Doun" /ɡʲɑːn dun/ (Going down), "atween fleers een an fower" /əˈtwin fliːrz in ən ˈfʌur/ (between floors one and four). Also in 2006, Maureen Watt of the SNP took her Scottish Parliamentary oath in Doric. She said "I want to advance the cause of Doric and show there's a strong and important culture in the North East." She

2280-475: The names of their initial announcers-June Imray, Douglas Kynoch and Elizabeth Mackenzie -all of them were teachers. However, Mackenzie handed in her resignation the day before the station launched "for health reasons"; Her position was initially filled by 23 year-old Jimmy Sleigh , before James Spankie came into Grampian as the permanent replacement. Grampian Television went on air on Saturday 30 September 1961 at 2.45 pm (the 15th ITA franchise to launch) with

2337-499: The network would not be ready until February 1962. This would have left the new station only able to broadcast output from its neighboring colleagues at Scottish Television (STV). Pressure at the highest level of Government ensured that the links were in place in time for the station's planned launch. The first (pre-launch) test transmissions from the Durris transmitting station began on 1 September 1961. A week later, Grampian announced

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2394-530: The new light-touch regulator, the Independent Television Commission , required that the successful applicant pass a quality threshold and business plan. In the event, Grampian was outbid by two challengers; Channel 3 Caledonia and North of Scotland Television (the latter of which was ironically the name of the original Grampian Television consortium). Both competitors failed to pass the quality threshold, and Grampian won back

2451-518: The new millennium, despite the transfer of the presentation and continuity to Scottish 's Glasgow base and job losses when SMG took over the company. In June 2003, Grampian moved to new, smaller, state-of-the-art all digital studios at Craigshaw Business Park in West Tullos , Aberdeen , some of the most advanced in the world at the time of opening. Their previous headquarters at Queens Cross were subsequently demolished and redeveloped as housing. In addition to their Aberdeen headquarters, Grampian ran

2508-518: The older literary tradition and relative distance from the Central Lowlands ensure that the Doric scene has a degree of semi-autonomy. Doric dialogue was used in a lot of so-called Kailyard literature , a genre that paints a sentimental, melodramatic picture of the old rural life, and is currently unfashionable. This negative association still plagues Doric literature to a degree, as well as Scottish literature in general. Poets who wrote in

2565-425: The opening authority announcement from continuity announcer Douglas Kynoch and a brief welcome from the chairman of the Independent Television Authority , Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick : Douglas Kynoch : Good afternoon. This is the first transmission of Grampian Television Limited, over the Durris and Monteagle transmitters of the Independent Television Authority. Today, we're about to join all the millions of viewers of

2622-549: The popular name for Mid Northern Scots or Northeast Scots , refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland . There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, written in Doric. In some literary works, Doric is used as the language of conversation while the rest of the work is in Lallans Scots or British English. A number of 20th and 21st century poets have written poetry in

2679-433: The rate of four programmes a week) - such programming would remain a staple of the station's local output for the next forty years or so. By 1963, no less than fifty Grampian shows had featured in the local Top Ten audience ratings. Towards the end of the decade, the station's potential audience reached a million viewers and Grampian was employing just over 200 staff at their studios in Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh. Prior to

2736-478: The station for £105 million. The buyout led to various cutbacks in Grampian's staffing and programme production - notable changes included the transfer of on-air presentation from Aberdeen to Scottish Television's playout centre in Glasgow. More Grampian-produced programmes were also broadcast on Scottish, and vice versa. The station was also criticized by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) concerning

2793-465: The station to broadcast its first networked colour documentary Two Of A Kind . Despite this, the station did come up with a number of technical firsts. The most notable of these came in 1978 when Grampian became the first British television station to replace 16mm film cameras with Electronic News Gathering [ENG] video cameras for news coverage - a move which finally allowed its regional news programme Grampian Today to extend from three to five nights

2850-421: The use of Ancient Greek Doric by Theocritus . English became associated with Attic. Most consonants are usually pronounced much as in other Modern Scots dialects but: Some vowel realisations differ markedly from those of Central Scots dialects. The vowel numbers are from Aitken. See also Cardinal vowels . North East Scots has an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads and songs. During

2907-619: Was a choice by the voice actor, Kevin McKidd , a native of Elgin . In autumn 2020, the University of Aberdeen launched a term-long Doric course, offering it to all its undergraduate students. In August 2012, Gordon Hay, an Aberdeenshire author, successfully completed what is believed to be the first translation of the New Testament into Doric. The project took him six years. Grampian Television Grampian Television

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2964-524: Was bought out in 1997 by STV Group (the parent company of STV, the Channel 3 broadcaster in Central Scotland). The name Grampian Television was retired in 2006 and the channel is now known as STV on-air. STV runs one service which covers both central and northern Scotland but with separate news bulletins. Legally, however, the two services are still licensed separately; the northern licence

3021-510: Was dismissed the next day. However, Tony was also a local shop steward for the ACTT union and following a meeting, all 65 members walked out at 5PM, which brought transmissions to a halt and claiming that the management hadn’t followed nationally agreed procedures for dismissals. As negotiations continued over the next week viewers in the region were left without an ITV service and, as some areas could not pick up any BBC transmissions, they were without

3078-617: Was met with much criticism from across the former Grampian region - the move was viewed by many as similar to the ITV plc -owned licenses in England, Wales and Southern Scotland where all of the regions are branded as ITV1 . The objections are largely due to the fact that the largely rural Scottish culture in the North is very different from the more industrial Central Scotland area. The news service and advertising remains regionalized as before with

3135-502: Was required to take an oath in English beforehand. There was some debate as to whether the oath was "gweed Doric" ( /ɡwid ˈdoːrɪk/ ) or not, and notably it is, to a certain extent, written phonetically and contains certain anglicised forms such as "I" rather than "A", and "and" instead of "an": In Disney/Pixar's Brave , the character Young MacGuffin speaks the Doric dialect, and a running joke involves no one else understanding him. This

3192-764: Was said to amount to little more than half a dozen letters per week. The problems in Dundee along with the effects of Television Advertising Duty and the Equity Strike led to heavy financial losses and a subsequent reduction in transmitter rental for Grampian. But by the end of 1962, the station had succeeded in increasing audience in both Dundee and the region as a whole. The success in viewing figures were attributed to an increase in regional programming. Whereas Grampian had previously restricted its output to news and current affairs beforehand, production controller James Buchan decided to go for broke and branch out to produce light entertainment and music shows (originally, at

3249-604: Was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and which was then merged with the Central Belt channel STV . The northern region's coverage area includes the Northern Isles , Western Isles , Highlands (except Fort William and Lochaber ), Grampian , Tayside (except the Kinross area), and parts of north Fife . Grampian went on the air on 30 September 1961. The company

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