Central seemed to have referred to the temperature as Celsius as opposed to the archaic Centigrade a lot earlier than the BBC and other ITV regions. Yorkshire still referred to it as centigrade as recent as 1991: a good six years after the BBC switched.
This takes be back to when I was growing up in Leicester in the 1980s. Which young person nowadays would believe that there was once only 3 or 4 TV channels, which used to closedown around midnight?! 📺
To wake up viewers that had fallen asleep and to keep the transmitters on air for a while (they worked on the detection of audio, if audio was lost for more than three minutes, they would begin their shutdown procedure).
Yeah I remember that when I was 5 years old & I found it scary, the presence of it, I used to have strange phobias, I'm 39 years old now & I've just listened to it again & it didn't bother me.
This Was Taken During The Time Signal Radio In Stoke, Mercia Sound In Coventry, & Radio Wyvern In Hereford & Worcester Started Broadcasting 24 Hours A Day.
