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2 unusual facts about The Hour


STV Productions

STV Productions have produced many shows, including: Scottish Passport, The Hour, Catchphrase, The Poison Tree, Fake Reaction, Antiques Road Trip and many more.

The department expanded into the area of factual entertainment with the production of the cult series, Club Reps for ITV and more recently, the regional magazine show The Hour.


Julyan Sinclair

Julyan has appeared as a guest presenter on STV's daily lifestyle show The Hour on a few occasions, alongside main anchor Michelle McManus since November 2009.

Stephen Jardine

The programme ended on Friday 22 May 2009, to be replaced by The Hour, airing weekdays at 5pm from Tuesday 26 May, with Jardine and Michelle McManus hosting.

Tam Cowan

Cowan was also a guest presenter for STV's overnight interactive strand The Nightshift and rejoined the station on Tuesday 20 September 2011 as a main co-presenter for the lifestyle magazine show The Hour, alongside Michelle McManus.

YTMND

The original "Tom Cruise Kills Oprah" video, on which the YTMND is based, was mentioned on Dateline NBC's "The Mank Blog" segment, VH1's show "Web Junk 20", and CBC Newsworld's "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos.


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11AM

The hour-long news program started in 1975 with Roger Climpson presenting, with a number of high-profile presenters since, including Clive Robertson, Vincent Smith, Paul Lyneham, Kerry O'Brien, Don Willesee, Helen Wellings, Richard Zachariah and Ann Sanders.

1926 FA Cup Final

In the hour before kick-off, the crowd was entertained by the bands of the Royal Engineers and the Chatham Naval Dockyard.

1988 FA Cup Final

The Merseysiders were awarded a penalty on the hour mark following a foul by Clive Goodyear on John Aldridge, though replays showed that Goodyear won the ball cleanly, but Aldridge's penalty was saved by Beasant's diving save to his left, thus becoming the first keeper to save a penalty in a Wembley FA Cup final.

2005 Taça de Portugal Final

Benfica defeated their opposition 3–1, thanks to a brace from Croatian striker Tomo Šokota and goal from Brazilian midfield ace Geovanni on the hour mark.

Among Beggars and Thieves

For example, the song "Man of the Hour" apparently deals with the fate of the Swedish 17th century warship Kronan, the lyrics of "Mountain Men" bear a strong resemblance to the Engelbrekt rebellion, and "Boiling Led" appears to be about the assassination of Sverker I of Sweden.

Antoni Lange

In some points The Hour is similar to the drama A Dream Play written by August Strindberg in 1901 and The Woman without a Shadow written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1919.

Arthur L. Annecharico

The Arthur Company finished a £28,000,000 order for 271 half-hour sitcoms for Turner Broadcasting Systems, and also a $10,000,000 order for 24 episodes of the hour-long action adventure series, Airwolf.

Back-Room Boy

Arthur Askey plays meteorologist Arthur Pilbeam who is jilted by his fiancée Betty because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips.

Ben Caunt

It is said that "Big Ben", the hour bell of the clock-tower of the Palace of Westminster, is named after this English Heavyweight Champion.

Ben Folds Live at MySpace DVD

The hour-long performance kicked off promotional touring for the release of the 2006 album Supersunnyspeedgraphic, the LP.

Blackoutsabbath

He stated the night prior to June 21 involved mostly planning, including food arrangements, how to get his guitar to the apartment ("one of the old Communist towers on Karl Marx Allee"), and how he would be "going down and up five flights of stairs on the hour" to bring guests up to their room.

Buzz Potamkin

He was known for founding Perpetual Motion Pictures (later called Buzzco Associates) in 1968, which led to the production of hundreds of TV advertisements, including the Hawaiian Punch series, MTV's "Top of the Hour" (the moon man), and MTV's "I Want My MTV" campaign.

Casio F-105W

The watch's display shows the day of the week, day of the month, hour, minute, seconds, and the signs for PM (or 24-hour clock), alarm signal, and hourly signal (double beep on the hour).

Code.org

John Dvorak was critical of the Hour of Code in an articlefor PC Magazine.

Date and time notation in Greece

The minutes are usually written with two digits; the hour numbers are written without a leading zero.

Electronic carillon

The Westminster Quarters are commonly programmed to chime the hour and its divisions, along with musical selections.

Ercole Baldini

His best year was 1956, in which he won a gold medal in the road race at the Summer Olympics in Melbourne, and, in September, stripped Jacques Anquetil of the hour record, riding 46.394 km at the Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan.

Erol Onaran

Erol's Internet offered unlimited access to the then very basic internet for a flat monthly fee, as opposed to the "by the hour" model employed by larger Internet Service Providers such as America Online (AOL) and CompuServe.

Ezequiel Lavezzi

Lavezzi scored his third Champions League goal for PSG on 4 December, netting at the near post of FC Porto goalkeeper Helton shortly after the hour mark; the 2–1 defeat of the Portuguese champions ensured PSG top spot in the group.

Great Tom

Great Tom is the hour bell in Tom Tower, at Christ Church, Oxford.

Hornsby Water Clock

The carillon has 17 tubes of cast bell-bronze that chime automatically on the hour, or they can be played manually.

Idobi Radio

Man of the Hour – Hot talk hosted by Simple Plan guitarist Sébastien Lefebvre and former merchandise manager and MusiquePlus host Patrick Langlois.

Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din

His most important astronomical instrument, however, is the "observational clock", which in his In the Nabk Tree of the Extremity of Thoughts, he describes as "a mechanical clock with three dials which show the hours, the minutes, and the seconds. We divided each minute into five seconds."

Janus Djurhuus

Djurhuus said that his "poetic baptism" came in school, when he heard Jákup Dahl (later a provost and Bible translator and author of the first school grammar of the Faroese language) declaim Jóannes Patursson's Nú er tann stundin komin til handa (Now is the hour come for acting), the anthem of the Christmas Meeting.

Jessie's Dad

The hour-long documentary follows Lunsford as he visits Capitol Hill and state capitols to urge lawmakers to wise up and crack down on child predators.

Local insertion

Starting in the early 1990s, some cable television systems began carrying a local insert called "Local Edition", a segment featuring local news inserts (which are produced by area television stations or local cable operators) that air at :24 and :54 minutes past the hour during HLN's rolling daytime news block, usually during the network's non-essential features news block.

Luís Martins

He made his official debut for the club on 2 November 2011, starting in a UEFA Champions League group stage game against FC Basel and being replaced at the hour-mark of the 1–1 home draw by Miguel Vítor.

Man of the Hour

Live performances of "Man of the Hour" can be found on the live album Live at Benaroya Hall, various official bootlegs, the Live at the Gorge 05/06 box set and the Eddie Vedder DVD Water on the Road.

Marx's theory of the state

However, even the least developed states of Europe, those of the Holy Alliance, are inexorably approaching this fate, for they will be bought up by the bourgeoisie; then Stirner will be able to console them with the identity of private and state property, especially his own sovereign, who is trying in vain to postpone the hour when political power will be sold to the “burghers” who have become “angry”.

Miranda Cosgrove discography

In December 2008, a cover of the holiday song "Christmas Wrapping" was released to promote the hour long special Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh.

Phil Spitalny

Spitalny's 22-piece band was known as the Hour of Charm Orchestra during the time it appeared on the radio program, The Hour of Charm, hosted by Arlene Francis.

Rebecca Front

Front achieved a higher profile as a result of her work with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring on the radio shows Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World and On the Hour, and the television and radio series Fist of Fun.

Ronnie Knox

He read English literature by the hour, stretched out on a cot or in his worn out twelve-year-old car.

Rooms by the Hour

Rooms by the Hour is an album released in 1998 by Rustic Overtones.

Sather Tower

--Professor "of" Greek?-->Greek Isaac Flag, "We ring, we chime, we toll, / Lend ye the silent part / Some answer in the heart, / Some echo in the soul." The current bells range from small 19 pound bells to the 10,500 pound "Great Bear Bell," which tolls on the hour and features bas-relief carvings of bears as well as the constellation Ursa Major.

Search Committee

"Search Committee" is the hour-long finale of the seventh season of the American television comedy series The Office.

Seth Thomas Clock Company

A Seth Thomas Wallclock tells the hour in the movie High Noon.

Staffordshire Hoard

On 26 January 2012 the hoard was featured in the hour-long BBC2 documentary Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery presented by TV historian Dan Snow.

The Hour Before the Dawn

The Hour Before the Dawn is a 1944 drama film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake and Franchot Tone.

The Hour of Bewilderbeast

The Hour of Bewilderbeast is an album that was released by Badly Drawn Boy in 2000 (see 2000 in music).

The Max Headroom Show

Each episode was preceded by Max's intro which said "He's the toast of the town (lightly buttered). He's the non-fattening sugar substitute in your tea. He's a bon vivant, a gaucho amigo, a goomba, a mensch, and the fifth musketeer. He's the apple of your eye and aren't you glad he's here. Direct from a wax and shine at the carwash around the corner, it's the man of the hour, or at least for a good thirty minutes, Max Headroom."

The Most Incredible Thing

A poor young man creates a magnificent clock with different lifelike figures — Moses, Adam and Eve, the Four Seasons, the Five Senses, and others — which appear at the stroke of the hour.

Time Structured Mapping

This led to Simultaneity recordings that were not made in the same location: in December 2004, with volunteers primarily from CEC Canada’s online forum, a recording was made simultaneously in countries around the world: volunteers were asked to record exactly the same twenty minutes of their environment wherever they were in the world, regardless of time-zone, but to include something that marked the hour changing.

Wellcome Book Prize

John M. Coates, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

With So Little to Be Sure Of

This episode was aired against the Academy of Country Music Awards on CBS which was watched by 13.1 million viewers and received a 3.1 in the 18-49 demographic, the combination of Family Guy and American Dad! on Fox which averaged 4.62 million viewers for the hour, and had a 2.3/6 rating, and Celebrity Apprentice on NBC, which averaged 5.96 million viewers and held a 1.8/5 rating in the 18-49 demographic, and .

WRGV

For three years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the station played breaking news bulletins every hour on top of the hour (first provided by ABC News, then by Clear Channel Worldwide News), as well as "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start and close of each workday.