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TV-am, the world's first breakfast TV station

(October 2005)

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A former member
I still like the idea of an official website for TV-am !!!

GOOD QUESTION: back in the 80's and still to this day do the 15 regional companies only have the right to broadcast for 20 ½ hours a day?
While the rest of the time goes to 16th provider of ITV telly?
IS
Inspector Sands
stu20_ml2 posted:

Oh and Moving Image recently lauched their own TV-am site with the help of Ian White (BBC Look North) and David Claridge (Roland Rat) www.tv-am.net


What a excellent site, the video clips are great.

According to their newsletter ( http://www.milibrary.com/2003site/pages/news.html ) Moving Image are watching through all their TVam material and catalouging it
NH
Nick Harvey Founding member
stu20_ml2 posted:
Oh and Moving Image recently lauched their own TV-am site with the help of Ian White (BBC Look North).

Well, according to registrations, Ian White is the owner of the www.tv-am.org.uk website mentioned in the first post of this thread.
HA
harshy Founding member
A very nice site, with HQ video clips, ah those were the days, I still remember the TV-AM news music.
RU
russnet Founding member
Nick Harvey posted:
stu20_ml2 posted:
Oh and Moving Image recently lauched their own TV-am site with the help of Ian White (BBC Look North).

Well, according to registrations, Ian White is the owner of the www.tv-am.org.uk website mentioned in the first post of this thread.


Funny you mention him as I've bought a few quality items of him on Ebay over the last six months. One of the items was the TV Times TV-Am Launch issue and inside was an inserted TVam compliments slip as an added touch.
MA
mattlock
Whereabouts were the studios and technical area in the tv-am building?

11 days later

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A former member
Spencer For Hire posted:
Good Morning Calendar and Breakfast Time were programmes, not stations though.


A question about Good Morning Calandar how long did it last?
if it started in 1977,

and why was it axed?
SD
sda|
I think it was just a trial.

IIRC the ITN archive has only one proper entry for it
NW
nwtv2003
623058 posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Good Morning Calendar and Breakfast Time were programmes, not stations though.


A question about Good Morning Calandar how long did it last?
if it started in 1977,

and why was it axed?


According to Bob Warman (speaking on the ITV50 Yorkshire programme) it was a 9 week experiment, so it ended after 9 weeks, probably due to its unpopularity. If you've seen footage of the programme it was rather poor, it was just Bob, aload of papers and Traffic News from a Police Officer over the phone.
MA
Markymark
nwtv2003 posted:
623058 posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Good Morning Calendar and Breakfast Time were programmes, not stations though.


A question about Good Morning Calandar how long did it last?
if it started in 1977,

and why was it axed?


According to Bob Warman (speaking on the ITV50 Yorkshire programme) it was a 9 week experiment, so it ended after 9 weeks, probably due to its unpopularity. If you've seen footage of the programme it was rather poor, it was just Bob, aload of papers and Traffic News from a Police Officer over the phone.


Didn't the Beeb run a similar experiment in Scotland shortly afterwards. That I seem to recall was an in-vision version of Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland ?
NW
nwtv2003
Markymark posted:
Didn't the Beeb run a similar experiment in Scotland shortly afterwards. That I seem to recall was an in-vision version of Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland ?


Yes they did, but I didn't know how it worked, whether it was a studio programme or put a camera in a Radio studio, like Sky One's Chris Evans Breakfast Show (which was a good idea, shame it didn't last longer). The Swap Shop team also did a one off thing called AM:UK one morning, which was more like Breakfast Time.
RJ
Russell James
Now that I think about it, remebering the NBC tour in New York, isnt NBC Today like 50 years old? It first aired on January 14, 1952

Well how could tv-am be the first?

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