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30th anniversary of first regular Breakfast television

(January 2013)

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MU
Multi
Does anyone know who composed any of the Breakfast Time themes?
Love all of them!
TH
Thinker
They might as well have said ATV all the way through if that was the case Confused


Well, as ATV was also simulcasting Thames for most of the afternoon, then the reader would have to jump from their region, to ATV's schedule, to Thames, which would be unnecessary. The London schedules were presumably always printed in full.
SD
sda|
Does anyone know who composed any of the Breakfast Time themes?
Love all of them!


IIRC George Fenton did, not sure which era though.
MU
Multi
Thanks! It appears that George composed 1983-2000 of Breakfast music for BBC before David Lowe took over his position.
I've tried my hardest to find a website for a contact to him but unable so far.
MA
Markymark
They might as well have said ATV all the way through if that was the case Confused


Well, as ATV was also simulcasting Thames for most of the afternoon, then the reader would have to jump from their region, to ATV's schedule, to Thames, which would be unnecessary. The London schedules were presumably always printed in full.


They normally were. I recall The Daily Telegraph during the 70s and 80s. Thames or LWT (Thames/LWT on Fridays) was the primary 'ITV' listing on London printed editions, and Granada was on Manchester printed editions.

ITV regions as smaller side listings on the Nov 2 1982 London edition were :-
TVS
Anglia
Central
Yorkshire
HTV (HTV Wales were variations within this listing)
TSW
Channel (Most of Channel's listings said 'As TSW' )
RI
Richard
They might as well have said ATV all the way through if that was the case Confused


Well, as ATV was also simulcasting Thames for most of the afternoon, then the reader would have to jump from their region, to ATV's schedule, to Thames, which would be unnecessary. The London schedules were presumably always printed in full.


They normally were. I recall The Daily Telegraph during the 70s and 80s. Thames or LWT (Thames/LWT on Fridays) was the primary 'ITV' listing on London printed editions, and Granada was on Manchester printed editions.

ITV regions as smaller side listings on the Nov 2 1982 London edition were :-
TVS
Anglia
Central
Yorkshire
HTV (HTV Wales were variations within this listing)
TSW
Channel (Most of Channel's listings said 'As TSW' )


In Northern Ireland, Granada was the main region until I think the 90s when it changed to Scottish.

Presumably this was identical to what happened in Scotland.
MA
Markymark
They might as well have said ATV all the way through if that was the case Confused


Well, as ATV was also simulcasting Thames for most of the afternoon, then the reader would have to jump from their region, to ATV's schedule, to Thames, which would be unnecessary. The London schedules were presumably always printed in full.


They normally were. I recall The Daily Telegraph during the 70s and 80s. Thames or LWT (Thames/LWT on Fridays) was the primary 'ITV' listing on London printed editions, and Granada was on Manchester printed editions.

ITV regions as smaller side listings on the Nov 2 1982 London edition were :-
TVS
Anglia
Central
Yorkshire
HTV (HTV Wales were variations within this listing)
TSW
Channel (Most of Channel's listings said 'As TSW' )


In Northern Ireland, Granada was the main region until I think the 90s when it changed to Scottish.

Presumably this was identical to what happened in Scotland.


I suspect as regional printing, and electronic publishing of national papers expanded in the late 80s , this sort of thing would have spread.

68 days later

:-(
A former member
36 years ago today that Good morning calendar started, how times flys for some people Wink
MU
Multi
Did anyone manage to capture the recreation titles of the 1983 ones used on the 30th Anniversary Breakfast?

Thanks

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