TV Home Forum

Channel Television during the 1979 ITV Strike

How did it continue broadcasting? (June 2019)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
BL
bluecortina
Markymark posted:
bluecortina posted:
Markymark posted:

I think YTV were the only company to name check their transmitters (certainly during the UHF era)?


Southern did too during the VHF era - it was only Chillerton Down and Dover after all. There's one on Youtube featuring dear Brian Nissen.


Ah thank you, I'm too young to remember , (and we weren't served by Southern until UHF came along here in the Thames Valley).

Power FM used to name check Chillerton Down in their jingles, '2000 watts of power' (Radio 1 had 250,000 watts of power up the road at Rowridge Razz )



Thank you for reminding me how old I am (Yes, I'm only joking!).
SP
Steve in Pudsey
#One million watts of music power... Radio one, eff emm#
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Markymark posted:
Si-Co posted:
Markymark posted:

Thanks for that, John Crosse and not Redvers, as I mis remembered!


Clever how YTV altered their Authority Announcement ever so slightly: “This is Yorkshire Television resuming broadcasting on the Emley Moor and associated transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority”. Poor Belmont mustn’t have got a mention in those days (just as Tyne Tees never mentioned Bilsdale until about 1981).


I think YTV were the only company to name check their transmitters (certainly during the UHF era)?

Was the switch on of UHF when they changed from mentioning Scarborough to Belmont or was it when the latter got reallocated from Anglia?
MA
Markymark
Steve in Pudsey posted:
#One million watts of music power... Radio one, eff emm#


With an FM carrier, it can also be one million watts of total silence power! Cool
NL
Ne1L C
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Markymark posted:
Si-Co posted:

Clever how YTV altered their Authority Announcement ever so slightly: “This is Yorkshire Television resuming broadcasting on the Emley Moor and associated transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority”. Poor Belmont mustn’t have got a mention in those days (just as Tyne Tees never mentioned Bilsdale until about 1981).


I think YTV were the only company to name check their transmitters (certainly during the UHF era)?

Was the switch on of UHF when they changed from mentioning Scarborough to Belmont or was it when the latter got reallocated from Anglia?


CTV's transmitter announcement must have pretty short in comparison.
MA
Markymark
Ne1L C posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Markymark posted:

I think YTV were the only company to name check their transmitters (certainly during the UHF era)?

Was the switch on of UHF when they changed from mentioning Scarborough to Belmont or was it when the latter got reallocated from Anglia?


CTV's transmitter announcement must have pretty short in comparison.


London's was shorter, Croydon is just one word Cool
NE
News96
40 years ago tonight, things we're beginning to kick off!







NL
Ne1L C
40 years ago tonight!
MA
Markymark
Ne1L C posted:
40 years ago tonight!


I do remember Southern intermittently vanishing, but I'm sure it finally vanished at 13:00hrs on a Thursday or Friday with Christopher Robbie appearing in vision saying 'please bear with us, we' ll be back as soon as we can........ '
NL
Ne1L C
That's seems so sad.
NE
News96
So 4 ITV Regional Stations (Yorkshire Southern, HTV And Ulster) we all off air at this point 40 years ago! Interesting to see that some may have gone off air earlier than originally thought.




CO
commseng
I thought it was Thames rather than Yorkshire off air at this time in 1979?

Newer posts