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ITV's 60th Birthday

22 September 2015 (July 2015)

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A former member
Are STV planning to broadcast any of the ITV at 60 shows?
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Brekkie
The Wednesday ones are being screened. As Seen on ITV is scheduled on the 21st September - not sure if that's from the beginning or just the same episode ITV will be showing that night.
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Markymark
Inspector Sands posted:

Not only the UHF/VHF thing - the tuner would only have worked in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong or South Africa as they were the only countries that used the same version of PAL: PAL-I:. The difference was the channel bandwidth and the audio subcarrier offset.


Yes, although for Ireland and SA you still required/require VHF too. Not sure about HK, were they UHF only ?

I was in SA just over a year ago, analogue PAL-I was still alive and kicking, along with Teletext and NICAM. Possibly now the only surviving NICAM broadcasts on the planet ? Cool
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TV Forum Team
Posts from ITV's 60th Birthday have been merged into this topic.
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Square Eyes Founding member
Upcoming programme about 60 years of TV news reading (ITV 22nd September)

And Here is the News

It’s 60 years since the first newsreader appeared on British television.

And Here Is The News features some of Britain’s best-known newsreaders as they reveal what life has been like behind the studio desk, and how the role has changed beyond recognition over six decades.

The programme hears how the BBC, after learning about the impending launch of Independent Television News and their plans to put newsreaders on camera, beat ITV to it with Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall becoming the first in-vision news presenters on British screens on September 4th 1955.

Michael Aspel, one of the BBC’s earliest newsreaders recalls when ITV launched 18 days later on the 22nd September 1955 - ITN deciding to go with a famous face to read their first news bulletin, choosing Christopher Chataway, an athlete who had broken the 5,000m world record.

[snip] rest at :

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week39/and-here-news
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MatthewFirth
OK so this will focus on ITV News and ITN, and only partly similar to the Newsflash documentary from 3 years ago? Yes.
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rob Founding member
MatthewFirth posted:
OK so this will focus on ITV News and ITN, and only partly similar to the Newsflash documentary from 3 years ago? Yes.


The Newsflash documentary aired in November 2013.
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Rijowhi
Really enjoyed 'ITV Changed My Life' tonight, especially the story about the guy who entered on 'The Krypton Factor'. These ITV 60 programmes are nice reminders of the past...now what about the future?
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Brekkie
Agree - and really like how these shows have gone beyond the obvious bits of nostalgia that are usually bought up for the anniversaries.
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JAS84
This week, it's theme tunes. Surprise Surprise, Blockbusters, and Corrie all feature in the list of 20 memorable intros, according to my TV listings mag.
bkman1990 and Put The Telly On gave kudos
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Gary McEwan
From the Radio Times website...

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Surprises abound in this goosebumpy hit of nostalgia, a countdown of dream themes curated by the ITV and voted for by the public. Hear the Swedish lyrics sung to Emmerdale! Find out how much Yorkshireman Ronnie Hunt was paid for playing that trumpet line on Corrie! Meet the woman who danced saucily over the Tales of the Unexpected credits!

Some entries couldn’t be more deserving: big, brassy numbers that made you thrilled to be tuning in, like Don Harper’s two themes in one for World of Sport, for instance, or Barry Gray’s inextinguishable Thunderbirds. Others, you feel, are only here because they belong to world-conquering series rather than being memorable compositions. And there are the kind of gaspy omissions that make such programmes ideal watercooler fodder (where are The Persuaders! and Black Beauty? And Stingray? And…).

The occasion couldn’t pass without “feem toon” specialist Dennis Waterman, who had serious aspirations beyond wearing silk shirts on Top of the Pops: “I wanted to be the next Dylan!”


ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME
Victoria Wood narrates a countdown of the top 20 theme tunes from throughout ITV's history, as the channel marks its 60th anniversary this year. The list of tracks was compiled via an opinion poll, which gave viewers a chance to vote for their favourite themes from the six-decade catalogue of ITV's most popular shows. Includes interviews with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant, Coronation Street veteran William Roache and Dennis Waterman, formerly the star of Minder and The Sweeney, as well as contributions by the composers responsible for creating these distinctive themes, such as Christopher Gunning (Poirot), Simon Park (Van Der Valk) and Tony Hatch (Emmerdale).
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IndigoTucker
That actually doesn't sound too bad!

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