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Noooo, the perfect chance to complete the big gaps on the TTTV section of my website, and I had to be stuck down in Manchester instead. On saying that, I didn't remember to watch/record the Granada one either until the last 5 minutes, then couldn't even get the digital box to work. I missed it all..... :
tesandco
Founding member
msim posted:
The Tyne Tees programme was presented by Pam Royal and focussed on the early years of the station, news, entertainment/music, childrens, gameshows, weather presenters, sports, politics, regional productions and programmes made for the network. Coming back after every break was an old ident including the original Tyne Tees Channel 8 anchor, The Flowing Rivers from the 80's, the Tyne Tees Colour from the 70's and the corporate ITV Tyne Tees from '89. The section at the end about new network productions from the station seemed totally false to me; since when have Wire in the Blood and Distant Shores been Tyne Tees productions? All in all a good hours worth of nostalgia.
Noooo, the perfect chance to complete the big gaps on the TTTV section of my website, and I had to be stuck down in Manchester instead. On saying that, I didn't remember to watch/record the Granada one either until the last 5 minutes, then couldn't even get the digital box to work. I missed it all..... :
SA
Couldn't you just ask someone for Your Watching Tyne Tees and the Yorkshire version? They're doing it on the TV Ark Forum.
GB
Taking advantage of my new Sky Plus box, I recorded the London one on it (it wasn't bad) and just took pot luck on watching another region and, given that it had three contractors when many others had only ever had one or two, went for the South.
What a dreadful choice.
The Midlands one looks to have been pretty good!
Any reports from South West, Anglia or Border?
Agree with what's been said about Ulster/Scotland missing out - though UTV has mentioned "ITV" where it couldn't avoid it - and the old Ulster Television logo got a good outing during that "Avenue of the Stars" thing yesterday evening (though hardly deservingly).
What a dreadful choice.
The Midlands one looks to have been pretty good!
Any reports from South West, Anglia or Border?
Agree with what's been said about Ulster/Scotland missing out - though UTV has mentioned "ITV" where it couldn't avoid it - and the old Ulster Television logo got a good outing during that "Avenue of the Stars" thing yesterday evening (though hardly deservingly).
CW
Charlie Wells
Moderator
Anglia's ITV50 was effectively a 'top 10 ITV programmes'. I'm not sure where they generated the top 10 from. Whilst it included the predictable 'Sale of the Centuary' and 'Survivor', it missed out on mentioning 'Knightmare' a childrens' programme that ran sucessfully for 8 years/series. It did discuss the original ident and how they came up with it, but they completely missed out on mentioning about the flag ident era. Similarly I don't recall it mentioning anything about Anglia News, though that is just one small part of Anglia.
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Noooo, the perfect chance to complete the big gaps on the TTTV section of my website, and I had to be stuck down in Manchester instead. On saying that, I didn't remember to watch/record the Granada one either until the last 5 minutes, then couldn't even get the digital box to work. I missed it all..... :
Tes, I'll be sending a copy of the TTTV one to Bods over at the TTLP, and also one to a correspondent on here, so PM me and I'll copy you in as well. DVD copy from Sky Digital, whichever aspect ratio you want and perfect quality (I'll copy it over in 1hr mode so it'll be almost broadcast quality). Let me know.
A former member
tesandco posted:
msim posted:
The Tyne Tees programme was presented by Pam Royal and focussed on the early years of the station, news, entertainment/music, childrens, gameshows, weather presenters, sports, politics, regional productions and programmes made for the network. Coming back after every break was an old ident including the original Tyne Tees Channel 8 anchor, The Flowing Rivers from the 80's, the Tyne Tees Colour from the 70's and the corporate ITV Tyne Tees from '89. The section at the end about new network productions from the station seemed totally false to me; since when have Wire in the Blood and Distant Shores been Tyne Tees productions? All in all a good hours worth of nostalgia.
Noooo, the perfect chance to complete the big gaps on the TTTV section of my website, and I had to be stuck down in Manchester instead. On saying that, I didn't remember to watch/record the Granada one either until the last 5 minutes, then couldn't even get the digital box to work. I missed it all..... :
Tes, I'll be sending a copy of the TTTV one to Bods over at the TTLP, and also one to a correspondent on here, so PM me and I'll copy you in as well. DVD copy from Sky Digital, whichever aspect ratio you want and perfect quality (I'll copy it over in 1hr mode so it'll be almost broadcast quality). Let me know.
IS
The Six O'Clock clips were excellent, although I felt our regional programme polished over most of the regional content and went for the network programmes that ATV/Thames/LWT/Carlton made over the last 50 years.
Probably understandable, I wonder how avaliable Thames regional programmes are? FreemantleMedia sell rights and clips of Thames' network programming all the time. I suspect that the archive and cataloguing for it's local programming isn't that great... if they even still have it.
For the same reason the programme wasd very weekend-heavy, but then all the researchers were in the same building as the LWT archive!
They had time to feature a couple of LWTs productions for Ch4 - Friday Live (Loadsamoney) and An Audience with Kenneth Williams.
Martin Phillp posted:
Londoner posted:
The programme in the London region didn't have a presenter. Not sure who the narrator was.
It was interesting enough, I suppose. A few old idents here and there. Nice to see some clips from the Six O'Clock Show.
It was interesting enough, I suppose. A few old idents here and there. Nice to see some clips from the Six O'Clock Show.
The Six O'Clock clips were excellent, although I felt our regional programme polished over most of the regional content and went for the network programmes that ATV/Thames/LWT/Carlton made over the last 50 years.
Probably understandable, I wonder how avaliable Thames regional programmes are? FreemantleMedia sell rights and clips of Thames' network programming all the time. I suspect that the archive and cataloguing for it's local programming isn't that great... if they even still have it.
For the same reason the programme wasd very weekend-heavy, but then all the researchers were in the same building as the LWT archive!
They had time to feature a couple of LWTs productions for Ch4 - Friday Live (Loadsamoney) and An Audience with Kenneth Williams.
AD
But ITV Plc are the people who've made the fuss over ITV [in London] 50. There wasn't any mention of "40 years of ITV" in 1995 up here. Some people in the shop even mentioned that it wasn't so long ago TTTV was celebrating 40 years...
Andrew posted:
Its times like this I feel sorry for people in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They really are missing out. I think SMG & UTV need to remember that they are part of the ITV Network and it is the ITV Network that is 50, not ITV PLC.
But ITV Plc are the people who've made the fuss over ITV [in London] 50. There wasn't any mention of "40 years of ITV" in 1995 up here. Some people in the shop even mentioned that it wasn't so long ago TTTV was celebrating 40 years...
GB
But, Adam, 50 is bigger than 40!
I can just recall they did some stuff for ITV25 in 1980, it's the nature of things, a bit like weddings: Silver, Golden, Diamond.
Channel 4 was the oddity: 4 is 15 was big for them!!!
I can just recall they did some stuff for ITV25 in 1980, it's the nature of things, a bit like weddings: Silver, Golden, Diamond.
Channel 4 was the oddity: 4 is 15 was big for them!!!
AN
But ITV Plc are the people who've made the fuss over ITV [in London] 50. There wasn't any mention of "40 years of ITV" in 1995 up here. Some people in the shop even mentioned that it wasn't so long ago TTTV was celebrating 40 years...
It's ITV Network Centre that are celebrating ITV50. If SMG & UTV were so against it, I can't see them opting out of the hours of network programming being provided, they are just being lazy.
Andrew
Founding member
Adam posted:
Andrew posted:
Its times like this I feel sorry for people in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They really are missing out. I think SMG & UTV need to remember that they are part of the ITV Network and it is the ITV Network that is 50, not ITV PLC.
But ITV Plc are the people who've made the fuss over ITV [in London] 50. There wasn't any mention of "40 years of ITV" in 1995 up here. Some people in the shop even mentioned that it wasn't so long ago TTTV was celebrating 40 years...
It's ITV Network Centre that are celebrating ITV50. If SMG & UTV were so against it, I can't see them opting out of the hours of network programming being provided, they are just being lazy.