Becasue it came Under the Famliey Channel Banner: as most fo the TVS stuff went to them and there got brought over buy Disnay while the channel went inot a gameshow format:
there used to show "my two dads"!
:-(
A former member
can some one tell me what is in the National TV achive then?
I think anything of real value to a broadcaster has been saved really, such as Ruth Rendell and Art Attack, which probably make both parties alot of money, where as something like Catchphrase, good as it is, I don't think it would generate alot of revenue or interest other than Challenge TV.
True, the Ruth Rendell series would still get viewers whereas Catchphrase would only get viewers who were fans of the show first time round.
I think it's a shame it's ended up like this, it would have been better if it was sold to an ITV company such as Granada or at least to another ITV broadcaster that lived past 1993.
In hindsight in this case, yes.... but in 1993 there was a successor company to whom it was valuable. It's just bad luck that the archive is now in limbo, after all look what happened to Thames archive.
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I take it that TVS News Archives are currently held by Meridian? I remember reading that one somewhere, same with TV-am, the name belongs to Ian White, the majority of archive belongs to Moving Image Communications and I think the News archive belongs to Sky News, as that was one of the deal's TV-am made with Sky when they lost the franchise.
Yes Southern sold theirs to TVS and TVS to Meridian. The same was the case with ATV and Central. Pretty sure Thames kept theirs as LNN had LWT News archive to work with.
Sky got TVam's news archive and produced their news bulleins for the last year they were on air (TVam news was branded 'Sky News')
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But saying that Challenge have showed it within the last ten years, so why can't they again?
When a channel buys programmes they do so for a certain amount of time or showings. Once they can't show them any more they'll normally wipe their copies. They have no rights to show them so they don't want them taking up space in the playout library or being TX'd accidently
Also bear in mind that Challenge TV has moved playout areas twice in its lifetime
I think it's a shame it's ended up like this, it would have been better if it was sold to an ITV company such as Granada or at least to another ITV broadcaster that lived past 1993.
In hindsight in this case, yes.... but in 1993 there was a successor company to whom it was valuable. It's just bad luck that the archive is now in limbo, after all look what happened to Thames archive.
What happened to theirs? Didn't it all end up with Fremantle Media or have I read you post wrong?
People at YTV were doing something to some TVS programming the other week. So I doubt its been forgotten or neglected. Looks like whatever they have at Leeds is being well looked after. Don't know about the other places.
Not sure I trust YTV with archiving to be honest -- large parts of the TTTV archive were destroyed under their watch, including low-band copies of thousands of editions of the local news that Tyne Tees had kept hold of over the years (the ones they needed to keep for 60 days under IBA regs), and a number of series as well. ISTR that the opening night video went missing as well, and the only footage they have left of that night is from the 1989 30th anniversary show. Shame.
Yes well if you want copies of Tyne Tees Today or Network North they're still in City Road.
