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How did it happen? (December 2019)

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AN
Anglialad
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I have the last few hours of Shop! on VHS somewhere

The last few minutes of Shop! is on YouTube somewhere.
IS
Inspector Sands
Another American one, not a channel as such but the closure of the WB Network, which was very nicely done


Here's a nice ending for WMGM when NBC pulled its affiliation at the end of 2014. The station itself stayed on air, but ended local programming and relaying a black-orientated network called Soul of The South for a while.

Got to feel sorry for the award winning VT editor, lauded at the end just as he presumably loses his job


Some more American ones in this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ8mnFgK6N59zAxT8ByuQbcSgKWhaZj50
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 5 December 2019 12:52pm - 2 times in total
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Worzel
Not so much a channel closedown, but Ideal World in the days after their major fire.



IS
Inspector Sands
That second one is their original launch night,
itvblocks and bilky asko gave kudos
NW
nwtv2003
I know Shop! has been mentioned, whilst I don’t have much, here’s the end of it:



From memory Granada were quite reluctant to let the channel go off air, it was Littlewoods who wanted out of the venture due to their finances at the time. The end of the channel pretty much signalled the end of broadcasting from the Albert Dock studios.
itvblocks and Anglialad gave kudos
MA
Markymark
Worzel posted:
Not so much a channel closedown, but Ideal World in the days after their major fire.


Our two boys, who at the time collected, and were obsessed by Beanie Babies, were rather traumatised about the fate of Ideal World's stock of 10,000 !
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
On a related thread note, the closure of both BBC One on analogue in Northern Ireland in 2012 and Ceefax:
VM
VMPhil
Neil Jones posted:
I think it depends what parameters we want to use to define "shortest".

Launching a new show on a channel that the network had already decreed to close earlier the same day pretty much guarantees its limited lifespan, whereas there are no end of TV shows that were commissioned for x episode runs and didn't air past the first episode for whatever reason.

Well, I meant shortest-lived programme on the ITV News Channel. Of course there are going to be shows that only last one episode before being pulled (Host the Week for example).
WH
Whataday Founding member
BillyH posted:
Did anyone see the 1999 closure of L!VE TV? On its last few months they were clearly running on an even more threadbare budget than usual, with no advertisments running at all between programmes - just a holding slide and music like early 1980s Channel 4. They did have a new look at least styled "(li)ve tv" but I imagine they just disappeared one day without ceremony. I remember the yellow Cable & Wireless slide saying "This channel has ceased operations" lasting for a while.


There was a montage of their "highlights", and all the remaining staff gathered together to say goodbye in a similar vein to TV-am's farewell.

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I'm pretty sure NTL had an orange (li)ve tv branded slide for a bit, before it changed to an NTL branded slide.

Here's a video of that short lived relaunch:



(Caps from Private Parts)
Last edited by Whataday on 5 December 2019 4:54pm - 2 times in total
LN
LondonNewsBites
Rory posted:
Granada Plus went to a break during Pie in the Sky and never came back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbyTNqKE9M


That was mentioned in the Corrie thread
J4
j4ever24
Worzel posted:
Host The Week on Channel 4 in 2017 lasted for 1 episode. A full series was commissioned but after the first episode it was scrapped due to terrible ratings.


was a shame all the other episodes never got made enjoyed the episode that was made it was love islands fault why it got axed
J4
j4ever24


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