TVAM: would have been 35th birthday today.: PLUS the all new and improved TVAM website

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A former member 31 January 2018 11:06pm

Can you believe it. its been 35 years since TVAM come on the air:

Past topics before anyone asks:
* https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/30th-anniversary-first-regular-breakfast-television-38938/
* https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/40th-birthday-breakfast-tv-42556/

Im hoping something is mention on the show today....

RO

rob Founding member 1 February 2018 8:57am

They've been playing the Good Morning Britain theme on Radio X this morning.

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Inspector Sands 1 February 2018 9:55am

rob posted:

They've been playing the Good Morning Britain theme on Radio X this morning.

Co-incidently though, it was part of a guess the theme tunes item and some listeners texted in to let them know about the anniversary

I noticed that virtually the whole of the first morning is on YouTube and was sad enough to watch a bit of it in real time. So I've finally been able to see how much of a total disaster it was. The whole 3 hours is just so awful and totally devoid of any of the conventions of breakfast TV we know today.

In fact the best thing about it was Nick Owen, he was doing the sports news on day 1 and was far more likeable and watchable than any of the other better known presenters. It's no surprise he was soon promoted to the sofa

Last edited by Inspector Sands on 1 February 2018 10:18am - 3 times in total

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JasonB 1 February 2018 10:18am

There's a reply from Erron Gordon of modern day Good Morning Britain on that TV-am Twitter page who says that he loves how the logo and clock didn't change during the whole time, yet he's constantly re-commissioning new music and updating the look of the current Good Morning Britain.

SC

scottishtv Founding member 1 February 2018 11:12am

623058 posted:

I think breakfast TV is crying out for more Farming Experts and Weather Commanders.

JA

james-2001 1 February 2018 11:56am

623058 posted:

Isn't the milkman meant to wait until after the husband's gone to work before he gets in the bed?

NI

nigel 1 February 2018 5:20pm

james-2001 posted:

623058 posted:

Isn't the milkman meant to wait until after the husband's gone to work before he gets in the bed?

Modern times!

EL

elmarko 2 February 2018 7:12pm

Applemask did a nice thing on youtube where he put all the ads on his channel and released them at the times they would have roughly been on during day 1.

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Stuart 2 February 2018 10:36pm

Inspector Sands posted:

I noticed that virtually the whole of the first morning is on YouTube and was sad enough to watch a bit of it in real time. So I've finally been able to see how much of a total disaster it was. The whole 3 hours is just so awful and totally devoid of any of the conventions of breakfast TV we know today.

I've also watched some of it. It was really what you would have perhaps expected the BBC to produce: formal, very news based. the presenters seemed to be trying too hard to inject meaningless banter into a format which didn't really support it.

However, the BBC had gone in the opposite direction a couple of weeks earlier: woolly jumpers, exercise sessions and horoscopes.

DM

dmch82 3 February 2018 1:24am

james-2001 posted:

623058 posted:

Isn't the milkman meant to wait until after the husband's gone to work before he gets in the bed?

Or for the wife to go to work