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TVAM: would have been 35th birthday today.

PLUS the all new and improved TVAM website (January 2018)

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A former member
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 Meridian (Thames Valley) South Today
They've been playing the Good Morning Britain theme on Radio X this morning.
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Inspector Sands
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
JB
JasonB London London
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.
Have you washed your hands?
SC
scottishtv Founding member STV Central Reporting Scotland
623058 posted:




I think breakfast TV is crying out for more Farming Experts and Weather Commanders.
JA
james-2001 Central (East) East Midlands Today
623058 posted:






Isn't the milkman meant to wait until after the husband's gone to work before he gets in the bed? Razz
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nigel Meridian (South) South East Today
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? Razz


Modern times!
EL
elmarko STV Central Reporting Scotland
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.
ST
Stuart West Country (West) Spotlight
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 STV Central Reporting Scotland
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? Razz


Or for the wife to go to work Very Happy
JA
james-2001 Central (East) East Midlands Today
dmch82 posted:
Or for the wife to go to work Very Happy


Steady on, it was still 1983, they weren't ready to be that enlightened Wink

Women working? Never! Shocked
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A former member
The all new TVAM website is really worth a look!!

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