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12:35 And now from the studios of TVS, we say Goodbye To All That.

6:13 MAKING IT HERE IN THE SOUTH

3:35 MAKING IT HERE IN THE SOUTH

0:37

This is very similar in terms of the way the music is constructed to the Three Rivers Fantasy up at Tyne Tees, a slightly more abstract pastiche of traditional local tunes, it even flows similarly.

The Friday programme menu is from January 4th, 1985. (The Superman 2 premiere was advertised as part of ITV's Christmas line-up of films.) Anglia's Thursday schedule ended with its final programme at 00:35 followed by closedown, which would date this clip as also the early hours of that Friday (4th January, 1985.)

This was the official end of free TV in Europe from the UK and Ireland. Eurosport was used by Murdoch to get a monopoly. If someone says something else, it is wrong. Sky Sports didn't need to close down and on the 1st of September 1993, all Sky channels were closed off.

This is beautiful.

There is a version of Green Grow The Rushes O.

This is beautiful.

I'm gonna say 1967

Such a shame TVS lost its franchise, seemed like a great company and ITV station back in the day. I was born a month after it was announced TVS lost it's franchise, Meridian was rubbish compared to TVS. Still nice to see that the studios in Maidstone are still in operation to this day just sadly loads of houses built in front of it on the car park site but least it's still standing unlike the Southampton site.

Brilliant stuff. This takes me back to those days in the 80s. I was lucky to have lived very close to the BMH Hannover BFBS Television transponder and thus was able to watch the selection of news and series not available anywhere else in Germany at the time. This was before the days of satellite TV or the internet mind you. My cheap b/w telly, an East-German model, was so cheap that it would also play the UK sound which was on a different frequency gap as the German system. Mainly watched the news, TOTP and the A-Team. Minder as well. Watching these old recordings makes my heart sing.

Back in the heyday of ITN - what a great presenter Gordon was.

Keith was on Southern too

so epic trip, catch you later,🔥

Cool

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This will have been Friday 4 May, 1984.

RIP Keith Martin

Fascinating

I would be so thankful to receive this program in my youth. But I was lucky to grow up with German, Belgium and Dutch TV. Maybe I was able to got a reception for some days in the year from the transmitter in Düsseldorf in those days.

This was as a result of a legal case taken by their main competitor Screensport. I'm not sure what the specifics of that case were, but Sky ended up giving up their broadcast contract with the EBU to play out the service. TF1 took it up later in the month.

This is Thursday 25 January 1990

Keith Martin was continuity announcer for TVS

Weren’t there rumours about Diana Dors sexual conduct with young children?

The changes that happened post early 90's compared to the setup of ITV companies up to then really was criminal - there was so much talent and flair of ITV region broadcasters that easily matched any slick American tv broadcasting as all of these TVS archive show and would still hold up even now in terms of its graphics, theme music etc. being memorable and actually meaning something! Just sad how so much was lost of from the course of events that ripped up how great the ITV setup of broadcasters once was.

I was born in 199

This isn't genuine but a poor recreation

I know he later sadly died of cancer, so I read in the Test Card Circle magazine in 1996 at the time of course. But thank you anyway so too.

I like the use of BBC theme tunes on the continuity slides

3:52 That's Keith Martin - he was an Anglia TV continuity announcer with a rather quirky sense of humour.

Always provide the broadcast date.

It was a very sad time. Best channel of 1990, It came back from Paris but would never be the same.

I’m surprised that they combined both ITV and BBC programmes and using BBC news to show the news instead of ITN news

Hmmm. Isn't considered really bad form to reference a paid commercial, even if it's just by intonation as seen here, in a continuity announcement?

Classic BFBS - now sadly gone but fondly remembered

Fix the date to Sunday 17th February 2008 please

Keith was good

Date?

Very Cool!

Used to love this guy on BFBS! 😊

Still have nightmares after watching Threads

Fun fact: the programme called 'Think and Drive' is actually a German TV programme called 'Der 7. Sinn' ('The 7th Sense'). You can in fact see the English title insert being shot on video instead of film like the original title sequence at 2:35 and the logo of the production company, public broadcaster WDR (West German Television) at 2:42.

Analog death

0:00 This is a stop- EUROSPORT ©1990

I don't recall any of those promos and I lived in the region, I do know that TVS was one of the stations to stick the middle finger up at the 1989 "Get Ready" Generic Ident though. The only time we heard the Dundas theme was either in promos or for the ITV Weather broadcast.

I’m surprised that BFBS didn’t have its own news service. It could do national and international news, forces news and investigative journalism.

My friend once served Kennedy a bowl of soup at The Old Course Hotel in St. Andrews. She said he was a true gentleman. What a legend.

Arlene Stuart, Diana Speed and the legend KT… my youth! We always used to take the piss out of Kate Fraser and Robin Galloway 😂