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Her majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.

Did you see how clean that hospital was in the intro.

The day itv died

Whenever I look back at this I always think at the time TSW was shafted the most. (Obviously in time add Thames and TV-am to that) but surely if HTV and Tyne Tees got through then TSW should have done? It made no sense!? Like someone has already said it was a complete farce and destroyed itv.

But first we go over to the studios of ITN for the early evening news it's five forty I recognise that voice I know it's the late great Carol Barnes. ❤

Granada and Coronation Street were safe? Shame. What I mean by that is Coronation Street has been on for far too long.

I recognise that voice I Know it's the late great Carol Barnes.😊

Where girls cried: Titanic Where boys cried: Furious 7 ending Where men cried: You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you! Where EVERYONE cried:

But first we go over to the studios of ITN for the early evening news it's five forty.

I recognise that voice i know it's the late great Carol Barnes. Rest in peace dear Carol ❤️

Wind up surely, TV Station stuff with more exposure than Major/Mandela? 🤣🤣

TSW launched nearly 3 weeks before this, but continued to use the Westward branding.

I recognise that voice I know it's the late great Carol Barnes.

I recognise that voice i know it's the late great Carol Barnes.

From me and the five forty team bye for now have a nice evening Thankyou Carol we will.

I recognise that voice it's the late great Carol Barnes.

loeki de leeuw ster westward

I live in Australia these days. i was born in Plymouth, so many memories. If i win lotto i would move back

Funny looking back at This Morning when they tried to present it with at least some serious news in it. :)

I think it’s safe to say, the 1991 Franchise Rounds and the 1990 Broadcasting Act in a sense, completely destroyed ITV. The wrong power was available and the wrong people were in charge.

Wow she’s hot

Alexa, play me the most pretentious title track for a programme ever…

Judi really got into it ! The other readers were awkward etc.

This was the BIGGEST MISTAKE in the history of ITV, Thames losing to Carlton, TVAM to Sunrise/GMTV now using the name of TVAMs show Good Morning Britain, TVS lost out to Meridian who mostly used indeependant companies to make its shows where TVS made their own and others for the ITV network and then TSW losing out to Westcountry. Granada and Carlton buy up the new and existing companies and then the two companies merge to form ITV PLC, so in the south of England has gone from a region that made programs for the people of the region to a broardcaster who no longer has a TV Studio complex now Northam has been sold and redeveloped to just regional news made in the region, I beleive only two of the original studio complexes are left Anglias complex in Norwich and Yorkshires in Leeds, Granada left Quay St to move to Media City in Salford. ITV now gets a big fat ZERO from me now

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44:06 - Well fast forward from 1991 to 2004 and this did happen, when ITV started to become one company with Granada owned regions and Carlton owned regions merged to form ITV plc. Now in 2024 only STV in Scotland remains as the independent franchise there.

GMTV ended up paying less than what TV-AM were paying. The entire contractual bid between GMTV and the ITC proved to be unachievable. It just says boat parties ITC, and the Sunrise team (as they were called ) were incompetent. Neither could see the issues in the proposals.

My God, this brings back some memories. Remember it so well in the 70's and 80's. Gus is worth a lot of money now. Are the good ole days gone???

Carol Barnes RIP 😢

While TVS and TSW both lasted the shortest in their respective regions, they are probably the best known franchises.

The Thames decision was no real shock: Thatcher swore to bankrupt them after the Documentary they made a few years before, called Death on the Rock - when an SAS team killed four IRA Terrorists who were about to bomb a marching band on Gibraltar. The decision was nothing but pure, political malice. Thames still sort of exists, but many mergers and acquisitions have taken place, leaving ITV a complete and utter shambles these days. The massive premiums they had to pay to the Tory Party for their licenses, financially knee-capped them just at the time there was increasing competition coming from America and Satellite. Pity really: Britain's Commercial TV stations were probably the highest quality service in the world. Today...hell...as bad as the USA and equally lame. But that's the Tories for you: if something is working and people like it - they will put a stop to that!

They never mentioned “TSW, makers of ‘That’s My Dog’ and arm wrestling in ‘Interpub 90’ “

The first (and only) continuity announcer to appear on Celebrity Big Brother.

Subjectively, all four broadcasters were succeeded by worse companies.

Wowsers.

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Very pretty lady and still is 😃

1:46 a little bit of UNfinished business

9:35 “some might wonder if we were tipped off? but that would be a third possibility, and as I’ve repeatedly said there are two possibilities”

4:07 cue loeki to make it official

Poor Thames a shadow of its former self since BBC infiltrators like John Howard Davies came along and destroyed it from within, it's like Benny Hill never existed though he brought most money in.

And now a look at the Westward clock.

Nice bit of Freetime at the end there.

Margaret Thatcher, whose idea this all had been, ended up apologising to her mates at TV-am when they lost their franchise.

Thames waa a briiliant company

Bring back Thames. Atv etc

Those were the days when you could have flowers in hospital

Jolly music leading into news about tragic earthquakes...gotta love the 80s!

The 5th of February 1992 was a Wednesday , So i'm guessing that both the 6th and the 7th of February was when TSW admitted defeat , I'm sure that TSW cover the story and did a full report on TSW admitting defeat where the final appeal to the house of lords was rejected . I'm sure their was sadness in the newsroom at TSW when that story broke to then

Frank Copplestone of Westcountry was MD of Southern Television when they lost their franchise. Westcountry didn't last long before selling out to Carlton.