God, it's depressing seeing this. I worked for Anglia from '69 - '77, before heading off around the ITV network, eventually going freelance. - and it's rather awful to be reminded of that franchise restructuring, and how eventually all the wonderful distinctive ITV companies surrendered their Idents and identities, to become, simply, ITV. I think those of us who worked for these companies prior to that, will always feel that we enjoyed, and experienced ITV's golden years...!
As a former Bedfordshire resident and Anglia viewer, I feel the same. Back in the 1970s and 80s there was such a rich regional identity across commercial TV and local radio stations. Now sadly lost.
Beginning of the end of regional ITV... ironic in this piece it states studios and production would be retained.... in the modern ITV of 2016 Anglia's studios are now half in size, just retaining a couple of small news studios for local news and a newsroom.... very sad :-(
Indeed.... What we had... what has been lost... Small production companies cannot match the vibes we enjoyed in these big TV "factories..!" So much fun and happy memories...
6.5 mins of Anglia on Anglia. Ultra-indulgent! Not sure viewers from Lowestoft to Luton would have been that bothered about share prices and ad revenues frankly. They would just have wanted to know that the Anglia name was staying (it did)
I am from the Meridian region, but this was when ITV started dying. Regional companies taking over other ones is no longer Independent Television. Might have well renamed it at this point, let alone when Granada and Carlton merged.
Well, it wouldn't last long anyway. The box had been opened and we were heading toward an inevitable slide to a single itv. They were dreaming if they thought this would bring more work to Anglia studios.
@@SuperTed19021 Yeah, the TVS/Meridian studios were rather fab... as were, of course, YTV's in Leeds, HTV's in Cardiff... Central's in Birmingham, Granada's in Manchester... Loved 'em all... (Oh, yes, and BBC's at White City - but that's another story.) I miss what we had.... golden years of British TV. Proud and happy to have been part of that....
Just be thankful Anglia Television was not bought by Carlton - Carlton pissed over all regions they bought, just look at how they treat Central Television and Westcountry Television wise.
That’s true. First they forced the Central Cake axed and replaced with utter crap indents and then dropped the name altogether. I, for one, was glad that name dropped to ITV1 but then the quality stopped
Granada were arguably worse. Desperate Cartlon renaming Central and Westcountry, they remained independent entities more or less. The same cannot be said for the stations that Granana acquired, with the exception of LWT.
God, it's depressing seeing this. I worked for Anglia from '69 - '77, before heading off around the ITV network, eventually going freelance. - and it's rather awful to be reminded of that franchise restructuring, and how eventually all the wonderful distinctive ITV companies surrendered their Idents and identities, to become, simply, ITV.
I think those of us who worked for these companies prior to that, will always feel that we enjoyed, and experienced ITV's golden years...!
As a former Bedfordshire resident and Anglia viewer, I feel the same. Back in the 1970s and 80s there was such a rich regional identity across commercial TV and local radio stations. Now sadly lost.
Beginning of the end of regional ITV... ironic in this piece it states studios and production would be retained.... in the modern ITV of 2016 Anglia's studios are now half in size, just retaining a couple of small news studios for local news and a newsroom.... very sad :-(
Indeed.... What we had... what has been lost... Small production companies cannot match the vibes we enjoyed in these big TV "factories..!" So much fun and happy memories...
6.5 mins of Anglia on Anglia. Ultra-indulgent! Not sure viewers from Lowestoft to Luton would have been that bothered about share prices and ad revenues frankly. They would just have wanted to know that the Anglia name was staying (it did)
I agree. Apart from the job losses this was hardly the most pressing thing going on in peoples lives. Or maybe it was lol...
What a patronising idea of what interests viewers. This was one of the first ITV takeovers so it was newsworthy at the time.
This was when the 1990 Broadcasting Act began to rear it's head.
Spot on. Profit before viewers. But that was quite the way of Thatcher's lasting policy of Britain. Just look at ITV now.
@@SuperTed19021 Yeah.
Sad, sad, sad.... like a lingering death... And now ITV is nigh unwatchable... (too many lengthy commercial breaks...!!!)
I am from the Meridian region, but this was when ITV started dying. Regional companies taking over other ones is no longer Independent Television. Might have well renamed it at this point, let alone when Granada and Carlton merged.
Well, it wouldn't last long anyway. The box had been opened and we were heading toward an inevitable slide to a single itv. They were dreaming if they thought this would bring more work to Anglia studios.
And it didn't. Most work in that period when to the Meridian studios in Northam, Southampton. Only to be mothballed just over 10 years later.
@@SuperTed19021 Yeah, the TVS/Meridian studios were rather fab... as were, of course, YTV's in Leeds, HTV's in Cardiff... Central's in Birmingham, Granada's in Manchester... Loved 'em all... (Oh, yes, and BBC's at White City - but that's another story.) I miss what we had.... golden years of British TV. Proud and happy to have been part of that....
Meridian also aired TV Weekly at that time.
Just be thankful Anglia Television was not bought by Carlton - Carlton pissed over all regions they bought, just look at how they treat Central Television and Westcountry Television wise.
That’s true. First they forced the Central Cake axed and replaced with utter crap indents and then dropped the name altogether. I, for one, was glad that name dropped to ITV1 but then the quality stopped
Granada were arguably worse. Desperate Cartlon renaming Central and Westcountry, they remained independent entities more or less. The same cannot be said for the stations that Granana acquired, with the exception of LWT.