LWT startup | c6 November 1982
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A perfunctory morning startup for London Weekend Television: A Well-Swung Fanfare over a slide, an LWT slide and into an episode of the tenth season of Sesame Street.
oh wow. I was a child when I last heard this tune.
I remember this never ending tune Saturday morning. Patiently waiting for Sesame Street to start,
I remember this, good old childhood, Sesame Street, then Thunderbirds....
Ah memories of my childhood. Saturday mornings was also the best at my grandparents house seeing these shows would then mean going to the shops etc
Same here....
That test card music, "A Well Swung Fanfare" by Don Jackson, a KPM library classic nonetheless. London Weekend Television startups were simple but such class.
The testcard was an electronic Philips PM5544 pattern, with apparently 900 Hz tone.
wmbrown6 With no Identification. If I were in charge of LWT's testcard I would make the top say "LWT" and bottom "Your Weekend ITV".
Certainly!
Why did they not upgrade to ETP-1? Thames was using it to replace the colour bars.
I like how all the others are classy/warlike sounding, meanwhile LWTs is just jazz
Can only assume that it was being generated at London Weekend, rather than at Crystal Palace, although why they would generate an unbranded Philips PM5544 is a mystery. There's a good 5 minutes of it, with tone, on the original tape.
From what I remember, around the end of the 1970s the IBA experimented with the PM5544 pattern before settling on there own ETP1 test pattern for ITV and CH4 test transmissions, although in ITV land it was only ever shown before 08:10. I can only think that, as PM5544 generators were very expensive bits of kit in those days, that they gave one to LWT to use. Am sure I read somewhere that Channel tv also got one.
@@stuartharris2165 Given the year that this came from, the IBA was well into using ETP1. It got a lot of play on Channel 4, for example.
..... and with Pam Rhodes holding forth with The Link
The announcer sounds like Pam Rhodes of Songs Of Praise fame to me, she did do a spell with LWT at one time. See this video th-cam.com/video/TxTGy4L3_34/w-d-xo.html
LWT: Hey PBS,
PBS: What?
LWT: I aired Sesame Street!
PBS: Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!
IBA never allowed sponsors like that, no ITV programmes had official sponsors until they were replaced with the ITC in 1993
If you lived in London you were lucky listening to this start up music, sounds greatThe start up music on Thames t.v isn't as great as this music.
The start-up music for Thames was excellent too - a beautiful piece called 'Perpetuum Mobile' by the Michael Roberts Orchestra. But this is great - just right for the weekend ! I feel very lucky that I grew up hearing both of them.
@@ardennite1 There was industry politics to do with why Perpetuum Mobile was played - it was one half of the merger that produced Thames shoving it down the other half's throat as PM had been their music in the 1960s elsewhere in the country.
Sesame Street would later move to Channel 4.
So LWT was only 3 years behide the USA? apart from HTV, I wonder how far behide other ITV companies were with SS? of how much was skipped?
My recollection is this ! HTV was the first UK Television Contractor to broadcast Sesame Street. Other ITV Contractors followed, slowly. The programme inspired ATV to produce a world wide popular programme 'The Muppet Show'! It was made in North London. Other similar shows were produced in Norwich.
@@keithmartin2334 did Granada ever air Sesame Street? I don't recall them ever doing so, which is why I'm wondering
@The Little Dragon 1972? wow... what year did they stop?
the music just got copyright claimed
No notification of that here.
@@transdiffusion okay.
I got a copyright claim on my video when I used the music, so I'm not sure what happened.
I suppose there's not much point going to too much of an effort when it's mainly pre-school kids watching!
What's the story with that testcard, it doesn't seem very ITV?
They used all sorts of things (Phillips, Test Card F, colour bars) before ETP-1 was rolled out from 1979 onward.
Just wondering, do you have the complete episode of Sesame Street?
+Geoffrey Weagraff Try the discription.
I believe that the first ITV contractor to broadcast Sesame Street in the British Isles was HTV
But How?
Tell me how i will find the full episode.
what was that number e start of Sesame Street?
1255
Greg Palmer I ment what was it for / what did it mean?
It's the episode number
So that the VT people can check which of the thousands of episodes they're about to cue up, I think
Has anyone got ten pounds? I feel the need to claim it.
No bigger off
Ah memories of my childhood. Saturday mornings was also the best at my grandparents house seeing these shows would then mean going to the shops etc