Westward TV - Closedown - 1981 - ITV
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- A rare clip of a Westward TV closedown, interesting to note here is an appearance at the end from the Netherlands' own TV mascot, Loeki de Leeuw, or Loeki the Lion, which WTV used for a while. The STER branding is still visible (just about) in the backgorund!
I have that actual 35mm print of the Loeki footage, given to me when I went for work experience at TSW in 1986. It needs to be scanned before it fades.
Is it still able to be scanned?
@Group JW message me the details, happy to help.
I have never seen a closedown quite like that before! That was ace! LOVE the lion!!! :D
I wish we'd had on-screen clocks in Canada like those used by so many British broadcasters, along with a mellifluous live announcer running down the schedule and reminding us to "turn off our sets". That's rather charming, if not more than a wee bit daft - "we're signing off; good night"..."oh golly, I wonder what's coming up next!"
I do vaguely remember a local station in southern Alberta, or it may have been KSPS from Spokane, Washington, that had a camera automatically panning across a number of information devices - a clock, thermometer/barometer reading, weather outlook, and other boards I simply can't recall, as I was very, very young - perhaps final sports scores as well. I could've watched that thing swing back and forth all day and night, it was that mesmerizing.
Oh, and for a few years, our local station, CHAT TV, put up a Bulova clock onscreen at either noon, 12:30, or 1 PM, just before "Wok With Yan", with an radio-style jingle and advertisement for a local bakery. The clock also promoted a downtown jewellery shop.
I really dig all sorts of television ephemera. Sign-ons, sign-offs, time readings, station identifications, "technical difficulties" signs (the more comical, the better), emergency broadcast signals...all those little bits of trivial stuff surrounding the actual programs. And seeing these things in other countries' TV stations is just as interesting (Japan has some really cool sign-ons/offs, with either beautiful scenery or early computer graphics.)
I loved Wok with Yan
sent it to a Dutch friend who's a massive Loeki fan
@RobinCarmody thanks, thought so! I'm sure they would make more of a special occasion for the last closedown.
I remember all of that! was 11 years old and up that late ha ha!
I've never seen the programme menu part of this before, on tv-ark it comes in at the clock, quite a find!!!
Bring back ITV closedowns with test cards also bring back God save the Queen.
I am going to say that ITV does still closedown every night at about 3:00am when the Nightscreen comes on until 6:00am. I see at as a new version of Pages From Ceefax on BBC1
This is actually from Wednesday 18th February 1981. Westward habitually closed down earlier than the larger regions. Lovely stuff, of course.
Yes indeed too!!
2:38 the best song of my life
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@RobinCarmody yes of course. I meant to say I have seen shorter versions of this clip on here listed as the last when it obviously isn't!
@sdaonline although this isn't the last closedown - that was at the end of 1981 (unless you've misunderstood me).
Living in West Wales in the late 70s people used to have their ariels pointed to Westward TV because there was too many Welsh language programmes on HTV . Welsh is hardly spoken I that region at the time
And still isn't !
I missed the closedown...
It was meant to show people that it's time to sleep while and also encourage good habit to children to go to sleep early,i mean how many channel still have closedown?
Man even government owned network in my country are now all 24/7 channels!
This was recorded in the year of the birth of Holly Willoughby. She was born on 10th February 1981.
who tf cares
And this closedown is from 8 days after she was born
There are many great things about life now, but I wish I could have been an adult back then, without so much crime, filth, corruption etc. It all seems so much more innocent and pleasant.
Yes indeed too!!
@geekgirltv2011 It is - I don't think it was used in the UK again past 82
An animated film would be shown at closedown to make sure you turned off your television set.
Why would England choose a Dutch mascot to remind viewers to switch off their TV's after the announcer did so first? That really was corny!
Love the lion playing trumpet he's soooo cute 🦁🦁🦁🦁🌈🌈🌈🌈⭐⭐⭐⭐🐻🐻🐼🐼🦁
so why does this lion appear right at the end of a Westward closedown from 1980? As for this closedown, the date is 26 February 1981
It’s to remind viewers to switch if their set. So they would use a creative way todo that
2:38 That jingle means westward tv will take a break they'd earned it
Curious that our announcer stalled until the top of the next minute to say good night. Was he paid by the minute, or something else?
Did Westward have the IBA test card, that was later on Channel 4? I have seen HTV closedowns from the 80s with just colour bars and no test card, so didn't all the ITV network use it?
The IBA test card was broadcast from one of several colour control rooms of the IBA during the early part of the day, usually before 08:10, at night channels normally broadcast there own colour bars, a blank screen or LWT used the PM5544 test pattern.
@AidanLunn rare as in I haven't seen many, but you can view this on tv-ark
Ster reclame met loeki de leeuw im televisie
First Shown on break bumper ident on opening and closing the advertising was introduced by Dutch public broadcasting (NPO, NOS, and even Dutch organisation of broadcasting including AVROTROS, And Among others) in 1970's
wtf
Who was the old lady in the blue coat at the end 🇺🇦
The Queen of England
Loeki used from Yoyle television
STER Reclame En televisie Nederland
no
Whad'ye know?
Asjemenou?
Good night.
1:12 1:13
Stupid trumpet 🎺 playing lion 🦁 at the end. 😾
You dont like lion?
It’s just that there was something creepy about that closing ident.
@@DIMON_CAMI yea
Loeki's better at music than anyone on The X Factor.
And HOLY CRAP, his arm! It looked like it was detached or somethin