This is excellent! As a kid I remember watching this on a Saturday morning waiting for the programmes to start. I could only see it in black and white though! I used to live quite high up in North Wales and all my friends were jealous that I could watch Granada and wasn't just stuck with HTV!
I listen this music each morning when I go to work. I'm french and born in 1995, but i'm absolutely fan of Granada. To watch closedown with Charles Foster or Colin Weston makes me nostalgic of times that I've never known, but where TV was better than today. And while I listen this music, in my car across the countryside, I imagine that I'm in the "North-West of England". So sad that Granada does not still exists today (considering ITV Granada is not Granada)...
The closedown music is the first i've heard. Fantastic, Mansfield was a genius. Some days ago, thanks to you, i've discovered the fabulous startup theme ! And now, instead ringing from Winter Hill, it's carrying the spirit of the North beyond the seas ! Thanks for this video ! And, if I can ask a question, did you know somewhere I can find more Granada archives than on youtube ? Thanks !
Aah, brings back memories of sitting in my nans on a saturday morning waiting for saturday morning tv shows to start, star fleet, terrahawks and tiswas. Thanks for upload
Hard to believe I used to actually turn on the TV five minutes before Sesame Street just to see this start-up! Thanks for taking the time out to recreate this... the music alone has just brought back a flood of childhood TV memories.
Glad to be of service. Some credit of course has to go to Dave Jeffery (Stupidrubbish) for the IBA cap and the ad video at the end (used with permission of course). Was a simple case of putting everything together all of nearly 5 years back. And you're certainly welcome.
+Sam Hodkin Can't tell you how many times I've listened to your version of the past few years: have you got a audio for startup and close down theme as audio file?
ive been looking for this music for ages, sad as it sounds. for some reason for me it made me feel sad, even now and im a 43 year old man now! still listened to it every morning in school holidays in the 80's
I never ever realised there was an accompanying tune to open the days broadcasting !!! I was only ever aware of the closedown music with Granada TV's Charles Foster "wishing you all a very good night". Guess it just shows that I was always a night owl and not an early bird. Excellent upload !!!
This is the only ITV startup theme that I had heard for the first time this year. I can't have many left still to discover. This theme basically feels to me like the past year has been - sometimes quiet, sometimes energetic, turbulent and dramatic. I think I must have played this video about 100 times in the last few months - I like the theme that much!
Thanks so MUCH for uploading! I remember this very well just before say the late great Charles Foster etc used to announce the days events in my youth! Brilliant, so many memories all of them brilliant! Thanks again, the memories music evokes are so powerful!
An excellent piece of music but one which I only heard regularly during the long school summer holidays in the mid 80s. I recall it was played every morning at 0925 hrs following TVam, usually after Roland Rat or Lizzie Webb! After the TVam end titles and the "eggcups" ident, there would be a blank screen followed by the announcement "This is Granada" ...and then the music started. A lovely job -You deserve to be proud of it. Thanks for keeping this music alive. Its great to have it back!
Before the former Richmond Hill, the Isle of Man has three ITV stations: Granada in the east (from Winter Hill), UTV in the west (from Black Mountain), and Border in the north (from Caldbeck).
Makes me feel like I'm Ron Burgundy in a forest befriending a Sasquatch named Swisswatch, hey and thanks this little piece of music got me through some tough times back in Preston during the ethnic cleansing.
The Music is Authentic , but the opening announcement is not as Border Television provided most of the Isle of Man with Regional ITV Programmes from 1961 to 2009.
That looks like the Authority slide mock I uploaded to MHP in the mid 2000s. I remember getting told I'd used the wrong variant of Clarendon font for the GRANADA logo (wrong shape D). I also rather overdid the unsharp mask shadow effect.
Am I right in thinking that Granada was the only ITV company who did not have a jingle before their own programmes on the network? From what I can remember, all the other companies did but they did not I wonder? Thank you!
@@papayapuppy999 You're thinking of the one before the continuity announcement. No, Granada never had a fanfare on the front captions for their programmes, like HTV's Hammond organ or Yorkshire's brass Ilkley Moor Bar T'at.
INDEED. Before the former Richmond Hill, the Isle of Man has three ITV stations: Granada in the east (from Winter Hill), UTV in the west (from Black Mountain), and Border in the north (from Caldbeck).
As far as I'm aware, it was simply referred to as the "New Granada Theme",. and it was written by Keith Mansfield. There's copies of this with other bits and some IVC on here, including stuff with Jim Pope attached.
LibraryDelights Found it at the time on a TV music site, uploader sourced it from the Granada's own 1/4" tape, the closedown theme is on the same site as well, perfect to play on the iPod before hitting the hay.
Living in the Ulster Television region, I remember how much of a novelty it was to be on a few family holidays in the Granada region and to hear/see a different start-up routine to what we had in Northern Ireland (though Ulster's music was very good!), and how nice this music was. Tell me: did Granada (in the colour era) ever show transmitter information as part of its start-up routine? I can't find that anywhere. I know Ulster (and others) did - they're on TH-cam? Cheers.
Knowing the current Granada owners -ITV have probably lost the music when they destroyed the old quay st studios in central Manchester and moved into smaller studios at Salford quays across from the bbc's media city studios.
It's "New Granada Theme" by Keith Mansfield, the composer of the theme tune for BBC's Grandstand. The parts played on what I believe is a xylophone sound a lot like Keith Mansfield's Grandstand theme. Both tunes were written about the same time in the early 1970s.
This is Granada, broadcasting in Motostoke of Southwest Galar to the Wild Area. From the Giant's Seat and the associated transmitters of Macro Cosmos Television.
Pretty good, with one slight error right at the very end... that test card with the girl and clown was only on the BBC, so would not have been used for any ITV regions! ITV's test card was either just coloured stripes or more like the Channel 4 one but with just IBA and no CH4.
Test Card F was jointly developed by the BBC and ITA for the introduction of 625 line colour services. The ITA ETP1 was based on the Philips test patterns (sometimes known as Test Card G ) during 1978, and was introduced in 1979. So entirely possible that this format of start up could have used it...
Love this music, but the Transmitter announcement is wrong for the time. It was always "From Transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, this is Granada" at the beginning and half way through the music would fade for "all the advertisements on this channel today have been cleared by the IBA and televisions companies in accordance with the statutory requirements of the Independent Broadcast Authority Act and the IBA code of Advertising standards and Practice"
This is excellent! As a kid I remember watching this on a Saturday morning waiting for the programmes to start. I could only see it in black and white though! I used to live quite high up in North Wales and all my friends were jealous that I could watch Granada and wasn't just stuck with HTV!
I listen this music each morning when I go to work. I'm french and born in 1995, but i'm absolutely fan of Granada. To watch closedown with Charles Foster or Colin Weston makes me nostalgic of times that I've never known, but where TV was better than today. And while I listen this music, in my car across the countryside, I imagine that I'm in the "North-West of England". So sad that Granada does not still exists today (considering ITV Granada is not Granada)...
Good to know that good times From The North ring true over the Channel, and have to agree, the closedown version is also gold.
The closedown music is the first i've heard. Fantastic, Mansfield was a genius. Some days ago, thanks to you, i've discovered the fabulous startup theme ! And now, instead ringing from Winter Hill, it's carrying the spirit of the North beyond the seas ! Thanks for this video ! And, if I can ask a question, did you know somewhere I can find more Granada archives than on youtube ? Thanks !
Have you tried TV Ark?
Composer was Keith Mansfield, a legend in film & TV music composing circles. Also composed a lot of library production music for KPM and Bruton.
I absolutely love this music brings back many many pleasant memories of those times so grateful for it being posted
brilliant takes me back. to the good old days of granada
Aah, brings back memories of sitting in my nans on a saturday morning waiting for saturday morning tv shows to start, star fleet, terrahawks and tiswas. Thanks for upload
Hard to believe I used to actually turn on the TV five minutes before Sesame Street just to see this start-up! Thanks for taking the time out to recreate this... the music alone has just brought back a flood of childhood TV memories.
Glad to be of service. Some credit of course has to go to Dave Jeffery (Stupidrubbish) for the IBA cap and the ad video at the end (used with permission of course). Was a simple case of putting everything together all of nearly 5 years back. And you're certainly welcome.
+Sam Hodkin Can't tell you how many times I've listened to your version of the past few years: have you got a audio for startup and close down theme as audio file?
Hearing this in it's entirity and at this level of quality is like a dream come true. Thank you!
ive been looking for this music for ages, sad as it sounds. for some reason for me it made me feel sad, even now and im a 43 year old man now! still listened to it every morning in school holidays in the 80's
Carl Grenfell I'm the same age and me too haha
I never ever realised there was an accompanying tune to open the days broadcasting !!! I was only ever aware of the closedown music with Granada TV's Charles Foster "wishing you all a very good night". Guess it just shows that I was always a night owl and not an early bird. Excellent upload !!!
This is the only ITV startup theme that I had heard for the first time this year. I can't have many left still to discover. This theme basically feels to me like the past year has been - sometimes quiet, sometimes energetic, turbulent and dramatic. I think I must have played this video about 100 times in the last few months - I like the theme that much!
Thanks so MUCH for uploading! I remember this very well just before say the late great Charles Foster etc used to announce the days events in my youth! Brilliant, so many memories all of them brilliant! Thanks again, the memories music evokes are so powerful!
Charles Foster is still working. He does the voiceover on Judge Rinder.
Just a beautiful piece of music.
Wow! This is very impressive work! Well done!
An excellent piece of music but one which I only heard regularly during the long school summer holidays in the mid 80s. I recall it was played every morning at 0925 hrs following TVam, usually after Roland Rat or Lizzie Webb!
After the TVam end titles and the "eggcups" ident, there would be a blank screen followed by the announcement "This is Granada" ...and then the music started.
A lovely job -You deserve to be proud of it. Thanks for keeping this music alive. Its great to have it back!
Before the former Richmond Hill, the Isle of Man has three ITV stations: Granada in the east (from Winter Hill), UTV in the west (from Black Mountain), and Border in the north (from Caldbeck).
Makes me feel like I'm Ron Burgundy in a forest befriending a Sasquatch named Swisswatch, hey and thanks this little piece of music got me through some tough times back in Preston during the ethnic cleansing.
I'll take that as a compliment, ta.
The good old days remember Granada thinking them lucky northerner we had Thames but you had granadaland
Quentin Smirhes sent me
Same :)
The Music is Authentic , but the opening announcement is not as Border Television provided most of the Isle of Man with Regional ITV Programmes from 1961 to 2009.
That looks like the Authority slide mock I uploaded to MHP in the mid 2000s. I remember getting told I'd used the wrong variant of Clarendon font for the GRANADA logo (wrong shape D). I also rather overdid the unsharp mask shadow effect.
This actually happened not a mock as i remember this clearly when i was a kid back in the early 1980's!
Did anybody else find themselves involuntarily doing the IBA voiceover at 3:48?
+Joanne Dixon-Jackson That was something of a self created endboard to ensure that it wasn't nicked back in the day.
Am I right in thinking that Granada was the only ITV company who did not have a jingle before their own programmes on the network? From what I can remember, all the other companies did but they did not I wonder? Thank you!
Border was also without a jingle. This is probably due to their sma size as a company
Then around 1990 these companies had the same jingle but Granada's version is faster. Also IBA used it first.
@@papayapuppy999 You're thinking of the one before the continuity announcement. No, Granada never had a fanfare on the front captions for their programmes, like HTV's Hammond organ or Yorkshire's brass Ilkley Moor Bar T'at.
INDEED.
Before the former Richmond Hill, the Isle of Man has three ITV stations: Granada in the east (from Winter Hill), UTV in the west (from Black Mountain), and Border in the north (from Caldbeck).
Could you get anything from the Irish Republic in the SW of the Island?.
brilliant takes me right back to when was a kid. what's the music called.
As far as I'm aware, it was simply referred to as the "New Granada Theme",. and it was written by Keith Mansfield. There's copies of this with other bits and some IVC on here, including stuff with Jim Pope attached.
LibraryDelights Found it at the time on a TV music site, uploader sourced it from the Granada's own 1/4" tape, the closedown theme is on the same site as well, perfect to play on the iPod before hitting the hay.
Living in the Ulster Television region, I remember how much of a novelty it was to be on a few family holidays in the Granada region and to hear/see a different start-up routine to what we had in Northern Ireland (though Ulster's music was very good!), and how nice this music was.
Tell me: did Granada (in the colour era) ever show transmitter information as part of its start-up routine? I can't find that anywhere. I know Ulster (and others) did - they're on TH-cam?
Cheers.
Hi @BelfastGav, no just exactly the same as you see on this Video.
Yes, they did have a "Transmitters In Service" slide in the 1970s, until it became too cluttered with small relays.
Knowing the current Granada owners -ITV have probably lost the music when they destroyed the old quay st studios in central Manchester and moved into smaller studios at Salford quays across from the bbc's media city studios.
+simonguitarman The music DOES exist, the source I got it from obtained it from the original 1/4" tape!
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brilliant recording. what was it called
It's "New Granada Theme" by Keith Mansfield, the composer of the theme tune for BBC's Grandstand. The parts played on what I believe is a xylophone sound a lot like Keith Mansfield's Grandstand theme. Both tunes were written about the same time in the early 1970s.
This is Granada, broadcasting in Motostoke of Southwest Galar to the Wild Area. From the Giant's Seat and the associated transmitters of Macro Cosmos Television.
Colin Weston was cool!!!
Pretty good, with one slight error right at the very end... that test card with the girl and clown was only on the BBC, so would not have been used for any ITV regions! ITV's test card was either just coloured stripes or more like the Channel 4 one but with just IBA and no CH4.
Test Card F was jointly developed by the BBC and ITA for the introduction of 625 line colour services. The ITA ETP1 was based on the Philips test patterns (sometimes known as Test Card G ) during 1978, and was introduced in 1979. So entirely possible that this format of start up could have used it...
Love this music, but the Transmitter announcement is wrong for the time.
It was always "From Transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, this is Granada" at the beginning and half way through the music would fade for "all the advertisements on this channel today have been cleared by the IBA and televisions companies in accordance with the statutory requirements of the Independent Broadcast Authority Act and the IBA code of Advertising standards and Practice"
Also, Granada may not have broadcasted to the Isle of Man. It was Border who took that responsability.
Fake!
Hence it's marked as a Mock in the title..