As someone who lived in Wales, HTV was an earworm from the days of the aerial on the blue background and onwards before ITV consolidated its regions. Ahhh I miss those days.
They did during the 50th and 60th years and celebrated the anniversary of CITV, so should do 70 years too, but it might just be a special logo and programme on ITV X only.
Possibility of erasing history, while highlighting the great 'achievements' of more recent shows, presenters and performers, the 'bestest evaaarrr', who no-one has ever heard of, nor rates, hereby spotlighting, inadvertently, the continued dumbing down of ITV to levels unfathomable, since 31 December 1992.
Great episode as always Adam! I do miss regional itv, I have fond memories of Tyne Tees and I think your idea of a series on the regional years etc is a fantastic one! Great compilation of regional idents at the end!
On a personal note, me watching this episode today reminds me that the first episode I have watched of your channel was talking about the idents for the 60th anniversary for ITV 6 years ago. I feel proud to be a continued follower of your channel living in the US. ❤
If anyone's going to do anything to celebrate 70 years of ITV, it will be the BBC. After all, BBC2 had a Granada theme night back in 1992, during which they showed the first episode of Coronation Street. They then had another one for Lew Grade's ATV a few years later.
It is unfortunate that Network Distributing has been liquidated, as their ITV60 boxset was perfect for these sorts of anniversaries. A multitude of classic programmes from the regions (Corrie, Thunderbirds, The Prisoner, etc.) all into one anniversary set. I do wish more people did that with their anniversaries. Could you imagine a BBC100 set?
I'm 52 so I remember the ITV idents before programmes. ATV was a favourite and Central. With the Central logo it was either blockbusters or auf weiderchen pet (might be spelt wrong). LWT - Blind Date. I'm in the STV region and there has been times when the itv1 logo has appeared as STV probably missed their cue. For the 70th reshow all the classic logos in HD and feature iconic moments. When was the golden age of TV?
You reminded me of my dad saying “what sides it on?” when I asked him if we could watch something on one of the other three channels when you said “the other side”. Also Schools Programmes (ITV SCHOOLS) were shown every weekday morning from 1957 to 1987 where they were moved to Channel 4 when they were given a 3D makeover for its intervals between programmes (as they couldn’t advertise during school programmes).
I don't think ITV has the same sense of continuity as the BBC which makes the anniversary feel less of an event. Technically speaking, we are celebrating 70 years since Associated-Rediffusion began broadcasting. Although the current ITV has its roots in Granada, all of the other constituent parts have long since disappeared and ITV is now something of a Trigger's broom of an organisation. Having said that, I'd love to see ITV create some new idents that pay homage to the style of the old classic regional ones such as Thames, ATV etc.
I think your first point is exactly the issue. The Beeb has always been the Beeb. ITV didn't even get called ITV by the lay person until at least in the 70s. Throw the regional nature of things and the agglomeration of the 90s (damn you Carlton!) and most people don't know an ITV that isn't ITV. Central, Tyne Tees and TSW have no meaning to the majority. A shame really.
They did during the 50th and 60th years and celebrated the anniversary of CITV, so should do 70 years too, but it might just be a special logo and programme on ITV X only.
I would most of all love to see ITV have there own ITV Archive so we can all go back to the memories we all loved growing up from our childhood days to today
ITV's anniversary programs usually have been a dumpster fire since the 2013 rebrand. The last proper anniversary programming tentpole we got was from the 50th Golden Anniversary in September 2005. Starting with an episode of the CITV hidden gem of Saturday morning sketch-comedy TV variety shows Holly, Michael & Stephen's Ministry of Mayhem Saturday Showdown where they had a special 50th anniversary cast reunion with all the hosts of all the other CITV weekend programs made over the years (Sally James, Neil Buchanan, Timmy Mallet, Garreth Gas Top Jones, Pat Sharp, Brian Dowling, Gabby Roslin, Gail Porter, Jenny Powell, Chris Tarrant and Ant & Dec to be precise) Then Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon which was simulcast on CBS in the USA where they would recreate classic UK game shows being brought back from the dead for one night only (The Price is Right UK, Take Your Pick, The Golden Shot, Sale of the Century UK, Play Your Cards Right, Bullseye, Family Fortunes) where celebrity personnel Carol Vorderman, Patsy Kensit, Bill Roach, Vernon Kay, Ruby Wax and Cannon Holmes would battle against each other to win money for charity and the game show prizes from each series they recreated would be given away to the viewers at home and delivered in the RV truck by Les Dennis. In the end, Carol Vorderman took home the crown with $60,000 for charity and Vernon Kay unfortunately ended up becoming the loser. Then the anniversary ended with a gala documentary concert special called Avenues of the Stars hosted by the famous TV personality Chris Tarrant known for CITV's Tiswas and Disney's ABC Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
I think Itv will be taken over by TF1 (french TV channel) by 70th anniversary & I think Itv brand will also cease to exist by 70th anniversary too. I think the new owners of Itv broadcasting arm will celebrate 70th anniversary better
Thank you @AdamMartyn Kick starting the year with a bang. Most people I know favour the Beeb as their channel if choice however, being born in '81 and growing up in front of the box in the corner of the room I have always favoured ITV, followed by CH4. Just feel they have always had the edge on programming, well Pre-tinterweb era anyways
I just noticed that today is Tyne Tees Television's 66th Anniversary - 15th January 1959. Now they did celebrate their 60th back in 2019 with a week of special segments in the 6pm ITV News Tyne Tees programme. They recreated things like the in-vision continuity announcer reading out children's birthdays. I've still got them on my laptop but not watched them since that 60th anniversary year. On the 22nd September 1955 the first ITV franchise to go on air was Associated-Rediffusion, which provided the weekday service for the London area. Followed by ATV providing the weekend programmes, but what I only recently discovered that for a short period ATV was actually called ABC (not to be confused with the later ABC that made The Avengers). Not sure if they still repeat "Only When I Laugh" on ITV4 but they were being broadcast with their Yorkshire TV ident still intact at the start of each episode. Maybe they could expand this to other archive shows they repeat over on ITV3.
Hopefully (although much unlikely), they'll just commission a new and updated ITV in the Face series by our friend Matthew Harris, literally one of my favourite series here on YT.
I'd love to see the regional TV stations come back they were great days I know there's no chance of that happening again but it was the best way of presenting the itv network
I think ITV may make more of their 75th anniversary tbh. 70 doesn't quite have the same caché. I don't recall the BBC doing much for its 70th, back in 1992. But it did make something of its 75th in 1997. Arguably, come 2030, ITV as a channel, may be reaching the end of its time and a 75th anniversary celebration would be a good way to remind people of the past whilst putting an emphasis on the future and a move online or whatever the main mode of broadcasting/streaming is by then.
They do a week or weekend of showing some of their classics like the CITV channel did when they celebrated their 30th anniversary. It will also give the young people a glimpse of some of the programmes we used to watch back in the day.
Here is a long list of my personal (UN-REALISTIC) wishes/ideas. - Programme repeats w/classic idents. (Pretty much my usual go to idea for these sorts of anniversaries. After all, it worked for BBC Two last year.) - SM:TV Live Reunion (Yes. I know we technically had one with the documentary, but I mean a new live show with new instalments of classic sketches, competitions & special guests.) - The Best of CD:UK (A music compilation show a bit like what the BBC do with TOTP, although licensing would be a huge problem.) - Who Wants to be a Millionaire Champions. (A special with all the previous £1 Million winners (except one) coming back to win money for charity. Since they didn't do it for the show's 25th anniversary in 2023, it's not too late to do it now for this anniversary.) - It'll Be Alright on the Night Special (I don't even know if that show is still on, so I'll just throw that in.) - Something to do with CITV. (I just love CITV, man. I know it's technically still on ITV2, but a way to truly honour it would be a great watch for me. Personally I would love to see a documentary focusing on the presenters, since the documentary in 2013 didn't really do that outside of Matthew Kelly in 1983. Also, maybe do another Old Skool Weekend on ITV2 or something. - Content drops of classic shows on ITVX. (Not even just classic shows, but also older series of shows that are already on ITVX like Saturday Night Takeaway & Millionaire. Yes! The competition details in those old shows are super outdated, but I don't see why they can't be edited out or say these details are outdated. I don't think our attention spans are THAT bad. - Regional Fast Channels on ITVX (Simple. Yorkshire shows have their own live-streams, so do Granada shows, Anglia shows, etc. I think it'd be a decent way of honouring the ITV regions.) What I expect: Coronation Street & Emmerdale specials................... That's it!
Maybe ITV could ask local and professional artists to do their own versions of local idents for ITV, then ITV shows the generic ident for 2025. I think that would be a nice throwback, but that’s just me, speaking as someone who is a non-UK resident. 😂 Appreciate your insights on the 70th anniversary of ITV though. I do wish their regional idents were recognized again.
Agreed, it's a way to go. The US network franchise model is a way it can be done .. but ITV and STV would need to invest in much more local news gathering as a result and put out much more regional news, and can experiment with having some programmes in some regions only - but core network programmes at set times remain.
How will ITV plc celebrate? Probably by buying out the STV Group since the SNP doesn’t wield the same influence any more. Then they really would own every Channel 3 licence in the UK.
I strongly suspect the last thing ITV plc will want to do, is remind their audience of how things have slipped since 1993, by raiding their archives and showing programmes from their hayday! I think the best way to celebrate ITV's 70th, is for Ofcom to "grow a pair" and put the licenses out to tender, as a means to recreate the old ITV internal market; something that forced the regions to maintain high programme standards, but died, when Carlton and Granada were permitted to merge in 2004.
Well said, I really stopped watching ITV at midnight 31st December 1992, when we in London end up Crappy inferior Carlton. And there first awful program a Carton New Year. , well as for the idents let’s say no more about them, ITV was so much better before 1993. “Thames a talent for television” and it was.
@@nigelfreeman6192 I'm going to be slightly controversial, here! I did like the 1994 Carlton ident package, as it looked professionally done; well, more professional than those stupid "Television for London" ones! Mind you, that was because they were put together by Central Presentations (as was the original Meridian presentation package).
Sadly, I suspect the current management of ITV have enough to consider in contemplating its future, without creating homages to its past. Another issue is that - unlike the BBC, which has been a continuing entity - ITV is actually a patchwork of entities which were service providers during particular eras, without any continuing corporate identity. Britain’s regulatory approach of retendering the broadcast rights at intervals also exacerbated this destruction of any corporate continuity or sense of history.
Itv plc might be broken. TF1 are eyeing up the broadcasting side of Itv (including Itv x) & there is a bit of a bidding war for the production side of Itv with with a few companies including All 3 Media are eyeing up Itv Studios
Tyne Tees was my region . it would be great say if itv3/itv4 did a day of classic tv a episode of crossroads followed by sale of the century doctor in charge with all the old logos
They didn’t really celebrate 60 that much, but they did a good job on the 50 years. Although for most geographical areas the channel is only in its mid 60’s. Also I don’t think itv are very fond of celebrating their former regions and franchises. Also local itv is down to a monthly politics chat show and regional news. Ulster, Wales and STV Scotland the only major exceptions. Are they still doing the reporting border show, they were made do for Scotland within border television in order to help patch the lack of local programs over STV.
Mind you ITV usually had the best US shows. Hawaii Five-O (with Jack Lord), Magnum PI (with Tom Selleck), The A-Team, Knight Rider, Air Wolf, Street Hawk, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law.
Out of curiosity, but what was so special about some ITV companies having special idents for their 21st anniversaries? I know Yorkshire, Thames, and UTV at minimum produced ones for that commemoration, but there are probably more.
Do you mean what was special about a 21st anniversary in and of itself? Or do you mean what was special about the specific idents those companies made when they each reached that particular anniversary? Historically in the UK a person was recognised as being fully an adult when they reached their 21st birthday, and traditionally it was when they were given a key to the front door of their parent's house (if they were still living at the family home at the time), so a 21st birthday was sometimes referred to as 'key of the door'. The notion of a person's 21st birthday being special then got transferred onto the 21st birthday of other entities such as organisations and companies, as with the ITV regional companies.
@MrDannyDetail I was curious about the anniversary itself. I'm not from the UK, so I wasn't sure why 21 was particularly important. In my country, that would mean the franchise could legally visit the pub for a pint.
@@daveporter0217 If the legal age for buying alcohol is 21 where you are then it may well mean that your country inherited it's notion of adulthood starting at 21 from Britain's tradition, and then didn't revise it downwards when the UK did.
The thing I miss most about ITV, is the quality news of ITN. I grew up with news at 10 with Sir Alastair Burnet & Sandy Gall, and Trevor McDonald at 5.45pm. In 1982 during the Falklands War, it became clear who side the BBC was on. Other than that Sir Lew Grade's ATV losing the Midlands franchise killed all those great ITC Action Adventure stories. ***** Thunderbirds, Space 1999, UFO, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, The Sweeney, The Professionals, Minder, The Persuaders!, Rising Damp, The Brothers McGregor, The Avengers, The New Avengers, The Muppet Show, Sapphire & Steel, Strangers (in all its various forms with Don Henderson), Hazell, the Jeremy Brett (definitive) Sherlock Holmes, Black Beauty, (1970's) Tomorrow People, The Bounder, Brass, The Gaffer, Agony, Holding the Fort, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Shelley, Michael Bentine's Potty Time, Cloppa Castle, Spitting Image, Metal Mickey, Hale and Pace, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Dame Edna Experience, Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch, Oh No it's Selwyn Froggitt, Keep it in the Family, Inspector Morse, The Saint, Return of the Saint, Trippers Day, Whoops Apocalypse, That's My Boy, George & Mildred, Robin's Nest, The Squirrels, A Sharpe intake of Breath, Get Some In!, Chessgame, Mixed Blessings, Band of Gold, Heartbeat, Touch of Frost, Trial & Retribution, The Knock, Cracker, The Bill, London's Burning, Copy Cats, Play Your Cards Right with Bruce Forsyth, Upstairs, Downstairs, Downton Abbey, Poirot (David Suchet), Soldier Soldier, Vera, Prime Suspect, Midsomer Murders, Boon, The Last Train, Sharpe, Callan, The Charmer, El C.I.D., Peak Practice, Foyle's War, A Piece of Cake, DCI Banks, Above Suspicion, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Lewis, Endeavour, Victoria, Between the Sheets, Widows, The Beiderbecke Affair, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Where the Heart Is, Is it Legal?, The New Statesman, Touching Evil, Wire in the Blood, Maigret (Rowan Atkinson) Mr Bean, Hot Metal, Singles, Surgical Spirit, Astronauts, Watching, The Cuckoo Waltz, The Kenny Everett Video Show, Tiswas, O.T.T., The Comedians, The Cannon and Ball Show, Magpie, Man About the House, On the Buses, Family Fortunes with Bob Monkhouse, Bullseye with Jim Bowen, The Price is Right with Leslie Crowther, That's Love, Jeeves and Wooster, Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Chief, Roy Marsden's PD James series and Terrahawks.
It would be great to see the regional identities again before the regional news. While it’s unlikely this would be a great thing to do to mark the anniversary.
@@AdamMartyn Hi Adam, As I said earlier ITV Regions are actually still here. Just don't Identify. How else would you get local news and local Ads? Ex' Anglia news "Hosted by Anglia TV" London News "Hosted by Carlton London" And so fourth. ITV just won't allow them to run Idents.
ITV Should go back to regional broadcasting again, unlikely to happen but they should focus on TV broadcasting instead of streaming services for low income families, losing CITV was a kick in the teeth & that decision should be reversed.
As much as I woild love to see ITV celebrate its 70th anniversary I have a feeling they will not celebrate it unless they acknowledge it on the News, but I could see them going all in saving it for their 75th anniversary milestone. But if they celebrate any sort of anniversary I would love to see them bring back the regional idents of old similar to BBC Two from bringing back the iconic 1991 Lambie-Nairn idents from 2014-2018. As well as special programming celebrating 70 years of ITV
I would celebrate their glory days of the 60s and 70s, especially the ITC shows, and later great dramas like Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel In The Crown. Not very likely obviously.
I so agree, regional ITV was far superior. It just felt more personal to us as viewers, despite living in the Granada region all my life I would liked to have seen other regions from back in the day. In regards to your coverage of linear TV, my favourite documentaries you have produced so far are 1: ITV STRIKE TRILOGY 2: COMPLETE ITV IDENT (THE IDENT REVIEW) 3: The "VIDEO SCARIES" playlist all of which i have watched multiple times over. Infact, the Scaries playlist I often go to sleep listening to. What has been your most enjoyable to research/produce? @AdamMartyn What is everyone's channel favourite video/series?
Would be cool if for a cover of Get Ready For ITV by the cast of Emmerdale or Coronation Street, or maybe a new ITV song that is about the 70th anniversary. Or bring back The 2006 ITV idents. Bring back Jackpot 24/7 roulette for fun at night. Shop on TV is wasted in a night time on ITV1 and should really go to afternoons on ITV2
At most we might get a live or special episode of Coronation Street, think the last live one was for ITV 's 60th almost 10 years ago. Also I could see the regional news showing a generic report on it.
@@LionElJonssonisBased Take note next time you watch TV.. Do you still have Central News? If so, Central are still here. In fact I do believe they are all still here, just run under the ITV Banner.
I'd love to see some of these ideas come to fruition (especially running vintage idents before programmes). But sadly, I think you're right. I doubt the channel will want to mark the anniversary in any significant way. Especially on-air. Partly because celebrating its history and heritage would only reinforce its origins as an old-fashioned, traditional broadcaster rather than the new media streaming platform it so desperately needs to become. Just my opinion. PS: Freakin' L❤VE the montage at the end!
I would like to show the CITV programmes we used to enjoy especially seeing as we no longer have the CITV Channel anymore And this may be what it needs to get Children's TV back on ITV Sure they have ITVX but what are the viewing public suppose to do if they don't have the internet or know how to set-up their own account with them
I totally agree with so many of the comments on here saying bring back the regional Idents. I am in the North West of England & our local Station was GRANADA TV studios in Manchester. I hate that everything now is from London. Even our local news programme GRANADA REPORTS is announced from someone in a cupboard in ITV HQ in London. Also bring back our local Continuity announcers to introduce our programmes. We had so many great announcers here in GRANADA land. JIM POPE CHARLES FOSTER MALCOLM BROWN GRAHAM JAMES COLIN WESTON. ITV DAYTIME is absolutely rubbish just game shows. And the News should be announced as it is from ITN. And why are the current itv idents in lower case letters? UPPER CASE FOR ITV. If anyone else remembers GRANADA TV in days gone by I would love to read your comments. R I P Current ITV 🙏
I do know what you mean, but your comment about everything being in London strikes me as interesting/bizarre when you consider that both ITV and the BBC are largely based in MediaCity in Salford, Greater Manchester nowadays. I didn't know Granada Reports was coming from London though, but did know that a lot of ITV's big live daytime shows are made in the no-longer-BBC Television no-longer-meaningfully-a-Centre.
As you suggested in your video. ITV needs to have a new channel just doing all the old and archived material, even if only for a few hours each day. Personally I've never watched a programme on ITVBe so how about changing this to ITV5 or ITV Gold, possibly ITV 405. Use this to rebroadcast anything from the 1950's to the mid 1990's so as said in the video, some can have the nostalgia trip and the 'younguns' can see what us olduns are on about!
I always thought 75 years was more of a deal than 70. I wonder if ITV thinks the same. I grew up on ITV post the death of regionalisation and so i dont really have any suggestions
I don't think Itv plc would be around for Itv's 70th birthday as french TV channel TF1 are considering buying the broadcasting arm of Itv soon (along with Itv X) & also All 3 Media (that producers the Traitor) are also eyeing up Itv studios. I don't think the Itv name would be around for Itv's 70th birthday but Granada name might return for production under All 3 Media
Well, the time is just coming up to 70 years past Launch Day, and ITV is closing down for the night. We'll be back tomorrow morning with some more nostalgic programmes, beginning with "IBA Engineering Announcements" at 9:15. In the meantime, this is your friendly continuity announcer saying "Sleep well and have a good night." [Cue the National Anthem.] And don't forget to switch off your television set! Good night, everyone, good night!
Ken Barlow monologuing about Weatherfield's history? Rita Tanner silently doing the morning papers in the Kabin? Audrey Roberts silently sweeping up at the end of the day in Audreys? Steve McDonald silently prepping the Rovers for trade and doing the barrels? Roy Cropper silently knocking up full English breakfasts in Roy's Rolls? The possibilities for one-character episodes are endless, although they might work better as short online mini-episodes rather than full length broadcast episodes.
If ITV1 rebrands I want ITV Westcountry in the West to merge with ITV Wales for their news called Good Morning Wales and The West called ITV News: Cymru Wales and Westcountry for Lunchtimes ITV Wales and Westcountry at 6 for Evenings.
That nice montage of the idents at the end is all the commemoration we are likely to see anywhere.
Get ready for ITV... to do nowt.
I love the ending of an ITV montage of the past with the theme music of the 1989 campaign Get Ready For ITV.
Interesting to note the 1989/90 uniform ident is now the halfway point in ITV's 70 year history.
As someone who lived in Wales, HTV was an earworm from the days of the aerial on the blue background and onwards before ITV consolidated its regions. Ahhh I miss those days.
Do any of us ACTUALLY think that ITV will do something to celebrate?
Because I highly doubt they'll even acknowledge it.
Maybe they'll mention it on the news but do nothing else
Perhaps they're waiting until 2030 for the 75th anniversary
Crappy AI made montage of Coronation Street characters with 70 fingers.
They did during the 50th and 60th years and celebrated the anniversary of CITV, so should do 70 years too, but it might just be a special logo and programme on ITV X only.
Possibility of erasing history, while highlighting the great 'achievements' of more recent shows, presenters and performers, the 'bestest evaaarrr', who no-one has ever heard of, nor rates, hereby spotlighting, inadvertently, the continued dumbing down of ITV to levels unfathomable, since 31 December 1992.
It's an unwise but not illegal strategy.
Great episode as always Adam! I do miss regional itv, I have fond memories of Tyne Tees and I think your idea of a series on the regional years etc is a fantastic one! Great compilation of regional idents at the end!
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On a personal note, me watching this episode today reminds me that the first episode I have watched of your channel was talking about the idents for the 60th anniversary for ITV 6 years ago.
I feel proud to be a continued follower of your channel living in the US. ❤
It doesn't feel like 20 years since they were celebrating half a century
itv 70 sounds like a very dystopian tv channel
If anyone's going to do anything to celebrate 70 years of ITV, it will be the BBC. After all, BBC2 had a Granada theme night back in 1992, during which they showed the first episode of Coronation Street. They then had another one for Lew Grade's ATV a few years later.
Its 60 years of BBC2
The Road to Coronation Street (2010) was made by ITV Studios but shown on BBC4, so anything's possible.
It is unfortunate that Network Distributing has been liquidated, as their ITV60 boxset was perfect for these sorts of anniversaries. A multitude of classic programmes from the regions (Corrie, Thunderbirds, The Prisoner, etc.) all into one anniversary set. I do wish more people did that with their anniversaries. Could you imagine a BBC100 set?
I would buy a BBC100 set in a heartbeat!!
@@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575 I would like an ITV60 box set!
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Hey Adam Would It Be Possible To Upload An Episode Of The Ident Review & Discuss About Milkshake Idents From (1997-2017)?
i'd love to see the old regional idents make a comeback, some of those designs are fantastic (also great video!!)
I'm 52 so I remember the ITV idents before programmes. ATV was a favourite and Central. With the Central logo it was either blockbusters or auf weiderchen pet (might be spelt wrong). LWT - Blind Date. I'm in the STV region and there has been times when the itv1 logo has appeared as STV probably missed their cue. For the 70th reshow all the classic logos in HD and feature iconic moments. When was the golden age of TV?
I remember when Thames and LWT celebrated 21 years in 1989. As did LWT in 1998 30 years. 11:35 memories of becoming a teenager
I just "joined" its only fair from what ive gotten from you brother ❤
Like most 70 year olds, they’ll celebrate by just surviving 😅
And in tune with today, cold and hungry.
You reminded me of my dad saying “what sides it on?” when I asked him if we could watch something on one of the other three channels when you said “the other side”. Also Schools Programmes (ITV SCHOOLS) were shown every weekday morning from 1957 to 1987 where they were moved to Channel 4 when they were given a 3D makeover for its intervals between programmes (as they couldn’t advertise during school programmes).
I'd like them to do another Gameshow Marathon celebrating some of the classic ITV Gameshows over the past 70 years
I don't think ITV has the same sense of continuity as the BBC which makes the anniversary feel less of an event. Technically speaking, we are celebrating 70 years since Associated-Rediffusion began broadcasting. Although the current ITV has its roots in Granada, all of the other constituent parts have long since disappeared and ITV is now something of a Trigger's broom of an organisation. Having said that, I'd love to see ITV create some new idents that pay homage to the style of the old classic regional ones such as Thames, ATV etc.
I think your first point is exactly the issue. The Beeb has always been the Beeb. ITV didn't even get called ITV by the lay person until at least in the 70s. Throw the regional nature of things and the agglomeration of the 90s (damn you Carlton!) and most people don't know an ITV that isn't ITV. Central, Tyne Tees and TSW have no meaning to the majority. A shame really.
They did during the 50th and 60th years and celebrated the anniversary of CITV, so should do 70 years too, but it might just be a special logo and programme on ITV X only.
Great video I hope they do something for their 70th and bring back the regional idents
What about dramatising the franchise battles of 1967, 1980 and 1991
Niche as it may be I'd be sat down watching 👀
Or the 1979 strike from the Channel Islands view
I would most of all love to see ITV have there own ITV Archive so we can all go back to the memories we all loved growing up from our childhood days to today
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@NicolasPetrosLanning Sorry, My Bad
ITV's anniversary programs usually have been a dumpster fire since the 2013 rebrand.
The last proper anniversary programming tentpole we got was from the 50th Golden Anniversary in September 2005. Starting with an episode of the CITV hidden gem of Saturday morning sketch-comedy TV variety shows Holly, Michael & Stephen's Ministry of Mayhem Saturday Showdown where they had a special 50th anniversary cast reunion with all the hosts of all the other CITV weekend programs made over the years (Sally James, Neil Buchanan, Timmy Mallet, Garreth Gas Top Jones, Pat Sharp, Brian Dowling, Gabby Roslin, Gail Porter, Jenny Powell, Chris Tarrant and Ant & Dec to be precise)
Then Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon which was simulcast on CBS in the USA where they would recreate classic UK game shows being brought back from the dead for one night only (The Price is Right UK, Take Your Pick, The Golden Shot, Sale of the Century UK, Play Your Cards Right, Bullseye, Family Fortunes) where celebrity personnel Carol Vorderman, Patsy Kensit, Bill Roach, Vernon Kay, Ruby Wax and Cannon Holmes would battle against each other to win money for charity and the game show prizes from each series they recreated would be given away to the viewers at home and delivered in the RV truck by Les Dennis. In the end, Carol Vorderman took home the crown with $60,000 for charity and Vernon Kay unfortunately ended up becoming the loser.
Then the anniversary ended with a gala documentary concert special called Avenues of the Stars hosted by the famous TV personality Chris Tarrant known for CITV's Tiswas and Disney's ABC Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
I think Itv will be taken over by TF1 (french TV channel) by 70th anniversary & I think Itv brand will also cease to exist by 70th anniversary too. I think the new owners of Itv broadcasting arm will celebrate 70th anniversary better
Another jolly good AMTV News video Adam!
Thanks Roger!
@@AdamMartyn No problem!
Thank you @AdamMartyn
Kick starting the year with a bang.
Most people I know favour the Beeb as their channel if choice however, being born in '81 and growing up in front of the box in the corner of the room I have always favoured ITV, followed by CH4. Just feel they have always had the edge on programming, well Pre-tinterweb era anyways
Would love a documentary on how YTV/Yorkshire Television started especially with the Bruce Gyngell era.
ITV does not like to talk about its history. All they will do to celebrate 70 years is just have a short news item.
What about showcasing all the classic TV ads between shows as a novelty?
I just noticed that today is Tyne Tees Television's 66th Anniversary - 15th January 1959. Now they did celebrate their 60th back in 2019 with a week of special segments in the 6pm ITV News Tyne Tees programme. They recreated things like the in-vision continuity announcer reading out children's birthdays. I've still got them on my laptop but not watched them since that 60th anniversary year.
On the 22nd September 1955 the first ITV franchise to go on air was Associated-Rediffusion, which provided the weekday service for the London area. Followed by ATV providing the weekend programmes, but what I only recently discovered that for a short period ATV was actually called ABC (not to be confused with the later ABC that made The Avengers).
Not sure if they still repeat "Only When I Laugh" on ITV4 but they were being broadcast with their Yorkshire TV ident still intact at the start of each episode. Maybe they could expand this to other archive shows they repeat over on ITV3.
They Should Bring Back CITV and Air Third Party Kids Shows Through The Years!
It's Gonna be One Heck of a Nostalgic Ride on The Nostalgia Train!
Hopefully (although much unlikely), they'll just commission a new and updated ITV in the Face series by our friend Matthew Harris, literally one of my favourite series here on YT.
With the finest caterpillar cake that ad revenue can buy! 🐛
I'd love to see the regional TV stations come back they were great days I know there's no chance of that happening again but it was the best way of presenting the itv network
I wouldn’t mind the old Yorkshire one.
They might show the idents from the 80s like when they had one corporate brand across the UK.
we luckly in the south we a presenter Fred D.was a amazing on southern tvs and meridian tv . Amazing guy in the south
They'll probably celebrate by showing The Chase for a whole day.
You wouldn't put it past them....
Happy 70th, ITV!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I’d argue the 75th anniversary is more important than the 70th
I think ITV may make more of their 75th anniversary tbh. 70 doesn't quite have the same caché.
I don't recall the BBC doing much for its 70th, back in 1992. But it did make something of its 75th in 1997.
Arguably, come 2030, ITV as a channel, may be reaching the end of its time and a 75th anniversary celebration would be a good way to remind people of the past whilst putting an emphasis on the future and a move online or whatever the main mode of broadcasting/streaming is by then.
Imagine if ITV brought back all of their old channels. Never gonna happen, but imagine...
I know i said this once but i'll say it again, ITV should do what they did during their 50th Anniversary.
Replace the 12-year old ITV logo with a redesign concept inspired by the 1989 logo.
That was last best ITV logo
They do a week or weekend of showing some of their classics like the CITV channel did when they celebrated their 30th anniversary. It will also give the young people a glimpse of some of the programmes we used to watch back in the day.
8:32 11:42 It's Been 70 Years Since ITV Studios Began. Get Ready For ITV. That And CITV's The Fluffy Club Back In 2008. Thanks Mate. XXxxx 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇺🇸
Here is a long list of my personal (UN-REALISTIC) wishes/ideas.
- Programme repeats w/classic idents. (Pretty much my usual go to idea for these sorts of anniversaries. After all, it worked for BBC Two last year.)
- SM:TV Live Reunion (Yes. I know we technically had one with the documentary, but I mean a new live show with new instalments of classic sketches, competitions & special guests.)
- The Best of CD:UK (A music compilation show a bit like what the BBC do with TOTP, although licensing would be a huge problem.)
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire Champions. (A special with all the previous £1 Million winners (except one) coming back to win money for charity. Since they didn't do it for the show's 25th anniversary in 2023, it's not too late to do it now for this anniversary.)
- It'll Be Alright on the Night Special (I don't even know if that show is still on, so I'll just throw that in.)
- Something to do with CITV. (I just love CITV, man. I know it's technically still on ITV2, but a way to truly honour it would be a great watch for me. Personally I would love to see a documentary focusing on the presenters, since the documentary in 2013 didn't really do that outside of Matthew Kelly in 1983. Also, maybe do another Old Skool Weekend on ITV2 or something.
- Content drops of classic shows on ITVX. (Not even just classic shows, but also older series of shows that are already on ITVX like Saturday Night Takeaway & Millionaire. Yes! The competition details in those old shows are super outdated, but I don't see why they can't be edited out or say these details are outdated. I don't think our attention spans are THAT bad.
- Regional Fast Channels on ITVX (Simple. Yorkshire shows have their own live-streams, so do Granada shows, Anglia shows, etc. I think it'd be a decent way of honouring the ITV regions.)
What I expect:
Coronation Street & Emmerdale specials................... That's it!
Maybe ITV could ask local and professional artists to do their own versions of local idents for ITV, then ITV shows the generic ident for 2025. I think that would be a nice throwback, but that’s just me, speaking as someone who is a non-UK resident. 😂
Appreciate your insights on the 70th anniversary of ITV though. I do wish their regional idents were recognized again.
ITV News needs a revamp to mark it
Also some retro idents would be awesome
It would be mint if they could bring back regional stations. Very likely it might not happen though. But definitely put repeats on ITV1.
But It CAN happen if they want as they are all still here. They have to be to run local news and regional ads.
Agreed, it's a way to go. The US network franchise model is a way it can be done .. but ITV and STV would need to invest in much more local news gathering as a result and put out much more regional news, and can experiment with having some programmes in some regions only - but core network programmes at set times remain.
I think it would be fitting if ITV used the old idents in some way would be fitting.
Or they could create something new with their current ident but in the style of old idents.
12:07 - why do you keep using that YTV ident in some of your videos? It’s a mock-up, a fake. It’s not genuine.
How will ITV plc celebrate? Probably by buying out the STV Group since the SNP doesn’t wield the same influence any more. Then they really would own every Channel 3 licence in the UK.
I just hope ITV does something really special for it's anniversary.
Me too!
Show every episode of Love Island!
@@pak8606 I think not!
Show some decent programmes. 😊
I strongly suspect the last thing ITV plc will want to do, is remind their audience of how things have slipped since 1993, by raiding their archives and showing programmes from their hayday!
I think the best way to celebrate ITV's 70th, is for Ofcom to "grow a pair" and put the licenses out to tender, as a means to recreate the old ITV internal market; something that forced the regions to maintain high programme standards, but died, when Carlton and Granada were permitted to merge in 2004.
Well said, I really stopped watching ITV at midnight 31st December 1992, when we in London end up Crappy inferior Carlton. And there first awful program a Carton New Year. , well as for the idents let’s say no more about them, ITV was so much better before 1993. “Thames a talent for television” and it was.
@@nigelfreeman6192 I'm going to be slightly controversial, here! I did like the 1994 Carlton ident package, as it looked professionally done; well, more professional than those stupid "Television for London" ones! Mind you, that was because they were put together by Central Presentations (as was the original Meridian presentation package).
Sadly, I suspect the current management of ITV have enough to consider in contemplating its future, without creating homages to its past.
Another issue is that - unlike the BBC, which has been a continuing entity - ITV is actually a patchwork of entities which were service providers during particular eras, without any continuing corporate identity.
Britain’s regulatory approach of retendering the broadcast rights at intervals also exacerbated this destruction of any corporate continuity or sense of history.
Itv plc might be broken. TF1 are eyeing up the broadcasting side of Itv (including Itv x) & there is a bit of a bidding war for the production side of Itv with with a few companies including All 3 Media are eyeing up Itv Studios
Well hello Adam its nice to know to know itv is celebrating SU garden
Tyne Tees was my region . it would be great say if itv3/itv4 did a day of classic tv a episode of crossroads followed by sale of the century doctor in charge with all the old logos
If you still have Tyne Tees news then Tyne Tees TV is still here.
They didn’t really celebrate 60 that much, but they did a good job on the 50 years. Although for most geographical areas the channel is only in its mid 60’s. Also I don’t think itv are very fond of celebrating their former regions and franchises. Also local itv is down to a monthly politics chat show and regional news. Ulster, Wales and STV Scotland the only major exceptions. Are they still doing the reporting border show, they were made do for Scotland within border television in order to help patch the lack of local programs over STV.
Bring back old shows should as Knightmare.
ITV did use regional frontcaps for Gameshow Marathon in 2005, so there's precedent.
Mind you ITV usually had the best US shows.
Hawaii Five-O (with Jack Lord), Magnum PI (with Tom Selleck), The A-Team, Knight Rider, Air Wolf, Street Hawk, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law.
What a legendary of ITV!
Out of curiosity, but what was so special about some ITV companies having special idents for their 21st anniversaries? I know Yorkshire, Thames, and UTV at minimum produced ones for that commemoration, but there are probably more.
Do you mean what was special about a 21st anniversary in and of itself? Or do you mean what was special about the specific idents those companies made when they each reached that particular anniversary?
Historically in the UK a person was recognised as being fully an adult when they reached their 21st birthday, and traditionally it was when they were given a key to the front door of their parent's house (if they were still living at the family home at the time), so a 21st birthday was sometimes referred to as 'key of the door'. The notion of a person's 21st birthday being special then got transferred onto the 21st birthday of other entities such as organisations and companies, as with the ITV regional companies.
@MrDannyDetail I was curious about the anniversary itself. I'm not from the UK, so I wasn't sure why 21 was particularly important. In my country, that would mean the franchise could legally visit the pub for a pint.
@@daveporter0217 If the legal age for buying alcohol is 21 where you are then it may well mean that your country inherited it's notion of adulthood starting at 21 from Britain's tradition, and then didn't revise it downwards when the UK did.
@MrDannyDetail I'm in the USA. We went to 21 across the board only in 1984.
The thing I miss most about ITV, is the quality news of ITN. I grew up with news at 10 with Sir Alastair Burnet & Sandy Gall, and Trevor McDonald at 5.45pm.
In 1982 during the Falklands War, it became clear who side the BBC was on.
Other than that Sir Lew Grade's ATV losing the Midlands franchise killed all those great ITC Action Adventure stories.
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One Word, Bring back Regional Television
But Im American.
That would be mint.
@@philicon353 It's only the idents not being broadcast they are still here. Otherwise there would be no local ads are regional news.
This marks the milestone of Commercial Television.
ITV should remove commercials for it's 70th birthday onwards.
problem is the license fee would have to go up to cover it.
@IainMahoney-q7h Well (I know?)
Check out the ITV in the face from Bob the fish. They were done for the 60th anniversary- they were fantastic
It would be great to see the regional identities again before the regional news. While it’s unlikely this would be a great thing to do to mark the anniversary.
Wouldn't it just!
Crazy how old itv is
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So is some of their content.
We recently started an art and craft group at my house, we will see if we can do something for it.
They might bring back the old idents. Like bbc2 did
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Just imagine seeing your region's idents again 👀 (I bet STV won't be affected unfortunately)
It won't be Reginal anymore though it will probably be a remake of the old ones but now just saying itv instead of what it was in your region
This would unlock some good memories for me if they did that.
@@AdamMartyn Hi Adam, As I said earlier ITV Regions are actually still here. Just don't Identify. How else would you get local news and local Ads?
Ex' Anglia news "Hosted by Anglia TV" London News "Hosted by Carlton London" And so fourth. ITV just won't allow them to run Idents.
Let's hope on the day all the regions have there own start up, possibly replicating the 1970 style and use the regional ID through the day.
Before I watch the video, I doubt they'll do anything, factoring last year was 20 years of X Factor, and I didn't see anything about it.
ITV have Done Some Fantastic Pitchers over The Years
ITV Should go back to regional broadcasting again, unlikely to happen but they should focus on TV broadcasting instead of streaming services for low income families, losing CITV was a kick in the teeth & that decision should be reversed.
ITV's 70th Anniversary (1955-2025)
As much as I woild love to see ITV celebrate its 70th anniversary I have a feeling they will not celebrate it unless they acknowledge it on the News, but I could see them going all in saving it for their 75th anniversary milestone. But if they celebrate any sort of anniversary I would love to see them bring back the regional idents of old similar to BBC Two from bringing back the iconic 1991 Lambie-Nairn idents from 2014-2018. As well as special programming celebrating 70 years of ITV
ITV: Because Churchill hated the BBC.
That's what I was told in A Level History, anyway.
Splendid video as always mate 😊
I would celebrate their glory days of the 60s and 70s, especially the ITC shows, and later great dramas like Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel In The Crown. Not very likely obviously.
I honestly think all the regions should air their old idents (including STV tho i doubt they would do it)
It's the main boss's at ITV that won't let them as all the regions are still here. They run the local ad's and local news.
I expect the management will probably go on an all expenses paid bender. Wether anything will be seen on screen is another matter.
Whicker's World from Yorkshire, Survival from Anglia. It didn't used to be just tat & it's all been totally forgotten.
They should show us all the Regional Idents before Granada brought ITV outright
I so agree, regional ITV was far superior. It just felt more personal to us as viewers, despite living in the Granada region all my life I would liked to have seen other regions from back in the day. In regards to your coverage of linear TV, my favourite documentaries you have produced so far are
1: ITV STRIKE TRILOGY
2: COMPLETE ITV IDENT (THE IDENT REVIEW)
3: The "VIDEO SCARIES" playlist
all of which i have watched multiple times over. Infact, the Scaries playlist I often go to sleep listening to.
What has been your most enjoyable to research/produce? @AdamMartyn
What is everyone's channel favourite video/series?
Would be cool if for a cover of Get Ready For ITV by the cast of Emmerdale or Coronation Street, or maybe a new ITV song that is about the 70th anniversary. Or bring back The 2006 ITV idents. Bring back Jackpot 24/7 roulette for fun at night. Shop on TV is wasted in a night time on ITV1 and should really go to afternoons on ITV2
Only for annaircrsary
Bring Back the 2006 idents in 2031.
I think ITVX will be getting rebranded to X on Demand (stylised as XoD on Terrestrial TV, Digital TV, Satellite and Cable)
At most we might get a live or special episode of Coronation Street, think the last live one was for ITV 's 60th almost 10 years ago. Also I could see the regional news showing a generic report on it.
This is a personal bias I know, as it’s my home region, but I was saddened not to see Central in the ITV regions montage.
Atv was in there which was the predecessor to central tv
@@LionElJonssonisBased Take note next time you watch TV.. Do you still have Central News? If so, Central are still here. In fact I do believe they are all still here, just run under the ITV Banner.
I'd love to see some of these ideas come to fruition (especially running vintage idents before programmes).
But sadly, I think you're right. I doubt the channel will want to mark the anniversary in any significant way. Especially on-air. Partly because celebrating its history and heritage would only reinforce its origins as an old-fashioned, traditional broadcaster rather than the new media streaming platform it so desperately needs to become. Just my opinion.
PS: Freakin' L❤VE the montage at the end!
I would like to show the CITV programmes we used to enjoy especially seeing as we no longer have the CITV Channel anymore
And this may be what it needs to get Children's TV back on ITV
Sure they have ITVX but what are the viewing public suppose to do if they don't have the internet or know how to set-up their own account with them
I thought it was called international television for all this time
I totally agree with so many of the comments on here saying bring back the regional Idents. I am in the North West of England & our local Station was GRANADA TV studios in Manchester. I hate that everything now is from London. Even our local news programme GRANADA REPORTS is announced from someone in a cupboard in ITV HQ in London. Also bring back our local Continuity announcers to introduce our programmes. We had so many great announcers here in GRANADA land.
JIM POPE
CHARLES FOSTER
MALCOLM BROWN
GRAHAM JAMES
COLIN WESTON.
ITV DAYTIME is absolutely rubbish just game shows.
And the News should be announced as it is from ITN. And why are the current itv idents in lower case letters? UPPER CASE FOR ITV. If anyone else remembers GRANADA TV in days gone by I would love to read your comments. R I P Current ITV 🙏
I do know what you mean, but your comment about everything being in London strikes me as interesting/bizarre when you consider that both ITV and the BBC are largely based in MediaCity in Salford, Greater Manchester nowadays. I didn't know Granada Reports was coming from London though, but did know that a lot of ITV's big live daytime shows are made in the no-longer-BBC Television no-longer-meaningfully-a-Centre.
As you suggested in your video. ITV needs to have a new channel just doing all the old and archived material, even if only for a few hours each day. Personally I've never watched a programme on ITVBe so how about changing this to ITV5 or ITV Gold, possibly ITV 405. Use this to rebroadcast anything from the 1950's to the mid 1990's so as said in the video, some can have the nostalgia trip and the 'younguns' can see what us olduns are on about!
I always thought 75 years was more of a deal than 70. I wonder if ITV thinks the same. I grew up on ITV post the death of regionalisation and so i dont really have any suggestions
I forgot "Whicker's World"
ITV plc probably wouldn’t want to remind their viewers about the good old days before deregulation
I don't think Itv plc would be around for Itv's 70th birthday as french TV channel TF1 are considering buying the broadcasting arm of Itv soon (along with Itv X) & also All 3 Media (that producers the Traitor) are also eyeing up Itv studios. I don't think the Itv name would be around for Itv's 70th birthday but Granada name might return for production under All 3 Media
Well, the time is just coming up to 70 years past Launch Day, and ITV is closing down for the night. We'll be back tomorrow morning with some more nostalgic programmes, beginning with "IBA Engineering Announcements" at 9:15. In the meantime, this is your friendly continuity announcer saying "Sleep well and have a good night."
[Cue the National Anthem.]
And don't forget to switch off your television set! Good night, everyone, good night!
Coronation Street with a cast of 1 ?
Ken Barlow monologuing about Weatherfield's history? Rita Tanner silently doing the morning papers in the Kabin? Audrey Roberts silently sweeping up at the end of the day in Audreys? Steve McDonald silently prepping the Rovers for trade and doing the barrels? Roy Cropper silently knocking up full English breakfasts in Roy's Rolls? The possibilities for one-character episodes are endless, although they might work better as short online mini-episodes rather than full length broadcast episodes.
Ken Barlow dies peacefully in an armchair after looking back at 65 years of the programme
@@MrDannyDetail Whose got the cab office - maybe they all get electric cabs and there is a fire destroying everything ?
If ITV1 rebrands I want ITV Westcountry in the West to merge with ITV Wales for their news called Good Morning Wales and The West called
ITV News: Cymru Wales and Westcountry for Lunchtimes ITV Wales and Westcountry at 6 for Evenings.