Angla TV Start Up with ITA Testcard

[@ceefaxbbctv8788]

What joyful tunes. Thank you.

[@blagger56]

"Broadcasting on channels 6, 7 and 11 of the Independent Television Authority". Programmes used to start about 4PM in the afternoon, and finish about 1145PM. Used to watch "Twizzle", "Torchy the battery boy", Fireball XL5, and so many others too numerous to name. We had a Murphy Astra TV, which was all rigged up for 625 lines when that started up, and it was the size of a small detached house, and had it's own quarter of an acre in the living room. LOL Those halcyon days, sadly, are long gone.

[@petelucas51]

Oh God this reminds me of when I was a kid Happy Daze

[@davids8449]

Nice to see test cards again also music used by cyclists special in full thanks for posting all test cards 👍

[@revinhatol]

"This is Anglia Television, broadcasting to the East of England on channels 6, 7 and 11 from the Sandy Heath, Belmont and Mendlesham transmitters of the Independent Television Authority".

[@barbarakirk1451]

I noticed 'Portsmouth' in the Anglia main startup music - so that's why Alan Partridge had it on his playlist!

[@regentv980]

super stuff

[@kh23797]

Radio Searock, many thanks indeed. The Vaughan Williams 'Sea Songs' ending this clip actually ran into announcer Dick Graham impeccably enunciating, as I recall: "This is Anglia Television, broadcasting on channels 6, 7 and 11 from the Belmont, Sandy Heath and Mendlesham transmitters of the Independent Television Authority". Wasn't the Sandy Heath reference added later in an updated version? I still have the voiceover on MP3, I think, should you wish to 'gild the lily'!

[@peterwebber5936]

Tony Currie is right there was always a 15 minute gap before the start of programmes

[@aidanlunn7441]

They were for people and TV dealers to adjust their sets for the best picture quality.

[@cfb15jan]

Although the card is as sharp as it might have appeared to a '60s viewer of 405 line transmission of the time, these days it needs much higher resolution. If that's possible, of course. And can we be sure that an Anglia op-out would not have used such a track? Or Peter Fenn!!!!!!

[@RadioSix]

It's not music that was ever played along with an ITA test card.

[@barbarakirk1451]

It sounds like incidental music from those Whose Line Is It Anyway or Monty Python spoofs of public information films!

[@aidanlunn7441]

You mis-spelt Anglia in the video name

[@kh23797]

What are you getting at? That would surely just mean it was easy to perform, rather than that it was of bad quality. Beats me...

[@RadioSix]

Well, the test card music's a piece of piss for a start.