Bring in the new TVS Production 1982 (includes the 1st TVS start-up announcer Malcolm Brown)

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you for this of course. This was when Television South-TVS-replaced Southern Television as the ITV contractor for the south and south-east of England. Southern, of course had bowed out the night before on a very distressing way as they were very annoyed to have lost their contract. Southern had been on the air since 1958 to the end of 1981. TVS of course were on air between 1982 and 1992, when surprisingly too they lost their licence too. They were replaced by Meridian Television in 1993, although later on like most ITV areas they became part of the ITV Network that it is today. Well done!!

[@ADCTVCollection]

Thanks.

[@brucedanton3669]

@@ADCTVCollection Thank you too!!

[@trevordance5181]

I live in the London ITV region, but I remember visiting an aunt in Peacehaven, Sussex on the first day of TVS. I can clearly remember my aunt saying "everything has changed since yesterday, this is the new Southern TV". Funnily enough I was staying with a mate in the New Forest, Hants on TVS's last day and Meridian TV's first day, so I was there for the birth and death of TVS even though I lived outside its transmission area.

[@brucedanton3669]

This is also interesting as the 9.55am Digby film here was mentioned on Southern Television the day before on one of their trailers-I have seen it on another upload now then so too. But of course they said it was on ITV-and not on TVS, whom they did not really like at all anyway! Thank you of course too.

[@markc8956]

Southern were just too self entitled,arrogant and stuffy. They deserved what they got for applying for the 1982-1992 ITV franchise for the area in the way that they did. Was genuinely gutted when TVS lost on the business plan. Sadly their financial calculations were right and in any case,the annual payments franchisees would have to make to the Treasury were then reduced post 1993 (GMTV notable for trying to get this to happen)

[@voltron983]

When I lived in Southampton as a student, I remember there being a studio not far from where I used to play tennis, and I'm sure it was the same one TVS and Meridian used to use.

[@jane1975]

James Roberts Yes, when we used to visit my cousin in Devon ( when we used to live in East Sussex) we would pass it on the motorway. My sister and I would sing the theme from Coast to Coast in the car when we passed it.

[@glenncooney3959]

Television Centre, Southampton. Also known as “The Dream Factory”.

[@richardsharpe2966]

TVS made some first-class tv programmes as the great Southern Television did both sadly missed

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes they both did really of old of course now sadly so then too.

[@billyshearer117]

Great to hear the ident music in context. Shazam’d it: The Morning Overture by Richard Hill

[@glenncooney3959]

The “unexpected” low that Trevor the Weather mentioned at 24:04 from New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day was probably caused by the mood hoovering depressive end to Southern Television.

[@lukegreen5341]

7:16 I've Been To The Royal Pavilion Museum In Brighton In East Sussex In England This Year And It Was Super Awesome And It Was Bigger Than Buckingham Palace In The Capital City Of London In The United Kingdom. Thanks A Lot Mate. X

[@antster1983]

The continuity announcer is ex-Granada announcer Malcolm Brown.

[@heene]

40 years ago today!

[@reggiesmith3866]

The studios were by the side of the River Itchen, adjacent to Northam Bridge, Southampton. Southern television took over the closed Plaza cinema in the 1950s, developed the site and build extra studios alongside on a mudflat. Then over the years TVS then Meridian took over the site but in the last few years everything was demolished and new flats are now there. Southern Television had many excellent local programmes but sadly nowadays there are very few.

[@brucedanton3669]

Yes that was right then there so too of course. The studios used to be there indeed so too. But like a lot of other former ITV companies too, they were either later of course closed down or merged with other areas if not; all really because of ITV's now more national identity I guess so too then.

[@cjmillsnun]

@@brucedanton3669 I believe the only studio complexes from the regional ITV days still owned by ITV PLC are Kirkstall Road in Leeds and Anglia House in Norwich. Both much truncated from their former selves.

[@lukegreen5341]

4:24 Awesome Behind The Scenes Look About TVS Television. X

[@christopherhulse8385]

Nice to see the spinny cube thing for the weather was taken on by TVS as well!

[@christopherhulse8385]

Surprised the Tunbridge Wells transmitter wasn't ready for TVS from day one.

[@colin2552]

That southern TV closedown was hilarious,

[@garrysimpson1395]

In the days when there was just three channels broadcasting 12 hours a day. When the I.T.V. A.C.T.T. Unions did not pull the plug. Which was often! No themed channels eithier. Sports music news all day. Not then. But then again. No lies on the internet eithier. Not so much of Those were the days. But as a 17 year old then. They were my days!

[@sillygoose635]

the internet didn't exist then, so you couldn't lie to begin with.

[@jane1975]

@@sillygoose635 Actually the internet was created in 1982, but, it wasn't available to the general public until 1995. Back then reporters just reported the news as it came in be it local or national, we didn't have this 24 hour rolling news which was contested before it launched because it was thought that if you didn't have any news to report then the channels would start to make stuff up, which has happened on many occasions particularly with Sky News and the BBC I believe and both have been taken to task over it. I am glad that X and Facebook didn't exist then. Watching Will O The Wisp on TV and other childrens tv programmes, playing with my dolls and Playmobil that's what I was doing aged 6 in half when this was broadcast.

[@idkany293]

Do you happen to have And It's Goodbye From Us in 50fps?

[@martinlee6223]

Using a good ariel and a booster I was able to get a very decent TVS picture in Richmond SW London. Not sure what transmitter it came from though but the channel number was higher than BBC at Crystal Palace.

[@ADCTVCollection]

It might of been the Hannington transmitter or one of it's relays. link to a map of transmitters that covered the TVS region. www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/56195/meridian_v2.2.pdf

[@darren2514fv]

Khalid Aziz Lured South to TVS from the BBC's Look North

[@MisunderstoodMisanthrope]

What are the names of the uncredited celebrity well-wishers? I think I recognise Roy Hudd, Clive Dunn, Beryl Reid, Brian Cant, Derek Griffiths, Peggy Mount, and Frankie Howerd, but I don't know who the long=faced man or the apparent boxer are.

[@givemethevalium]

It's so underwhelming how this builds and builds to the new ident, then we get such a dull piece to camera (not even filmed in the TVS region) !

[@antster1983]

Thanks for uploading :o)

[@Sheffield_Steve]

New year's revellers "running a muck." A polite way of describing drunken disorderly! 😉👍

[@darren2514fv]

The one man helicopter looks like Little Nellie from You Only Live Twice

[@chrispearson3333]

Girocopter develop by the late Wing Commander Ken Wallis who I knew and lived at Reymerston Hall just up the road from me in Norfolk. It was indeed on of his fleet if not thee actual one that featured in the James Bond Movie.

[@simonramos6454]

Southern Television responsible for commercial television since 1957 ??? I thought it was in 1958 !

[@richardsharpe2966]

Southern Television were awarded the franchise in 1957 and came on the air in 1958

[@richardsharpe2966]

What is the name of the drink that Khalid Aziz is making

[@sillygoose635]

a "Prairie Oyster"

[@christopherhulse8385]

Interesting TVS claim Essex which I thought was Anglia territory?

[@trevordance5181]

A lot of people in southern areas of Essex received their tv pictures from the Bluebell Hill transmitter in Kent which switched from London ITV to TVS the day TVS started broadcasting. The Dover VHF 405 line transmitter that switched from Southern to TVS also got a signal into parts of Essex, as far up and beyond Chelmsford and Clacton. I doubt that many people were still viewing black and white 405 lines by the time TVS went on air though.

[@cjmillsnun]

As Trevor wrote, it depends what part of Essex. Parts of it were Thames/LWT. I distinctly remember receiving Thames/LWT when mum and dad lived in Harlow, and I remember my nan in Buckhurst Hill complaining she lost Thames/LWT and got TVS (by then we'd moved to Colchester which was definitely Anglia territory).

[@TheChipmunk2008]

When "meridian" killed the Northam studios... and moved to 'whiteley' (by the way what is with that place, it kills the m27 despite having nothing to offer).... then ITV died

[@GryphLane]

Other way around, mostly. ITV killed Meridian by cutting costs to the bone and insisting on a national identity.

[@cjmillsnun]

Actually it goes back further than that. It goes all the way back to 1990 when the Broadcasting act was passed.

[@jane1975]

@@cjmillsnun Which was initiated by an European Council Directive in 1989, so technically Brussels started to interfere with the way we broadcast our television. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_Act_1990#CITEREFConley1993

[@TomHowat-h3x]

Why did TVs last only 10years sad

[@jane1975]

@user-kv7jd3pn8n: You can read about it on this wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_South

[@AM1465]

Why is he telling people about the area they live in? They know it already, they live there.

[@garrysimpson1395]

Chriisi Pollard. No longer with us?

[@garrysimpson1395]

Film instead of E.N.G. then.