ITV - Montage Promo - 1988 - HQ

ITV and Ray Brooks saying we're great and you'll miss us if we weren't here. See how many top ITV personalities you can recognise! Thanks to whoever sent me the tape aeons ago.

[@imrustyokay]

1:10 nice middle finger shot

[@AlexanderEdoh2013]

I think that was aimed Margaret Thatcher. (*nudge, nudge wink*)

[@goodolgranite8247]

I like how this promo shows a man flipping the bird, but also shows Rainbow and Thomas the Tank Engine.

[@glenncooney3959]

Harvie Richards Good ol’ Michael Aspel. I’m guessing it didn’t have the same meaning in 1988 like it does now.

[@johnking5174]

The 1990 Broadcasting Act and the 1991 franchise round ruined ITV forever. Thatcher brought in both to give the treasury a financial windfall and to hell with programmes or quality. It is 2015 and ITV are still reeling from this 25 years on.

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

Don't forget this is when ITV was getting infested with BBC types as we can see by the exclusion of Benny Hill fired the following year by a BBC plant pretending to be freelance who also fired 300 staff,then there was Death on the Rock..

[@JHollowayNetwork]

with the Central ident at the end.

[@essvee86]

Too bad ITV didn't listen to that song carefully.

[@imrustyokay]

essvee86 don't blame them, blame Thatcher.

[@Glamking1]

There was an alternative ITV promo with Everlasting Love instead of Just the Way You Are which was shown on before the early morning news.

[@dominewimbury9644]

So why the hell change it to today's crap then?! Want Thames and Rainbow back especially. They were great days

[@sillygoose635]

because time's change from yesterday's crap.

[@glenncooney3959]

Sadly Thatcher came along and ruined it. There was suggestions that Thames TV’s This Week, which had an edition called Death on the Rock (investigating an incident where the SAS shot dead three IRA members in Gibraltar) was part of the cause of Thatcher’s plans to change ITV for the worse. Lo and behold it got bad, especially when the brilliant Thames were ousted in favour of the dire Carlton.

[@chantrelllaw894]

1:27 Thomas!! 🚄🚄🚄🚄

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[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

This is when ITV was getting infested with BBC types as we can see by the exclusion of Benny Hill.

[@MQsCues]

Isn't that Nigel Havers?

[@rmbflk]

I think it’s Ray Brooks

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