Regional ITV Station History

[@smogmonster1876]

No TV-AM. However this video was an absolute blast. Thanks for sharing. Such a shame that all these name have now been overridden by the ITV brand.

[@iVenge]

It’s amazing how much affection one can have for these little things. I really do miss them.

[@jameslister2855]

Very good we used to live in Cornwall so good to see the old westward tv ident. My favourite is htv west which we watched when we visited my auntie in Bristol in the 1970’s

[@kevinquigg5035]

I remember the 1988-93 Ulster ident as I was a small child at the time. Have lost how many times Ulster/UTV ident has changed since 1993 but nice to see these idents from yesteryear, pre-ITV centralisation.

[@derekhorne8076]

Even though I was born and raised in the Thames/LWT area and then moved to Yorkshire, I have to say that I still think that the colour ATV ident was always my favourite followed by Anglia

[@iVenge]

Anglia was just beautiful to me as a child.

[@derekhorne8076]

Yes, true. I loved the Anglua one but seemed only ever to see it before Sale Of The Century

[@MondySpartan]

It's interesting to see TSW doing the ITV retrospective as well as appreciating many other ITV companies, even including Channel Television.

[@GARY.94]

Very well put together! Regards.

[@AnotherDrewWinston]

09:33 Semicircle Green: TSW is a affiliate in ITV, some mistakes ident for semicircle green keep moving and flat change or shadow. CLG says: On a black background, we see an overhead view of a staticky television screen with a red border around it. A blue square comes out of the screen.The square curves and starts to cover the screen as a pink volcano-likeappendage rises out of the screen. Once the screen is covered, it is now a blue sphere. The sphere splits into three and then six in a "mitosis"-like effect. The spheres then flip to reveal that they are green hemispheres with a blue interior. The hemispheres then form pairs at various angles (looking a bit like the Sydney Opera House, but actually supposed to represent an abstract sailboat shape similar to the Golden Hind in the Westward TV logos) and move toward the center of the screen. A blue zigzag line appears below them and "TSW" appears below the line. That's being to illuminate of moving. This is a mistake.

[@jane1975]

@Mello Yello YTP: To me it always looked like an abstract Palm Tree [ they have palm trees on the Cornish coast ]with a River flowing beneath it.

[@yorkshireball_animations]

@@jane1975 yeah

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

Good old Grampian. Though I have to say that Tyne Tees was always my favourite ident. (the late seventies/eighties version)

[@smogmonster1876]

I live in the Tyne Tees area (Middlesbrough to be specific) so used to see the 70s, 80s logo all the time. It took me years to realise it was just basically two capital Ts on top of a capital T and capital V 😂. In 1996 they inexplicably decided to drop the name Tyne Tees as an on air name and introduced the bizarre name of Channel 3 North East in the form or North East 3 on the on screen ident. It was a blue background with gold lettering. The Tyne Tees name appeared as if it was the parent company.. Then everything either became a Tyne Tees Television production or presentation for Channel 3 North East (North East 3). This was about as popular as Hitler at a bar mitzvah. Needless to say it only lasted for around 2 years because in 1998 the old TT TV logo returned before ITV swallowed everything. Apart from Tyne Tees my favourite was Thames as it ment The Sweeney, Minder and sooo many other great shows were about to start. The ITC didn’t do any favourers to ITV as a whole by not renewing Thames’s licence. I think they just wanted to cause a big shock in the industry for no other reason than they could.

[@CappyDash]

RIP TVam 1983 - 1992

[@michaelpardo625]

1:02 Yorkshire Television LWT TSW Granada 1:06 Central Thames Grampian Television HTV Border Television 1:11 UK ITV Broadcasting

[@jane1975]

The last ident is the Generic Ident that was dropped by many of the franchises in the early 90’s except for Yorkshire until 1996 and Grampian used theirs until they folded and were bought out by Scottish ( which only used their version for 3 months ) in 1998. Some of the franchises didn’t use it all, in fact gave it the finger, I am not surprised though since the designers really messed up some of the stations logos in the triangle. An interesting concept in theory but not so good in practice.

[@revinhatol]

Widespread World of Rediffusion

[@jamesdelboy]

Scottish is my region but one Friday viewers got Grampian instead due to problems in Glasgow any programmes made by Scottish were pervious editions of whatever programme that would be shown in the timeslot

[@topukmemes]

Tyne Tees was my local. Good Times :)

[@BlShell]

What's called the opening tune of southern? Southern Rapsody

[@bernhardwall6876]

As a North American, I'm sad that the Thames ID is gone, since it always reminds me of Benny Hill.

[@davinorm]

It was made at LWT just before the early 90’s franchise changes. Initially for an internal ITV Network feed to celebrate migration of the old Analogue transmission operation to a new digital Presentation operation and BT National Network ! Its been copied many times mainly to VHS, hence the poor quality.

[@andrewescalona8447]

THIS ITA PICASSO CARD WITH LONDON WAS USED FOR REDIFFUSION MONDAY'S TO FRIDAYS AND ATV LONDON USED IT FOR SATURDAY'S AND SUNDAYS

[@manuabousaid5683]

Super Simple was a Canadian KZbinr

[@christopherhulse8385]

Granada had to be the most uninspiring ident ever.

[@Boababa-fn3mr]

Typical post modern ugliness

[@skippy7393]

Let's get htv

[@matthewpayton]

Great I dents.

[@Npfooty]

ABC?!?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?????

[@michaelpardo625]

I don't know what was ABC doing here

[@WesleyBeingAnW]

@@michaelpardo625 abc is part of ITV…

[@yorkshireball_animations]

they were the weekend tv until 1968

[@jane1975]

ABC was the weekend itv franchise for the North and the Midlands regions until 1968, when they lost their franchise and both areas were covered all week by Granada ( North West ), Yorkshire ( Yorkshire and from 1974, North Norfolk and Lincolnshire) and ATV ( rebranded as Central in 1982 ) the merged with the then London weekday franchise, Rediffusion London ( aka, Associated-Rediffusion) albeit Rediffusion was reluctant to do so, the merger though became Thames Television and began broadcasting from Rediffusion’s former studios in Teddington, whilst a new weekend franchise for London and the ITV network was formed called London Weekend ( aka London Weekend Television or LWT ) and began broadcasting from Friday evening to Midnight on Sundays from a newly built studio on the South Bank.

[@jane1975]

@ハンク・ハンキー Something like that, it’s not the same tv company as the the American one of the same name put it that way if @npfooty was referring to that.