Southern/TVS/Meridian Ident Megamix

[@annasoriano3984]

I was there when southern television signed off for the last time back then when i was in the uk in 1973-1995 I was crying and sobbing when Southern announced that they lost their franchise i always loved watching how day by day space 1999 and a few programmes. Also, My mom said i could stay up to see the station go. I even cried during And it's goodbye from us, I was already crying just as Mr Robbie said the last words of the special. Just as the camera started to show one of the many members of the company I was in tears i was like i will surely miss all of this guys. And just when the last logo played when the compass spun back to space and the jingle quietly playrd for the last time and the snow appeared on screen I was really in tears and i was crying and sobbing and went back to bed very sad.

[@rtcp2020]

This is probably the oldest ever case of children crying because of sad tv show I have ever seen

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you for this of course. The evolution of time with the idents for the then ITV companies of Southern, TVS and Meridian so too. Well done too!

[@TheChipmunk2008]

The one that made me cry most was southern's star going away. Yep, i'm an 8 yr old again

[@shoshanabinyamin]

The rainbow upside down atari logo on the tvs logo was so cool

[@cliveevans3328]

I remember southern television. from when I used to stay at my grandparents house in Worthing in the 70s. .happy memories. ..

[@icecreammanevans1204]

The southern TV station brings back so many memories of when I used to stay at my nana and grandads house during the summer holidays .In their house in Worthing. .happy happy days .Both sadly missed. ..

[@endrightwinglunacy]

1:13 Iconic 2:11 Wish I'd seen that live 3:03 Ed Welch's musical masterpiece (perfection for its time) 4:35 Peak of the TVS dent and music evolution (especially in Coast to Coast "flip over" form) 5:36 Dignified 6:02 Possibly the best ITV ident post '93, certainly the most unique 6:30 Watered down 6:35 Zzzzzz (music not bad though, love the electro Eastenderesuqe tom-tom at start) 6:42 Possibly the worst ITV ident post '93

[@thecoolpersonmillie7525]

Didnt Ed Welch compose for thomas and friends series?

[@thecoolpersonmillie7525]

Ik this is late

[@GaelitoBru_YTOfficial]

The part of 3:03 that's my childhood of this Music of TVS PS: I don't live or born on UK Greetings from Bolivia

[@jane1975]

@@thecoolpersonmillie7525 The 2004-2008 series yes, not the original series though. Ed mainly did both TSW and TVS theme tunes, and also theme from Blockbusters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Welch

[@georgeholland2934]

Ed Welch was certainly a genius when it came to producing catchy television theme tunes. The Coast to Coast theme was very memorable and it was effectively an extended version of the 1987 ident jingle, rather like Channel 4 had Fourscore for start-ups. Meridian started with their best idents in 1993 and it was downhill thereafter in terms of production values. The 1999 ITV hearts idents reduced that distinctive and elaborate eclipsed sun logo to a little smudge in a blue box. I barely remember Southern. They went off air when I was just three.

[@cliveevans9795]

Oh the memories of my grand parents house in Worthing used to spend two weeks there

[@toddhunter5257]

The meridian logo and tunes are unique. Love it!

[@thecoolpersonmillie7525]

But tvs and southern's are way better

[@toddhunter3137]

​@@thecoolpersonmillie7525they're all good but Meridian just came across as being a bit playful with their idents plus it's what I grew up with.

[@WhovianSentaiRiderFan]

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[@annasoriano3984]

Well if you're wondering what happened so am i

[@janinefarnell8570]

Right in the middle of Day by Day😂

[@Srbio1]

Man this guy copied every word from 1977 incident

[@TheZacDJ]

I loved the TVS Opening it still stands up to modern day standards. Especially the Coast to Coast opening with the 'flip over'

[@malcolmhartley5031]

4.44 I hand drew all the animated magic dust movement for the 'Christmas at TVS' one! First I traced over the live action frames of the video on a 12 inch TV monitor. Then hand animated the shapes of the magic dust movement to match. These drawings were made into mattes for a sequence of sheets of black card, with random pin holes jabbed into them, shot frame by frame on a rostrum camera, against a backlight with a sparkle filter and coloured filter, on the lens. Shot on film, then added to the live footage in post production. Before computer animation was widely used.

[@CyrilFitzgerald]

These are a 'blast from the past' - many thanks for posting them, David :)

[@grahamhenderson6833]

Bring back regional ITV, Southern and TVS made programmes for the region, Meridian used too but now its just a news service

[@UncleFeedle]

The 70's Southern ident used to creep me out. I think it was because it always preceded the creepy Wurzel Gummidge. Oh, and How, with its freaky, psychadelic title sequence.

[@stopscaringus2473]

Southern did not just scare you, it was a memory.

[@johnmacleod4481]

The music at the beginning of one identity sounds as if its going to burst into the man about the house TV theme tune or am I hearing things.

[@lukegreen5341]

4:13 The TVS Logo Is Taken From The 1989 Television Series TUGS. Thanks Davidjr Mate. X

[@traeyboy529]

TVS's logo looks a bit like the Yorkshire Television logo except they put a extra part of it.

[@leesaunders8193]

The best ones were always TVS's first, with the coloured T thing, and Meridian, whose great logo was dismissed in a competition for Worst TV Logo as a "conglomeration of blobs and spikes" - not true! It's a lovely logo and ident.

[@jaydee2559]

That brings back some memories! i still really miss TVS and never did think Meridian came close. The TVS Idents had pride.. the meridian ones.. well they just looked cheesy.

[@YuletheLuckyOwl]

Cheesy? Ummmm... I've actually seen logos that are truly cheesy and Meridian's logo is not on my list.... Well I'm sorry! ~Yule

[@Orange9098ItsOrangewithContent]

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[@markmorris9427]

Unfortunately I...

[@superpan218]

6:17 That sounds more like Ska than Reggae.

[@CJODell12]

5:58. This is Meridian, on Friday 1 January 1993.

[@WHUFCboy3456]

2:28 rip Southern

[@markmorris9427]

Yeah ripped off southern 61 anniversary

[@markmorris9427]

What happened to you senpaibuns from Gacha club

[@toddhunter3137]

Tvs old Fern Britton quaffing the free champers while the audience that look like they've just been coached in by the bus load look as if all they got was some instant coffee in a polystyrene cup. 😅

[@Moviesxp]

NOT THE STAR SPINNING TO SPACE 1981 IDENT! ITS LIKE THE THOMAS VHS WHERE JAMES GOT STUNG BY A BEE! 2:14

[@systemshocker2875]

That was their farewell logo as it was shutting down when this logo was shown

[@scottsbox669]

Bring back Southern

[@eileenkane4247]

who is ofcom

[@eileenkane4247]

and how come they own tvs and southern

[@eileenkane4247]

plus isnt tvs owned by abc family worldwide

[@jane1975]

@Eileen Kane: Ofcom is now the broadcasting regulatory company, its also were TV complaints go too. It was originally way back called the ITA, which was re-named the IBA which owned the transmitters that the franchises broadcasted from[hence the announcements in the startups]. This became the ITC, which then merged with the BSC [British Standards Commission] and Oftel to become Ofcom as it is today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Broadcasting_Authority

[@tadc345fan]

It was dissolved in 1991.

[@Moviesxp]

I live in henryville manor also I’m at holiday at Portrush. The itv logos look good

[@tomosburton1756]

Not the 1981 Southern flying away ident! It's like the Thomas the Tank Engine episode where James gets stung by a cartoon bee!

[@scotty87able]

Meridian forever

[@zazanasir9153]

If I don’t have tv 📺 I’ll get sadly

[@twitchygiraffe]

I've seen that final programme that southern put out on new years eve 1981, how depressing must that have been for the staff and presenters to have to do, everyone else in the other itv regions partying and they look like they were all stood in a line to be shot! And the ident drifting off into space like that well it was like a live television funeral was'nt it!!

[@jane1975]

@twitchygiraffe: They decided to throw a tantrum and a hissy fit about losing the franchise, put that sour grapes programme on and apparently didn't even do the startup IBA notice either that day. They also mocked TVS in a song, they were not the only franchise though to be sore losers, TWW did the same thing when they lost to Harlech, in fact they decided to bow out and leave a few months before the scheduled hand-over, leaving poor Harlech ( later renamed HTV ) and the ITA [later IBA and now Ofcom ]to "pick up" the pieces and the programming [theirs and TWW's] and since technically they were not supposed to hand-over yet, Harlech had to still go under TWW's name until that time. The irony with the Southern presenters was that many of them went on to work for TVS: Brian Nissen, Christopher Robbie both went on to do continuity for TVS in its early days, so not all of them lost their jobs when the franchise was taken over.

[@levisjeans1901]

Southern Television did their start up on 31st December 1981, just as they always had. I have spoken to former Southern employees who told me that there was more to Southern losing the franchise; and they had every reason to be sad at their loss

[@mattsfarm01lives01]

Man i miss TVS. Meridian was never as good

[@cineplexuk-fabian7976]

Wait a Second Why is That Grass at The Middle Of THATTVS Intro Had a Picture of a Horse

[@jane1975]

@Mrs Butterfly Productions Ltd: The aerial photography is showing region that TVS covers, that's the Osmington White Horse Chalk figure in Dorset. Chalk figures are common around the UK, particularly a lot in the South and South East since Chalk is prominent in those areas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmington_White_Horse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_figure

[@Gaston0695]

​@@jane1975that was actually a hill figure that looks awfuly similar to the Lloyd's Bank logo

[@Moviesxp]

Farewell TVS, welcome meridian, hello 1993

[@lukegreen5341]

This Music Is Funky. X

[@SuperTed19021]

My region!

[@pit10-zrhlkuzgun23]

TVS Television South died New Years Eve Thursday 31st December 1992 after they lost their franchise into Meridian... 4 good whatever?

[@lindataylor4230]

TVS is that true??

[@jane1975]

@@lindataylor4230 Yes TVS or Television South lost its franchise to Meridian in the franchise auction of 1992. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_South ITV in the Face Documentary: South and South East kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWfHpWaOnM6LhpY

[@retrocomputerkidkris]

bring back TVS

[@eileenkane4247]

and while there at it bring back uister not utv but actully uister

[@oliverpackman3138]

Who lives in the southeast I do and where. I live in Faversham :)

[@toddhunter5257]

Oliver Packman I live in Salford, and I remember the old meridian days when I visited down south, the ident I thought was quite quirky.. Nice tune to it. 😏

[@jane1975]

@Oliver Packman: I used to, I was born in Brighton and lived around the coast from Rottingdean( when I was a newborn), South Heighton ( aged 1-5 ), Seaford ( 1980-88 ), and finally Alfriston ( 1988-2003 ). I now live in Central Scotland.

[@matthewpayton]

GREAT I DENTS.

[@ruthagapov5284]

Vitani

[@cineplexuk-fabian7976]

5:12

[@pit10-zrhlkuzgun23]

Tigress has a nightmare.

[@VirginSony]

0:49

[@ruthagapov5284]

Nuka

[@zazanasir9153]

Im sad of southern’s music

[@Moviesxp]

I miss TVS, TVS idents were good...the meridian idents were...... ...boring

[@Moviesxp]

Stop selling TVS To Median

[@MrMichael100]

Good riddance to Southern, it was rubbish. Jack Hargreaves my arse!

[@Moviesxp]

Michal, how dare you SHout at me? That's it! You are getting kicked!

[@Gaston0695]

Why do you hate Southern? You know that's just your opinion

[@VirginSony]

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