TV-am News clip (20 August 1989, 8am-8.10am)

Geoff Meade, Lorraine Kelly and Linda Mitchell with the TV-am News from the day of the Marchioness disaster.

[@trishyangel123]

*_Almost 30 years on… R.I.P to all those who died in this dreadful accident xxxx_*

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

1987-1989. Britain. King's Cross Fire, Herald of Free Enterprise, Lockerbie, Clapham Junction Collision, Kegworth Plane Crash, Hillsborough, Marchioness Disaster. Staggering to think all these disasters occurred within months of one another. 30 Years Ago now.

[@mercifulzeus01]

Add to that the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in 1988.

[@WedgePee]

@@mercifulzeus01 Deal Barracks bombing too.

[@eamonnevans8005]

I remember this horrible crash in 1989. My dad lost 2 of his close friends in the disaster.

[@nlgbbbblth]

Got my Leaving Cert results on Saturday 19th August; woke up with a raging hangover the following morning and caught the newsflashes like this one. RIP to all.

[@johnking5174]

+nlgbbbblth You said "Leaving Cert" so I assume you are from the Irish republic? Did you get multi-channel, the UK channels as well as Irish channels too?

[@nlgbbbblth]

+John King Yes. In 1989 those of us in the South East of Ireland got the Welsh variants of ITV and Channel 4 - namely HTV and S4C. We also had BBC 1 and BBC 2 as well as the two Irish channels. People who lived in Dublin got UTV and Channel 4.

[@johnking5174]

Is that on cable, because I would be surprised if you on the south east of Ireland could get a strong signal. Never went the other way, we in the UK never got the Irish channels. Still don't.

[@nlgbbbblth]

+John King Yes, on cable - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_Ireland

[@johnking5174]

Seems Ireland was way ahead with cable television that us here in the UK. Even now Virgin Media is not available across the country. Was cable available across your area from 1989?

[@97channel]

Where did that remarkably precise measurement of the time taken for the boat to sink come from? I'd accept that it took around 20 seconds, but they very confidently report an exact 22. Very odd.

[@BenjaminNavillus]

An amazing time capsule of the year 1989: Marchioness, Hillsborough, collapse of the Eastern Bloc/global communism, environmental issues, Lockerbie legal wrangling and Acid House parties. Some sort of reference to Thatcher and Bush or at least Kylie and Jason and it'd be complete.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Indeed. Not to forget Tiananmen Square, the invasion of Panama, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan....

[@jamesdelboy]

When I was about 5 year old I used watch WAC 90 so while the news was on I would read a newspaper then I would say what the newsreader said Now it's time for WAC 90 with Michaela and Mike

[@markmcloughlin3514]

30 years ago today rip all

[@tryingtocatchastar]

wow lorraine has been around forever.

[@annemariestones3984]

Yes and she looks older then than now in lots of ways. I guess that is 80s power dressing for you!

[@stormendless552]

0:16: TV-am Reports ident

[@97channel]

Sunday? I don't recall TV-am ever having such a cohesive service at the weekend. A few cartoons, a bit of David Frost fulfilling the IBA's demand to meet a certain quoter of worthiness, and that's your lot. As GMTV remarked, upon taking over the franchise, "TV-am threw their audiences away at the weekend.".

[@johnking5174]

+97channel From 8.00am they had a cohesive service of news, current affairs and politics which would run until 9.25am. From 6.00am until 8.00am it was just short news summaries on the hour filled by cartoons and kids programming.

[@IanBeaumont128]

Kinda ironic that GMTV said that, when GMTV practically didn’t exist at the weekend. TV-am at least used to have a sports preview programme on Saturdays at 6am, and David Frost/Ann Diamond/TV-am Reports etc Sunday’s at 8am. There isn’t anything like that these days.

[@jcampton1]

Looking at the date i'm guessing this was David Frost's summer replacement while he was on his holidays

[@dutchvanhelsing6671]

I can't beleive that the start of the fall of Communism took second billing to the thames story. It was so sad but this thing taking place in Poland was as a result from people dying from 50 years of Eastern bloc brutality.......R.I.P. to those lost souls on the river...

[@MatgoStyles]

The fall of Communism was an ongoing story that was regularly the top of the bill.

[@jackbrown4120]

I don't care about Poland.