Yorkshire Television Ident History

[@Miler97487]

I don't live anywhere in the UK but here in the States I'd see the Yorkshire TV ident when I watched Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (1980) on the Discovery Channel in the 1980s.

[@Miler97487]

@Perseus1275 Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World only aired on the Discovery Channel in the States so no CBS or NBC logo would have been seen, but of course the Discovery logo was displayed. Eventually Discovery had to remove the Yorkshire Television ident probably due to legal reasons likely from ITV.

[@onlineamiga]

0:54 proper intense nostalgic feels with this one. Remember this from when I was a kid.

[@Elitist20]

In Australia, about the only Yorkshire TV programs we'd see regularly in the 70s and 80s were Alan Whicker's. Only just found out the music is the Yorkshire anthem On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At.

[@westyorkshirebiker8270]

Can't hear these without thinking of the continuity announcer Redvers Kyle introducing whichever program was on next back in the 80's.

[@petergaley314]

So I remember the one at 0:36 being mentioned favourably in a computing magazine at the time, suggesting it took a lot of skill and comparing it to the Mr Chips anims from Catchphrase which "your dog could do". I assumed they were right at the time, but now I look back, the YTV logo, while it might have taken a ton of time to render, probably didn't demand a lot of human effort, whereas the Catchphrase stuff would all have to be done by hand.

[@photopulse321]

Poor old YTV all those years of quality production wiped out by ITV! it's a shame that ITV took away all idents and regional programming

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

Agree. Downhill from there.

[@ChrisATV301]

Ofcom have ruined both TV & local radio full stop!

[@Bigtoonscomedycartoons479]

I Wish The Old Yorkshire TV Is Back.

[@thefrecklepuny]

As a Leeds lad, these bring back some memories.

[@FromtheHerts81]

I grew up in the southeast with LWT. It never had something as dramatic as YTV’s fanfare until it went orchestral in the late 90s.

[@gb5858]

0.38 by far the best version, luscious orchestration….

[@benjaminclasper9355]

The 1970’s Yorkshire television colour production logos are always my favourites.

[@jeshkam]

0:16 Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World

[@marnanel]

0:47 interesting that this was the only one where they used the rest of "Ilkley Moor Bar t'At".

[@exsquilax]

0.26 sounds the most triumphant! They should have kept that tbh! 🤔

[@mattabouttrails]

Watching this in 2022 from New Zealand... Bring flash backs of youth.. 😆

[@ooeyb]

bring back regional idents!

[@MikeWildePredator]

0:38, That’s The Ident For The Raggy Dolls Via VHS.

[@SigHawk04]

If I didn't know better, I'd think that was a Los Angeles Rams helmet at 1:01.

[@GryphLane]

"Come home to Channel 3" Whoever thought that was a good idea?

[@wesleyhulse4656]

Bruce Gingel... That's who.

[@kwesiidun8512]

Gryph Lane - "Channel 3" is actually ITV's legal name, probably hence why the continuity announcer said it.

[@abandoned---channel-o7b]

I don't Wanna go home to channel 3, I wanna go home to Yorkshire 😔

[@robertcomer2767]

@@kwesiidun8512 The Broadcasting Act 1991 referred to them as Channel 3 licences. They weren't advertised as ITV licences.

[@jbtv7955]

I thought itv was channel 2 because it was released in 1955 but hey not gonna complain

[@jonhay3141]

The jingle is derived from the Yorkshire Folk Song "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" of course!

[@willlovesgaz]

0:07 looks like the opening to Doctor Who :) :)

[@westyorkshirebiker8270]

God that takes me back.

[@97channel]

The Liquid Gold ident seems a little different in this video to how I've always seen it everywhere else. The white lettering forms in a more golden hue here, and the backdrop is missing the subtle blue gradient.

[@eclectica1]

And now I want to watch an episode of Emmerdale Farm, circa 1979. Who's with me?

[@jep1912]

The original 'y' logo was designed by Rex Ripley.

[@lindsaypriestley8385]

remember this one now lived in Yorkshire.

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

Would love to see/hear the Calendar Sport music from the mid seventies, been looking for it for yonks..

[@meganconnell6853]

I remember some of the logos when I was little girl for years.

[@donnafairburn1463]

BRING BACK YORKSHIRE TELEVISION

[@andyt8216]

Absolutely. The Scots got to keep STV and the Northern Irish UTV, we want our YTV back!

[@mikemartin2957]

@@andyt8216 it must surely still exist,at least with the Calendar news programme & Emmerdale? (A lot of YTV classic stuff on ITV3 & thru Network DVD)At least their studios ( which are huge) are still in business. At least Yorkshire have a great archive going way back to 1967/8 ! STV have very little archive ; very little was saved prior to 1979.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I like the stereo version of the old logo, jumps out of all 5.1 speakers of my LG Dolby Pro Logic II / DTS / Dolby Digital home cinema speaker system!

[@TCDL11]

before the start of Emmerdale Farm, the brass section turned up to 11, you instantly recognised the Yorkshire five note ident tune, was known to frighten the living daylights out of some viewers,

[@gavinpowers1217]

ON ILKLEY MOOR BAR 'tHAT!!

[@vhayes2257]

0:38 followed closely by 0:25 - those are my favourites. 0:25 especially. They've stopped boasting about being in colour, and the tune has a more serious note to it.

[@pattravell3324]

Where I can watch the series "Emmerdale" dated after the 10th year????

[@buttersnapswright126]

I only Remember the Yorkshire logo when I was 2 years old

[@springkitty3935]

1:08

[@cteasdale1979]

You could get Yorkshire tv in st Helens in north west England

[@glenncooney3959]

You missed the 2nd version of the ITV-YTV ident.

[@jane1975]

3 idents are missing here: the 3-2-1 intro ident, second 1989 Generic ident ( you can see why they changed it, I mean the chevron wouldn’t of been that hard to incorporate I into that V, now would it? Shows how much thought, care and attention were put into them, it’s no wonder that some of the companies said “ sod off” to them lol) and there is another one I have seen that has a graphic of homes with all their tv aerials all pointing to transmitters and one of them turns yellow and points downward to the Yorkshire “ bar bar bar bar bar” tune. I liked their postcard ident though, Channel 3 ident was shite, although at least Yorkshire cheekily kept their Chevron, poor Tyne Tees lost theirs in the original animation.

[@petef7323]

The classic Yorkshire ident followed by the classic Hammer Horror Appointment with Fear. 😨

[@poddington]

Iconic

[@formerlygrimagikoopa]

it’s all fun and games in 2012 yorkshire until that one kid asks “och mæt, wanna go ‘tghround me ‘ouse an pleeeh blakk opz 2, moiæt?”

[@AW336Lab]

Hahahahahaha

[@supersuperuser]

Yellow orange and loud right?

[@andrewswift8487]

1987's at 0:38 says final series of 3-2-1 to me

[@robosborne7103]

the theme sounds like its saying "Ray gets in the way"?

[@christianimations7853]

It sounds like "Yorkshire on TV!!!"

[@jane1975]

Rob Osborne I believe it’s supposed to sound like chords of the tune “ On Ilkley Moor Ba’tat “ on old Yorkshire folk song.

[@stepheng8779]

I was only a kid at the time but I remember the Christmas / December when the BBC went on strike, even worse for us YTV walked out too. Cue lots of 2nd aerials going up pointing towards Tyne Tees for something at least however ropey the picture. I think Yorkshire finally showed the Xmas shows at the end of January 😀

[@LogoFreak93]

My favorite one is the long version color one, it's a cool fanfare

[@Twicefan-sm8xz]

Which One

[@LogoFreak93]

@@Twicefan-sm8xz 1968-1969

[@Twicefan-sm8xz]

@@LogoFreak93 Oh Ok

[@willporter7884]

55 sec is best one followed by 1.25

[@Kyosume]

0:29 1 for my ident

[@iamarig]

0:20

[@joseluisuv3]

0:00 this intro part of the logo reminds me of Screen Gems Australia.

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

I'm positive I remember a Yorkshire Television logo with the same music featured on all of the earlier logos with a slightly different, higher pitched arrangement and a purple 'Y' instead of a yellow one in the early / mid 80s?

[@ngriffith4361]

Yorkshire Television Logo History (2006)

[@Bigtoonscomedycartoons479]

Is That A PAL? 0:55

[@coachtodd2]

My favorite ident is at 0:29

[@AyeVistaPicturesLTD.]

I only remember this from itv3

[@GeorgeLowther2000]

I’m A Yorkshire Lad

[@bigrobbo75]

'Nei gets in the way ?"

[@monicaabreu5072]

0:16 Sounds like Old Star

[@Fonziedaz1]

Yorkshire tv logo 👌

[@ScottTheAnimatorEST]

here's the list 1st Logo (1968-1969) 0:00 You can find this logo in normal tone kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXjPk2ydeap5fJY Bonus: logo created by Dave Jeffery 0:06 2nd Logo (1969-1989) 0:15 you can find the long version at kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYnEoJZ6rNZ7g8U 3rd Logo (1983 & 1986) 0:29 : You can see this variant: follow me at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXu0nqupmLqHgs0 4th logo (1984-1989) you can find it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/joHalIKsp6-lmKM 5th logo (1987-1989) 0:38 you can find the remake at kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXS6ZICMmbiMn80 6th logo (1989-1994, ITV) 0:54 7th logo (1989) 0:46 8th logo (1994-1996) 1:09 9th logo (1996-1999) 1:23 10th logo (1998-2002) 1:36 11th logo (1999-2002) 1:47 that's all

[@aceflashheart2523]

I’ve never seen the second ident before. It must be very rare.

[@stuart121972]

I’m fairly sure the second one is a mock of what could have been if the first ident had been “colourised”.

[@user4216]

@@stuart121972 it’s not a mock.its real.

[@mikemartin2957]

@@user4216 YTV were one of the first , along with LWT & Thames to think about colour ; possibly 1967/8

[@user4216]

@@mikemartin2957 ok

[@lce124]

My mum and dad still call it Yorkshire 😂

[@glenncooney3959]

lce124 I still call it YTV, or Yorkshire

[@andyhopkinson5970]

0.46 the tune goes on ilkla moor on ilkla moor on ilkla moor bah tat translated on ilkley moor without a hat ...not advisable

[@AlexGonzalez-lq9lu]

York The Peachoid

[@Santiago19347]

Yorkshire tv

[@pak8606]

The second ident must be fake

[@Santiago19347]

3

[@BlShell]

Well...the 2001 generic ident sounds like "meridian"

[@subwaygaragemusic]

They were composed by David Dundas, who also did the Meridian and the 1989 ITV tune as well as Channel 4's iconic "Fourscore".

[@BlShell]

@@subwaygaragemusic thank you and i will go do some research

[@subwaygaragemusic]

@@BlShell No problem.

[@MrSean64]

The 2nd one is not real.

[@traeyboy529]

It's likely a really rare logo and not a fake. Nobody knows.

[@MrSean64]

The original video video for that had the word "mock" in it, so it IS fake.

[@SALTOWNPRODUCTIONS2]

It's very well done. I wondered why I couldn't remember having seen it before.

[@MrSean64]

SALT TOWN PRODUCTIONS 2 it's because it's fake!

[@SALTOWNPRODUCTIONS2]

Indeed. I'm saying that will be the reason I've never seen it before.

[@BHAFC-5]

🤭

[@BlShell]

Ummmmmmm...thames doesn't exist anymore

[@BlShell]

And also lwt doesn't exist anymore

[@BlShell]

With this you forgot itsww that turned 50 also this year (itsww=independent television service for the wales and the west),but doesn't exist anymore

[@BlShell]

And meridian,carlton and westcountry turned 25

[@BlShell]

Why lwt doesn't exist anymore? That's because of ✴ CARLTON

[@BlShell]

GRANADA ⬆ G

[@Joyousmicor]

Stop high-pitching some idents.

[@angelagreen5208]

Just ignore them and keep doing what you do best.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Many of these were taken from KZbin videos where the uploader of *those* had high-pitched the idents. Unfortunately many of them are the only copies of those idents available on KZbin.

[@angelagreen5208]

@@stickytapenrust6869 so... What's the point?

[@stickytapenrust6869]

To give as complete a history of Yorkshire TV's idents as possible. An ident with a high pitch is better than none at all.

[@supersuperuser]

Good morning welcome to yokshire tv