Yorkshire Television Start Up Theme 1982-88

[@waynemarshall272]

Only Yorkshire Television could give us so much anticipation and excitement. This version and the original start up theme could give that sense of pride and emotion. Why can’t we have start ups like these again?.

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Why not indeed too.

[@paulsimpson6899]

This is why KZbin is the only website you need, when someone can upload this classic theme in such great quality and you're instantly taken back to when you yourself was sat recording it from the telly speaker in 1985

[@davidalancross2836]

1973

[@LateNiteRadio]

Pure 80's class. Back in the days when Yorkshire televison was a true local station,and not just a name from London.

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

This is crap. Try the early 1970`s Yorkshire Television start up

[@bryanhiggins3102]

Calendar has never come from London as far as I know. :/ It's always been in Leeds.

[@stevedickson5853]

@@bryanhiggins3102 All itv regions have been centralized since 2002, only the regional news programmes are local, all announcers etc and programme line up are centralized

[@bryanhiggins3102]

Not the end though. As long as the programmes are still good, I'm happy. I'm a sucker for nostalgia, but I like to look forward too.

[@JimmySand9]

That was the beautiful thing about ITV, all of the stations were local. None of them were from London; well, except for Thames and LWT, of course. We luckily still have local stations with different identities here in the States, though even here the charm and uniqueness of each station has diminished over the years. PBS has even been pushing their affiliates to ditch their local identities entirely, many of whom have sadly obliged.

[@JamesTaylor-om3sg]

Best tune ever. I'll have it at my funeral lol

[@revinhatol]

0:55 - This is Yorkshire Television, broadcasting from the Emley Moor, Belmont and associated transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

[@sglenny001]

I love that voice

[@christopherwadden-holmes2073]

@@sglenny001 Would have been even better in a Yorkshire accent.

[@sglenny001]

@@christopherwadden-holmes2073 honestly happy it doesn't lol

[@SebnF7]

I am fortunate to have the complete recording of this piece by Christopher Gunner. Everything he composes is a winner!

[@musicboy80smusicboy]

Chris Gunning isn't it? Can you share ....?

[@thehorsebox6851]

used as the theme tune to Calendar in the 80's and this is the full version as i remember it

[@johnhaywood1253]

If the A-Team lived in Doncaster, this would be their theme.

[@sglenny001]

The A Team in Donny Perfect Dodgy Dave and the Gang at it again The Balby Babs Baz Bentley Alex Adwick How would The South Yorkshire Transport react The Mad Mexborough Market It's there arch rival Robby Rotherham Spacial Agent STEVE STEEL DAVID BLUNKETT task The A Team

[@christopherwadden-holmes2073]

Does anyone else immediately think of the late great Richard Whiteley when they hear this?

[@1979jrt]

Can we stop asking for a non voice over please? Part of the joy is having the late Redvers Kyle doing the voiceover when he probably brought Yorkshire alive after TV-AM and before schools tv

[@djtechno95]

Unfortunately, we cannot. There are always gonna be some people asking for a clean version and who just wanna get absorbed in the whole spaciousness and sophistication of the piece. I once downloaded a clean stereo version (including a quiet count-in) from meldrum.co.uk but now I have lost it. Even the version on SoundCloud has a voiceover, thereby justifying the need for a clean no-voiceover version.

[@kargaroc386]

no

[@GryphLane]

@@kargaroc386 Yes.

[@chriswathen9612]

YTV was one of the few stations where the authority announcement was done live by the duty announcer...not all startups have Redvers if he wasn't on that day. They would have sat in the booth waiting for the exact point in the music they had to make the announcement and knew they could not cock it up when it was a legal requirement. At least respect them enough to listen to them.

[@markwrightrf]

One of my all time favourites and in a sort of epiphany moment, and without wanting to sound too pretentious, I think the composer wanted to encompass all of the things you might see on YTV - there's drama, playful comedy, romance, current affairs style moments in this composition. Until 3:55 - not sure YTV ever broadcast anything with this type of XXX funky soundtrack ;-)

[@CaptainSiCo]

Chris Gunning's Yorkshire Theme - one of the best pieces of startup music

[@abandoned---channel-o7b]

Yorkshire were kind of dingusus by the turn of the century, but they have the BEST startups of the ITV reigons.

[@garethbramley1]

Great piece of music ('Yorkshire Theme') specially composed by Christopher Gunning

[@1979jrt]

You don't need an unedited version mate Redvers Kyle was GOD!!!!!!

[@paulmcdonald3011]

Redvers kyle and maggie mash... wonderful!

[@andyjhibbert]

I've been listening out for the Central TV theme of the same era but found this little known gem. Class, total class

[@MQsCues]

The finale on this is miles better than Central's endings though!

[@matthewakian2]

How sad am I, I love these themes and they're on my playlist.

[@muppet7680]

Not sad at all, each to his own.

[@simonbest1152]

I miss the YTV logo.

[@jane1975]

Simon Best I miss regional ITV.

[@jane1975]

Ian Halsall We used to go on UK breaks too and we used to live in TVS region, but, I used to look forward to seeing the other regions idents and presentation.

[@GryphLane]

​@@jane1975 When visiting different regions was like going abroad because you had a whole different station to watch.

[@MondySpartan]

When this became a startup theme of YTV in 1982, a part of it was also used by Calendar, Yorkshire’s regional news programme.

[@grahampearson5283]

I know.

[@craig1538]

Wow! Towd Redvers Kyle. Bless him.

[@waynemarshall272]

Around 4:17 the theme seems to take on a slightly sinister tone. It’s like the Chevron is getting ready to come out and get you.

[@oprah58]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! it brings it all back i feel like a kid again thank you so much for uploading this its going in my privata e collection boy i cant even type straight im enjoying it so much dodoodo dadddd taaattaaaa cheers wayne great taste dont make them like this anymore

[@fearfulharmony2250]

I live in one of the places where the Belmont Transmitter was broadcasting to and I had Anglia and not Yorkshire Television when I was meant to have Yorkshire Television.

[@GryphLane]

Had your aerial pointing the opposite direction 😉

[@jacksugden8190]

Mine was A Well Swunf Fanfare used in London Weekend Television.

[@jrdavis1992]

Want to hear this in stereo sound? Play this video on a PS Vita or hook up your computer to a hifi system, you'll get goosebumps from the effects.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I am listening in Dolby Pro Logic II movie surround mode and my god, sounds even better than 2-channel stereo.

[@richardsharpe2966]

This song would make a great national anthem for Yorkshire when the day come's when Yorkshire become an Independent Country

[@bwc1976]

The 70's version would be even better, more proud and military sounding.

[@timjohnson689]

Basically the twelve inch version of the Calendar theme, right? ;-)

[@grahampearson5283]

Indeed it is.

[@davidalancross2836]

Magic

[@kargaroc386]

This music is great :)

[@itscrumbelivable]

For some reason it sounds like a Mario Kart song at points

[@1979jrt]

Best local music and into when working up to handover

[@DavidTraynier]

I love this theme. I've never been able to find anything about who composed it or whether an HQ version of it is available anywhere.

[@SamHodkin23]

That legend of TV composing Christopher Gunning was responsible, and yes it is.

[@DavidTraynier]

Hello Sam. Thank you for your reply and for the information. I've often looked for this on complications of TV music over the years. It's takes me back to being six and listening to it while waiting for TV to start (a concept doubtless alien to anyone under 20). Do you have a link or a source for a clean HQ version, please?

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I like the fact that the theme is in stereo

[@amerazmirohazamofficial9450]

Yorkshire Television Y Of Doom.

[@waynemarshall272]

As a Yorkshire lad I always thought we were very lucky to live in God’s Own County and to have the uk’s best independent local TV network on our doorstep. The YTV Chevron was probably the most recognisable logo in the land. Plain, simple and straight to the point with no buggering about which is the Yorkshire Way of doing things. Some people say it was a scary logo but I never saw it like that. The ATV logo was the stuff of nightmares. Imagine going to bed after Crossroads and shutting your eyes to find the ATV logo coming to get you it was well scary. Who can forget the 321 YTV ident that came to life and went through the opening titles of 321 like magic?.

[@alfienoaks]

I will add again for a cleaner version

[@garrysimpson1395]

Yorkshire Television,was it true [As someone who had Southern,TVS and Merdian] That Yorkshire TV had a Leeds bias and was hated everywhere else because of that? GOD BLESS

[@garrysimpson1395]

Thanks! Am I right in thinking that BBC Look North has three seperate editions now. Leeds,Sheffeld and Manchester which are available nationwide on the SKY DIGITAL SATELLITE Platform? GOD BLESS

[@yellobelly5850]

The problem lay in the fact that the area served by Belmont transmitter (mainly Lincolnshire) received Anglia until 1974, at which point the governing body of ITV switched it to Yorkshire. The area was perfectly happy with Anglia but the powers that be deemed otherwise. I think over the years YTV won the county over (despite the name) and certainly developed better regional news coverage than Anglia ever had.

[@garrysimpson1395]

yellobelly Thank You Yellobelly! It is a pity that as from October 22nd 2007 [Thanks to Sir Micheal Grade] The ITV Local News Service is reduced from 15 Regions to 8 Regions. With One Regional News Service [Here in the South] Instead of 3 and NO Regional News Service in Plymouth! Which now comes from Bristol! PS Did Yorkshire TV invent Calender Countdown in September 1982,before it"s Network showing on Channel Four in November 1982? GOD BLESS and Thanks.

[@addapiffer2009]

yellobelly Not all of the area was "perfectly happy" with Anglia. Living in the heart of Yorkshire and only able to receive stuff from Norwich wasn't much fun. The only saving grace was sniggering at Anglia weatherman Michael "don't shorten my name" Hunt.

[@garrysimpson1395]

Adda Piffer So there was no way you could get Yorkshire TV,even with a HUGE araial? I know for a fact people in Alton,Hampshire could receive Thames/LWT in the 1970s and Poole general Hospitial could receive both Westward and Southern TV! I live in the south,so we had 3 Franchise changes Southern [1955 to 1981] TVS [1982 to 1993] and Meridian [1993 to 2009] Howdid you get Anglia and not Yorkshire TV in the heart of Yorkshire? I don"t know about you I miss the old Regional ITV [which ended on 22nd October 2009] Here in the south, [Thanks to Sir Micheal Grade are Regional News programme has news from The New Forest [where I live to Kent. There used to be THREE SEPERATE PROGRAMMES on Meridian! Is it just as bad with Calender News? You seem like a nice man/woman I hope to hear from you soon. Disabled UK viewer. GOD BLESS! Thank You for your reply that was very kind of you and I thank you for that. As a disabled carrer it"s nice to hear fro m anybody for me now! Thank You!

[@CNash85]

Was a "clean" version ever released on a compilation CD?

[@jrdavis1992]

Is there a version without the voiceover?

[@djtechno95]

Can someone please upload a high-quality stereo version of this beautiful piece of music WITHOUT the continuity voiceover?

[@revinhatol]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGKbfnepqsR6iJo

[@johnwainwright8276]

Shame they scraped Yorkshire TV

[@bagpuss211]

Awesome tune, what's the title, & who's it performed thus by? Please could someone supply the necessary info, & without any swearing?

[@garethbramley1]

It's specially composed by Christopher Gunning - 'Yorkshire Theme'.

[@1979jrt]

God bless redyers Kyle

[@WAYNE1977100]

I will be uploading that piece of music very soon.

[@CANNYZEROSUGAR]

Actual time: 0:10-4:53

[@kargaroc386]

So is there a version without the voiceover?

[@1979jrt]

You need no free voice over mate, Redvers and Crossse were top continuity announcers and they made it mentioning Emley Moor and the transmitters!

[@dragoncalf]

I agree, no piece of audio would ever be improved by removing the great Redvers Kyle from it!

[@richcampoverde]

What in the name of holy christ have i stumbled across

[@oneurope]

richcampoverde can you not read??!

[@matelot95]

Not a patch on Derek New's Yorkshire March IMO.

[@grahampearson5670]

matelot95, the start up tune played over the static Yorkshire Television caption is the theme tune to Calendar.