I'm still miffed that the likes of Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston get served by Granada, when it's in Cumbria and technically closer to Carlisle. Even Border have covered Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston on Lookaround because Granada Reports clearly can't be arsed.
Depends. The Daily Mirror referred to 'Harlech' well into the 70s (and 80s?) and it must have taken a prod for certain papers to use TVS instead of 'South'. And yes, people often referred to STV as 'Scottish', not helping that it went from STV to Scottish then back to STV again.
Harlech would have been quite old. When I was growing up in Bristol in the 80's it was firmly HTV. I didn't even know what the H stood for until the past few years when my nerd middle aged ass watched too many YouTube videos.
We got Granada and HTV Cymru but on good nights we sometimes got Central and/or Yorkshire TV (got the latter quite well when it was the only station broadcasting overnight - The Music Box iirc)
Living on the border, where a tweak of the dial would give you local news from Kent via TVS, and a twitch in the other direction and you’d have the latest from North Devon.
We lived in Wiltshire, where fuckall ever happened. Still, by law everyone got to meet Fred Dineage once.
I assume Mrs Chinny is not sufficiently interested to wind you up by slowly changing them all to Granada and Carlton with a biro to see how long it takes you to notice 😆
No, that's the point 😄
Then after tearing it off the noticeboard and crumpling it up in rage, he goes to make himself some eggs for breakfast and finds the carton is empty!
Anglia used to cover Lincolnshire and Humberside until 1974, then the IBA reassigned those areas to Yorkshire. However, Anglia had an office in Hull for years afterwards, and until 1982ish, still did the weather for Lincolnshire and Humberside for Yorkshire Television! https://tvark.org/anglia-weather-for-yorkshire-tv
The strange thing is that the IBA didn't change the franchise name itself from Yorkshire even though over a third of the population covered didn't live there. Whereas "Lancashire" became "North West England" in 1982. Maybe no one could come up with anything snappy.
Nowhere near a third I think ... West Yorkshire was well over 2 million population, South Yorks another 1.5 million and North Yorkshire 900,000 ... that's a *lot* of the 6 million YTV served at the time (and Humberside north of the Humber was really East Yorks, add another 400,000)
I think it was mainly North Norfolk around KIngs Lynn, as well as Lincs south of the Humber re-assigned by the Belmont transfer ... Hull would certainly have been in range of YTV transmitters before '74 and probably would have had a choice of YTV or Anglia
To the point where people in North Norfolk had to get powerful television aerials in order to pick up Anglia, thankfully the IBA took notice and put up small relays in North Norfolk, so people could receive Anglia if they wanted it.
The mighty Trident Television. Admittedly the only trident I know that only has 2 points, because I think Anglia never joined, but that's just details.
There's conflicting reports on why Anglia never joined the Trident alliance, either they simply weren't interested or it was in a fit of pique over losing the Belmont transmitter to Yorkshire. I'm guessing it was the former.
Anglia did use Trident in the 70s for international distribution of some programming, and also interestingly ITC too for some 'Survival' shows ... before they created S.A.L (Survival Anglia Limited) in the late-70s (in time for 'Tales of the Unexpected') for distribution.
Anglia did have lofty ambitions, one of their founders was Oscar winning producer John Woolf, he used his clout to get big names from Hollywood to appear in Tales of the Unexpected, and even before then, Orson Welles Great Mysteries, which was co-produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
They later set up a US wing which mainly dist. CBS TV movies for syndication. Hence the likes of Shatner haunted abbey in a plane tosh Horror at 3700 feet and Spielberg's Something Evil getting retrospectively labelled as Trident TV productions.
But it does mean that Spielberg worked for Trident.
It also legitimised a few of those films which were set in England but shot at CBS' studios, formerly Republic studios.
So, it made them British productions retrospectively
Excuse a clueless foreigner, but does this mean BBC operates separate companies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, while ITV operates one company/network serving all in regions?
What would make it perfect is if it had the shipping forecast regions as well.
I might have to do that (with Finisterre restored to its rightful place).
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It's HTV West of England.
https://bollocks.wales/products/htv-t-shirt
I remember ITV coming in and assuming it just periodically updated and that at some stage it would be called JTV (I was only ickle).
"Did you see that story on 'ATV Today' last night?"
"You mean Central News"
"No, it was definitely on ATV"
🙄😁
We lived in Wiltshire, where fuckall ever happened. Still, by law everyone got to meet Fred Dineage once.
*map has been replaced with "GMTV" written in the middle of a sheet of paper*
Then after tearing it off the noticeboard and crumpling it up in rage, he goes to make himself some eggs for breakfast and finds the carton is empty!
Trident's ident was a weird J shaped thingie.
It also legitimised a few of those films which were set in England but shot at CBS' studios, formerly Republic studios.
So, it made them British productions retrospectively
There will be a test
Going back to my roots, Look North (NE and Cumbria) was on for 30 mins around the early evening news, and shorter segments around different bulletins
The late Mike Neville was the main face of that show for 30 years
Some of this may have changed in the last decade or so.
I might have to do that (with Finisterre restored to its rightful place).