Tyne Tees Television ident from 1979

Perhaps the best known of all Tyne Tees idents
This was recorded from a VHS tape held in Transdiffusion's Tyne Tees archive. For more on Tyne Tees from the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System, visit www.transdiffusion.org/tmc/cit...

[@davidrover62]

I worked at Tyne Tees from 1980 to 2009 and as I'm biased anyway.....This was my favourite station ident. Can't imagine how much I'd have if I had £1 for everytime I heard this being played whilst walking through the building, when programmes being recorded or programmes going out live such as Farming Outlook, Razzmataz, Friday Live etc.

[@pak8606]

What did you think of its successor, the "Flowing Rivers" logo? Personally, that was very good and it was a shame it lasted for such as short time.

[@timdowns7937]

Awesome David, it’s probably my favourite ITV ident from the time. Do you remember who composed the music on it?

[@joypadretro2797]

i'm Dutch. Not familiar with Tyne Tees or station idents at all and i absolutely LOVE this one, the graphics and the music are so early 80s i want to go and play my C64.

[@jane1975]

Most memorable ident for Tyne Tees.

[@indayteray8647]

ITV plc disliked this video

[@georgeholland2934]

For me this distinctive ident will always be remembered for heralding the start of Supergran! Showing my age there.
Those were the days when Newcastle was a significant producer of networked programmes. Not anymore. ITV plc has pretty much decimated output from the regions. Very sad.

[@davidtownson1476]

For me it reminds me of Chain Letters with the late Jeremy Beadle

[@jane1975]

@@davidtownson1476 Yes, I remember that one and also Supergran and the Catherine Cookson adaptations.

[@Glenn1967ful]

ITV only make Coronation St, Emmerdale and a few factual programmes outside of London now. There are still the local news bulletins, but in some regions these are very cheap and amateurish.

[@christopherbusby1726]

Top notch ident.

[@tommyball1863]

I was born and raised in Leicestershire until the I was 12 then moved to Somerset afterwards in 1992 so my go-to memories of idents are Central and HTV but I must admit… I love the TTTV Ident, especially because of Super Gran (God bless Gudrun Ure) and Dramarama… such amazing childhood memories!

[@97channel]

Stand back, Superman. Ice man. Spiderman. Batman and Robin too...

[@davidtownson1476]

Verse 1
Stand back Superman, Iceman, Spiderman. Batman and Robin too
Don't wanna cause a fracas, but B A Baracus, have I got a match for you.
She makes them look like a bunch of fairies.
She's got more bottle than United Dairies.
Hang about - Look out! For Supergran.

[@ianwatkins9602]

Nice polyphonic Synth .

[@Mr223P]

For those few seconds that ident plays, for that matter all old indents, I am a child again. Very special...

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I like the slit scan distortion effect as the logo and TYNE TEES wording fly into shot.

[@johnlivingstone3483]

When I hear this I automatically wait on supergran starting.

[@davidtownson1476]

Take a word ...
Change a letter ...
Do it again ...
And you've got a chain.
That's how we play-ay-ay ...
CHAIN LETTERS!

[@NickFieldMedia]

Reminds me a lot of the old Viacom idents at the end of TV shows.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

They get Tyne Tees in Whitby and langdale end!

[@andrewschroy6368]

About time for Cross-Wits to start...

[@Glenn1967ful]

Simple and effective.

[@animallovery2k149]

This is how i went to japan in order to leave the showa era and go to the heisei era so early

[@jerryn9496]

Just before Northern Life with Paul Frost

[@davidtownson1476]

Shame it wasn't able to be put on The Tube on Channel 4.

[@samlantz5848]

Tyne tees television channel 8

[@chopchung]

self correction...1979 was the change over year from 1970 to the new one.A MASSIVE mistake if you ask me. The Northumbrian pipes on the earlier one were SO distinctive of the regions heritage.

[@marvy3022]

No, the 1970 ident already looked dated in 1979.

[@andrewswift8487]

TTT had used that logo since 17th July 1970. It was time to change it

[@alexmacleod3728]

From Northumbrian pipes to Synthesizers

[@StringedGuitar17]

Take a word...

[@eclectica1]

...change a letter...

[@davidtownson1476]

Do it again ...

[@christopherdrennan5819]

SuperGran.

[@eclectica1]

Which you'd think that Scottish Television would have produced, but no. Clearly they were too scared of Scunner Campbell.

[@andrewswift8487]

Razzmatazz!

[@leeosborne3793]

​@@eclectica1 Iain Cuthbertson was much more terrifying in Children of the Stones. "IT IS TIME!"

[@koa1464]

baked bean pie

[@chopchung]

NOT 1979 at all. In 1979 they were still using the 1970 ident as seen elsewhere on YT.

[@andrewswift8487]

IIRC this TTT ident was introduced after the ITV strike ended in late October