Anglia TV Launch - 27th October 1959

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  • The first day of ITV broadcasting to the East of England on 4.15 sharp, the launch of Anglia Television started with a (short snippet of a) programme entitled "Introducing Anglia" after the very first appearance of the famed silver knight on horseback proudly hoisting the flag of the Anglia TV region.
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  • @richardyoung1053
    @richardyoung1053 2 года назад +8

    I love the way the music starts before he presses the button. Somebody was keen to get on the air.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 4 месяца назад +1

      Coordination did seemed to be all over the place. They couldn’t even backlight the Anglia knight properly.

    • @bigredsock1
      @bigredsock1 День назад

      I'm willing to bet that the button didn't actually do anything at all.

  • @j0hnf_uk
    @j0hnf_uk 2 года назад +11

    Anglia Television brought to you in Morse code.

  • @Patch571
    @Patch571 3 месяца назад +4

    It's 2024 and this is pretty cool to watch! I love how we can see what tv was like many decades ago :)

  • @spannmona
    @spannmona 4 месяца назад +3

    0:32 “One minute to zero. This is Anglia Television!”
    Debuting with what is one of the two the most dramatic network sign ons in television history (next to the BBC’s first ever broadcast), Anglia pulled out all the stops for their opening. It felt like you were receiving a transmission from another world.
    4:47 is the debut of the Anglia Knight.

  • @KKAkuoku
    @KKAkuoku 2 года назад +7

    Those first 15 seconds are fittingly ominous for the Cold War era

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 6 месяцев назад +2

    Very rare for the start of any Regional I.T.V. to be archived.
    Super stuff.

  • @jareddicarlo7816
    @jareddicarlo7816 Год назад +5

    Those beeps sound rather frighteningly similar to the ones that BBC uses these days

  • @musiconair
    @musiconair 2 года назад +10

    The locals used to call it Turnip TV

    • @michaelmcdonald2348
      @michaelmcdonald2348 Месяц назад +1

      Not my region, but Anglia produced some quality programmes for the network. Survival, Tales of the unexpected, Knightmare all come to mind, as well as the immensely popular Sale of the Century.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 Год назад +5

    BBC Television arrived in East Anglia in 1955 with the opening of the Tacolneston transmitter on 1st February 1955. In October 1955, the full mast was operational expanding coverage. Anglia Television in 1959 launched from their Mendlesham transmitter

    • @BritishRaceCaller
      @BritishRaceCaller 10 месяцев назад

      My family owned a fairly large hotel in Cambridge (long since gone) but Nanna remembers they had a television pre war as a hotel feature that could sometimes pick up transmissions from London although it was outside the 40 mile radius. Definitely has one before the coronation of Elizabeth II in their house in the Cambridge suburbs

  • @weblywoobly
    @weblywoobly Год назад

    Thank you so much for uploading this. It matters.

  • @therealzilch
    @therealzilch Год назад +2

    What a wonderful glimpse of a resonant place and time. Thank you.
    Subscribed. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

  • @crabbymilton390
    @crabbymilton390 2 месяца назад +2

    I loved how the late Benny Hill would parody these sort of programs.

  • @LedFloyd333
    @LedFloyd333 Год назад +7

    I've learned a few new things from this great video. For instance, never knew that Hunstanton is actually pronounced 'Hunston' (2:37).

    • @DiseaseShaker
      @DiseaseShaker 9 месяцев назад +3

      And this part of Norfolk would be lost to Yorkshire TV in the 70s.

    • @LedFloyd333
      @LedFloyd333 9 месяцев назад

      @@DiseaseShaker I never understood why they switched the Belmont transmitter over to YTV. It covers only a small bit of Yorkshire (near the Humber). And the rest is in Lincs, Notts and Norfolk.

    • @PriddhasPengu
      @PriddhasPengu  4 месяца назад

      @@LedFloyd333 From what I've heard, Belmont was given as part of a series of compromises by the IBA for giving the Bilsdale transmitter to Tyne Tees, for which Yorkshire loudly called foul. So a blameless Anglia had to take the fall for Yorkshire's demands.

  • @zakelwe
    @zakelwe 2 месяца назад +2

    That's 117 minutes past 20 to 4 as Alan Partridge would say at radio Norwich
    It's just 5 pixels more than a radio broadcast in the medium wave part of the electromagnetic spectrum
    Awt 5 mins 35 seconds you can hear the steam engine powering it all in the background.
    Anglia and LWT and ATV from the midlands, great ITV idents.

  • @matthewpayton
    @matthewpayton Год назад +3

    This is how Anglia launched 63 years ago.

  • @Angel-zp4xr
    @Angel-zp4xr Месяц назад +2

    Fall era in the end of 1950's

  • @swedishdissident3406
    @swedishdissident3406 2 года назад +3

    Sounds like intro to a crime film noir.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 6 месяцев назад

    Anglia and Tyne tees never lost thier franchise.

  • @TheSecurdisc
    @TheSecurdisc 3 дня назад

    Best show was sale of the century..

  • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
    @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 года назад +5

    0:27 THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED IN SUFFOLK!!! Very Orson Wells.

  • @BenPanced
    @BenPanced 2 года назад +2

    ANNOUNCER: "Welcome to Anglia Television, a new broadcasting service!"
    * "Introducing Anglia" begins *
    VIEWER: "Bloomin' repeats."

  • @Agnethatheredhairkid
    @Agnethatheredhairkid 2 года назад +1

    I was 6 months old at the time.

  • @TheClockwise770
    @TheClockwise770 2 года назад

    At the end with the cameraman being pushed around reminds me of Grandstand on Saturday afternoons in 1960s

  • @PeterFraser-hp3rs
    @PeterFraser-hp3rs 4 месяца назад +2

    Those were the days when fanfare was 2/3 of the programming😆 5:00 Wait a minute, that's Mr Cholmondley-Warner!😂

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 4 месяца назад

      ‘Woman - Know your place’ was broadcast during Anglia Woman’s Hour at 2pm each weekday. Just for an hour mind you - they then needed to go off and make themselves pretty and cook dinner before the husband came home.

  • @stepheng8779
    @stepheng8779 4 месяца назад

    We had to put up with this for years before they switched us over to Yorkshire TV. Used to get news from places we'd never heard of let alone visited 😂 Pre Humber bridge days, mind you still don't visit now 😉

  • @nicholalaw2681
    @nicholalaw2681 Год назад

    Great 👍 👌 👍

  • @andrewsvonja1039
    @andrewsvonja1039 2 года назад

    Being from Peterborough watched Anglia

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 6 месяцев назад

    I believe the whole of Tyne Tess televisions first day is in full on you tube.

  • @richardbrown1189
    @richardbrown1189 12 дней назад +1

    6' 04" Sir Ivan throws the switch to open the station. What are we watching before that?

  • @jillybean1229
    @jillybean1229 2 года назад +29

    So first we think we are about to be invaded by France. Then the clock countdown was the longest minute of our lives. And then to be told East Anglians have special needs, so of course they need to be reminded of all the towns and counties they live in, followed by a gentle introduction of xylophone music in case the excitement might be too much for us. 😂

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 2 года назад +3

      The soothing light jazz music is a song called "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart".

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 2 года назад +2

      @@hebneh
      Well that can happen when you're sitting as a family round the TV in Norfolk.

    • @GeorgeWatson-zl1ow
      @GeorgeWatson-zl1ow 11 месяцев назад +1

      How far did a television transmitter broadcast to, we in the Midlands could pick up Granada and the AtV from Litchfield but could not receive Anglia.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 6 месяцев назад +1

    Marvellous!

  • @sodorflubbs5000
    @sodorflubbs5000 4 месяца назад

    I used to live in West Runton. I wonder what happened to that Knight on that fine silver horse? And I remember that fanfare. It’s amazing. Also I connect this with Sale Of The Century filmed in Norwich with Nicholas Parsons as its presenter.

    • @joehurst
      @joehurst 4 месяца назад +1

      The horse threw him off and trampled him to death.

  • @DamieneHawthorne-ry4bj
    @DamieneHawthorne-ry4bj 8 месяцев назад

    2024 marks 75 years of Anglia TV. Well done.

  • @kevinbush4300
    @kevinbush4300 4 месяца назад +1

    Never knew there used to be a Huntingdonshire.

    • @davidgifford8112
      @davidgifford8112 3 месяца назад +3

      Used to be, I still live there!

    • @kevinbush4300
      @kevinbush4300 3 месяца назад

      @@davidgifford8112 ahaaahh… forgive me! I wasn’t writing you off - I see you’re still a district council. I didn’t know that Huntingdonshire had been a County.

  • @davepoole9520
    @davepoole9520 2 года назад +4

    Crikey! It's like a suicide mission.
    No matter how exciting a new TV channel must have felt in those days those beeps must have tested the patience of most viewers for the first minute and a bit and then grainy footage explaining what's in East Anglia as if the viewers were in Malawi rather than locals who knew damn well what East Anglia was!
    I bet the first programmes were pure Partridge!

    • @TheClockwise770
      @TheClockwise770 2 года назад +2

      I am sure Alan Partridge could have made a considerably better job of this.
      Love the Stewart Russell welcome @

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Год назад

      Much of ITV has always been Alan Partridge- but then, so are BBC Sport and Five Live. The only ITV stations which ever really tried being anything else were Granada and Thames- and Granada threw in the towel about the same time as Thames lost its franchise.

  • @TheLogoFanGroup
    @TheLogoFanGroup Год назад +1

    What is the anglia Knight?

    • @GEOFF0906
      @GEOFF0906 Год назад

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglia_knight

  • @mattgrant9479
    @mattgrant9479 Месяц назад

    Huntingdoneshire?

  • @re9279
    @re9279 2 года назад +1

    If only they knew these "programmes" were going to make mince meat of their souls.....

  • @davidtownson1476
    @davidtownson1476 2 года назад +1

    Has anyone noticed that the whole minute the clock is onscreen, the minute hand doesn't move. At All! Fake!

    • @TheClockwise770
      @TheClockwise770 2 года назад +3

      That was because they only advanced once a minute in the early days, you see it move when it first shows it.

    • @tanyaandelvis2698
      @tanyaandelvis2698 10 месяцев назад +1

      Terribly terribly posh men ,old grey men running things, with posh voices and knighthoods …nothing changes.

  • @rtc9063
    @rtc9063 2 года назад +1

    Who the hell was Sir Ivan?

  • @gavinreid8937
    @gavinreid8937 День назад

    Opening, beep gawd thats annoying , whats on the other side .

  • @marcse7en
    @marcse7en 2 года назад +4

    I don't know about 1959, judging by the PICTURE QUALITY, Anglia Television was launched in 1859 by John Logie Baird! 😂😂😂 ...... After watching that, "Should've Gone To Specsavers" to be tested for GLAUCOMA and AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION!

    • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
      @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 года назад +6

      It's a telerecording/kinescope print. Most surviving things from back then are preserved that way because it was cheaper. There is a process called VidFIRE for restoring the picture back to a video look and the BBC use it for things like old 1960s Doctor Who episodes.

    • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
      @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 года назад

      Also the up in the air stuff at the start would have been done on film as it would have been very awkward to load an OB camera onto a helicopter in those days.

    • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
      @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 года назад +2

      The Anglia knight would have been a film insert too - even after colour was introduced they quite often used grotty 16mm fadey colour copies.