[720p/50p] ITV Thames | closedown and transmitter shutdown | 26th July 1982
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End of The Hill
Adverts
Thames IVC (Tom Edwards): Slouch Down And Ignore with Fred Trueman (he's wrong: Stainton is nowhere near the southern tip of South Yorkshire! It's close to Rotherham. I'm from the area that's the genuine southern tip of South Yorkshire!)
Thames IVC: Weather forecast
Thames IVC: closing announcement
Thames slides: Tuesday evening with "Light Birds" by Shakatak
Thames clock (12:51am) with "Light Birds" by Shakatak
Switch off TV warning
Black and silence
Loss of sync at 37:05 (those coloured patterns are from my capture card)
40:40 - transmitter shutdown (the sound stages seemed to close before the vision stages!)
Adverts:
Knowing the kind of people he had in mind, old "Now, then, now then, jingle jangle jewellery, jewellery" was probably thinking of a rather dfferent kind of party he could be attending!
Abbey National
Fosters
ShowerElectric
Minstrels
Ribena
Cornetto
Flat-Tel
Can you imagine ITV1 now in 2023 placing a US import into their 8pm prime time slot. Unthinkable now, but the norm back in the 70s, 80s and even 90s.
Seeing "The Streets Of San Francisco"' on the Tuesday night schedule makes me visualise little Catherine Zeta Jones staying up for this on HTV (whatever day they ran it) and thinking "I'm going to marry Keller when I grow up!"
Either the great Tom Edwards was back from a summer holiday or he had been in the tanning salon. He looks like a certain former US President here.
Night Birds I believe, easy mistake to make Tom, but a great tune…
I think this is likely first half of 1982…
Early hours of Tuesday 27th July 1982
Monday 26th July 1982
We live in a different world today? This was a world before the internet or mobile phones or mass communication? I was 18 and wish I was back in a kinder more innocent UK!!
HE GOT THAT WRONG IT NIGHT BIRDS NOT LIGHT BIRDS
So I assume you're from Castle Hill Farm?
No
Sticky tape, I have just uploaded a pleasant Central closedown from I think December 1985.
Wikipedia: Just prior to the transmitter being switched off
Reality: ½ hour before they actually switch the transmitter off
(did Channel Four go on until like 0120?)
Idk anymore if switching off the transmitters would have happened ONLY after all channels linked to the transmitter completed their broadcast day.
Having said that,
Happy birthday Wikipedia!
(no lies but the website I use to know what time it's says *Wikipedia's birthday* so I plug that)
Channel 4 was not even launched when this was recorded, Channel 4 would not launch until November 2nd 1982. And when they did, they had a strict budget, which meant a 4.45pm start each weekday with an end time of around midnight. At weekends they stayed on air slightly longer until around 2am on Saturday morning for example which was rare.
You have to remember, the old style of ITV back then had individual companies controlling each region, such as Thames here controlling London weekdays. Once they had finished their programmes, it was up to the IBA engineers at the transmitters in the Thames region to shut down the ITV frequencies, for example at Crystal Palace transmitter in London. This would be the same for the other regions across the country. Each region had different close downs, as unlike the BBC, ITV was not a properly linked network like BBC 1. Very different structure.
@@johnking5174 Test transmissions actually started for Channel 4 in May from Hannington and then tests began on 75% of the transmitters by August 1982, so a week later!!!!
@@christopherwilliams2093 But no full programme service was on air.
@@johnking5174 True, but I do remember as a five-year-old tuning hoping to find BBC2 when it should have come on at 3.20pm but got Channel 4 instead...