Channel 4 Launch: Tuesday 2nd November 1982

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4 жыл бұрын

The launch package from Channel 4! The promos leading up to the launch as well as the launch itself and its first closedown! Credit to all the people for providing the videos and of course to Channel 4 for providing me the information!

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@AnthonyMonaghan Жыл бұрын

I stayed up to watch the film on four "P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang" on the launch night. It was the talk of our school the next day. Wow, was I really only twelve years old?! The launch of channel 4 seemed very exciting back then. Loved Brookie and Countdown. Great memories.

@MediaCentUK Жыл бұрын

P'tang Yang Kipperbang actually aired on the second day of broadcasting. Walter with Sir Iain McKellen was the first Film On Four

@AnthonyMonaghan Жыл бұрын

@@MediaCentUK I watched them both. Radically contrasting films. Ian McKellen was brilliant in Walter.

@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 10 ай бұрын

@@AnthonyMonaghanglad brookside was made in my hometown Liverpool. I remember the channel 4 theme then. Baa baa baa baa (not like a sheep)

@WaterApollo 10 ай бұрын

@AnthonyMonaghan How are you still alive?

@peterwilliamskelhorn6675 10 ай бұрын

@@WaterApollo some of us were born in the 1990s

@j0hnf_uk Жыл бұрын

40 years today. I remember rushing home from school to watch the last bit of test card before it finally came on at 4.45.

@MrFlyboy1972 3 ай бұрын

The good old IBA, back when they owned all the transmitters, unlike now where they are all over the place with different owners

@janinefarnell8570 Жыл бұрын

I remember this day very well. Rushing home from school to see the new channel starting. The voice of Paul Coia ,the beginning montage and Countdown. I remember watching Chips Comic on my birthday. Also Mini Pops(never seen again for obvious reasons). Brings back loads of memories❤

@gary.h.turner Жыл бұрын

Ah! The wonderful "Fourscore" opening titles! 🎶😍

@johnmc3862 2 жыл бұрын

Bring back the old Channel 4!

@calvinjacksthe2nd469 Жыл бұрын

40 Years Ago Today!

@MarkGenner-xz4zu Ай бұрын

40th Anniversary Since 2022.

@matthall3077 4 жыл бұрын

Michael Rosen was 36 when Everybody here was on when Channel 4 first launched in 1982

@geemonster9179 3 жыл бұрын

Remember the launch quite well it was quite innovative in it's programming for years

@davepoole9520 7 ай бұрын

A pity we couldn't all get the launch at the same time. Luckily we had Rediffusion 'cablevision' to provide it in Eastbourne. Such an anticlimax though to start with Countdown. I eventually came to the realisation that when my nan was born there were no TV channels, when my mum was born there was one (albeit on a temporary 'break' due to WWII), when I was born there were still just two, three when my girlfriend was born, four when her eldest daughter was born, five when her eldest son was born and thousands by the time her youngest was born!

@WaterApollo 10 ай бұрын

17:40 Channel 4 launches

@twitchygiraffe4636 2 ай бұрын

Good video! Thanks for uploading it! Shame it didn’t feature the first ad break on Channel 4, as I think it contains one of those “remember this album is not available in the shops” ad’s! Can’t remember what the album was though, probably crap anyway most of them were, that’s why the shops wouldn’t sell them!!!!

@MediaCentUK 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome. If you want to see the first ever ad break on Channel 4, hop on over to the TVARK website, it'll be there!

@CatPopOnYouTube 5 ай бұрын

17:40 A Legendary Channel Was Born

@bwc1976 8 ай бұрын

Very cool! Lots of stuff I hadn't seen before, including Paul Coia's face, and The Cars that Ate Paris looks hilarious, I'll have to check that out!

@MultiVince95 3 жыл бұрын

Tuesday 2nd November 1982

@holliebatley6534 Жыл бұрын

The first programme was countdown during the launch

@calvinjacksthe2nd469 Жыл бұрын

And fact that Countdown is still making new episodes to this day is crazy!

@MrThecarebear Жыл бұрын

"Just image a debate in the Houses of Parliament with everybody lying down" Yes er, ask Jacob Rees-Mogg about that one......

@twitchygiraffe4636 2 ай бұрын

......Oh and by the way David Dundas who wrote “Jeans On” in the70’s also wrote the Channel four theme tune! He still gets payed a bomb for it now!! (Unlike Jeans On?!)

@MediaCentUK 2 ай бұрын

I never knew about the Jeans On song was written by him!

@rogerdarthwell5393 Жыл бұрын

40 years ago today

@seanart1508 2 жыл бұрын

39 years ago!!!!

@rtc9063 Ай бұрын

I remember racing out the previous Tuesday to get the TV Times to see what Channel 4 were going to broadcast. Apart from the repeats of old shows, Brookside and The Tube, it was utter drivel.

@MediaCentUK Ай бұрын

I own a copy of the launch issue

@56postoffice 2 жыл бұрын

This was a big deal. 4 channels? Got to remember, this was a few years before Sky came along (5th February 1989).

@MrThecarebear Жыл бұрын

You mean before a perfectly good TV service in Britain was ruined. As my dad said, 4 channels was enough.

@nicoriggall 4 жыл бұрын

brillyant

@CrapheadMoleman 7 ай бұрын

Channel 4 in the 80's-90's was the best channel we've ever had. From the scallies of Brookside to the complete weirdness of Eurotrash. Sadly today it's a bit too politically correct for my liking.