I wish we still had separate ITV franchises giving a feel of regional identity instead of the dumbed down generic bilge we get now

I've only just realised why I find Matthew Harris so endearing. He sounds like late legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke. This is meant as high praise.

I used to love the 70's start up music from Yorkshire Television. Written by Ron Goodwin, the same chap who did the themes to The Battle of Britain and the 633 Squadron movies, it was very rousing and made you feel like Yorkshire was going to declare war on anyone they felt like with specially trained ferrets at any moment.

Yorkshire Television made Heartbeat! ITV have changed the credits on all reruns that were made before the demise of franchises. Episode's made in 1992 will have ITV ©2006 on the bottom. When originally it said 'Yorkshire television for ITV'

Yorkshire was by far the best of all the ITV networks. They made the best programmes and had the best continuity announcers and the best in your face idents.

Your videos deserve more attention.

Yorkshire had its own record label, "York Records" on which the theme to the series *Follyfoot,* "The Lightning Tree" by The Settlers, was issued 9th July, 1971 as York SYK-505 and pressed & distributed by The Decca Record Company. In Australia the single was issued as Decca Y-9702 on Remembrance Day, 11th November, 1971. Decca product was pressed and distributed here by EMI(Australia) Ltd.

I - growing up in the 70s - found the Yorkshire ident quite aggressive, and imagine it followed by an episode of Emmerdale Farm or Mr Trimble. Unsettling.

I live in yorkshire,so i can relate to that ident (and the fanfare)

They forgot the "Turn to Yorkshire" ad, which was trying to convince Tyne Tees viewers on the border, to have their aerials tuned to YTV. Might have pi**ed Tyne Tees off a bit.

Living in West Norfolk we got Yorkshire TV due to Belmont being owned by them. Calender every evening never told us about anything in our region. We could not pick up Anglia very well as the Norwich transmitter was not strong enough.

I always liked liquid gold. It was probably their best ident, at least sound-wise.

25:27 The special idents, although only used for Yorkshireian programmes, still had about 60/70 variations in that package to say that they would be used on average 5 times a week.

16:29 HISTORIC COUNTIES IN SPACE!

Yorkshire doesn’t scare me. And i remember The old ITV In the face, bring it back!

Love these videos - thanks for taking the time to make them. I remember as a kid in the late 80s down on the South coast of England being able to receive in almost perfect quality, TTTV, YTV, Anglia - and a snowy screen from Central one night. Atmospheric conditions, I guess.

To me the logo always represented the hills of the county, and perhaps specifically Ilkley Moor, which would tie in with the music

Nevermind the YTV logo & 5 notes from on Ilkley Moor ba'ht 'at, the scariest music from TV is Granada's Picture Box. If you listen to the full version of that on YT, you may have nightmares.

Best Programme this station ever showed was Knight Rider no doubt

The final compromise was thus: Blisdale for Tyne Tees, Belmont for Yorkshire, and Trident to run both. Despite what many believe, Anglia was likely not the third prong of the company, that belonged to Trident's betting shop and casino businesses.

I've just remembered something more frightening than the YTV 1970s ident. It was the local ads for electrical retailer Amriks. The space void and the echoing repetition of Amriks, Amriks, AMRIKS!! Used to sh1t me to death as a kid!! 🤭

Redvers Kyle was a great continuity announcer. Especially great when announcing, to the delight of Labour voting Yorkshire folk one evening before News at Ten, that (Thames) was unable to bring a party political from the Tories to air to the network by telling us that "... the gremlins appear to be in the works." 👍 Which seemed to be a fave catchphrase of his, on technical faults, as far as I can recall. 😉

I love this guy's sarcasm. He's right about 321.

0:32 !! BOO in colour

!! BOO In Color

Here in Poland we didn't get breakfast telly until Kawa czy Herbata launched in 1992.

Thank you for covering Yorkshire. You made me laugh on several occasions, but also caused me to realise what we miss now on a daily basis. I think visually my favourite ident was the, "classy look" of 1994. I didn't mind the music either, actually. I was never aware of the issues with Tyne Tees being literally driven to nothing in the 90s. Keep up the hard work on these, I have watched msot of the regions now and I've enjoyed each one.

I remeber having debates with my mate back in the day. He was convinced that King's Lynn was actually in the county of Yorkshire. Clearly not understanding the difference between counties and TV regions. Not sure if he still does!

You know whats bad? I dont even live where Yorkshire broadcasted and I know that fanfare would scare the living fudge out of me as a kid. XD

The icon is a book lying open, same as the publishing company in the film Elf.

always thought the Southern ident was the Sun. it never occurred to me it was a Star .

This is the kind of info I never knew I needed, 😂😂😂😂😂

The BOO at the beginning made me laugh out loud. Yorkshire and ATV idents were a bit scary.

I like all the music I miss them

Yorkshire Television, why on earth was it called that? It didn't even cover all of Yorkshire - Settle area was served by Granada and almost all of the Dales and Moors by Tyne Tees. Then its coverage area also included the East Midlands as far south as Alfreton and Sherwood Forest thanks to the huge footprint of the Belmont transmitter. Mansfield struggles to get regional television from Nottingham, 15 or so miles down the road.

After what that mask of Guo Xiang unleashed its terror on my eyes and ears, that static chevron is pretty much a "meh" cakewalk. But still, YTV still is very much a legend, a major in terms of television things and stuff. Gotta love that Chris Gunning startup tune that was also in Calendar in the '80s. Only if American television was like this...

0:32 !! BOO In Color!

Enjoyed this. Pity they didn't show in detail the ident outside the YTV studios that started with the lovely Marilyn Webb and gradually pulled back to show all the other staff in the shape of the Y.

Yorkshire Television:The Catra of ITV

...Yorkshire TV also had the YTV March at startup...which defied all volume control!!! Please, if possible, could you make a documentary about the near- collapse, crash and burn of London Weekend 1968-69. Can't find anything of that on youtube.

Yes that five note trumpet blast was terrifying indeed. It could have been used to signal the declaration of marshall law. I certainly found it an unpleasant, unsettling assault on the ears when I witnessed it as a kid. It was the talented David Dundas who fleshed it out into an altogether much nicer fanfare, performed using strings, according to a 30th anniversary programme about Yorkshire Television. This was composed for the animated liquid gold ident which was also a massive improvement on the static slide. A pity liquid gold only lasted three years. I personally really liked the 1989 generic ITV ident though. I only ever saw it retrospectively on the internet because the region I lived in, TVS, stuck two fingers up at it and tweaked their own ident instead. It looks as if Yorkshire steadily picked apart the English, Markell & Pockett package to point where the original premise of dual branding was completely lost. The ITV logo of 1989 was definitely a damn sight better that the one in use today!

6:52 - PMSL!

Worldvision for me. Terrifying. I’m 40 and I’m still scared of it now.

We got to see the scary ident a lot up in Gods Own County. It wasn’t scary to me. That said I used to go to bed pretrified of two different idents. Granada with the arrow on the G. The other one was the ATV one. I would lay in bed and have visions of the Atv logo coming to get me.

10:08 3, 2 tossing 1! 😂

Slightly off topic but The Open University theme used to creep me out.

Does anyone know during the December 1978 strike at Yorkshire Television, could viewers in Yorkshire receive another overlapping ITV region to watch their Christmas shows on? I am thinking Granada could be received in some areas of Yorkshire, with Tyne Tees, Anglia and possibly ATV? Anyone know? Thanks.

Pulse and Bar used to give me the creeps

Now I didn't mind channel 3 north east. most people in the NE call ITV channel 3

15:01 This is is actually the same company that owned Yorkshire Television.

6:20 great prediction, poor msmpokegamer’s parents had to deal with that (i think)

Same schedule. Different continuity for each region. If only it continued.

One of the logos has Alliance music in it

YTV made quite a few programmes that were networked. the sandbaggers was a very British take on spy’s from them

I liked them all I think we have a fairy telling us about the logos

Yorkshire never using in vision continuity is what made me surprised that it was even a thing! Honestly, if it wasn't the odd instance when I'd pick up tyne tees in my South Yorkshire bedroom instead of YTV I was unaware of IVC and tbh I thought it just looked...cheap. like they couldn't animate something on par with a spinning Chevron or nice enough slides so had to stick a poor continuity announcer in front of a shoddy backdrop.

Hey what about Paul Lally? I know, amendem.

27:28 is that "Home to Roost"?

I'm sure this is ex-snooker player Neal Foulds doing the narration

Yorkshire also produced Kids Television (ie “The Riddlers” and (sighs) “The (Goddamn) Raggy Dolls” (both for the ITV Network) And also “Puddle Lane” a UK Version of “Sesame Street” (which CTW wanted to Originally pitch to the BBC) crossed with “In The Night Garden” From 33 years later) And even gave Anne Wood a start in Children’s TV before she founded Ragdoll Productions and That’s how she got the job at TV-am! (And gave us Roland Rat!)

My scary ident was the COW, specifically the version from BBC Video releases. I was scared to put on my Stoppit and Tidyup video because of it. The trippy music and its doom filled held note at the start and end of the tape are not good for sleeping.

how the fuck did they let Alan Whicker stand next to a fucking live runway? the olden days were mad

Spelling mistake! 27:12 CHAIRTABLE? Did you mean CHARITABLE? lol

ITV

Anybody ever thought of saying its name with a long I in it like "York-shy-er"?

"Continuity" announcers appearing on-screen? (7:50) We *NEVER* did that in Australia! The *Only* people who actually appeared on-camera were the station's nightly newsreaders, sports reporters and weather-persons, as well as anyone who presented a "Tonight"-style light entertainment/talk show. If TV programmes were pre-announced, that was done by booth announcers with the station logo and a still from the programme on screen, and even that practice is kept to a minimum.

I have to admit to being a bit scared of ITV Logos and music. The Thames one for me was the worst.

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That theme at the beginning belonged to Trident TV! You haven't yet covered that *station.*

It's Bilsdale not Blis!

Bob the Fishing I love your video's but don't insult Yorkshire National Anthem we like to class Yorkshire as a country not a county

This is a deep cut, specialist interest video too far.

Come on this is a lot of nonsense you've let yourself down here with silly anti-Yorkshire rubbish. The same as if I was to do the reverse about southern tv, etc. I was in a pub in Dunster 5 years ago - EE by gum that's Mugabe backwards some great intellect said.