Never heard the Anglia flag being called "hateful" before. I'd honestly love to see some footage from the final day of the Knight and the first day of the Flag. It must've been a very interesting transition (especially because Anglia dropped their old mechanical clock for an electronic one in the process).

4:24 So satisfying to hear a rare occurrence of the word 'laugh' pronounced correctly on TV. Where I was brought up, in Central land, we also don't have larfs or barfs, we have laffs and baffs.

Tyne Tees really did have issues with those GVG mixing sequencers in the news and continuity studios - you'll note that both coming out of, and wiping back into the titles there was sound dropout - this was more prominent in continuity but the one in studio 2 was prone to it as well. Went on like that for well over a decade!

Re Network North... in the 1991 franchise round, Tyne Tees made a commitment to putting out a full half hour news bulletin at 10:30 each night. They already had a ten minute or so opt-out in Northern Life for the south of the area. Granada (who were bidding against them) countered this by proposing a separate main news programme for the Bilsdale patch. When TTT merged with YTV one of the first things to be canned by Yorkshire was this late bulletin. It messed up their plans for a common schedule and was considered too costly. But the ITC pointed out that this extra programme was part of a commitment to increase the regional hours put out in the NE. The compromise was to implement Granada's proposal instead, something that had proven popular in market research. But, the YTV proposal was to put this programme out on both Tyne Tees South and a number of relays and the Hull sub-region of YTV. They even moved some of the YTV news team to the new programme. This was nixed by the ITC quite late in the day and Network North was only ever shown on Tyne Tees even though local press advertised it as being on Yorkshire as well for quite some time. My suspicion is that YTV didn't give up on their desire to show the programme on some YTV transmitters and the promotion in the press was a placeholder. When the whole thing was abandoned in 1996, Tyne Tees then went back to shorter optouts for Bilsdale and the shortfall in hours was made up for by increasing the main bulletin to a full hour. The nearest they ever got to the original proposal came in 2001-2 when the main show was reduced back to a half hour, with opt-outs, and a lunchtime bulletin/magazine show "North East Today" was put out for a while (also with separate shows for Bilsdale). All of these were variations on a theme of fulfilling the original commitment.

For the Christmas Day 1988 ITV schedule, I remember watching all those shows that morning, Mickey's Christmas Carol (recorded it on VHS!) and Dumbo in the afternoon (also taped it!). Was a kid then, so those were special memories of a special day opening toys and games with parents. Thanks for sharing these uploads :)

1st bit was 1987

9/10 NOV 1997

1:01 what on earth is that Anglia slide? I've never seen them use a logo like that.

TV like we'll sadly never see it again.

So I've looked up the dates on Genome, and while it only has a generic description (all the others have show specific descriptions, none of which match what's going on in this edition), this is most likely from 26th March 1987.

This will be from 1995, yes. Between 5th June (that's when that ITN title sequence was introduced) and the end of the year when Network North was dropped.

Loved this programme back in the day. Judith Hann + powered rollerskates = big laughs :)

B.C!! My childhood.. 😊

So, you open up with a rundown of the day's programmes just before a kids' show. The kids watching might want to know what is on Children's ITV later that day - but you don't actually show that information. Yup, that's YTV alright 😂

6:10 “News at (One past) Ten”

RIP Katie Glass (1953-2024)😢

8:22 UK Gold Ident 1997 🇬🇧

Happy 40th Anniversary Since 2000.

Sad that you don't have full "And it's goodbye from us".

I love the quick switching between random disparate things. It's like Glam Metal Detectives

Really. People

whoops we're not funny.

Secret Army.

A Thames programme at the weekend? I guess that was transmitted locally rather than networked.

Bruce Hammal announcing on Boxing Day 1978. Peter Woods' remark that he was going to enjoy Xmas now was because he was on duty on Xmas Day too. Points of View - 1st male voice Michael McLain & the 2nd was Astley Jones. Great seeing Carol Hersee playing O & X with Barry Took. Newsreader John Edmunds back for his final stint with the TV News team.

...and now, it's just "U". Rebranded to just a single letter. 😢

He always seemed rather scarily intense. But I guess you need that sort of person to present Anglia overnight!

1:00 Good example of the News At Ten titles where they rendered the clock with a later time (here, five minutes past).

Anglia were indeed off the air until around tea-time. With the whole station being off-air, I assume there was some issue at Norwich rather than, or as well as, one of the transmitters? Anglia broadcasts to quite a wide patch of the country, with three main transmitting stations - so unless all three were down, there must have been power issues affecting the feed out of Anglia House. It’s also very unusual to see them join a programme in progress - Movie Memories is the type of show that would normally be played out locally.

Wow!

Do you have the rest of the And It’s Goodbye From Us programme

there were so many ads for sunglasses back then; Foster Grants / Reactolight Rapide / Goggles / etc.

Was that continuity announcer “Diddy David Hamilton?” It bloody looked like him with a tache?!

Did Thames ever do it's own branded trailers, or was it always on 'ITV'? ATV & Central seemed to do their own branded trailers.

That Chas 'n' Dave tribute act at 0:32 was waaaay ahead of the game.

I would have been a barely developing foetus at the time and yet I'd come to recognise that cat in the Coronation Street titles a few years later.

I believe that the Ted On The Spot programme was a one-off it would seem and as yet we have no confirmation of a broadcast date.

The Day Before We Met? Come on Paul! And he sang to me once…at some other tv station in the north!

The Guardian archive for that Thursday, 5 April has The Streets of San Francisco on Thames, and curiously the Eric Sykes Show on Yorkshire - I thought we was largely a BBC thing. No sign of Ted though;)

Sweet

Do you have any ITV stuff from the 80s?

A proper farming programme

Brian Nissen always polite and professional

Believe it or not, this actually the final YTV closedown, in that regard. They were on air through the night after this with the Telethon and then properly from the Monday night.

What date is the Calendar Commentary / Prisoner mention from?

10:44 i take it he's referring to the famous 6o'clock news lesbian invasion?

Rip roger shaw a legend

Tuesday 24th May 1988

Thursday 5th May 1988

I’m here because of Bob The Fish’s ITV in The Face video series! I was born in 1987 so I wasn’t around for Southern’s closure, but had I been around back then, I might’ve tuned into And It’s Goodbye From Us and upon finding out it was a temper tantrum and that they slandered TVS as part of it, I would’ve dipped in and out to mock them! All that cultural stuff is not my thing, so I would most likely have, just before midnight, turned over to the BBC for whatever they did for New Year on this occasion!