9:08 The only appropriate reaction to that piece of audible diarrhea. Genuinely can make any passionate Doctor Who fan regreat ever joining in the fandom....if they haven't left already.
I defiantly remember watching the platypus ad in my room when I was an kid in the early mid 2010's. I think I saw it on Sky One during an rerun of Brainiac. Good times....
The moment ITV breakfast programming started to lose out to the BBC was the utter stupidity of axing GMTV and producing Daybreak instead. September 2010 the moment ITV lost the ratings battle to BBC Breakfast, which has remained ever since. If they hadn't axed GMTV, I feel BBC Breakfast would have still been stuck in second place.
Late to the party in watching this, but thank you for such a fascinating watch! Particularly intriguing at 22:40 to hear Kerry Packer got involved with TVAM! Yes, the SAME Kerry Packer, who in 1992, disgusted by what was being shown, ordered Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos off air, telling the network staff famously to get that: “S*it off the air!”. After 20 minutes therefore, the programme was dropped and wasn’t aired again on Australia’s 9 Network until Packer had passed away. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nDLliCShVDA.htmlsi=fxmQntUyL2sOIAIR (for the full clip!)
My family had our first video recorder (VHS) around the time of the Seoul Olympics, with a Scotch cassette sporting the Olympic rings (Scotch must have been an official partner). That tape lasted for years and survived much mangling in the machine, proving the lifetime guarantee true!
Just to let you know what we see here at 3:55 was promotional material for when Ulster Television extended it's transmission area to the western parts of Northern Ireland, areas which couldn't receive Black Mountain transmissions. A new transmitter was built in Strabane, County Tyrone & was opened on 18th February 1963, meaning viewers in Derry City could finally receive a decent picture instead of grainy reception, viewers in Strabane, Omagh & Enniskillen could get ITV at last. It also meant viewers in parts of County Donegal could get it too, with spill over signal.
As a Yank, I apologize for the absolute crap we came out with for TV in the late 70's. We had a lot of misses in that era. Fall 1983 was not much better. Just look up "Manimal."
Fun fact - Telefon '92 featured the first TV appearance of a little known band from Manchester called Oasis. No-one can find any surviving footage (and it was only shown in tbe Granada region). But apparently Liam got into a fight with Albin Stardust (the host) at the end. Ummm, yeah! Top! Rock 'n' roll! Mad for it! Etc etc
Lifelong Gothamite here. New York advertising never misses an opportunity to romanticize itself even for the people here. As a sort of uplifting and sometimes self deprecating view of ourselves. You have tune them out and learn to live with it. Like walking on the sidewalk sidestepping piles of dog shit and the homeless people laying near it.
@@ifaiful Cash Jordan and his AI thumbnails? I don't need people like him to see the issues in my city. Like how rent isn't high because of immigrants but because the city and state care more about oligarchs and shell companies buying up all the property. Leaving people on the street getting arrested or killed by police protecting the property, corporations and oligarchs more than the people.
That Uhu ad seems to have been animated by Canadian animation studio Nelvana, famous at that point for the animated sequence for the Star Wars Holiday Special, as well as cult features like Rock N Rule, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, and A Cosmic Christmas. By this time in 1985, they had managed to hit their first big success with The Care Bears Movie. Although it might also be Richard Williams, for all I know. The designs seem to have that sort of cuboid look that Nelvana loved to do in the early 80s.
So before 1983 there was no TV in Britain until after 9am???? I thought we had it bad in Australia with three commercial networks and two government run stations, the commercial channels would usually close around 2 to 3am and start again around 5:30am.
That's right. The ITV regions also closed down a bit after midnight until the mid 1980s. The BBC did so until some time in the 1990s, I can't remember exactly when, but I do remember closedowns which always played the national anthem after the Sky At Night, which for those not British, is a popular astronomy programme which traditionally was broadcast at a time when the BBC thought best for astronomers, i.e. midnight.
Southern execs were SO far up their own backsides,that they got everything they deserved. I was gutted as a fan of TVS (up here in what's the old STV Central region) when they went. STV got the production rights to some TVS programmes once they went - mostly CITV stuffs as I remember. Not sure it did us up here in that part of Scotland any better with quality of programming... (I have been in parts of the old transmission area in Surrey and it's not as posh as some say.. it's a lovely area to visit,I've got a few friends in Surrey!)
Interesting history but you completely ignored TVam's glory years 1988-92 when I worked there; we covered the Clapham train disaster, the Kegworth plane crash, the end of Apartheid, the collapse of the Berlin Wall & subsequent fall of communism & break-up of the Soviet Union, TVam's Moscow Bureau, the coverage of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq & Kuwait & numerous other ground-breaking world events & disasters!
I do regret there being less detail on the good times, especially as that was my childhood. We'll have to wait until Ken Burns makes his 8-hour documentary on TV-am.
Well, blimey, none of these ad's managed to reach the South West. Not one. I suppose we dont matter down here. Or were the patrons spared their patronising pointless piffle. Possibly. 😛
Thanks for this! I was one of the children who appeared in the launch advert for BSB. We were not paid for this we were simply children of families who lived in the street they filmed the advert in. The camera crew spent the day filming a man in a hedgehog suit (if I remember correctly) crawling across the road. At the end of the day's filming, the crew asked families in the street if they would allow their children to run down the street so they could "calibrate their cameras". When the trailer was launched, there was no sign of the hedgehog but my friends and I were running down the street instead...Leicester Road in Lewes East Sussex! Leicester Road had been chosen as it was in a conservation area meaning no Sky satellite dishes were on the front of the houses to spoil the shot!
Thanks for this video, really enjoyed your tournament-by-tournament overview of the first 20 years of ITV's World Cup and European Championship sponsorships. The ones from the 90s that were woven into the opening and closing titles work well and have stayed with me (though those tournaments do coincide with my childhood, so there's that as well). Glad you mentioned Peter Brackley, he was a great football commentator and also a very funny man both in his broadcasting and in his cameos and stand-up work. His voiceovers help make the surreal Hyundai adverts from 2010. I could be getting mixed up, but I seem to remember there being a "sponsored by BenQ" additional sponsor message at the end of the closing titles of some programmes during ITV's 2002 World Cup coverage. Might have been from the highlights shows, which would have been a bit more widely watched and in an earlier-than-usual evening timeslot given that the tournament took place in Korea and Japan during the day. The 2006 ones stick in my mind as well, with the "Where do they get their energy from?" line from the EDF Energy bumpers absolutely seared into my brain. I could be completely wrong, but I think the person voicing that line is the Sky Sports football commentator Gary Taphouse (if anyone knows, feel free to correct or confirm this). As another commenter has mentioned, the Budweiser bumpers were a World Cup-themed spin on an existing advertising campaign from the time, gently mocking the stereotype of Americans not really knowing that much about football (or at least speaking about the sport in jarring Americanised terms). The Hal Butchgrass character is surely a play on the name of long-time ESPN SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross. The most memorable bumper was played during ITV's live semi-final, where the Brad Lescarbo character exclaims: "We've got a semi on!" Puerile, but I remember it 18 years on.
Well after idiots were panic buying loo roll so that care homes and charities were having to beg for donations, I don't feel so bad about getting a final pint in at the pub before they closed prior to full lockdown. Some scumbags even decided to steal from my local favourite charity, their insatiable need for loo rolls being such! So, Shame on me?, no! Shame on you!!
The worst part of getting a colonoscopy if you haven’t had one before is not knowing how easy it is to go through! Get a colonoscopy. It’s well worth it, it takes 15 mins, they give you a sedation that hits the same as drinking 2 pints in half an hour and there’s 60 seconds of trapped wind pain and that’s it! You don’t even feel it entering you because they use numbing gel ..down there.
Interesting that Thames were charged with broadcasting Olympics coverage on behalf of ITV, as the ITV Sport division was operated at the time by LWT. Mind you, I guess that arrangement would have been easier at the weekends. And they need to reintroduce that logo now.
I always liked The Olympic Track, despite it relying far too heavily on synthesised samples of vaguely Korean sounding things - at least ITV bothered to commission an original tune, unlike the BBC just using Chariots of Fire again (which sort of made sense in '84 as the first summer games after the film came out, but just smacked of laziness by '88).
Hilariously, it seems like the BBC's coverage of the Games that year was fronted by none other than 'terrifying fascist madman' David Icke, only a couple years before he had his 'revelations'.
Certainly, sitting in bed recovering from a different kind of -oscopy, on my birthday, I don't have anything better to do... * party whistle * Nice nostalgic flashback to Dextrosol, which my dad would later have stocked in multiple packets, and would have to keep in his pockets because me and my sister refused to accept that despite their very juicy flavour, crumbly nature and moreish-ness, they aren't bloody sweets. At least we enjoyed the branded football they gave away in a Euro '96 promotion, by which time we'd finally gotten the message. When Lucozade Sport entered that particular niche, all bets were off. RTE still gets the second channel to clear the decks for the entire competition period, which in this age meant the children's programmes airing on RTE1 with very formal announcements. "Now on One, we enter the magic door with all our friends in today's edition of Bosco." How exciting. Allez les verts, I guess.
I remember Olympics ‘88 for the Ben Johnson scandal and for Harvey Smith causing a small scandal when he said “It’s a good job a boxing match was stopped, because the loser would’ve ended up with a cauliflower arse! (or words to that effect) live on air on Channel 4 😂
Edit: Moved across from the trailer. Ah, Christmas on 4. I mainly remember it from my childhood for Countdown and/or Fifteen to One lasting for ages, because it's the final and they figured the best way to show who's got the biggest brain is to make them keep playing the game until they or we fall asleep. That and kids doing The Crystal Maze. The Jester and New York packages are the only looks I remember from that time.
I wonder if the ident at 30:41 is set to the tune of Beauty and the Beast/Tale as Old as Time? If not, wow, sure does sound like it. I must give you a hearty Welsh thank you for doing this video! Diolch o galon! 🏴
I would LOVE it if AP Archive (the owners of the TV-AM Archive) would digitize the entire TV-AM Archive and make it public. Imagine the memories that would unleash. We can always dream...
I really love this episode. Mainly because of First Direct's absolutely insane strategy of somehow airing a single commercial across every region of ITV at the same time...twice...and then doing the exact same thing again. That never ceases to blow my mind.
I so agree about scary TV idents. I remember being scared of Yorkshire. To be honest, Anglia, where I lived was a sharp wake up each morning when they did the start up!
