Goodbye Granadaland - ITV 

Granada’ s output was testament to the fact that popular can still be quality.It was never condescending or elitist,it did not have a “ mission statement “ nor a hidden agenda it just made good programmes. Work open takes me to Manchester these days,when the taxi takes me down Quay St and past it’s redundant entrance I have a little sadness just as I do on Kirkstall Road in Leeds.The golden age of public service commercial television has passed , perhaps I should be thankful that I was fortunate enough to watch and enjoy and be informed by it.

What an honour to have worked on this programme and in that magical building

The sad demise of ITV Granada, Yorkshire Thames/LWT THE MAKERS OF QUALITY TELLY!!

I loved Granada Studios. I was born in Manchester but moved Yorkshire when I was 12 but I’m Lancashire through and through. I remember going to the studios in 1998 it was brilliant. I’ve been to both Coronation Streets at Granada and MediaCity

This was another department where Britain had the right idea! Their TV stations had proper corporate identities which served as their on-air identification(call-sign), Granada, HTV West, Anglia, Heritage, Trident, ATV, Thames/London Weekend(Thames, Monday-to-Friday, London Weekend, Saturday & Sunday), and of course BBC-TV. Here in Australia our metropolitan stations hid behind their channel numbers and, with the exception of a period in the 1980s when the Australian Television Network(ATN-Sydney, HSV-Melbourne, BTQ-Brisbane, ADS-Adelaide and TVW-Perth) identified itself as such but got timid again and hid behind its channel number, 7. Australian TV stations should've adopted the British practice and given themselves REAL identities!

I got my first proper job at Granada Studios Tour in 1988. I remember the induction day. We all had to meet in the foyer at Granada TV. We were shown around the tour whilst it was still under construction. Behind the studios there used to be a pub called the Pineapple, long gone now! Don’t recognise Manchester these days.

You could see the bobbin on top of the tower from the motorway. And I did work experience there in 1986!

living in canada, these sort of things are often over looked, but that's when globle and a few other renaged stations like cbc, would buy up a lot of those shows, and we would catch them from time to time. britian rocked the world during the 60's 70's and 80's, British shows were the best.

Thanks for the upload. Much appreciated. It was a great programme and so sad it's closing, especially the Corrie set. :(

fantastic memories

Thanks for the memories

The old Granada Studios are still there in July 2021. Now named " The Manchester Studios" with Studios 2, 6, 8 and 12 retained, refurbished and available to use. Unlike BBC Television Centre, London, they kept the majority of their larger studios. Excellent.

They didn't mention the full size replica of the House of Commons chamber that was one of the attractions of the tour.

seeing the building and going in it was always special, why look who work there over the years, how many people you to look for the that sign, it was part off Manchester history,.

Brideshead Revisited was filmed at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. One of Ricky Tomlinson's first jobs was an extra on the show,

Great city iconic place

Back in 1969 I was coming home from High School in Newcastle(Australia, not England) and walking along Hunter Street, I saw in the window of the Radio Rentals shop, the first colour TV I ever saw. It was a Baird brand, stood on lathe-turned legs, had a 26" screen(it was showing a colour bar from a pattern generator) and its controls were arranged down the right of the screen. From top down were 11 channel selectors which also turned the set on and off(at my guess). I think you pulled them out to turn the set on at a given station then turned them to fine-tune the signal. They were labelled BBC1, BBC2, then ITV1 through to ITV9, then came all the usual picture and sound controls, Volume and Tone(for sound) Brightness & Contrast(typical on any TV) and, for this set, Colour and Tint(not that PAL-based sets really needed a tint control). I was amazed by it and, again, the Brits had the right idea. This was 1969, I was only 14 at the time, colour TV was still 6 years into the future back then. Push-button station selection on Australian TV sets came with the second and successive colour sets from 1976 onwards.

Last time the Granada logo was ever seen on ITV.

The company that made the 1984-94 _Sherlock Holmes_ series and specials starring Jeremy Brett (1933-1995).

This is so great. #bringbackGranadaTV

Thanks for uploading. Shame william roache couldn't contribute seeing as he has been there since day 1

Sad to see that building go

You could even rent your TV off them ;)

The world's record for stuffing marshmallows up one single nostril (604) - Toxteth O'Grady, USA.

I love peter kay lol

If the Granada studios are still there in 30 years I’ll rent it out to film an idea in my head called “Drawn Out” more details will be revealed in the coming years.

Aah, Michaela Strachan! She went on to join Yesteryear TV to do her "Great British Ghosts" series.

yes

Ahh thanks for that. I remember hearing it when i was young and its very evocative. Oddly enough, i dont think ive ever known what and who the tune was called..if that makes sense.! Cheers.

It now exists as Old Granada Studios

I've always thought this a slightly odd title. 'Granadaland' wasn't another name for the Quay Street studios, in the same way that ATV Land was synonymous with the Broad Street studios in Birmingham. 'Granadaland' was the whole of the North (later North-West) region. ITV should have known this. Perhaps they did and didn't care?

7:05, Michael, I think its highly unlikely that Paul McCartney's mum asked you for an autograph, seeing as she died in 1956 when Paul was only 14 years old.

The Crunch by The Rah Band. I should've put it in the description before - I will now.

It's now The crystal maze experience in Manchester

Recorded Sat/6/15/13 after Despicable Me (2010)

7歳というドキュメンタリー、覚えています。世界各地版が１９９０年代にあって、日本でも撮られました。しかし、日本では７年毎に撮影されることはありませんでした。

Wonderful.

Anyone know what the tune is used for the opening credits and going in to the ads.?

Pat Phoenix haunts Coronation Street

🟦🟨📺🟦🟨📺 Granada

Was Take that on Wac 90?

Why did it close because theres good past and present memories in that building

When Peter is in the canteen, what does he say about giving them their privacy? Does he say two curry people? Thanks in advance.

the video entertainers was a time before the internet where people got discovered that and new faces those were the days .FRANKIE O'NEIL SMALES.SMALES TV UK-HOST

WTF? Was Lisa Stansfield auditioning for a part in "TRON" ??

Talkin' About You or Tutti Frutti

Probably the last time a regional ident/logo was used on ITV.... :-( Great company that produced great programmes... sadly under Granada and Charles Allen the awful unified ITV we have now was created......

they didnt make a programme when the big Tyne Tees studio got knocked down

I bet there won't be a tribute like this when the Thames TV studios are knocked down in December!

Screw Granada TV. They took LWT away in October 2002

They didn't make tributes like this for all the regions Granda destroyed including my own; Central, history is written by the winners but it doesn't make it right!

In Australia we had a 2-hour show hosted by Daryl Somers called "Hey, Hey It's Saturday" which was produced at Station GTV-Melbourne, and went out over Station TCN-Sydney, QTQ-Brisbane, NWS-Adelaide and STW-Perth plus NBN-Newcastle, WIN-Wollongong and other regional affiliates. One of the cast of this show was Russell Gilbert, who thought of himself as a comedian but in reality was a total fuckwit. When he joined HHIS he dragged the whole show down to his gutter level. Well, Peter Kay is Granada's Russell Gilbert.

Did Granada have financial issues?

nothing about "kick off" were north west football dominated for the past 50 years

14:50 - Good editing here to eliminate the vile pervert who was with Peter and Sally during this part of the music video.

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My mum hated Paul McCartney and the Beatles .

Michael Parkinson, you're either confused with which Beatle mum it was, or you're lying! John and Paul's mothers both died long before they were famous. So was it Ringo or George, or are you just lying? I'd say lying!

Yorkshire TV better

Peter Kay miming Tony Christie? Nah! Too cheap and nasty! Demeans the station! Should've got Tony Christie himself to perform the song, after all, he is British!