When Southern said goodbye, Fred Dinenage was there. When TVS bid farewell, Fred Dinenage was there. When Meridian was swallowed into corporate ITV, Fred Dinenage was there too. Can’t help thinking he’s a bloody jinx.
Great upload. The fact that the TVS archive has disappeared is an act of cultural vandalism...shocking that these programmes will likely never see the light of day again.
Hmm Probably just as well given some of the cheap tat they created. Both Southern and Meridian were far more classy. Although come to think of it, perhaps TVS were the harbinger of what ITV has become today.
Great to see Malcolm Brown introduce Fred & Fern in this final TVS programme (at 1:34), as he was the first voice heard on TVS at 9:29am on New Year’s Day 1982. He also provides narration throughout the show too.
At least TVS went out gracefully and in a much happier lighter mood at the end of their franchise than the angry upset scowling faced people at Southern Television who were understandably upset at the loss of the franchise.
ITV certainly hit the buffers after this mess of a Franchise auction. The South & South East lost a broadcaster which produced countless quality programmes for the region and the network and local news which was much better than South Today. Its a shame the programme archive has been lost due to ownership changes and lost paperwork etc. Well done for keeping these snippets online!
Absolutely agree. It was a very ambitious and successful regional broadcaster and contributor to the national network. Coast to Coast was the most watched regional news programme in the country by audience share. Little wonder. How crazy the ITV franchise auction system was.
I miss TVS, it produced its own programmes unlike Meridian and now ITV Meridian is just a slelleton of what TVS was no large studio complex, just a news room in a moddest looking office block in Whiteley
When TVS did there very last programme Goodbye To All That. TVS did it with fun joy happiness pride and also thanked the TVS views for the last 10-11 years there had been on the air. Also, Fred and Fern wish Merdian good luck as well. Although Fred and Fern would be working with Merdian. TVS did no up yours to the ITC and Merdian. Not like Southern Television when they did there last programme Goodbye From Us back in 1981 when they did an all-mighty Up yours to the IBA and TVS I bet a lot of senior people at Southern were hoping that TVS would fail and they would be asked to come back. Sorry Southern but the IBA made its decision and that was that you had to accept it
Yule: That's right~! They mentioned Meridian at the end~ Mary: HELL YEAH!!! TVS is WAY BETTER than Southern! Yule: STOP CUTTING ME WHEN I'M TALKING!!! Sorry for my voice.... Mary can sometimes be bonkers when she's commenting...
Also, after it end, instead of going away with black screen then early of the morning Meridian start, automatically switch to Meridian, so only sad reactions, no scare or anything after the end.
The final Coast to Coast from Southampton even ran a story about Meridian and the opening of the Newbury studio! Whatever the feeling was off-screen, nobody can say TVS came across as bitter, nasty and spiteful the way Southern Television did. TVS were a class broadcaster, should have replaced Yorkshire TV as part of the ‘big 5’, and stayed classy to the end
True Fact: On Television South, there was a science program called The Real World. One of the presenters of The Real World Jackie Spreckley is my Aunt.
39:02 That's former Granada & RTÉ presenter Gay Byrne! (After retiring from The Late Late Show in 1999, he became host of the Irish version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, which ran for 18 months)
TVS archive not sure, TVS was purchased by an american company after 1993 but i believe the archive has become fragmented and belong to several companies hence why it has not re appeared much.... Much of the southern archive belongs to talking pictures tv which is a digital film channel in the uk......
Yeah, it's clear from looking at Southern's last telecast (particularly the final goodbyes) that they weren't happy about losing their licence and were set on letting the public know.
WarioBarker88 Kris Starring ***** Southern's farewell was pre-recorded the day before. The only live bit was a link by Christopher Robbie to the chimes of Big Ben heralding in the New Year. This programme also did not go out live, this was also pre-recorded.
Yule: Well, I do agree with you~ Mary: Well, that's obvious! My mom said Southern was nothing but crap besides How and some other shows for kids. She was right all the time! Yule: You didn't let me finish.... Also, you're right about Southern's tv programmes. They were far from being perfect...
+Kris Starring A really good opportunity. Unlike Southern, whose employees felt more like they were off to the gallows, TVS went out with three things: First, class, then second, honor, and finally, third, DIGNITY. TVS might have learned from Southern's mistakes. They did better. It's better to go out with dignity.
ITV companies talking (past and present) talking with my charecter Bluestone. Bluestone: I love ITV in the south, well, Southern was a meh company. Good Luck Meridian on you first day later this evening! (Southern slaps Bluestone) Granada, LWT and Central: SOUTHERN!!!!!!! Thames and Bluestone: That scared me! Granada, LWT and Central: Sorry! Carlton: Excited about my launch tonight. Granada: And thankfully my region is still on air so that means more Coranation Street! Yorkshire: But then I thought, maybe partenering with Tyne Tees is a good idea. Meridian: Talking of Tyne Tees, where is she? (Asks ITV Alexa) Alexa, where is Tyne Tees, ITV Alexa (Amazon parody): at the pub, then she's going to Big Ben. All regions: Aaaaaaaaa. Yorkshire: Yorkies, I forgot to cue the You've Been Framed episode starting now! *rushes to Alexa* Alexa, start the Beadle fall-over show, You've Been Framed! TSW and Westward: Let's hope Westcountry retains Gus Honeybun! Westcountry: I am not because he has been on TV for 31 years! Channel: Well that means I just need to keep Puffins Pla(i)ce. Granada Nighttime Cat: TSW, you are doomed. Me and Westcountry have made a deal that we will replace that weird planet ident with me, the cat. That means all the nighttime horror is coming back to South West England. Bluestone: Thank goodness i have Bluenight. All regions exept Bluestone: What regions do you carry? Bluestone: I serve the Granada region on weekends, the west midlands, The Borders on weekends and North Wales. Meridian: So overexited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bluenight: I am going to start serving every region and I hope it is completed by 1994. All regions exept Westcountry: Great idea! (Bluenight starts to dance) TVS: I love my name (Southren chokes TVS) (All regions slap, push and force choke Southern) All regions: We so so so hate you Southern! (Southern gets kicked out of ITV house) Southern: I am going to Channel 4's house to invade them. TVS and Bluestone: Thank goodness that terribly behaved star is gone. All regions: Yes!
1:05:30 Thank You for watching TVS from when Southern Television shut down its transmitter to today when we shut down our transmitter. And so goodbye from us here at TVS
Well, I wasn't expecting to see Shaw Taylor at 12:00 in. Jesus, that's two franchises he's appeared on in their death knell (first being ATV just minutes before they signed off to become Central; see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xhY8oh9eFxE.html)
I cannot thank you enough for uploading this - I've been wanting to see this ever since I knew it existed. YOU RULE! I just hope this isn't the last video you'll be uploading? By any chance, do you have any Jeopardy episodes? Thanks again! :-)
Meridian were quite bland in many ways. Their local presentation was good, they made some decent attempts for the regional programming but it was all so bland!
I remember etctera. Paul Merton would not mention it because it was on at 10.35pm Friday Night and it was proper regional television that sadly ITV does not do any more! Disabled UK viewer GOD BLESS!
TVS somewhat reminds me of DuMont in a way, if DuMont had better clearances and less budget problems. If you *had* decided to stop uploading, I can't think of a better, classier way to go out -- by showing the great, classy way TVS went out. Looking at the game/quiz program montage at 37:23-39:23, do you happen to have anything of "Love Me Love Me Not", "Hitman", or "Tell The Truth"? All were imports from North America, and I'm particularly interested in Hitman since it only got 65 shows here in the States. Perfectly fine if you don't, since you've got plenty of good stuff and by all indication have more yet to come. :)
Wow-It never ceases to surprise me how much Southern gets slagged off in the comments section.I never lived in the region-I lived in Kennington,south London and used to receive it as an Extra channel in the seventies(don't know why!)It was like our Channel 4/5 in the seventies-I loved it.Probably would have hated if I lived in the region and that was my only local ITV channel.Did any of you guys receive Thames/LWT in the Southern area?
sn2nd88r Hi, yes, you are so right about many of the comments here slagging off Southern TV. Of course, most of them probably weren’t even born when Southern TV was around and therefore know fuck all. I was born in the 60s and grew up in the Southern Region and the channel produced great programs, especially for us kids at that time. We also had Thames TV so we had like four channels in a way. We had BBC, Thames, and our local channel, Southern. It was a sad day when Southern lost its franchise to TVS and just because Southern did not celebrate with fireworks does not give people the right to slag a station just because of that.
At 53:06, it’s interesting Fern mentions Mike Debens and Liz Wickham ‘can’t be with us’ on a pre-recorded programme. Were they asked or did TVS think it was too much effort to have a few Maidstone presenters?
Looking at Wikipedia it says this. "Closing ceremony[edit]TVS ceased broadcasting to the south and south east of England at just before midnight on 31 December 1992. While most other ITV stations were broadcasting the Thames Television farewell programme The End of the Year Show, TVS chose to opt out and air its own final programme entitled Goodbye to All That, a retrospective of its programming presented by Fred Dinenage and Fern Britton, recorded in front of a studio audience at the Northam studios in Southampton earlier. The programme closed with an amended version of the TVS ident, along with the message Thanks for watching before crossing to Big Ben for the New Year chimes at midnight and the handover to Meridian Broadcasting."So looks like it was pre-recorded.
Thank you for your kind comments it look like they had a great last day when TVS did it with pride joy and happiness and fun and no up yours to the ITC and wishing Meridian good luck unlike Southern when they did there last ever broadcast back in 1981 which was done as a up yours to The IBA and to TVS for saying you made an almighty mistake taking our franchise away but they will never be a perfect way to issue and reissue franchise what happened was the decision of the IBA and the ITC
@@ADCTVCollection It was indeed pre-recorded! On the ITN Early Evening News on that day, they mentioned "at TVS the final programme has already been recorded" so it sounds like it was pre-recorded, not live
@@ianmorris3998 logistically it would make sense to have been done so early, as arranging all the guests and staff would have been difficult if live plus the end was in sight by then anyway
With TVS there final show was done with pride and happiness and joy and no up yours to the ITC which Southern did back in 1981 to the old IBA what ever anyone says they will be no perfect idea or system for the ITV franchise system
I must say I wasn't overly sad to see TVS go, as I remember the poor way Southern ended up losing their franchise and it looks like Southern have a bit of the last laugh with a few of their surviving shows being repeated on Talking Pictures TV and with TVS library now owned by Disney, theirs will probably never see the light of day except for U-tube.
Erm l'm sorry but if you call all that crap then you clearly didn't watch it from beginning to end - TVS as in the tradition of Thames and others of the old broadcasters and again as this closing TVS broadcast shows, were extremely proud of their output which back then unlike the post early 90's changes that followed them, did make their own stuff. Yes TVS were not as big as Thames but still TVS had a class about them from their on air theme through to their programming just like Thames LWT etc. so l'm sorry but you calling all that old archive of programming crap is an insult to common sense! Seriously the crap is what has come since all the great names of TVS Thames and so on disappeared as the regional structure of ITV forever!!
Fern Britton Coowaar!! Lavley bit ov crackling n so thin. I wouldn't mind mate I can tell yah. The rest of this rubbish you would need a crate of beers n a bong to stay entertained.
