ITV / TVS / Television South Continuity May 15th 1986 

I haven't heard the jingles to 'Connections' and the ITN News at 5.45 in absolutely AGES! How luvly 2 hear them again. And wot else do I like about this clip? Because I get 2 c how the rest of the UK did TV in their part of the country (regional TV is so shrouded in mystery, which makes it all the more interesting and fascinating)

god i remember this brings back childhood memories i was 14 when this was screened

it's Martyn Lewis! Before he left ITN and then he moved to the BBC!

He was, in that he had his daily Radio 1 show which ran from 1977 to 1993. But his contract obviously allowed him to do other work - he was a prolific ad voiceover at the time.

This is what the news is like in a recession, get used to it.

In This Clip, From 0:42 To 1:27, It Was ITN-TV's ITN News At 545 Video Open And Video Close From Thursday Evening, May 15, 1986.

Nice

my neck of the woods

Sad news of ellio de Angelis passing after needless testing crash in this bulletin. F1 fans will know what I mean.

But "good news" for the TVS region. Weren't they always :) ?

I thought he moved to the BBC by May 1986. Must have been later on that year.

Note that Brian Nissen pronounces "5.45" in an oddly American way - probably because he didn't give himself enough time (Peter Bolgar does the same thing somewhere else here). Martyn Lewis's tone is nauseating as ever, and at the end he looks oddly like the grotesque Tory candidate in the "Partridge Over Britain" bit of Knowing Me, Knowing You. American tourists were staying away because of risible paranoia that Libya would bomb Britain.