News at 545 (ITN) Report West (HTV West) 1977 

Blimey! No autocue but at least it wasn't in black and white. And as for the hair......I had to watch from behind the sofa.....Happy days :)

Loving the closing credits for ITN 545, especially the font (Microgramma) - R.I.P. Alastair Burnet!

Very early snippet of News At 5:45. Wouldn’t have been going for a year at this point. Didn’t realise HTV used that theme music either, it was used at around the same time for Scene South East on Southern.

This News at 545 theme lasted until 1988, nice to see a pre-1980 video

Graham Miller’s tie is awesome

If memory serves, the debacle about Totterdown was that the council received one government letter of approval and went ahead with demolition before receiving a second necessary letter, which, when it arrived, blocked approval. Dear old Ken Rees, who died yesterday. I remember him asking Jeremy Thorpe at a press conference when he was under suspicion whether he had ever had a homosexual experience. Thorpe's lawyer interjected to object to such a question.

Graham Miller and Ken Rees would later move to ITN and Graham Miller was also HTV West's soccer presenter

Back in 1993 a couple of friends heard the KLF were going to be at HTV studios on Bath Road so they went down there to see if they could meet them. They asked the receptionist if the rumour was true, and she said she'd ask Richard Wyatt to come down to confirm. They ran off as the thought of meeting such a huge local star would have been too much 🤣🤣 they were brothers also called Wyatt!

This is rare. Alistair Burnett also read News At 5.45 I was actually born in July 1977. For me I liked it when each bulletin would have its distinctive then eg News at 1, 5.45 & 10. Alistair Burnett legendary newsreader RIP

The HTV West area map behind the newsreader is a bit optimistic, showing coverage well into Devon!

Brilliant. I’ve been transported back to being a 5 year old. I’ve not heard those theme tunes for years, especially the Report West one. I remember singing along to it as a little boy. By the way, did they film it in a corrugated steel shed?

John Suchet was also a 5:45 presenter at one time there is a video of a Granada Reports opening with a John Suchet 5:45 closing from October 6 1980 the day Manchester City sacked Malcolm Allison

Life is all memory

Kipper ties lol.

A rare Alistair Burnett 5:45 on YT

I had no idea that Martin Freeman was old enough to host Report West back in '77...😉

Had they been using that same theme music for Reports West since the 60s? And Graham Miller looks like he's been given a spoof-style retro makeover!

Wow! This is the earliest I have seen of News at 5.45. Odd seeing Sir Alistair Burnet instead of Leonard Parkin there. Thanks for sharing.

Gosh I remember it seemed to rain every day during the school summer hols in 1977!

From the weather map it looks like HTV West had claimed a big chunk of Westwards area.

Sad ken Rees past away just this week. Aged 76

2:36 FML that suit! You could land a jumbo 787 on one of those lapels 😂

Does anyone have the start to the News at 5:45?

The map was interesting. Looks like Barnstaple and Bideford and shaded green but pretty sure that area was covered by Westward

The old harlech tv did they not have a Teleprinter

Imagine letting a man with a beard like that reading the news today

Was the music also used by Southern TV (Scene South East Dover opt out)

The working,an had it all and lost it all.

Bristol ring road what backward thinking it would have meant people don't have to go near Bristol.

Love the old swan neck lamps all gone now another chapter of Bristol councils vandalism