What a great piece of music Southern Rhapsody was. Shame it was probably never heard again after this. Likewise the Southern Fantasia composed for the final programme.
Thank you for this of course so then too. A shame really that this was their last full day on air too. I remember Verity Martindill too. Although I live in the London area, I know she announced on LWT at times, along with Hillary Osborn at one stage too. I don't think she was on Thames though. A shame too that she died in 1985 with cancer later on from what I read too. Well done too!
I’m here because I’ve watched Bob The Fish’s ITV in The Face series. I was born in 1987 and only remember Meridian being the ITV South East franchise holder. TVS is a name I didn’t know until sometime in the early 2010s. The first bits of the 1990 Broadcasting Act (except that it was the reason why these happened) I came across in 2007, which were that Teletext Ltd. and GMTV replaced Oracle and TVAM. Had I been around for Southern’s final night of broadcast, I would’ve watched a bit of And It’s Goodbye From Us to make fun of them for how bitter they were over TVS taking over, but turned over to the BBC around midnight.
"This is Southern Independent Television, broadcasting from transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the South and South East of England."
Dear T.B.S. Did Southern Television go off the air for seven weeks from August 1977 to September 1977. I seem to remember this at the time. We had a wonderfull catch-up service when Southern came back on-air. Do you have the confirmed dates for me please. I love your sites. Thank You.
@@brucedanton3669 sorry i probably havent read all the comments further down sad to hear shes been gone so long. love to receive replies even months/yrs later!!
@@christopherhayes2556 Thank you there for the reply too. I am not too sure but that sadly is what I read about her on another comment a while ago too. I had no idea too that she had died then so it came somewhat as a surprise too sadly of course.
It was a co-production between Paramount Television (the same ones who made Happy Days, Star Trek post-Desilu, Mork & Mindy and Cheers) and the 0-Ten Network of Australia (the name being a reference to the first stations on the network, ATV-0 in Melbourne and TEN-10 in Sydney, the network changed its name to Network 10 in 1980 when ATV changed channels to 10)
ITV generally started at 9:30 and finished at not longer after midnight. BBC started even later (apart from schools programs). It wasn’t until “breakfast TV” around 1983, and then late night TV on ITV around 1987 that TV became more of a “round the clock” service.
@@GryphLane Hannington wasn’t and still isn’t a low power relay transmitter. It’s a high-power main transmitter. You can receive it as Far East as West London, as far north as Oxford, as far south as Southampton and as far west as Salisbury. It’s microwave fed from Rowridge, yes, but that’s because Rowridge (and Chillerton Down) themselves had to be microwave-fed owing to being on the Isle of Wight and Southern’s studios being on the mainland. When Hannington ITV service opened in November 1971 it was just cheaper, quicker and easier to receive the signals off-air from Rowridge (BBC used a microwave link from Rowridge) than get the GPO to install new lines feeding it and new switching equipment in the nearest town’s exchange (which would be Newbury, I think).
No it isn't. It's 480p, not 575i 50Hz (576i for SD digital, but 575i for 625-line analogue. And before you ask, 405-lines would be 377i in digital form), which would be broadcast resolution if it was from a UK broadcast!
It was more that TVS lost because they overbid to such an extent that they'd have become bankrupt within a year anyway. I loved TVS but it was pretty much self-inflicted.
It was odd really somehow that when the then IBA of old now decided that TVS would take over from Southern, they said that the region would be the South and South East of England too. Fair enough really, but the new company of course would be called Television South too. In a way, a reverse of the old one too. But they did not call it TVSE though did they, with the East added at all though really too? I know really it is just a minor point somehow, but it sort of does make you wonder though too?
