@@johnking5174 oh yes mate. Earlier years I remember used to come from school to my grandparents house have fish and chips then 7pm watch either Bob Monkhouse on Family Fortunes or Play Your Cards Right
@@johnking5174 oh absolutely to get the weekend up and running. Danny Baker, Fred Housegoe, Janet Street Porter, Emma Freud and Paula Yates great memories
@rtcp2020 Exactly, a point lost on many people. If all the existing franchises had won, nothing would be substantially different today. Just maybe a slightly different order of acquisitions and possibly Central or Thames ending up as the largest company rather than Granada. Some things could even have been worse - if TSW had won on their ridiculously high bid they would have quickly ended up merging with HTV and HTV West & TSW could have ended up on a merged schedule. If TVS had won it was at risk of going bust, and if Thames had won there never would have been a proper 7 day news service in London. The most significant Thames programmes were still made anyway. Only franchise change that made no odds was TVAM losing to GMTV as the eventual service was pretty much exactly the same (except GMTV had regional news which TVAM did not). The system used was manifestly unfair, but now that the dust has settled it probably didn't matter in the long term who won or lost anything.
@@chriswathen9612 It's true that the Broadcasting Act had sentenced regional ITV to death. However Carlton winning the franchise was a bad thing for the quality of programming. Apart from Old Bear Stories there was very little well regarded TV from Carlton.
Looks like LWT News was using the old Studio 10 at LWT Studios. Located on the tenth floor of London Studios, it had a great view of London, but not as big as Studio 7 view which would be used by London Tonight from 1993. Studio 10 was converted into offices in the mid 2000s.
I have never lived in the London region, and a couple of things strike me about this clip... 1 - That Thames were striking their own distinct image, whilst LWT were happy to declare that they were part of the ITV network. Franchise loser and winner perspectives at play there, I feel. 2 - For 1992, that was quite an impressive false backdrop in the LWT news studio.
In a few days time on the 31 December into 1 January it will be 30 years ago since all the changes in ITV's set up when the then new franchises took hold. As others have said before, it has not really been the same since, which although a deep shame is what really occured then from that time onwards-alas of course. Thank you!
Home And Away was bought to replace Crossroads in the Teatime soap slot ITV through Central felt it was cheaper to buy a ready made soap from Australia as Crossroads by 1988 was getting too expensive at £100.000 per episode to make and it wasn't getting the ratings and ITV were losing viewers to BBC1 at Teatime thanks to Neighbours and therefore staying with BBC1 for the whole evening after Neighbours
Darren Hayward In the early, pre-Central years, when it was made by ATV, hardly any filming of Crossroads was done on location - only when they filmed scenes in people’s gardens, real houses - even a real swimming pool was used extensively, that probably caused the budget to shoot up!
so did they abandon 6 o'clock live and then put home and away in its place as a tempory measure until London tonight was introduced in 93? seems very strange having the main news at 5;15 and some crap aussie soap at 6 when it should be the other way around and you know what I don't even remember it being like this!
Daniel Woodhouse Yes they did, it was all to make sure they have every thing ready for London Tonight which would begin on 1st January 1993. Remember London Tonight would be using the studios at LWT so they had to have time to get the studios fixed and set up in time for rehearsals and the launch of London Tonight.
@@MarkPentler Yes it was because the video heads of a domestic VHS recorder would struggle to keep up with the sudden change in source. Also used to happen in the mornings switching to and from TV-am.
