Thames start-up recreation (1969) 

Dear ITV, please bring this back and get rid of the new garbage that we have to put up with today :).

Love the very Astute voice of Mr Elsemore

Ah yes, very nostalgic. I remember as a boy of around 8 years old (that would be around 1972) standing up and possibly even saluting the Thames Television tune (don't tell anyone though) :)

No, ITV in four regions, Granada from Winter Hill, YTV from Emley Moor, ATV from Sutton Coldfield and Thames/London Weekend from Crystal Palace started 625 lines colour in November 1969.

1:45. This is Thames Television, operating on the London transmitters of the Independent Television Authority.

First time I've heard Pizzicato Rockalong. I rather like it!

I believe the official start date for ITA Uhf 625 line colour transmissions (also receivable in b/w) was I5th November 1969 in the London, Midlands, Yorkshire, and Granada regions. BBC1 also began 625 line colour on this day. No doubt test transmissions were receivable before the official start date. Before the 625 services began both BBC1 and the ITA stations could only be received in black and white in 405lines Vhf. BBC2 had been in 625 lines colour since 1967.

you could dance to the start-up music

Feels like yesterday but how things have changed

Love the ident all the tradition landmarks but in the background the then nearly new post office tower ,look next to Big Ben ,superb

That's what I was commenting about earlier. The one at 1.57.

A re- creation indeed. BBC 2 was the only colour TV broadcaster in 1969. Colour came in, from memory in Autumn 1970. Thames was broadcasting in black and white throughout 1969.

Ah the nostalgia - especially from around 1:50

Who was the announcer at Thames Television, forty-seven years ago?

@mrmethane10 I definitely didn't get up early just to stand in front of the TV and conduct this. Absolutely no way. Nope. Just didn't happen.

1:45

"This is Thames Television operating on the London Transmitters of the Independent Television Authority!".

(. NOTE:. /. TRIVIA:. ). (. THIS. IS. THE. FIRST. THAMES. TELEVISION. START. BROADCASTING. IN. COLOR.). (1932).

C.

AND. THE. NEW. AUDIO. CALLING. STEREO. (1932).

1933.

1932.

The music is groovy stuff - not like that cheap and nasty, boring garbage that precedes... well, more cheap and nasty boring garbage on itv.