Depending on 'atmospherics' we could sometimes pick up Yorkshire TV in my hometown of Cambridge. On such occasions I loved to listen to their startup music!
Aye it has that hairs on the back of your neck feel to it. You have to be from Yorkshire to understand it. A sense of pride that you are from God’s own county.
3 years on, I should also add, if anyone sees the original version of the start up with the Yorkshire ident appearing in animation - the music just soars.
Fantastic. This music was part of our childhood. We used to salute & stand to attention, on Saturday mornings. Happy that we didn’t have to go to school 😀👍
By crikey this takes me back! We were in an area that was primarily Emley Moor's domain, but Tyne Tees was pretty strong, and (unlike the bland homogeneity we see with the ITV companies of today) TT generally ran different films, news (obviously) and the cosiness of "in vision" continuity. To improve things, my old man got an extra north-facing aerial (as the Emley Moor twig faced almost bang on due West). Our Sony Trinitron of the era had channels thusly: BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2, and *, so could accommodate the VCR as well! I recall that the TT startup was either five minutes before or after YTV, so since we liked both startup overtures, we would play the first one, race across the sitting room, and hit the button to enjoy the next one! Ahh, great days eh?
I live in County Durham (Bilsdale area) and when I was a kid I tuned the spare channel on the TV (marked ITV2) into Yorkshire TV from Emley Moor. I still recall this music very well and loved it from the moment I heard it. Makes the hairs on your arms stand up and I thought it was much better than our own Tyne-Tees TV start up music. Amazing!
SuperRecordman I always find it awesome whenever you catch a station not intended for your area (more so with AM Radio nowadays).Here in Saskatchewan if I am lucky I can pick up stations from the USA under the right atmospheric conditions
I live in the area that the Belmont Transmitter was broadcasting to so it changed from Anglia to Yorkshire, I must admit the people here in my area were pretty mad but if I was there I would have loved waking up in the morning and tuning into YTV.
Used to rush off the school bus and run home just to hear this quite audacious and uplifting peice of music that I think even Mozart would have been proud to write.
Ron Goodwin composed this. Unmistakeable. These ITV franchise morning start up musical arrangements clearly conveyed the franchises cared about their output, music like this piece convey a real sense of pride...unlike today, blame Thatcher for smashing ITV to pieces, allowing mergers and buy outs until Granada Carlton ruined ITV into becoming something so terrible its output is just as faceless and as bland as the channel itself....how I wish the Govt would repeal the Broadcasting Act 1990/1 and return ITV to a truly independent television channel with individual franchise holders - bring back the old names, bring back the IBA and...bring back all these wonderful morning startup tunes...
This Start-up was first broadcast before the the film 'The Battle of Britain' was released. As TheMasterNo6 stated it is unmistakable Goodwin. I would hazard a guess that it was commissioned by Yorkshire TV as you can hear Ilkley Moor baht 'at within the music.
I didn't know this, thank you Charles. I lived in Lancashire but was able to receive YTV along with HTV as well as Granada. Nowadays there's only really one ITV.
My childhood - sat in front of the tv, waiting for the programmes to start. Credit must be given to John Cross & Graham Roberts, along with Redvers Kyle, for their continued service to YTV.
I've loved this tune since it was first broadcast about 1969, I believe it was written and composed by Ron Goodwin and was unused music written for Battle of Britain.
Imagine a field of Spitfires... RAF pilots running towards them and taking off into the blue British skies... Each one flying towards German bombers....
I never realised that Yorkshire TV served only 2/3rds of Yorkshire- and not necessarily York. They should have called it Lincolnshire TV. You could officially get Yorkshire TV in King's Lynn, 100 miles outside Yorkshire, but not in Whitby.
BBC600 Have a look at the map. Large areas within Yorkshire were not covered. Large areas well outside Yorkshire, including areas on both sides of the Wash, were covered. In York, you watched Tyne Tees.
anonUK I couldn’t say for certain. Ontario is one of the largest population wise and with Toronto and Ottawa I’d say it plausible. In my area of Saskatchewan (out on the prairies landlocked in the middle of the country)however I am quite a few hours drive to the border. In fact I personally have never been to the USA yet in my entire life.
@@dogbite5509 there's a myth involved here... The story goes that, to keep costs down, the producers didn't commission a really big famous composer to score the Dambusters. Instead they asked for submissions for theme music... And Eric Coates riffled through a pile of potboiler tunes he'd written, pulled one out and wondered if it would do. The real story, told by Coates' son, is that his dad hated writing film music, and had already written what would become one of the most famous film themes ever just a couple of days before the producers asked him to do the job. All Coates' marches sound like The Dambusters .
Christopher Busby. I lived in West Norfolk and because it was so flat, there wasn’t anywhere high enough to put a transmitter so we could get Anglia TV. Spent years getting my “local” news from Leeds.
That will be the automatic recording level on the video tape recorder. It is similar to what used to happen on audio cassette recordings on machines without manual recording level.
