Yorkshire TV 1968-1969 start-up routine recreation

[medicdeano]

Great Videoclip!

[wetsuit2]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this.

[spacefan1962]

Marvellous stuff. I remember this so well. Did the tune have a name and does anyone know if it's available? (No, serously!) It really does hark back to a better, simpler, age. Did the composer also write the 5-note YTV ident or is it co-incidence that this tune keeps repeating the theme?

[AidanLunn]

@spacefan1962 I believe it was called the Yorkshire Television March

[spacefan1962]

@AidanLunn Ah, thank you. Coates? As in "The Dambusters"? I thought it sounded more like The Battle of Britain music. That was Ron Goodwin wasn't it? Stirring stuff in any case!

[dekima123]

I remember this music so well! This was from a time when we only had Black and white, and when you got up and had to wait for tv to start! lol Brings back so many memories!

[OldSetonian]

It's the Yorkshire Television March by Eric Coates, IIRC, stevie.

[OldSetonian]

Thanks, Aidan.

[steviep33]

wish i could find out what this is called still love it today

[OldSetonian]

Actually, the studios were opened by the erstwhile Duchess of Kent (now Kate Worsley) in July 1968. It was a moment of great pride for us, since we had had to suffer TV from Granada since ITV opened in the fifties.

[AidanLunn]

@OldSetonian *and ABC at the weekends :)

[OldSetonian]

@AidanLunn

Actually, I didn't mind the stuff from ABC.

[namco21gamefreak]

Farewell analogue television gone but not forgotten!

[gamsmoothbtm]

this was actually used on Saturday mornings into the early 1970s .. it's a fantastic piece of music and used to prepare me for the Banana Splits, Robinson Crusoe, Zorro, The Whirlybirds etc etc etc etc ... Wonderful memories....why is the World so complicated and dull now..??

[AidanLunn]

@gamsmoothbtm This music was actually used until 1982! :)

[JFredUK]

Slightly before my time. I would have loved to have seen it, though. I never get tired of listening to this song.

[AidanLunn]

@JFredUK It's way before my time, being born in 1990.

[regentv980]

Good times waking up as a child,super theme tune

[jsbd1]

Am I too early for the excitng build up to Saturday morning YTV?

[XeniaOnatop100]

My god, it all comes flooding back to me. What a great piece of music.

[dublinbrazilianblue]

Very good mockup, it's a shame there's no footage of the real thing though, could the announcer be Graham Roberts perhaps???

[TSS441]

good afternoon from YTV. let's start off as always during the working well by having tea with...the simpsons!

[simonguitarman]

Yorkshire television was actually based in disbury in manchester when this was recorded at the old ABC studios.

[AidanLunn]

Kind of. Programmes were only made at Didsbury. They were never actually *transmitted* from there, so no continuity such as start-ups were broadcast from there.

Yorkshire TV's first broadcast was the Duchess of York officially opening the Leeds studios, so that Yorkshire could at least broadcast some programmes from there while their Leeds studios were still being equipped.

[mikeknell]

Who's doing the authority announcement? Sounds rather offhand for the 60s.

[AidanLunn]

no idea but I think the fact that this was recorded simply by sticking a tape recorder with a microphone to the TV speaker affected the sound quality of his announcement somewhat.

[regentv980]

Redvers Kyle who did it for quite a while

[mixer1949]

I don't know who the voice belongs to but it certainly isn't Redvers Kyle

[racrimbpsvc]

I made a recreation of a Tyne Tees startup. It wasn't that accurate though, as it was me making the authority announcement.

[cwilliams1976]

I agree!!!! This is what I had expected and typical of the ITV start-ups of the time.

[Hodnux]

First view etc. Proof that mocks/recreations CAN be done well.