Childrens ITV, Autumn 1993 Part 1

[buc555]

My little brother once said "not me watch old bear 'ong time"

[ITVWeatherFans]

You can't beat that How2 theme tune. Class.

[jamesdelboy]

I agree

[PhoebeBushbaby]

How worrying that the Bold advert was so familiar after all these years...

[hwbpa3]

i wish they had 1 with budgie the helicopter in

[RapierMedia]

2:13 bad influence, it shouldn't be allowed

[Megavids3]

this is a nice childrens itv , not today's rubbish with horrid henry

[hwbpa3]

i agree

[feckingbillgates]

As a kid I never did understand why that programme was called "How 2". Sure, I figured it was a sequel to an older programme called "How", but why not just call the newer one "How" as well?  It was quite weird.

[bigjeffstar]

that voice-over guy from the bold advert now works for the x-factor... how bizarre

[AidanLunn]

yeah, I've heard his voice on loads of other stuff.

[ROTSSisalive]

i swear he does e4 aswell

[Backintime90stv]

@bigjeffstar The voice in the bold advert is Patrick Allen who was the original voice of E4 Peter Dickson replaced Patrick after his death in 2006/

[bigjeffstar]

@Backintime90stv oh of course.. now i've listened more closely.. they are quite different, kids tv was amazing in the 90's.. *sigh* nostalgia... what happened to the world??

[AidanLunn]

. . . that's not the voice of Steve Ryde? What happened to him on that day?

[pipkin3]

Old Bear :) I used to love that, and Bad Influence, though I'd forgotten that one!

[RapierCorporation]

bad influence,

(screen off)

It shouldn't be allowed!

[AidanLunn]

FUCKIN 'ELL. OLD BEAR STORIES AT THE START! I completely forgot about that show!

[2hot4paper]

This was my era of watching How 2, I remember those titles and that theme very well.

[Halfbricktv2]

I remember that era of How 2 very well. Had a catchy theme tune too.

[steviegTVreturns]

Cue Dot, as CITV was being broadcast from Central they had to let the other Regions know when they'd be going into a break. It disappears 5 seconds before the ads start. You don't see them that much these days.

[Hammadmossop1988]

Wow thanks for the upload steviegTVreturns this is a great CITV clip thank you

[returnofthesosolid]

What was the Black and White Thing on the Top Right Corner

[AidanLunn]

That was from the days of the old regional ITV system, when one company would operate any of the 14 ITV regions. All the CITV programmes were broadcast from the ITV production company through Central Television in Birmingham (coz they had the CITV graphics) and then broadcast to the ITV network. That little black and white thing was to alert all the ITV regions to get their regional ads ready and also to tell Meridian (in southampton) who made How 2 to get their tape ready for broadcast . . .

[AidanLunn]

They also did this for normal ITV programming as well.

So those watching How 2 in the Meridian ITV region (South and South-East England) would have the situation like this:

The programme is broadcast from meridian in southampton via underground BT lines (not telephone wires, special underground TV links) to Central in birmingham, where the CITV idents package, trailers and CITV announcers were based (during other programming, the ITV regions had their own idents, announcers etc.) . . .

[AidanLunn]

. . . and then the signal goes back through the BT links, this time back down to Southampton, where it goes through meridian's transmission department and is distributed to their transmitters and to the homes within their region.

Although during normal ITV programming, they wouldn't have to connect through Central or any other one. For Corrie (from granada in Manchester) your local ITV region would simply connect up directly to Granada

But now with ITV as a single company all that has gone.

[AidanLunn]

and I mentioned in my first comment that there were 14 ITV regions. Actually there were 15 ITV companies operating 14 regions as London had two: one for Monday 9:30am-Friday 6pm and another from Friday 6pm - Monday 9:30am.

[AidanLunn]

and don't bother giving this comment a red thumbs down because what I say is the truth.

[pigeonshouse]

Yeah, Carlton (Thames) and LWT.