London Weekend Television (LWT) Last Day on Air (Part 1)

27th October 2002 was LWT's last day on air before branding on all ITV plc stations became ITV1. The first of this three part video shows the specially made start-up sequence shown that morning.

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[Tripp1993]

Good way to end LWT. BRING BACK LWT! WHY don't you start a campaign to bring back the regions? Name it the "ITV Region Revival Project". Now, you should do a promo video, and dedicate it to me since I came up with the ITV Region Revival Project. If there's more than 100,000 YouTube subscribers who hate

the new ITV, they could bring the regions back and you should show ITV the consequences of their actions. They WILL get guilty and revive the regions by the beginning of the year 2010. Thank you.

[DistantCousin]

Absolutely, ITV has become completely ruthless, and it's general quality has plummeted beyond belief - I rarely watch it anymore.

[JayFirestorm]

It's weird - I used to get totally frustrated when a programme (usual some US import such as Knight Rider of A-Team) would be on adjoining regions but not mine. But now they've all merged, it's lost it's indentity. I used to love the local interest programmes. Now it's bland - I very seldom even bother checking whats on now - its usually either Emmerdale or "Corrie" =/

[bigcherry99]

i know this sounds ridiculous, but the thought of LWT having its last day makes me want to cry

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all those memories from the 70's + 80's gone forever

[BassPlayer9651]

@Tripp1993 Theres a group called bring back regional itv on facebook

[mersey70]

Let's be realistic, the main reason ITV became 'so bad' in some peoples opinion is because in the 80''s they had a market share of over 50%, they now have less than 15%.

The TV landscape has changed beyond anything the cosy world ITV inhabited before the 90's, I loved the old ITV but there wasn't a certain Sky, Internet and endless home entertainment options we have now.

[Imaan158]

Central did that to, but in a early date.

[Galindagirl13]

@Tripp1993

The reason ITV became so bad is because it used to be a network then the two main shareholder companies (Carlton and Granada) gradually bought out all of the regional stations and then merged to create what we now know as ITV PLC, however, when regional programmes are broadcast in the various regions, they are still billed on the transmission schedule as 'Border, Yorkshire, LWT...'

but I agree.

BRING BACK LWT and good prime time entertainment for Saturday nights!

[LeeAmes]

All they show now are repeats and repeats of repeats on every channel.

[peterhicks]

@Tripp1993 Did any of that actually happen?