Thames Television final junction 31.12.92

Final junction from Thames with Chief Executive Richard Dunn thanking everybody behind the scenes. Includes ITN News Bulletin and the switch to Carlton is obvious at the stroke of midnight with the non-sync frame hop. From that point on, ITV and British television slowly slid downhill to the cheap and nasty mess we see today.

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[fraserkatie]

I didnt know he had died! Sad! A great man who brought the magic of Thames into my living room!

[NeilRob45]

The end of Thames was the day ITV died.

[kainer2]

@pistak09 it's 19 years ago...still sad seeing this

[pistak09]

This happened 20 years ago today. Long live Thames.

[Millionholes]

@section451 I think it's the government's fault, it forced Granada and other ITV Franchisees to pay most of their earning to British Government and they haven't money to make better programmes.

[PPNeeded]

Thames was ITV, ITV was Thames, simple. Gave up when LWT went by the wayside too. What a shame

[andyr123452]

haha a very young looking sky news Dermot Murnaghan newsreader there :-)

[davidgbarron]

@jayrox40 But the IBA ultimately shot themselves in the foot by giving the franchise to Carlton, as apart from Dave Allen's last series they produced nothing of note.

[jayrox40]

@brucedanton i

t's just an urban myth that Thames lost their franchise because of Death on the Rock. If you read Under The Hammer, the story of the 1991 ITV franchise round, you'll discover that the IBA had had its eye on Thames for most of the 1980s and it didn't like what it saw, mostly due to its terrible industrial relations.

[lukesams2]

The end of proper telly as we knew it.

[DFWM091]

@eszettfromhell Fuck Carlton indeed,aha, they ruined ITV with the help of Granada,there's absolutely no comparison in quality between today's ITV and the one of 20 years ago,but things are not likely to change now!!

[DFWM091]

@sattski Oh i totally agree with ya there, i'm not even British and this brings a tear to my eye and total dismay, what a perfect song they signed off with, i have seen so many clips of Thames on youtube and it just proves how great they were,I'm irish by the way and well i wish i was British and older to have seen Thames in action,great channel it was and wish still would have being, what a screw up i believe there was a government pull in them losing the licence but that can't be proven!!