HTV West start up 1980s

Played after TV-AM each morning at 9.25am. Begins with the famous HTV ident (with the spooky "Waterfall" jingle).

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Entertainment

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• htv
• west
• start
• up
• sequence
• 1980s
• itv
• opening

[mistofoles]

Wow, the tune sounds like the theme from a low-budget British porno comedy!

[gilhams]

@mistofoles "Confessions of an HTV cameraman"

[twofrozenpeas]

Well I liked it. !!!!!

[girlwhoshould]

Very Bristol centric, with a token bit of Somerset sums HTV West really.

Couldn't see any of the bits of Gloucestershire or Wiltshire in HTV land, surprised there was no shot of the (now old) seven bridge either.

[halsalli]

Sorry I don't know Taunton, but if you are sure it is, then I will believe you. Taunton it is, for a nano second!

[TumbleTower]

@halsalli Pause the video at 1:45, that's a shot of Taunton, is it not? To me it looks like Taunton, looking in the direction of Burton (on the corner of North Street and Castle Bow).

[halsalli]

So, During the HTV start up, they show Bristol, Bristol, Glastonbury Tor, some token motorway; possbily the M4 or M5, Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, Cheddar Gorge, Cheddar Gorge, Wells, Wells, Clevedon, Clevedon Pier (thankfully now fully restored), Bristol, Bristol. Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, Bristol; ooh and a robin - no biased toward Bristol City FC then. So what about, Weston, Bath, Swindon, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Minehead, Taunton, Yeovil, Frome, Wesbury...