ITV in the Face: Southern, TVS, Meridian (2 of 3)

This was fun to make but a pain to render in this heatwave. Anyway here is the history of ITV in the South. Any suggestions what the next one should be? (bearing in mind that TV Ark still haven't completed their London pages)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ITV
• in
• the
• face
• regions
• Idents
• Southern
• TVS
• Meridian
• television
• broadcasting
• Portakabin
• TV
• Fred
• Dineage
• Christopher
• Robbie
• Brian
• Nissen
• Hut
• Your
• Mother

[TheMasterNo6]

Brilliant work on all these ITV things you've done! But whys your voice echoey?

[Applemask]

@TheMasterNo6 Cheap microphone

[MrElliotpaige]

Why is it, I cant hear the TVS jingle without thinking its about to go into the 73 theme song?

I'm the same way with 20th Century Fox and the Star Wars theme...

[Applemask]

HEY YOU!

[darrowby1972]

get ready get on your feet get into gear and hit the street! No73 only spoilt by the cock eyed dyke we love to hate, Sandi Toksvig

[Applemask]

@darrowby1972 I like Sandi Toksvig. I almost walked right into her once. In the lobby of BBC Television Centre.

[baronscarpia1]

No wonder TVS rejected the ITV generic ident. The graphic designers clearly had no idea how to represent the channel.

[rachel7000rf]

what was wrong with TVS? I felt it was fantastic especially the ident

[tokutom]

@DreadwindsGhost I actually skipped through it! I just couldn't watch it!

[tokutom]

@DreadwindsGhost It freaked me out the first time I saw it. I was 12,thinking ''Oh this'll be cool to see how it ended''!

[madcapoperator]

So the austier twee 1950's mediocrity of southern was replaced with the thatcherite bullshit of TVS. Yeah, not too bothered about this region really in terms of them being generic-ised by ITV plc because it wouldnt have made much of a difference in a place like that.

[Woollylinnet]

@TashkentFox You may already have discovered it since you asked, but the full Portakabin TV can be found at - watch?v=pWaQ2RaAqJw

[Markelby]

Whatever happened to Barry Westwood ? Did he ever work for TVS.