ATV CLOSEDOWN - CENTRAL START UP 1/1/82

This was the final closedown from ATV in the early hours of 1st Jan 1982. Then follows the first start-up from the new Central Independent Television about 9 hours later. The dawn of a new era in midlands broadcasting.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ATV
• CENTRAL
• START
• UP
• CLOSEDOWN
• Communications
• Media

[ianhawdon]

Who needs CWilliams1976 when you can have the real thing? :-)

[pjcnet]

This makes me feel so old and I was 12 years old then, over 27 years ago, yet it seems like only yesterday. At the time I had a ZX81 computer with 1K of memory which was the in thing, times have changed with an average PC having 2GB of memory or more which is 4194304K exactly (2048x2048). Life is too short and we should be enjoying and making the most of it.

[RobTheBuilder]

@TheMasterNo6 The original one was a dull but after 1986 when the 3D logo came in it was the most creative and interesting logo of any TV channel.

[joannedj1]

That was a classy handover. I was watching a clip of the start of TSW last night and was thinking WTF?! It was just bizarre, and I don't just mean their mad logo which looked like a green Sydney Opera House!!! Central didn't have a bad ident, I don't think, although it can hardly compare to ATV's which will always be a classic! My region's Granada - our logo just appeared on screen and didn't do a bloody thing! They could've animated it a bit, but no... nothing! Boring bastards!!!

[TheMasterNo6]

Central had one of the shittest, depressing idents ever....

[97channel]

@JANXDPDX I've never been able to figure out quite what he meant by that. It doesn't make sense. Why would his hair have been more silver when he was younger? And as a joke or a jab, it still doesn't have any logic.

[peterpeterxxo]

@Bearsmalaysia test card ?. the one with the girl and sinister clown playing noughts n crosses do u mean ?..that was bbc1 and bbc2.

[peterpeterxxo]

and i remember watching spartacus but i might have given digby the biggest dog in the world a miss this time, i think it was on xmas 79 or 80 as well..

[peterpeterxxo]

yes indeed..welcome everyone, to 1982...lets hope for a peaceful year with no aggro or war. eh ?? what??..the falkland islands ?..never heard of em.

[JANXDPDX]

"...as silver as yours.." was that a jab?!

[kingstephen36]

Truly the end of an era.I remember this so well.

[jamesmt142]

ATV to Central was actually more of a rebrand, than a franchise change, hence the positive way in which ATV bowed out.