The original ATV Morning Start Up Music

ATV start up music taken from 16mm film.
Spot the microwave links at 2.52 this was late 1970s.Good edits towards the end not as easy to create on film as is with todays media.

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[ajlusted]

Great stuff from a golden age of TV. If they still had these to wake up to, I wouldn't feel so bloody depressed about having to get out of bed in the morning :)

[timonline2000]

I believe the singer is Stephanie de Sykes, who had a few minor hits in the early-mid 70s. She also wrote the UK's Eurovision entries in 1978 and 1980. She also went out with Angus Deayton before his hookers-and-cocaine downfall.

[bear632002]

Jeez, I remember this so clearly, waiting for Tiswas I think...

@nevwhile the helicopter was at about the same height as the link dishes. I wonder if someones ATV coverage blinked when the ber jumped :P

[haveagoodweek]

This is Great.

You guys in central England Certainly had a great song to wake up to.

We here in HTV land had a rather patriotic march with no video until about the mid eighties when a video of west country sites was shown accompanied by a piece of cheesey music.

[leggybird100]

I love this song and the accompanying video, it seems to say "we're proud of our area, and to be locals here" - I also love the juxtaposition of very industrial scenes with countryside, showing the diversity of the region. This almost makes me want to cry - mainly for all we have lost since the cause of money making took over everything.

[Enerjee]

@jackwilshiresfakeid - ATV didn't lose their franchise. They were ordered to reflect the Midlands more accurately by changing their name to Central and progress towards focusing on both the West and East Midlands by splitting their news programmes into the two areas by becoming a dual region.

[nevwhile]

Microwave links were (are) line of sight directional transmitters that were (are) used to relay radio and TV transmissions from the point of broadcast i.e. a studio across a region and out to strategically positioned onmi-directional transmitters. Microwave towers were usually located on hills to overcome the geography of distributing the signals from A to B to C etc.

[djhejfdngszldlvvn]

Julka1 - What are/ were the microwave links (I saw the transmitters)? What sort of devices relied upon these?

[kevthegerbil1958]

24 hour TV kill this lot off

[JoeScaramanga]

How can such a jolly happy tune have such a doom-laden final chord!

[donjabroni]

Very early-70s AM radio sounding, I like it!