Granada Start-Up

This is a start-up routine for Granada Television in the north-west of England as voiced by Graham James, and Granada is the only company in addition to Westward/TSW to include the IBA's address in their start-up.

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• television
• start-ups

[CaptainOatwright]

whatever happened to the IBA and ITCA?

[cwilliams1976]

Well, in 1990 the IBA's Engineering Division was split up and was first replaced by National Transcommunications Limited (NTL) and then replaced by Arqiva. The IBA was also replaced by the Independent Television Commission to regulate commercial television and the Radio Authority obviously regulated radio. They amalgamated with the Broadcasting Standards Council and Commission to become known as Ofcom. I'm not sure about the ITCA.

[dmc1200]

From transmitters? Granada is only transmitted from one transmitter.

A better thing to say would have been:

"This is Granada, broadcasting to South Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, North East Wales and Northernmost Derbyshire from the Winter Hill transmitter and associated relays of the Independent Broadcasting Authority."

[cwilliams1976]

Granada Television is, of course, broadcast from the Winter Hill transmitter in Lancashire and used to have its transmission area extended to the Yorkshire region from 1956 until 1968 when Yorkshire Television took that part of the country over when Granada broadcast seven days a week and ABC lost their weekend franchise for the Northern region.

[sirtfyed]

It's over 1000ft tall, One of the tallest in the country, and stuck up on Winter Hill, it's the highest. No wonder it can be picked up well out-side the Granada region.

[MrBrownberry]

This music is by Keith Mansfield - him of Grandstand theme fame - as you would expect from the maestro himself, first class arrangements - what year was it first used?

[somehopes26]

@okneb I'll second that!

[somehopes26]

...for the closedown

[somehopes26]

nice to match the new granada theme tune start up with the theme tune

[joannedj1]

Granada has always been my region's ITV channel, but then I'm in Eccles, near Manchester. However, I could also get a rather snowy reception of HTV, Harlech Television, serving north Wales! When Channel Four started in 1982, I could also pick up S4C, the Welsh version, too!

[joannedj1]

@MrBrownberry I miss the Grandstand theme on a Saturday afternoon!

[AnthonyUK]

Parts of East Lancs round nelson colne trawden earby and burnley got yorkshire.

[gallafey]

@gibsosgerbil it was 1988, ITV was the first to go 24 7, soon followed by Channal 4 & Sky about 1990 think

then later on the BBC by the late 1990s 

[ffjkhguhgft]

Sitting here just waiting for "Joe 90" to start! Happy times.

[BassPlayer9651]

I swear on this recording, the granada theme has a higher pitch than normal

[MrBrownberry]

I remember being able to receive Granada as well as Tyne Tees in 1986, by then this marvelous start up had long gone but the closedown music was still there, we could get a snowy picture on the Tyne Tees aerial but even by then except for the Regional News, it was slowly becoming nationalised, so we decide against getting a separate aerial, when we had our dual standard TV in 1970 we could receive a rather grainy picture on VHF 405 lines channel 9 frrom Winter Hill with an inside rod aerial!!