London Weekend Television start-up 1977 (06.11.77)

Apologies for the poor quality picture and sound.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 1970s
• 70s
• 1977
• London
• Weekend
• Television
• LWT
• Start
• Up
• Startup
• Sign
• On

[cwilliams1976]

Two missed here - firstly, Test Card F is missing and secondly, where was the continuity announcement at the beginning?

[AntarcticaTelevision]

@cwilliams1976 This video is presented 'as if' from the source that it came - i.e. this recording must have started at the point it started here, long after the Testcard and the Authority Announcement.

[RobinCarmody]

Pretty certain this is Sunday 6th November 1977.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

As usual, ta.

[56postoffice]

Was that Leonard Parkin just briefly at the start?

[djjaseuk]

@cwilliams1976 The CA is you mention is in fact Leonard Parkin from ITN news.

[sppider77]

There would have been no testcard F on a Sunday morning as none was permitted, only colour bars and 400z tone as Sunday was a testcard free zone within the IBA thats why most weekend programmes started at 9.30 or earlier on Saturdays except in Channel region.

[acesigma06]

wow this was shown 2 days before my 4th birthday, now i feel old

[yaumatei1994]

how often did the itv franchises show the iba transmitters frequency caption?

[rachel7000rf]

for the 70s its not that bad quality. nice to see the LWT logo

[AndrewJimScott]

No problem! You except this with these types pf really old things.

[MattemoTV]

This was exactly 13 years before I was born!