@@trevordance5181 Yep. ‘Midlands’ included the whole of Oxfordshire, as a 1970s promo showed (it name-dropped every town in that county): ua-cam.com/video/cIrtYYvdMq4/v-deo.html
Indeed it was. ABC was ‘Your Weekend Television in the North’ Broadcast from the Didsbury studios a few months after its opening in 1956 also to Yorks. Midlands ABC at the weekend-studio in Birmingham
![ABC Television North Studios, Didsbury, 1999 & Television House, Manchester [MUTE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KXC-LfDvNUo/mqdefault.jpg)
ABC Weekend TV was also available in the Midlands and Yorkshire.
It could also be received as far south as in parts of Wiltshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and West London from the Membury Transmitter.
@@trevordance5181 Yep. ‘Midlands’ included the whole of Oxfordshire, as a 1970s promo showed (it name-dropped every town in that county): ua-cam.com/video/cIrtYYvdMq4/v-deo.html
Indeed it was. ABC was ‘Your Weekend Television in the North’ Broadcast from the Didsbury studios a few months after its opening in 1956 also to Yorks.
Midlands ABC at the weekend-studio in Birmingham
Granada Television got the 7 day contract in 1968, arguably ABC TV was more creative than Granada at the weekends.
50 Persent Of ABC Merched With Rediffusion IN July 1968 Become Thames Television Which Took Over From Rediffusion
"There was some real talent around"
Cut to Freddie and the Dreamers.
Hmm...