Anglia TV Launch - 27th October 1959

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  • The first day of ITV broadcasting to the East of England on 4.15 sharp, the launch of Anglia Television started with a (short snippet of a) programme entitled "Introducing Anglia" after the very first appearance of the famed silver knight on horseback proudly hoisting the flag of the Anglia TV region.
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  • @spannmona
    @spannmona 10 місяців тому +7

    0:32 “One minute to zero. This is Anglia Television!”
    Debuting with what is one of the two the most dramatic network sign ons in television history (next to the BBC’s first ever broadcast), Anglia pulled out all the stops for their opening. It felt like you were receiving a transmission from another world.
    4:47 is the debut of the Anglia Knight.

  • @richardyoung1053
    @richardyoung1053 2 роки тому +9

    I love the way the music starts before he presses the button. Somebody was keen to get on the air.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 9 місяців тому +2

      Coordination did seemed to be all over the place. They couldn’t even backlight the Anglia knight properly.

    • @bigredsock1
      @bigredsock1 5 місяців тому +2

      I'm willing to bet that the button didn't actually do anything at all.

  • @Patch571
    @Patch571 9 місяців тому +7

    It's 2024 and this is pretty cool to watch! I love how we can see what tv was like many decades ago :)

  • @j0hnf_uk
    @j0hnf_uk 3 роки тому +13

    Anglia Television brought to you in Morse code.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 11 місяців тому +2

    Very rare for the start of any Regional I.T.V. to be archived.
    Super stuff.

  • @davidwatt7663
    @davidwatt7663 23 дні тому +1

    Remember getting home from school and just seeing the test card on ,no other choice but wait till about 4.15 when programs started!!🤨

  • @therealzilch
    @therealzilch 2 роки тому +2

    What a wonderful glimpse of a resonant place and time. Thank you.
    Subscribed. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

  • @weblywoobly
    @weblywoobly 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for uploading this. It matters.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 Рік тому +7

    BBC Television arrived in East Anglia in 1955 with the opening of the Tacolneston transmitter on 1st February 1955. In October 1955, the full mast was operational expanding coverage. Anglia Television in 1959 launched from their Mendlesham transmitter

    • @BritishRaceCaller
      @BritishRaceCaller Рік тому +1

      My family owned a fairly large hotel in Cambridge (long since gone) but Nanna remembers they had a television pre war as a hotel feature that could sometimes pick up transmissions from London although it was outside the 40 mile radius. Definitely has one before the coronation of Elizabeth II in their house in the Cambridge suburbs

  • @KKAkuoku
    @KKAkuoku 2 роки тому +7

    Those first 15 seconds are fittingly ominous for the Cold War era

  • @LedFloyd333
    @LedFloyd333 Рік тому +9

    I've learned a few new things from this great video. For instance, never knew that Hunstanton is actually pronounced 'Hunston' (2:37).

    • @DiseaseShaker
      @DiseaseShaker Рік тому +4

      And this part of Norfolk would be lost to Yorkshire TV in the 70s.

    • @LedFloyd333
      @LedFloyd333 Рік тому +1

      @@DiseaseShaker I never understood why they switched the Belmont transmitter over to YTV. It covers only a tiny bit of Yorkshire (near the Humber). And the rest is in Lincs, Notts and Norfolk.

    • @PriddhasPengu
      @PriddhasPengu  10 місяців тому +3

      @@LedFloyd333 From what I've heard, Belmont was given as part of a series of compromises by the IBA for giving the Bilsdale transmitter to Tyne Tees, for which Yorkshire loudly called foul. So a blameless Anglia had to take the fall for Yorkshire's demands.

  • @crabbymilton390
    @crabbymilton390 7 місяців тому +5

    I loved how the late Benny Hill would parody these sort of programs.

  • @musiconair
    @musiconair 3 роки тому +10

    The locals used to call it Turnip TV

    • @michaelmcdonald2348
      @michaelmcdonald2348 6 місяців тому +2

      Not my region, but Anglia produced some quality programmes for the network. Survival, Tales of the unexpected, Knightmare all come to mind, as well as the immensely popular Sale of the Century.

    • @DeanSinger-ky7md
      @DeanSinger-ky7md 4 місяці тому +1

      @@michaelmcdonald2348 Farming Diary

  • @sodorflubbs5000
    @sodorflubbs5000 9 місяців тому +3

    I used to live in West Runton. I wonder what happened to that Knight on that fine silver horse? And I remember that fanfare. It’s amazing. Also I connect this with Sale Of The Century filmed in Norwich with Nicholas Parsons as its presenter.

    • @joehurst
      @joehurst 9 місяців тому +1

      The horse threw him off and trampled him to death.

    • @DeanSinger-ky7md
      @DeanSinger-ky7md 4 місяці тому

      @@joehurst Benny Hill's fault !

    • @joehurst
      @joehurst 4 місяці тому

      @@DeanSinger-ky7md Trigger!

    • @yumishindou5705
      @yumishindou5705 4 місяці тому

      And now, from Norwich...it's the Quiz of the Week!!!

    • @kaitlinbilous4605
      @kaitlinbilous4605 4 місяці тому +1

      Maybe something happened in Treguards dungeon

  • @zakelwe
    @zakelwe 7 місяців тому +3

    That's 117 minutes past 20 to 4 as Alan Partridge would say at radio Norwich
    It's just 5 pixels more than a radio broadcast in the medium wave part of the electromagnetic spectrum
    Awt 5 mins 35 seconds you can hear the steam engine powering it all in the background.
    Anglia and LWT and ATV from the midlands, great ITV idents.

  • @TheSecurdisc
    @TheSecurdisc 5 місяців тому +5

    Best show was sale of the century..

    • @kaitlinbilous4605
      @kaitlinbilous4605 4 місяці тому

      And now from Norwich.....
      IT'S THE QUIZ OF THE WEEK!!

  • @Agnethatheredhairkid
    @Agnethatheredhairkid 2 роки тому +1

    I was 6 months old at the time.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 11 місяців тому +1

    I believe the whole of Tyne Tess televisions first day is in full on you tube.

  • @andrewsvonja1039
    @andrewsvonja1039 2 роки тому +1

    Being from Peterborough watched Anglia

  • @PeterFraser-hp3rs
    @PeterFraser-hp3rs 9 місяців тому +3

    Those were the days when fanfare was 2/3 of the programming😆 5:00 Wait a minute, that's Mr Cholmondley-Warner!😂

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 9 місяців тому

      ‘Woman - Know your place’ was broadcast during Anglia Woman’s Hour at 2pm each weekday. Just for an hour mind you - they then needed to go off and make themselves pretty and cook dinner before the husband came home.

  • @BenPanced
    @BenPanced 2 роки тому +3

    ANNOUNCER: "Welcome to Anglia Television, a new broadcasting service!"
    * "Introducing Anglia" begins *
    VIEWER: "Bloomin' repeats."

  • @TheClockwise770
    @TheClockwise770 2 роки тому

    At the end with the cameraman being pushed around reminds me of Grandstand on Saturday afternoons in 1960s

  • @matthewpayton
    @matthewpayton 2 роки тому +3

    This is how Anglia launched 63 years ago.

  • @swedishdissident3406
    @swedishdissident3406 2 роки тому +3

    Sounds like intro to a crime film noir.

  • @stepheng8779
    @stepheng8779 9 місяців тому +1

    We had to put up with this for years before they switched us over to Yorkshire TV. Used to get news from places we'd never heard of let alone visited 😂 Pre Humber bridge days, mind you still don't visit now 😉

    • @darrenclayton8635
      @darrenclayton8635 4 місяці тому

      I grew up in Grimsby, late 60s and 70s, we had the same. We were switched over to YTV eventually so we could find out what was happening in Leeds rather than Norwich.

  • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
    @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 роки тому +4

    0:27 THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED IN SUFFOLK!!! Very Orson Wells.

  • @jillybean1229
    @jillybean1229 3 роки тому +33

    So first we think we are about to be invaded by France. Then the clock countdown was the longest minute of our lives. And then to be told East Anglians have special needs, so of course they need to be reminded of all the towns and counties they live in, followed by a gentle introduction of xylophone music in case the excitement might be too much for us. 😂

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 3 роки тому +3

      The soothing light jazz music is a song called "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart".

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 3 роки тому +2

      @@hebneh
      Well that can happen when you're sitting as a family round the TV in Norfolk.

    • @GeorgeWatson-zl1ow
      @GeorgeWatson-zl1ow Рік тому +1

      How far did a television transmitter broadcast to, we in the Midlands could pick up Granada and the AtV from Litchfield but could not receive Anglia.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 11 місяців тому

    Anglia and Tyne tees never lost thier franchise.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 11 місяців тому +1

    Marvellous!

  • @kevinbush4300
    @kevinbush4300 9 місяців тому +2

    Never knew there used to be a Huntingdonshire.

    • @davidgifford8112
      @davidgifford8112 8 місяців тому +3

      Used to be, I still live there!

    • @kevinbush4300
      @kevinbush4300 8 місяців тому +1

      @@davidgifford8112 ahaaahh… forgive me! I wasn’t writing you off - I see you’re still a district council. I didn’t know that Huntingdonshire had been a County.

  • @DamieneHawthorne-ry4bj
    @DamieneHawthorne-ry4bj Рік тому +1

    2024 marks 75 years of Anglia TV. Well done.

    • @davidgifford8112
      @davidgifford8112 8 місяців тому +2

      I think you mean 65!

    • @DamieneHawthorne-ry4bj
      @DamieneHawthorne-ry4bj 8 місяців тому +3

      Still impressive.

    • @glassowlie
      @glassowlie 5 місяців тому +1

      One impressive thing is that they never moved. Still the same studio in use. The knight is inside their studios!

    • @65tosspowertrapl36
      @65tosspowertrapl36 4 місяці тому +1

      Ha Ha, next week it WILL be 75 years!!!😂

  • @richardbrown1189
    @richardbrown1189 5 місяців тому +1

    6' 04" Sir Ivan throws the switch to open the station. What are we watching before that?

  • @Angel-zp4xr
    @Angel-zp4xr 6 місяців тому +2

    Fall era in the end of 1950's

  • @nicholalaw2681
    @nicholalaw2681 2 роки тому

    Great 👍 👌 👍

  • @VistaLivesIncOnceAgain
    @VistaLivesIncOnceAgain Місяць тому +2

    6:05

  • @revinhatol
    @revinhatol 14 днів тому

    Knightmare

  • @DaveMuirhead
    @DaveMuirhead 24 дні тому

    Extremely dramatic sci fi style music at the very beginning 😮 Made me think something strange and other worldly was about to happen 😂 But no. It was just Anglia tv starting.

  • @TheLogoFanGroup
    @TheLogoFanGroup Рік тому +2

    What is the anglia Knight?

    • @GEOFF0906
      @GEOFF0906 Рік тому

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglia_knight

  • @mattgrant9479
    @mattgrant9479 6 місяців тому +1

    Huntingdoneshire?

  • @gavinreid8937
    @gavinreid8937 5 місяців тому +3

    Opening, beep gawd thats annoying , whats on the other side .

  • @davepoole9520
    @davepoole9520 2 роки тому +4

    Crikey! It's like a suicide mission.
    No matter how exciting a new TV channel must have felt in those days those beeps must have tested the patience of most viewers for the first minute and a bit and then grainy footage explaining what's in East Anglia as if the viewers were in Malawi rather than locals who knew damn well what East Anglia was!
    I bet the first programmes were pure Partridge!

    • @TheClockwise770
      @TheClockwise770 2 роки тому +2

      I am sure Alan Partridge could have made a considerably better job of this.
      Love the Stewart Russell welcome @

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK Рік тому

      Much of ITV has always been Alan Partridge- but then, so are BBC Sport and Five Live. The only ITV stations which ever really tried being anything else were Granada and Thames- and Granada threw in the towel about the same time as Thames lost its franchise.

  • @davidtownson1476
    @davidtownson1476 2 роки тому +1

    Has anyone noticed that the whole minute the clock is onscreen, the minute hand doesn't move. At All! Fake!

    • @TheClockwise770
      @TheClockwise770 2 роки тому +3

      That was because they only advanced once a minute in the early days, you see it move when it first shows it.

    • @tanyaandelvis2698
      @tanyaandelvis2698 Рік тому +1

      Terribly terribly posh men ,old grey men running things, with posh voices and knighthoods …nothing changes.

  • @alangiles2763
    @alangiles2763 4 місяці тому

    Even a bit of Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - why not let us hear the vibraphone solo?

  • @rtc9063
    @rtc9063 2 роки тому +1

    Who the hell was Sir Ivan?

  • @marcse7en
    @marcse7en 2 роки тому +5

    I don't know about 1959, judging by the PICTURE QUALITY, Anglia Television was launched in 1859 by John Logie Baird! 😂😂😂 ...... After watching that, "Should've Gone To Specsavers" to be tested for GLAUCOMA and AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION!

    • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
      @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 роки тому +6

      It's a telerecording/kinescope print. Most surviving things from back then are preserved that way because it was cheaper. There is a process called VidFIRE for restoring the picture back to a video look and the BBC use it for things like old 1960s Doctor Who episodes.

    • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
      @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 роки тому

      Also the up in the air stuff at the start would have been done on film as it would have been very awkward to load an OB camera onto a helicopter in those days.

    • @kurtvanderbogarde8402
      @kurtvanderbogarde8402 2 роки тому +2

      The Anglia knight would have been a film insert too - even after colour was introduced they quite often used grotty 16mm fadey colour copies.