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.
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
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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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 😉
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.
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. 😂
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
I love the way the music starts before he presses the button. Somebody was keen to get on the air.
Coordination did seemed to be all over the place. They couldn’t even backlight the Anglia knight properly.
I'm willing to bet that the button didn't actually do anything at all.
It's 2024 and this is pretty cool to watch! I love how we can see what tv was like many decades ago :)
Very rare for the start of any Regional I.T.V. to be archived.
Super stuff.
Anglia Television brought to you in Morse code.
Remember getting home from school and just seeing the test card on ,no other choice but wait till about 4.15 when programs started!!🤨
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
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
Those first 15 seconds are fittingly ominous for the Cold War era
What a wonderful glimpse of a resonant place and time. Thank you.
Subscribed. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
Thank you so much for uploading this. It matters.
I've learned a few new things from this great video. For instance, never knew that Hunstanton is actually pronounced 'Hunston' (2:37).
And this part of Norfolk would be lost to Yorkshire TV in the 70s.
@@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.
@@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.
The locals used to call it Turnip TV
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.
@@michaelmcdonald2348 Farming Diary
I loved how the late Benny Hill would parody these sort of programs.
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.
I was 6 months old at the time.
I believe the whole of Tyne Tess televisions first day is in full on you tube.
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.
The horse threw him off and trampled him to death.
@@joehurst Benny Hill's fault !
@@DeanSinger-ky7md Trigger!
And now, from Norwich...it's the Quiz of the Week!!!
Maybe something happened in Treguards dungeon
Best show was sale of the century..
And now from Norwich.....
IT'S THE QUIZ OF THE WEEK!!
Being from Peterborough watched Anglia
Those were the days when fanfare was 2/3 of the programming😆 5:00 Wait a minute, that's Mr Cholmondley-Warner!😂
‘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.
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 😉
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.
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. 😂
The soothing light jazz music is a song called "Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart".
@@hebneh
Well that can happen when you're sitting as a family round the TV in Norfolk.
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.
At the end with the cameraman being pushed around reminds me of Grandstand on Saturday afternoons in 1960s
Sounds like intro to a crime film noir.
ANNOUNCER: "Welcome to Anglia Television, a new broadcasting service!"
* "Introducing Anglia" begins *
VIEWER: "Bloomin' repeats."
This is how Anglia launched 63 years ago.
Anglia and Tyne tees never lost thier franchise.
0:27 THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED IN SUFFOLK!!! Very Orson Wells.
6:05
Never knew there used to be a Huntingdonshire.
Used to be, I still live there!
@@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.
2024 marks 75 years of Anglia TV. Well done.
I think you mean 65!
Still impressive.
One impressive thing is that they never moved. Still the same studio in use. The knight is inside their studios!
Ha Ha, next week it WILL be 75 years!!!😂
Fall era in the end of 1950's
Marvellous!
6' 04" Sir Ivan throws the switch to open the station. What are we watching before that?
Knightmare
Great 👍 👌 👍
What is the anglia Knight?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglia_knight
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!
I am sure Alan Partridge could have made a considerably better job of this.
Love the Stewart Russell welcome @
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.
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.
Opening, beep gawd thats annoying , whats on the other side .
Huntingdoneshire?
its Huntingdonshire
Has anyone noticed that the whole minute the clock is onscreen, the minute hand doesn't move. At All! Fake!
That was because they only advanced once a minute in the early days, you see it move when it first shows it.
Terribly terribly posh men ,old grey men running things, with posh voices and knighthoods …nothing changes.
Even a bit of Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - why not let us hear the vibraphone solo?
Who the hell was Sir Ivan?
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!
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.
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.
The Anglia knight would have been a film insert too - even after colour was introduced they quite often used grotty 16mm fadey colour copies.