The final day of LWT, 27th October 2002 - BETTER QUALITY

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  • Опубліковано 26 жов 2017
  • All the clips of LWT's final day currently on UA-cam are very poor quality, and none of them feature any of the surrounding programme material for context, so here is everything in one video, in much better quality than previously.
    I've also included Trish Bertram's final live announcement, which happened about two weeks before the 27th.
    If you watch the 720p50 stream, it should retain the original "interlaced video" look (if your browser/device supports playback of 50p video)
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  • @brettlinforth1211
    @brettlinforth1211 6 років тому +134

    Trish Bertram and Glenn Thompsett had the perfect voices for continuity announcers: engaging, warm and friendly

    • @dwho19951
      @dwho19951 8 місяців тому +3

      And live from the continuity room in 2002, they have a final word from the team at LWT.

    • @mrhtvwest2484
      @mrhtvwest2484 8 місяців тому +2

      A sad sad day in the history of regional broadcasting 😢

    • @jimbo6059
      @jimbo6059 Місяць тому +2

      I go back to when Peter Lewis was the voice at 5.15 pm on a Friday night. In vision continuity and the visible junction between Euston Road (Thames), and the South Bank Studios (LWT). Miss them both,

  • @jameskvo
    @jameskvo 2 роки тому +114

    I watched this live and it still sends a tingle down my spine 20 years later. I still think it's a scandal that ITV got rid of regional identites.

    • @MondySpartan
      @MondySpartan Рік тому +4

      And it looks like they’re not done with phasing out regional IDs. UTV ditched its own branding when it was sold to ITV in 2016.
      Today however, not even the ITV-ised UTV logo is shown as the channel branding aside from, iirc, local news programming, resorting to the standard ITV logo instead. Local announcement is also gone, as it was the fact with the ITV consolidation of 2002. STV today remains the only station to be still independent from ITV plc, having its own full-on branding and services.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 Рік тому +3

      it was going to happen one way or another. sorry.

    • @seprishere
      @seprishere Рік тому +5

      That's EXCEPT for viewers in Scotland.

    • @mixtapesfrommylatepartner
      @mixtapesfrommylatepartner Рік тому +1

      @@seprishere Who get to watch a quiz about hills. Hosted by Paul Coia.

    • @jeffreyweitzman6463
      @jeffreyweitzman6463 Рік тому +3

      @@sillygoose635 It didn't have to happen, it is just the powers that be let it happen, and ITV as a broadcasting entity of the grand stature it was back then, has never recovered.

  • @rajnirvan3336
    @rajnirvan3336 5 років тому +105

    So miss regional identities. Loved LWT I always looked forward to the handover 5.15 on Friday from Thames as it meant the weekend officially started

    • @ketchup5344
      @ketchup5344 4 роки тому +8

      Life has never been the same since

    • @revinhatol
      @revinhatol 4 роки тому +1

      (from 1993) Carlton

    • @minekara6407
      @minekara6407 3 роки тому +2

      So true.....

    • @mikemartin2957
      @mikemartin2957 3 роки тому +6

      Did LWT start their weekend at 7pm Fridays in the 60s&70s? When did they move to 5.15?

    • @rajnirvan3336
      @rajnirvan3336 3 роки тому +2

      @@mikemartin2957 January 1982

  • @mpwheatley
    @mpwheatley 4 роки тому +69

    They should bring back the regional branding - we all had loyalty to our own brand but also loved the others. I was a Southern/TVS kid but particularly loved LWT, Thames, ATV, Yorkshire Television & Anglia. Mainly because they produced some cracking light entertainment and sitcoms which we'd watch as a family around the box at the end of the week. Happy days.

    • @rico05202
      @rico05202 2 роки тому +15

      I couldn't agree more. I can't stand ITV nowadays. It's a shadow of what it used to be and what it stood for.

    • @julianhanc8272
      @julianhanc8272 Рік тому +1

      Just regional news, nothing else

  • @DaveAndBeth1978
    @DaveAndBeth1978 2 роки тому +43

    This was the end of the era... Although I was in the HTV Wales region, I loved the handover to LWT every Friday - it meant the weekend was officially beginning in my childhood! Wish they would bring the regional franchises back as they were before it all started to go wrong at the 1991 Franchise Renewal Round...

  • @MediaCentUK
    @MediaCentUK 6 років тому +108

    Loved it when LWT went all retro for its final day.

    • @williamg209two
      @williamg209two 2 роки тому +18

      thats how you end something, i hate it when they just say bye or something rubbish

    • @Sheffield_Steve
      @Sheffield_Steve 2 роки тому

      I wished Yorkshire Television would have done the same, but it was too much Granada's bitch by then, so wouldn't have allowed/got away with it!!

    • @earthluma
      @earthluma Рік тому +1

      oh hey tv stealer

    • @JP_TaVeryMuch
      @JP_TaVeryMuch Рік тому +1

      ​@@williamg209two Check out Southern's last seconds for the Rolls Royce bow-out. A real classy spine tingler.

    • @superkatsuma3755
      @superkatsuma3755 Рік тому

      I think CITV should do something like this when it closes

  • @jivebunny3765
    @jivebunny3765 4 роки тому +41

    I grew up with Thames and LWT for 27 years. They became part of me. ITV became absolute drivel when the regions were abolished. I'd kill for just one more Friday night at 7pm with that banging LWT ident followed by Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right.

  • @MondySpartan
    @MondySpartan 6 років тому +138

    Fun Fact: Dave Jeffery recreated all the retro LWT stuff for this final continuity including the clock, all using Flash. The LWT ident you’re seeing wasn’t the one reused straight from the archives, it was a (really accurate) Flash recreation.

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  6 років тому +52

      Rory Clark also had essential input, adding the film weave, grain and dirt.
      BTW, the B&W and orange "From London Weekend" idents were originals, not recreations.

    • @scottptolomey3498
      @scottptolomey3498 5 років тому +16

      TehMondasianSpartan The first two idents were original not repro but the music has definitely been digitally enhanced particularly on the 1971 L W River ident as the original Harry Rabinowitz theme was very reverberated compared to the 1978 version.

    • @bigaspidistra
      @bigaspidistra 11 місяців тому +2

      Also the studio slide is an original, owned by Transdiffusion.

  • @wreshrop1
    @wreshrop1 3 роки тому +22

    I loved LWT and I've still got my visitor badge from my time spent doing work experience at Granada Talk TV and fulfilling a lifetime ambition to work for Granada and LWT along side the likes of Natasha Kaplinsky and Sasha Bohen Cohen

  • @Franksey180
    @Franksey180 3 роки тому +22

    I was inside the old Central TV building this week in Lenton, Nottingham (21st March 2021), very little evidence of Central (Or Carlton) remains there now that it's part of Nottingham University. You'd think they'd at least celebrate or recognise their history in some way. Anyway my visit to that building had me reminiscing about the regional TV stations of the past and led me to this video. Thanks @dunebasher1991 for preparing and uploading this TV Gold.

    • @williamg209two
      @williamg209two 2 роки тому +2

      id think theyd have a wall with some info about the building in a uni

    • @Franksey180
      @Franksey180 2 роки тому +3

      @@williamg209two Hopefully someone corrects my earlier comment who has access to the entire complex (which I didn't). There is still one of the large studios setup with all the roof lighting and I believe ATV/Centrals video library is still stored somewhere in one of the buildings. What my comment above was saying that there were no obvious clues of the building's past from some of the areas I saw. I guess it's possible a lot of evidence was removed when Central TV "became" part of Carlton TV and then when Carlton TV left and Nottingham Uni took the building they probably took a lot of interesting items away. I kind of expected some form of display / recognition of the building's past, to inspire visitors/students etc.

    • @jessicaosborn2228
      @jessicaosborn2228 Рік тому

      The central studios in Birmingham are no more there knocked it down sad 😔

  • @shrillbert
    @shrillbert 4 роки тому +91

    "These days, ITV is just a channel...."

    • @makaylabaskett1727
      @makaylabaskett1727 4 роки тому +16

      ITV in the face

    • @makaylabaskett1727
      @makaylabaskett1727 Рік тому

      @Group JW Productions Yes my yt icon is the Rede Manchete logo but I don't see how that's relevant

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 Рік тому +1

      it always was.

    • @cjmillsnun
      @cjmillsnun Рік тому +4

      @@sillygoose635 No, it wasn't. It was a network of stations. Each independent and local to their region but co-dependent on all the others. Granada for example was very different to Thames, but Granada would transmit The Bill (made by Thames) and Thames Coronation Street (made by Granada) and both would transmit Survival (made by Anglia) and Crossroads (made by ATV/Central). All of them (except Yorkshire) had in vision continuity at some point meaning you could put a face to the voice.

    • @bytearchives
      @bytearchives 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@sillygoose635I don't agree, they were unique in their own ways until a certain point but I respect this opinion

  • @LmfAo00o
    @LmfAo00o 10 місяців тому +12

    That one guy who made the LWT jingle made it into the childhoods of loads of generations

  • @MondySpartan
    @MondySpartan 6 років тому +113

    I love on how during its final days LWT went retro.

    • @brettlinforth1211
      @brettlinforth1211 6 років тому +18

      Me too, can't beat nostalgia!

    • @JroeSR
      @JroeSR 6 років тому +23

      I can’t believe the very final appearance of LWT. It’s actually THAT retro.

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  5 років тому +34

      It only went retro three times, all on the final day. First time was 5:30am, second was just before the South Bank Show, and the final time was after the SBS.

    • @rotonda4068
      @rotonda4068 5 років тому +26

      I recall dunebasher stating elsewhere that ITV didn’t want a big deal made of the final days of the regionals so these had to be prepared on the qt and were ‘sneaked’ into the computer system.

    • @muk8804
      @muk8804 4 роки тому +15

      @@rotonda4068 I can believe it ! What bastards the new corporation were . I suppose they had to sacrifice some of there overnight programming time to sneak that in. Granada (my region), although one of one of the "hostile takeover " companies, did absolutely *nothing* to acknowledge the end of regional identity. Sad.

  • @freddielaker2707
    @freddielaker2707 4 роки тому +30

    LWT should never have been treated like that. It was a great tv station and living in london I used to go to see programmes recorded often. I get very nostalgic seeing these vids

    • @cjmillsnun
      @cjmillsnun Рік тому +7

      Of them all, LWT at least wqas allowed to go out with a bang and a reminder to all about what regional ITV used to be. Thames was killed off unnecessarily, then all the others lost thier identity (Central and Westcountry rebranded to Carlton for example) before complete homogenisation into ITV. You would've though Granada would also have been allowed their celebration as one of the ITV PLC parents and also the oldest channel on the network, but no, one day they just disappeared like the rest. STV are really the only independent company left, although they killed off Grampian.

    • @brucedanton3669
      @brucedanton3669 Рік тому +1

      @@cjmillsnun Yes you are so right there really of course so then too for sure!

    • @adultmoshifan87
      @adultmoshifan87 4 місяці тому

      @@cjmillsnunonce we get rid of our corrupt far right government and get in a suitable replacement, I want the whole ITV network shut down completely! It’s clear we need a new channel 3 with region-specific providers and on-air looks and actual quality programming, including a wide range of kids programming! Even a few new school-specific shows would be nice, and I hated my time in juniors and secondary school!

    • @chriswathen9612
      @chriswathen9612 3 місяці тому

      @@adultmoshifan87 You do realise that we had a Tory government when the dual ownership of Yorkshire and Tyne Tees under Trident Television was forcibly ended in the early 80's? Also that at the time the last Labour government came to power, no one company was able to own more than 3 ITV stations? Ownership had consolidated, but it was still very fragmented and certainly could have been kept in that state or even reversed if that was desired. You do also realise that the actual rationalisation of almost the entire network being owned by ITV plc happened before Blair's second term had ended? It may have been started by the Tories, but Labour did nothing to stop it. Moaning about 'the corrupt far right government' has diddly squat to do with the end of regional ITV. And if the government switches to the other side, precisely nothing will happen to reverse it.

  • @glenncooney3959
    @glenncooney3959 5 років тому +69

    “Across the capital, across the weekend, this is LWT”
    What a great company, sadly swallowed up by the emotionless ITV plc

    • @darryllharden9141
      @darryllharden9141 5 років тому +10

      You are not the only one feeling that there.

    • @maidstone1982
      @maidstone1982 4 роки тому +4

      Same Feelings over here

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 4 роки тому +1

      uh, no. not emotionless.

    • @metromodernism
      @metromodernism 4 роки тому +14

      Stevie, They killed Thames, Granada among others too. They are emotionless.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 4 роки тому +1

      @@metromodernism no they didn't and tbey aren't

  • @sanchoodell6789
    @sanchoodell6789 3 роки тому +15

    A very sad day in British television broadcasting history. It brought an end to an era in broadcast media in London and TV was never the same again when we walked out those doors of the LWT studios at Kent House, Lower Ground at the South Bank for the last time.

    • @chriswathen9612
      @chriswathen9612 3 місяці тому

      Then you clearly weren't actually there (or I suspect even born) in October 2002 for you were certainly not 'walking out of those doors for the last time' on that day unless you were a continuity announcer. It was sad when the regional identities went but apart from the rationalisation of branding around continuity, nothing else immediately changed. It took until 2003 to fully rationalise the schedule between Carlton/Granada owned regions, then 2004 for Carlton & Granada to merge which was only the point at which regional brand names disappeared from programmes made by Granada-owned stations ('An LWT Production' was still a thing until early 2004), then 2006 to stop claiming copyright in the name of regional stations ((c) LWT 2006 was a thing that existed) and then many more years for actual production to be wound down followed finally by closure of Kent House.

  • @robloxtvRMA
    @robloxtvRMA 2 роки тому +15

    All these shutdowns were thanks to Carlton. Thank you Carlton for taking Thames, Westcountry (technically) and Central off the air and uniting the rest under “ITV plc.”

    • @cjmillsnun
      @cjmillsnun Рік тому +4

      Granada had just as much to do with it.

  • @97channel
    @97channel 6 років тому +29

    Ironically, this is how TV continuity should be.

  • @luornu
    @luornu 2 роки тому +15

    In fact, LWT technically still exists, it's still the name on the ofcom license for the london weekend franchise. It's just not referred to on air anymore. The same is true of Tyne Tees and Granada, Meridian etc. The ITV regional franchise structure is still there, it's just hidden offstage now like the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstien. It only peeks out a little occasionally in regional news programmes or that was true a couple of years ago, I actually haven't watched live tv in years, it's all internet for me now.

    • @marnanel
      @marnanel Рік тому

      Don't they still run the franchise auctions, only nobody else is allowed to bid?

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart Рік тому +1

      Thames TV still make programmes don't they?

    • @earthluma
      @earthluma Рік тому

      As of 2020, the only ITV1 region that isn’t using current ITV1 branding is STV.

  • @superawesomemario1331
    @superawesomemario1331 5 років тому +17

    Farewell LWT. keep London proud.

  • @judet5426
    @judet5426 2 роки тому +13

    Grew up in London with LWT and Thames. Along with the other regions, plenty of entertaining programmes on offer.
    Generic ITV is pants.

  • @brianmarshall4753
    @brianmarshall4753 4 роки тому +12

    farewell of LWT 1968-2002 😢

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 Рік тому +5

    Bring back LWT because I really miss the THAMES/LWT hand over on Friday evenings it meant the beginning the weekend and no school in morning that was a fantastic feeling..

  • @timthompson6194
    @timthompson6194 6 років тому +35

    Lovely intro themes by LWT.. Bring them back ITV.. They are legendary to your famous TV station !

    • @shermanvermin76
      @shermanvermin76 5 років тому +7

      Yes, I don't know *why* this was the night we lost LWT. Even if I'm now living in Northern Ireland, I still *remember* LWT not existing anymore, not too long before I left South East London.

    • @AW336Lab
      @AW336Lab 3 роки тому +5

      I love red white and blue here in the USA! (so i'm from a different country than you british people)

    • @timthompson6194
      @timthompson6194 3 роки тому +2

      @@AW336Lab I love Green / white & red...Im proudly Irish..We hate Brits due to their past & present corrupt colonial / slavery history! Long live a United Ireland in the EU !

    • @AW336Lab
      @AW336Lab 3 роки тому +3

      @@timthompson6194 cool!

  • @ABCNetGFX
    @ABCNetGFX 2 роки тому +11

    When it ceased operations, Londoners remembered LWT in their hearts that day

  • @AH_Derby
    @AH_Derby 3 роки тому +20

    Central and Westcountry regions were the pilot for removal of regional identity, as Carlton replaced them both with its own in September 1999. Clearly this proved they could get away with it as they got rid of them all three years later. In the Midlands, we were ecstatic to see ITV do to Carlton what they had done to Central. Even more so in 2004 when Carlton and Granada merged and Granada retired the Carlton name once and for all. Central still lives on in the regional news name. The only names completely lost are Carlton, LWT and HTV. No one could care less about Carlton but the other two are sad losses.

    • @krisstarring
      @krisstarring Рік тому +1

      At least the name remains. Alas, "Central" is still a shell of its former self though with ITV plc not producing anything from the Gas Street studios in Birmingham for the rest of the network and the old Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham sadly shuttered too. Together, the Midlands were a powerhouse of ITV programming going all the way back to the days of Lord Lew Grade's ATV.
      I had heard that the ITV plc merger was more of a takeover of Carlton by Granada, and based on how everything set into place it seems that Granada ended up the big winners in the deal. Local presentation for ITV Central is sent out of Leeds now, and ITV's main center of production is at MediaCity UK in Manchester aka "Granadaland."

  • @THELEICESTERFOX
    @THELEICESTERFOX 3 роки тому +25

    At least LWT got the send off it got. Shame other regional stations werent allowed to bow out like that. Crapton..sorry Carlton killed central off without a care in the World

    • @jamo62
      @jamo62 2 роки тому +3

      ITV didn't even want any region to make a big deal for.... Some reason.

  • @mattypad777
    @mattypad777 3 роки тому +5

    This is London Weekend Television. Broadcasting a full colour service on the UHF-625 line colour and also broadcasting a full MPEG-576 colour on digital satellite, digital terrestrial, and digital cable. From the transmitters of the Independent Television Authority.

  • @darryltester5376
    @darryltester5376 3 роки тому +9

    Loved LWT, a great station that produced great programmes, could be argued the rot started back in 1993 when Thames TV went and - Crapton sorry carlton- came in and with Granada bought out the remaining ITV stations..... LWT's former studios on the south bank have also now gone thanks to network cost cutting - thanks Granada and Carlton!!!!

    • @grahamfairbrother2089
      @grahamfairbrother2089 Рік тому

      yup, the London Studios which were the home for London Today/Tonight, GMTV, This Morning and many other shows, however the souless ITV gave up useful studios and instead went for the old BBC ones

  • @BIGSCREENQUIZ
    @BIGSCREENQUIZ Рік тому +1

    Thank you Trish ….
    Damn I was waiting for the LWT river indent

  • @toddhunter3137
    @toddhunter3137 4 роки тому +16

    I am not a Londoner but I loved the LWT idents. Iconic! 😉 😉 😉

    • @rajnirvan3336
      @rajnirvan3336 4 роки тому +5

      Being a Londoner I also liked some other idents. My favourites were Central Eclipse, Anglia Knight, ATV and Tyne Tees early 80s and HTV

    • @toddhunter3137
      @toddhunter3137 4 роки тому +4

      @@rajnirvan3336 the meridian was very iconic I grew up with tvs then it meridian. My mate up the road so to speak for London tv and we loved the LWT cos that was weekend! Lol

    • @rajnirvan3336
      @rajnirvan3336 4 роки тому +5

      @@toddhunter3137 In Kent it was like that at my cousin house was LWT and another bit further was TVS

    • @toddhunter3137
      @toddhunter3137 4 роки тому +5

      @@rajnirvan3336 Yes I remember seeing all the idents you mention, Central had some real funky ones! The Anglia Knight was that some silver majestic looking thing am racking my memory, it was a rather obscure one I think. ATV I remember from the old Crossroads drama series, Tyne Tees?? not familiar with, HTV was the blue screen and white lines forming the name i think.

    • @toddhunter3137
      @toddhunter3137 4 роки тому +2

      @@rajnirvan3336 For me it was just a great memory seeing LWT come up on UA-cam, I grew up in Kent and had a mate who lived in Brixton. Whenever I was there i'd remember seeing LWT on the tv... you knew you was in London and it was the weekend! Something different! was great... :)

  • @coolcrabcakes1287
    @coolcrabcakes1287 3 роки тому +9

    Regional ITV was more better than that unified look we have today

  • @tomosburton1756
    @tomosburton1756 6 років тому +6

    THANK YOU! YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE SAINT!

  • @fraserkatie
    @fraserkatie 8 місяців тому +1

    Love how they played the LWT ident then the camera went into the gallery to then watch Glen and Trish saying goodbye!

  • @ridbensdale
    @ridbensdale 2 роки тому +9

    I miss the old ITV.
    5:39 Christmas of the Time Lords.

  • @mysteryone4356
    @mysteryone4356 Рік тому +4

    The day WEEKEND TV DIED!!!! Thames leaving also signified the end of daytime TV. Regional TV stations brought imagination, competition, pride, joy and heart to television with quality shows

  • @hugoboss5895
    @hugoboss5895 Місяць тому +1

    The seventies and eighties jingle straight away reminds me of the gentle touch and upstairs downstairs 😂 LWT wasn’t our region but it produced many a good show across the network.

  • @bb3ca201
    @bb3ca201 6 років тому +5

    Wow! Wonderfully clear video!

  • @imrustyokay
    @imrustyokay 6 років тому +32

    You know, if I was born 10 or 15 years earlier, and lived in the UK, I would've thought that ITV died on October 28th, 2002.
    Good thing American hasn't ditched regional TV. Yet.

    • @WedgePee
      @WedgePee 4 роки тому +11

      Well, the US would stretch east-west between Portugal and Armenia. That's how big it really is. They'd need an awful lot of transmitters.

    • @redtekki
      @redtekki 4 роки тому +11

      ITV's regional TV cycle died on October 28th, 2002 in England and Wales. Scotland's regional ITV cycle died on May 30th, 2006, when Scottish and Grampian were unified as STV Central and North, respectively. We wouldn't say that it died in Northern Ireland on October 17th, 2016 because UTV, despite being acquired by ITV plc, still kept its name.

    • @cfntl2629
      @cfntl2629 3 роки тому

      Rusty Ralston same here

    • @Connie_TinuityError
      @Connie_TinuityError 3 роки тому +2

      @@redtekki I think the regional ITV cycle for the Channel Islands started to die on October 18th 2011, and finally did on January 14th 2013.

  • @toddhunter3137
    @toddhunter3137 4 роки тому +6

    LWT is very sadly missed. X

  • @ivandinsmore6217
    @ivandinsmore6217 2 роки тому +8

    Someone should bring back LWT and the other little TV channels as an online channel. I think people would still watch good quality television rather than the drivel on the mainstream channels.

  • @diehard21000
    @diehard21000 Рік тому +1

    20 years ago today it went of air for the final time ,at least we got to see it for a few years in the 21st century.Would love for it to come back but these days have long gone unfortunately. RIP LWT London weekend television

  • @Andy-Robus
    @Andy-Robus 2 роки тому +2

    ah bless em 6:07 - grew up listening to their dulcet tones ... loved the LWT network and its programmes

  • @ketchup5344
    @ketchup5344 4 роки тому +6

    Aaaah the MPEG 2 encoding system. How I miss the days of the MPEG 2 encoding system. Life was so much simpler then. Or maybe I should have said, SAMPLER then.

  • @DVSyoutube
    @DVSyoutube 3 роки тому +6

    The next day: the identity of LWT finally went off and ITV's English & Welsh region franchises finally integrated to a single umbrella of ITV1.

  • @fusionsuper34
    @fusionsuper34 3 роки тому +14

    Nearly 18 years on and networked ITV still exists, the same garbage shows, poor football coverage which they had back then, you name it. Go back 3 decades ago, the 1990's was the best era when it was 16 dysfunctional TV names from different parts of the UK with their own programming, some of which proved successful. ITV since late 2002 probably since the start of that period 18 years ago, have been awful and I don't think they will ever hit the great heights of 1990 or 2000 again.

  • @zacheryalderton8434
    @zacheryalderton8434 5 років тому +7

    this year should have been 51 years

  • @sm64be
    @sm64be Місяць тому +1

    Omfg i was born the same date as this?! Wow! I never knew thus happened on my birthday!

  • @weridarchivething6407
    @weridarchivething6407 3 роки тому +5

    R.I.P London Weekend Television (1968-2002)
    edit: who liked

  • @DuwangKaizer
    @DuwangKaizer 3 роки тому +6

    7:27
    LWT
    London Weekend Television
    Colour Presentation
    2 August 1968 - 27 October 2002

  • @darryllharden9141
    @darryllharden9141 5 років тому +10

    "This is London Weekend Television.Broadcasting a Colour 625 line anologue service on the UHF Band and also on Digital Terrestrial, Digital Satellite and Digital Cable Networks via the MPEG 2 encoding system".

  • @johnchubb1781
    @johnchubb1781 3 місяці тому +1

    I did read that ITV didn't want LWT to do this, but they stuck two fingers up at them and had a nostalgia-fest on their last day. Good on them!

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  Місяць тому

      As someone intimately involved, I can assure you that ITV had no idea we were even doing it.

  • @yasminx16
    @yasminx16 3 роки тому +1

    Made me quite emotional watching this

  • @bebbingtons1987
    @bebbingtons1987 6 років тому +29

    5:30 a future Doctor Who

    • @clawengrantlerian
      @clawengrantlerian 4 роки тому +5

      Also a future Scrooge McDuck from the Disney's Ducktales 2017.

    • @yasminx16
      @yasminx16 3 роки тому +4

      Omg I kind of remember this advert

  • @davidtownson1476
    @davidtownson1476 3 роки тому +3

    Nice to see a pre-Who David Tennant on the Boots ad

  • @adamwithey4746
    @adamwithey4746 6 років тому +7

    Contributing this video 15 years ago.

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 6 місяців тому

    What was the title of the L.W.T. start up music please?

  • @ashfaq1999
    @ashfaq1999 2 роки тому +3

    TV Legends.

  • @mohm7047
    @mohm7047 10 місяців тому +1

    RIP British Television after the end of LWT.

  • @anthonyperkins7556
    @anthonyperkins7556 5 років тому +27

    When LWT came on at 5.15 in the London area Fridays it was like "it's Friday, you're in London, let's brighten up your weekend with some great fun and great telly" what can you say of ITV these days? 'We are national we are boring and we like to repeat everything we show even if it's been on zillions of time and we don't care about the viewers'. Doesn't have the same ring does it? Pathetic...

    • @MondySpartan
      @MondySpartan 5 років тому +15

      TV nowadays are just reality shows and some crappy stuff. Even though I am a millenial who doesn’t live in the UK, I still have to say that ITV in the 70s-80s are better than ITV nowadays.

    • @anthonyperkins7556
      @anthonyperkins7556 5 років тому +8

      @@MondySpartan and thanks to our dead bitch Maggie "Milksnatcher" Thatcher, the 1990 broadcasting act to remove regulation and privatise itv was the beginning of the end for the channel, and marked a huge downturn...,...

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart 5 років тому +8

      one reason why itv lost millions of pounds and viewers. and decided to pay £100,000,000 for Friends Reunited, just as everyone moved to facebook!

  • @cromulence
    @cromulence 3 роки тому +2

    Wow, the quality is outstanding! Is this a MPEG2 TS rip?
    Would love to have an original copy rather than the UA-cam re-encode, if you still have it kicking around somewhere.

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  3 роки тому +4

      I recorded this on my Thomson TiVo (the first PVR to hit the UK, it predated Sky+) and then dubbed it off to MiniDV tape, which I suspect I've since junked. That original TiVo did not record the raw bitstream, it did a real-time MPEG-2 encode.

    • @cromulence
      @cromulence 3 роки тому

      @@dunebasher1971 Fantastic stuff, thanks for having the foresight to capture these rarities and for sharing them with the world.

    • @Connie_TinuityError
      @Connie_TinuityError 3 роки тому

      @@dunebasher1971 how did you get this video from your TiVo to your computer?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  3 роки тому +2

      Dubbed it to MiniDV tape using the analogue AV outputs.

    • @Connie_TinuityError
      @Connie_TinuityError 3 роки тому

      @@dunebasher1971 do you still have the original video file of this recording on your TiVo?

  • @MrKpsuk84
    @MrKpsuk84 Рік тому +2

    5:32 David Tennant in a Boots Christmas ad three years before becoming the 10th Doctor 😄

  • @davidmanful4797
    @davidmanful4797 Рік тому +1

    Tomorrow (October 27th) marks 20 years of the last day of LWT and also apparently, the end of regional television on ITV

  • @danwoodhouse9290
    @danwoodhouse9290 5 років тому +2

    what was the Martyn lewis programme at the end?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  2 роки тому +3

      Ultimate Questions, a panel-based discussion show.

  • @Horizions
    @Horizions 5 років тому

    What's the Porgram at the end of the video.

  • @davidfos84
    @davidfos84 6 років тому +8

    Martyn Lewis on the old Aspel and Company set at the end there!

    • @yoviealamsyah4843
      @yoviealamsyah4843 3 роки тому

      What the name of the program?

    • @jamo62
      @jamo62 2 роки тому +2

      @@yoviealamsyah4843 Ultimate Questions.

  • @darryllharden9141
    @darryllharden9141 5 років тому +8

    "You're watching London Weekend Television which began broadcasting 34 Years ago.Well this is sadly our last weekend. From tomorrow there's a new look to ITV 1.Well I personally enjoyed my 15 Years with you so on behalf of the whole team at LWT.This is Glenn Thompsett saying thank you for watching and do join us for a short farewell tribute in one hour. In the meantime Melvyn Bragg with LWT's award winning arts series 'The South Bank Show'."

  • @untitledjunk03
    @untitledjunk03 4 роки тому +1

    Do you have GMTV from that day?

  • @alanjones7040
    @alanjones7040 5 років тому +4

    I mourned the Demise of LWT .... Such a shame !

    • @rajnirvan3336
      @rajnirvan3336 5 років тому +2

      So did I. LWT was part of our childhood

  • @Connie_TinuityError
    @Connie_TinuityError 2 роки тому +2

    Did you really have a 16:9 TV back then? If so, how much did it cost?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  2 роки тому +4

      I got my first 16:9 TV in early 2001. It was a 32" Sony Wega, and it cost just over £1000.

  • @superlegendary
    @superlegendary 2 роки тому

    Would you be able to upload that full recording of Nightscreen as seen at 0:27?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  2 роки тому +3

      I don't have it. I had no reason to record Nightscreen in full.

    • @superlegendary
      @superlegendary 2 роки тому

      @@dunebasher1971 So, what's seen in this video is all that you have of it?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  2 роки тому +1

      @@superlegendary Yes.

  • @marnanel
    @marnanel Рік тому +3

    "protest… war… Putin… high death toll… strikes… sniper murders in America"
    The difference between now and twenty years ago: we had regional ITV

  • @agfagaevart
    @agfagaevart Рік тому

    Twenty years ago!!
    A sad day indeed.
    :-/

  • @12345marios
    @12345marios 3 роки тому +5

    This is a fall of an empire. A ITV empire.

  • @PeterFraser-hp3rs
    @PeterFraser-hp3rs 3 місяці тому

    LWT provided some of the best programs to watch on TV when I was a kid -- way better than the BBC.

  • @zacheryalderton8179
    @zacheryalderton8179 5 років тому +1

    How many years of memories

  • @michaelreddington658
    @michaelreddington658 4 роки тому +6

    I really wish Central did something like this when they had to go

    • @RyanGonTV
      @RyanGonTV 2 роки тому +3

      Carlton gave them no chance to.

  • @EbayvideosR
    @EbayvideosR 6 років тому +28

    Feel sad after watching that. TV was much better when LWT was around. Now it’s just total garbage on television. I just watch my betamax and Vhs tapes.

    • @rajnirvan3336
      @rajnirvan3336 4 роки тому +6

      Me too. I used to love LWT. Always watched the handover from Thames on Friday at 5.15

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 4 роки тому

      total garbage was television back then, not now.

    • @cwm6203
      @cwm6203 4 роки тому +1

      @@sillygoose635 Bullshit, garbage now

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 3 роки тому

      @grahamf19 TV isn't garbage, too much drama crap was on back then. lwt, thames, and carlton, have produced shitty rubbish programs that isnt worth the licence fee.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 3 роки тому

      @grahamf19 no but you HAVE to have it to watch programming.

  • @John-wz7yu
    @John-wz7yu Рік тому +1

    I loved the Thames / LWT hand over as a kid,

  • @QwertyScream
    @QwertyScream 4 роки тому +1

    What’s the name of that programme with Martyn Lewis at the end?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  4 роки тому +1

      I'm sure you could look up the listings for 27.10.02 and find out.

    • @Connie_TinuityError
      @Connie_TinuityError 3 роки тому

      @@dunebasher1971 Is it even possible to do that? Seems quite absurd (or too good to be true)

    • @500youtubesubscribers5
      @500youtubesubscribers5 Рік тому

      It was called ultimate questions

  • @robertcomer2767
    @robertcomer2767 2 роки тому +3

    Trish Bertram should have be retained for the changeover to ITV1. Can't believe all these names were ditched over 19 years ago. All the promises of the money saved that would go into programmes and all we get now is Wall to wall The Chase and that bloody nauseating Stephen Mulhern.

    • @nutoutpizzadthehut
      @nutoutpizzadthehut Рік тому

      Wasn’t she the VO announcer of BSB Galaxy too before it shutdown (idk I’m American and don’t know much about UK TV)

    • @zurgtheemperor975
      @zurgtheemperor975 Рік тому

      I did remember hearing Trish Bertram announcing on ITV1 on a Sunday afternoon, IIRC this was Autumn 2004. I had sat down to watch The Railway Children (the Carlton version in case you're wondering), and Trish announced it had been postponed due to a train accident earlier that day.

  • @Gary80264
    @Gary80264 4 роки тому +1

    Miss you LWT

  • @chrispearce6024
    @chrispearce6024 6 років тому +1

    Is there any Meridian final continuity like this?

    • @bloonface
      @bloonface 3 роки тому +5

      Bit of a late answer, however the simple answer is to my knowledge, no. The Granada-owned regions (that at that point included Meridian) bar LWT were all running on pre-recorded centralised continuity and as such made no acknowledgment whatsoever that their branding was going away. The Carlton regions were *not* pre-recorded but also made no mention of it (there's a clip on TV Ark of one of the final Carlton London announcements where Mark Lipscomb sounds rather resigned, and that's about it).
      LWT were, apparently, the only one of the Granada/Carlton stations to even appear like they knew it was happening. Which is sad in its own way, but possibly just reflective of LWT's own culture.

    • @jamo62
      @jamo62 2 роки тому +1

      @@bloonface Carlton Central did sign off fyi

  • @jeykies3745.
    @jeykies3745. 2 роки тому +1

    This was before I was even born

  • @woking1970
    @woking1970 8 місяців тому

    I remember watching it on a sunday night. I love the razzmatazz of LWT to the rather pale Thames of the 1980s.
    Not old enough to remember 1968 but i bet the first 7pm handover was intresting.😮

  • @Aubepine81
    @Aubepine81 11 місяців тому

    lovely music

  • @Linus7671
    @Linus7671 7 днів тому

    Is this analog TV?

  • @TheImatube
    @TheImatube 6 років тому +8

    Very sad day

  • @3132-simpson-park
    @3132-simpson-park 10 місяців тому

    ITV plc at its creation in 2004 was two thirds owned by the shareholders of Granada plc. Most of the staff were from Granada, as well.

  • @tonyhancock3912
    @tonyhancock3912 2 роки тому +1

    Happy memories

  • @earthluma
    @earthluma 11 місяців тому

    By any chance, was this sourced from a DVD?

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  11 місяців тому

      No, from my own TiVo recording - the original pre-Virgin version of TiVo used MPEG-2.

    • @earthluma
      @earthluma 11 місяців тому

      @@dunebasher1971 Oh, cool!

  • @andrewbass6837
    @andrewbass6837 9 місяців тому

    0.27 I think that is the rarest nightscreen graphics I've ever come across. I wonder if there any more captured

  • @iaintneednoIDforthis
    @iaintneednoIDforthis 3 роки тому

    now it's over 18 years when this happened

  • @michaelbonner4126
    @michaelbonner4126 27 днів тому

    Press "F” to pay respects

  • @StringedGuitar17
    @StringedGuitar17 3 роки тому +5

    Press L, W and T (in that order) to pay respects.

  • @dwho19951
    @dwho19951 Рік тому

    Those announcements I believe were live but the first clip was from the very evening of 26th October and the other is from the next day at 5:30am on 27th October 2002

    • @dunebasher1971
      @dunebasher1971  Рік тому

      As it says in the description, the first clip was from approximately two weeks earlier. Trish was out of the country on holiday for the last two weeks of October 2002. The only live announcements in this video are that one, and Glen's "34 years ago" one before The South Bank Show. The startup and the one with Glen and Trish in-vision were both pre-recorded.

    • @dwho19951
      @dwho19951 Рік тому

      ​@dunebasher1971 I wish they were live, but I would contact ITV to learn lessons for that, and ITV should start making an assessment in order to follow suit from the BBC to get the announcers live on-air after nearly 70 years in the making fir the first time ever

    • @gavinmartin5151
      @gavinmartin5151 Рік тому

      @@dunebasher1971 don't forget during the end titles to the south bank show aswell , because Glen did the final live announcement during the south bank show's end titles in the early hours of Monday 28th October 2002 and from what i recall, Glen's had tears rolling down his face and yes Glen's announcement during the special LWT start up in the early hours of Sunday 27th October 2002 was live . But i don't know if Glen did national ITV1 Continuity during the early hours of Sunday 27th October 2002 aswell .

    • @dwho19951
      @dwho19951 2 місяці тому

      ​@gavinmartin5151 but the farewell thing was on the evening of 27th October 2002 while the final announcement from Trish was from the evening of 26th October 2002

  • @garrysimpson1395
    @garrysimpson1395 6 місяців тому

    Trish Betremm.
    Also worked weekdays for T.V.S. and Anglia.

  • @chrisclose7793
    @chrisclose7793 Місяць тому

    LWT the days of proper Good TV

  • @jamezstarter48967
    @jamezstarter48967 2 місяці тому

    London Weekend Television Direct From The South Bank Studios Since 1968 Last Broadcast October 27 2002

  • @somerandomchannelthatsused9565

    6:45 The last London weekend ID before we branding as London weekend television.