1992 was really the very last year of the old school ITV network. In 1992, Thames Television - TVS - TSW and TV-am were all on death row waiting for their demise on 31st December 1992. Come New Year's Day 1993 ITV was well and truly minced!
Me and my mate were in the studio audience for this, not for the whole damn thing, but for a part filming and broadcast session for a few hours, and that was hard going enough....
+toadieisgod You can blame the 1993 franchise changes and the 1990 Broadcasting act which ripped the heart and soul out of independent television here in the UK.
Yes it was Thatcher who in 1990 introduced the act which was designed to make ITV more like US networks, and to dismantle union control at the ITV companies. Thames, TVS, TSW and TV AM lost their franchises because of this act. There would have been more companies gone if it wasn't for David Mellor who tried to tame the act a bit with "quality threshold" in the act. But all in all it ruined ITV for ever.
The reason for the date change was the 1992 General Election, ITV used almost all of its broadcasting resources on the Telethons and the worry was the GE that year was due the same week as Telethon, so the decision was made to move Telethon 92 to July, as it’s happened John Major held the election early on April 9th but the plans were too far advanced to move it back to May bank holiday.
In this telethon there was a Junior edition of Blind Date and a one off special of You Bet was the money going to charities that telethon supports and helps some of these charities may still exsit
I'm trying to locate some footage of my mum at canary wharf having her head shaved, so you have any of that please? Her name was Marie, she was introduced by pat Sharp if my memory serves me right, I'd love to locate it and keep a copy.
From memory I don’t think TVam had any involvement in Telethon ‘92 other than donating their normal broadcasting hours to the show. Similarly in 1990 they weren’t included in the opening logo montage either, though TVam presenters did participate in the show.
Long story. Their depiction of disabled people as the "handicapped grateful needy" was basically off. There were protests and now we have the Equality Act which is pretty awesome. www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-34732084
Much (justified, if I may add) outcry from disability rights organisations and disabled people for making people with disabilities objects of pity, when really they just want to be members of society and to not be patronised against. The show was picketed by disability rights protesters for that very reason, because it only really focused on the tragic side of disability without really doing that much to spread awareness about it apart from having disabled people be on the TV as a way of getting the viewers at home to be a "pull at the heartstrings" type of thing to elicit money out of the people who phoned up. Even if you did phone up, it wasn't stated exactly where your money would be going apart from "to charity" which is all well and good, but to whom/where? This is the exact same reason why I don't watch Children in Need anymore for that first reason, I'm autistic and I do not by any means have any desire to be portrayed as "inspirational".
@sophie_drachen the only "charity" the money went to was to pay for the celebrity booze-up in LWT's studio bar, hence the "real" reason why so many of them turned up for that event
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1992 was really the very last year of the old school ITV network. In 1992, Thames Television - TVS - TSW and TV-am were all on death row waiting for their demise on 31st December 1992. Come New Year's Day 1993 ITV was well and truly minced!
Me and my mate were in the studio audience for this, not for the whole damn thing, but for a part filming and broadcast session for a few hours, and that was hard going enough....
The days when ITV had a soul.
Michael Aspel- top class presenter
+toadieisgod You can blame the 1993 franchise changes and the 1990 Broadcasting act which ripped the heart and soul out of independent television here in the UK.
+John King i blame the tories for everything so yes il join you in that
Yes it was Thatcher who in 1990 introduced the act which was designed to make ITV more like US networks, and to dismantle union control at the ITV companies. Thames, TVS, TSW and TV AM lost their franchises because of this act. There would have been more companies gone if it wasn't for David Mellor who tried to tame the act a bit with "quality threshold" in the act. But all in all it ruined ITV for ever.
someone should do a petition to itv so they return channels like yorkshire Anglia and thames and no carlton
iTV would ignore it as their line is "ITV in its old style franchise form could not survive into the modern era of television in the 21st century".
This brings back memories. I remember this was around July 1992. Telethons 88 & 90 were on the 2nd Bank holiday Monday.
The reason for the date change was the 1992 General Election, ITV used almost all of its broadcasting resources on the Telethons and the worry was the GE that year was due the same week as Telethon, so the decision was made to move Telethon 92 to July, as it’s happened John Major held the election early on April 9th but the plans were too far advanced to move it back to May bank holiday.
@@pipoo1 ah yes that makes sense
ITV Broadcasted the final telethon in 1992, the year when Michael Aspel was not that aged.
One minute in and I'm sick of that jingle.
It was composed by Simon May, the man behind the EastEnders and Howard's Way themes.
Thames, TVS and TSW knew their fate at this point in time 😢
Thames were not really involved with the 1992 telethon, as it aired over Saturday and Sunday. They helped a bit with the production.
In this telethon there was a Junior edition of Blind Date and a one off special of You Bet was the money going to charities that telethon supports and helps some of these charities may still exsit
This was the very last ITV Telethon. The next telethon type show to be made by ITV would be Text Santa which began in 2011.
That didn’t last long ether idk when the last one was held
@@FrenchFriesrGood ITV Telethon was held in 1988, 1990 and 1992. ITV Text Santa ran annually from 2011 - 2015.
"...your host for the next twenty-eight hours..." That's a brave host.
30 years ago today
That theme tune was also used for 2 Entertain from 2014 to the present day.
The person that did the music is very good
It was Laurie Holloway who incidentally took over as the show's MD from Alyn Ainsworth, who wrote the theme tune.
I'm trying to locate some footage of my mum at canary wharf having her head shaved, so you have any of that please? Her name was Marie, she was introduced by pat Sharp if my memory serves me right, I'd love to locate it and keep a copy.
Bring tis class back
And no mention of TV-am in the openkng credits.
From memory I don’t think TVam had any involvement in Telethon ‘92 other than donating their normal broadcasting hours to the show. Similarly in 1990 they weren’t included in the opening logo montage either, though TVam presenters did participate in the show.
Granada skipped Border
It's a real shame Charlie Brooker wasn't doing screen wipe back then.
Thanks for sharing this with us all. :) Do you know where i can get the full song to this. :)
Who can spot differences to the set of telethon 1990 set and 1992 set
One says Telethon 90 and one says Telethon 92
What happened to ITV Telethon.
Long story. Their depiction of disabled people as the "handicapped grateful needy" was basically off. There were protests and now we have the Equality Act which is pretty awesome. www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-34732084
Much (justified, if I may add) outcry from disability rights organisations and disabled people for making people with disabilities objects of pity, when really they just want to be members of society and to not be patronised against. The show was picketed by disability rights protesters for that very reason, because it only really focused on the tragic side of disability without really doing that much to spread awareness about it apart from having disabled people be on the TV as a way of getting the viewers at home to be a "pull at the heartstrings" type of thing to elicit money out of the people who phoned up. Even if you did phone up, it wasn't stated exactly where your money would be going apart from "to charity" which is all well and good, but to whom/where?
This is the exact same reason why I don't watch Children in Need anymore for that first reason, I'm autistic and I do not by any means have any desire to be portrayed as "inspirational".
@sophie_drachen the only "charity" the money went to was to pay for the celebrity booze-up in LWT's studio bar, hence the "real" reason why so many of them turned up for that event
Enyone know who it was