Brings me fond memories of the time, when I was studying in England (1967-73), there were only three Channels-BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV. We had no colour tv and BBC 2 was UHF. I and Ian, a friend of mine, while staying at TOCH Mark V, posted advertisements, which stated something like "Black and White is Dead" with a picture of a coffin of a BW TV set being buried and the Board agreed to get a Colour set. There were some wonderful porogrammes.
Unless I missed it, I hear no mention of ITV's unique regional structure, which was a significant part of British TV history that set itself apart from the other terrestrial channels.
The Midland and Northern regions used to have two itv franchise holders too. Mondays to Fridays Granada in the north and ATV in the midlands. On Saturdays and Sundays both regions were served by ABC Television.
@@dvidclapperton Also all ITV areas are technically still 2 franchises, ITV Breakfast Ltd holds the national weekday-morning franchise (including the 2 STV areas).
The Spice Girls opening was the only channel launch that I remember actually seeing (and I fancied all of the Spice Girls back then, though I did think All Saints were the better band and were hotter than the Spice Girls, especially Shaznay) ITV itself has a fascinating history, within my lifetime it's gone from a federation of self-sufficient stations, each covering a region that just showed each other programmes to one massive conglomerate that covers the whole of the UK, except for viewers in Scotland who have their very own ITV. It might be worth pointing out that while the BBC are government owned and -tax- TV Licence funded, Channel 4 are government owned and commercially funded. Channel 5 is entirely commercially owned... nowadays by Viacom... which probably explains why Channel 4 hasn't been privatised... it'll remain independent for exactly one microsecond before being bought out by Comcast or Disney and we already have one of The Big Five owned by foreigners.
+GeoNeilUK STV in Scotland still has to go by the rest of the UK's schedules when it comes to the weekday 6pm to 7pm period. On English bank holiday Mondays when there are shortened national and regional news bulletins, the STV News at 6 and Reporting Scotland over on BBC 1 still have to show shortened 15 minute bulletins even though it's not a bank holiday in Scotland, and when it's a Scottish bank holiday monday but not in England the STV News at 6 and Reporting Scotland still are on the full half hour bulletins like the rest of the UK. Shouldn't Scotland be able to opt out from showing the non news programme at 6.30 on in the rest of the UK to show the full half hour Scottish News bulletins when it's an English bank holiday but it's not in Scotland.
STV and Border could both split. Then the western half of Scottish split from the east is its own region, while the Scottish half of Border merges with the Eastern half of Scottish.
Fun fact: The Milkshake! preschool programs also used to run on one of Five's sister networks 5 Lite/Star from 2006-2018 during the 9am-12/1pm slot after it finished airing at 9.15am on the main Channel 5 network
Fun fact after the British version of play school was canceled Australia made there own version of play school and it’s still on the air 66 years later
I have a television exam tomorrow that MIGHT feature British TV history (Or the same for either Norway or the US. Won't know until tomorrow) and this video has been very helpful to me. Great job! Thank you.
Night Fever, a karaoke based gameshow hosted by Suggs was quite a successful programme for Channel Five. As was the watchable 100% - the quiz show without a host (just voiceover artiste Robin Houston of Thames Television fame).
"When I was young there was only 2 channels and it was easy to tell them apart because one had commercials (ITV) and the other one didn't (BBC1). These days my children yes they do surf dozens of channels." from the behind the scenes making of the BBC1 balloon globe idents October 1997-March 2002
I don't know how it saved your exams, because one fact was wrong, the BBC shut down the service before WW2 because it was feared enemy bombers could use the signal to guide them, so the service was shutdown.
@@dvidclapperton Garlic. lol. There aren't that many Gaelic speakers in Scotland, so there was no need for a channel. And large parts of Scotland have never spoken Gaelic anyway. And they used to have Gaelic opt-outs on BBC2 Scotland before BBC Alba launched. We didn't get the Simpsons on Thursday nights, grr.
Very strange. Obviously you live under a rock and aren’t very current. Tip, if you want to be current and relevant then know what’s going on and open your eyes. Stop living in the past.
I think it'd be interesting to see A Brief History of Countdown, including the Eight out of 10 Cats Does Countdown "spinoff", the latter of which I absolutely enjoyed watching on UA-cam from the US.
They are terrestrial channels, part of ITV and Channel 4's range of channels the way BBC2 was in the analogue era. You don't have to pay a subscription to Sky or virgin to access them. It's annoying that people class BBC2 as a terrestrial channel, but don't class ITV3, More 4 or 5 Star e.g. as terrestrial channels. There's nothing wrong about ITV putting sport on ITV4 in the same way that BBC have always put sport on BBC2. Pick TV is also a terrestrial channel, but you will not see Sky bidding for Wimbledon rights just to show finals weekend on Pick with the crown jewels rules still say it has to be live on terrestrial because as far as Sky are concerned the host saying exclusively Live on Pick TV does not have the same ring about it for them as saying exclusively live on Sky Sports Tennis. You will only see Sky bidding for Wimbledon rights if the crown jewels rules change where finals weekend doesn't have to be live on terrestrial..
Another big tv event happened in 1969 (alongside the transition to colour and the moon landing) as well (particularly affecting viewers in the Yorkshire region) as the transmitter at Emley Moor collapsed in March of that year, leaving loads of viewers without colour BBC2 and black and white ITV. (Black and White BBC1 and BBC VHF FM radio weren’t as they were (until January 1985 for TV, it still broadcasts FM radio alongside DAB), broadcast from the transmitter at Holme Moss
Channel 5 was the first UK Terrestrial broadcaster to launch on the Astra 1C satelllite at 19.2 East alongside Sky Analogue, due to the poor coverage that Channel 5 suffered with, Channel 4 was not available on all transmitters at first, took about 4 years for nationwide coverage. Welsh viewers had S4C instead but viewers living in or near the Welsh border could get both,
great voice adam, and still remember channel 5 launch. couldnt get it despite living a few miles from crystal palace transmitter. luckily signed up for sky digital in summer 97 so problem solved.
Why did they call it high definition in 1936? Because way back then in 1936 the then BBC TV channel was shown on low quality 405 line standard definition black and white TV's where TV screens were far more rounded than those even on sale in the 1970's.
First words heard on BBC 2 would have seen it closed down today - newsreader Gerald Priestland was reading an item about a bus conductress who described Asian passengers as “stinking wogs” - the news was being broadcast in picture only - when the sound finally kicked in, the first words viewers heard were the words “stinking wogs” - he repeated the news again and the item was heard in full!
The only things I ever found worth watching on Channel 5 were the American daytime soap Sunset Beach and the Canadian production of La Femme Nikita. The rest of the channel's output has always been dumbed down trash (which, sadly, ITV is now emulating)
It has never been an adult channel. It does not even provide an Adult channnel style porn service even though some of the programmes on it have an excessive amount of nakedness on them.
Just a couple of pointers if you make a 2nd video or one in more detail I used to have a book about the first 40 years of Coronation Street, and in that it says the first colour of episode of that was on 24/11/1969, and the episode was meant to feature a coach crash. But the technical failed and it wasn't until the episode after in the hospital that it picked up. And there was nearly a strike with the cameramen, causing episodes continuing to air in black and white on an occasional basis until February of 1971. Secondly, how come nothing about the ITV strike of 1979 was mentioned? Coronation Street got taken off the air for 3 months between August and November.
Channel 5 content has improved since you made this video but it's still lacking for the most part. It also had coverage issues for its first ten years due to the frequency it operated on being an issue in some parts of the country, and that they had to pay teams of engineers to visit houses and retune people's VCRs. The channel 4 introduction in 1982 was, at the time, state of the art CGI. Channel 4 were a welcome breath of fresh air at the time, being radical and bold.
Disagree with your comments re channel 5. Though I appreciate they were made 5 years ago. Today, I find that their documentary output is high quality and very interesting. I must admit, I only started watching 5 in the last few years but have to say, it is my favourite channel now. Thank god for it on saturday nights as it beats the other channels hands down.
Since cable and satellite launched in-between the launches of Channel 4 & 5, it seemed to make Channel 5 a complete irrelevance. It always had incredibly poor quality programming and lots of strange technical issues, even compared to the ropey stuff from Sky. Such a missed opportunity.
God how I miss Channel 4’s awesome kids lineup of the 2000s like The Clangers, The Hoobs (one of my favourite Channel 4 programmes of All Time) and a couple of kids shows that were imported from other countries Such as France and America (Shows that Previously aired on BBC-1 in Early Mornings/Late Afternoons), Japan (Sonic X: Return of The Raven) and Yet Again England (Which Housed The Clangers of all people)
Is Channel 5 still considered one of the Big Five? Radio Times seems to regard BBC4 as the fifth "Main" channel and has relegated Channel 5 to the second tier.
@GokuDCP all the rock music documetaries and old Top Of The Pops. Channel 5 doesn't have any popular programmes either. It's just an old age nursing home for shows that were once mega on ITV1/BBC1 decades ago like Neighbours, Home and Away and Big Brother.
Slightly inaccurate - the fourth channel started in Wales the day before Channel 4 - which was not readily viewable in Wales. S4C was a mixture of channel 4 programmes and Welsh Language programmes provided by both ‘ITV, other programme makers and the BBC and therefore quite different from Channel 4.
Interesting the way TV came about from 1936. BBC already transmitting radio from 1922. TV licence introduced 1946. Radio licence abolished 1971. Some countries ahead of UK in TV, e.g. U.S. more TV's per head of population, more channels and introduced colour 1964. US used 525 lines, UK used 625, slowly replacing 405 which ended 1982. I find TV today, unlike past, dull, boring, violent and generally crap and have lived without it for 10 years. Despite improved plasma FST and HD quality, shame programmes aren't good quality and don't stand up to those of the past.
Good post- I think 405 lines was finally switched off in the mid 80s but I don't think anyone by then was watching it anyway. 625 line black and white was the baseline by the mid 70s and colour TVs outsold black and white TVs in 1976.
@@AdamMartyn I'll mostly defend you here, 99% of your information is spot on. However BBC TV was shut down at the start of WW2 not because of the silver in the films but because it was feared the Germans would use the unique VHF signal as a means to send bombers to London. However Ally Pally was put to use in sending out signals from those same TV transmitters to jam the German bomber guidance system (which used frequencies in Band 1 VHF) , rendering it useless.
Brings me fond memories of the time, when I was studying in England (1967-73), there were only three Channels-BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV. We had no colour tv and BBC 2 was UHF. I and Ian, a friend of mine, while staying at TOCH Mark V, posted advertisements, which stated something like "Black and White is Dead" with a picture of a coffin of a BW TV set being buried and the Board agreed to get a Colour set. There were some wonderful porogrammes.
Unless I missed it, I hear no mention of ITV's unique regional structure, which was a significant part of British TV history that set itself apart from the other terrestrial channels.
That regionalism was what made ITV work. That all went away by the end of the last century.
Why did the London region get 2 regional companies operating at the same time? Why wasn't Thames Television 7 days a week?
Because of LWT (London Weekend Television), that's why.
The Midland and Northern regions used to have two itv franchise holders too. Mondays to Fridays Granada in the north and ATV in the midlands. On Saturdays and Sundays both regions were served by ABC Television.
@@dvidclapperton Also all ITV areas are technically still 2 franchises, ITV Breakfast Ltd holds the national weekday-morning franchise (including the 2 STV areas).
I’m curious to know if you’d be willing to talk about the history of RTE (Ireland). Thanks.
The Spice Girls opening was the only channel launch that I remember actually seeing (and I fancied all of the Spice Girls back then, though I did think All Saints were the better band and were hotter than the Spice Girls, especially Shaznay)
ITV itself has a fascinating history, within my lifetime it's gone from a federation of self-sufficient stations, each covering a region that just showed each other programmes to one massive conglomerate that covers the whole of the UK, except for viewers in Scotland who have their very own ITV.
It might be worth pointing out that while the BBC are government owned and -tax- TV Licence funded, Channel 4 are government owned and commercially funded.
Channel 5 is entirely commercially owned... nowadays by Viacom... which probably explains why Channel 4 hasn't been privatised... it'll remain independent for exactly one microsecond before being bought out by Comcast or Disney and we already have one of The Big Five owned by foreigners.
I only remember the 'Power Of 5' launch as well
GeoNeilUK
The BBC and no other channel is “government owned”. The BBC has a royal charter and no broadcasters are owned by the government in the UK
I saw channel 4's opening. Channel 5 was very poor reception what I recall with a snowy screen.
+GeoNeilUK
STV in Scotland still has to go by the rest of the UK's schedules when it comes to the weekday 6pm to 7pm period. On English bank holiday Mondays when there are shortened national and regional news bulletins, the STV News at 6 and Reporting Scotland over on BBC 1 still have to show shortened 15 minute bulletins even though it's not a bank holiday in Scotland, and when it's a Scottish bank holiday monday but not in England the STV News at 6 and Reporting Scotland still are on the full half hour bulletins like the rest of the UK.
Shouldn't Scotland be able to opt out from showing the non news programme at 6.30 on in the rest of the UK to show the full half hour Scottish News bulletins when it's an English bank holiday but it's not in Scotland.
STV and Border could both split. Then the western half of Scottish split from the east is its own region, while the Scottish half of Border merges with the Eastern half of Scottish.
Fun fact: The Milkshake! preschool programs also used to run on one of Five's sister networks 5 Lite/Star from 2006-2018 during the 9am-12/1pm slot after it finished airing at 9.15am on the main Channel 5 network
Fun fact after the British version of play school was canceled Australia made there own version of play school and it’s still on the air 66 years later
Nice to see a brief history of British TV we never learn it this at my school.
Don’t forget that in Wales on analogue, it was S4C not Channel 4! (As far as I know, Both were/are available alongside each other on digital)
I have a television exam tomorrow that MIGHT feature British TV history (Or the same for either Norway or the US. Won't know until tomorrow) and this video has been very helpful to me. Great job! Thank you.
Channel 5 underViacom become quite a good channel with a fair few quality programmes, even over the years since 1997 it had its moments as well.
ITV Also air Sooty (one of the longest running Children’s Television Programmes in the country just behind Blue Peter on BBC 1)
Night Fever, a karaoke based gameshow hosted by Suggs was quite a successful programme for Channel Five. As was the watchable 100% - the quiz show without a host (just voiceover artiste Robin Houston of Thames Television fame).
"When I was young there was only 2 channels and it was easy to tell them apart because one had commercials (ITV) and the other one didn't (BBC1). These days my children yes they do surf dozens of channels."
from the behind the scenes making of the BBC1 balloon globe idents October 1997-March 2002
I did not quite notice how TVS (Southern's replacement) was so similar in quality to Channel 4. Both were launched in 1982.
I'm writing an exam in this tomorrow & this saved my arse.
Sophie Marx glad it was a help to you! Is the exam about the history of TV? 😊
Adam Martyn it's about English pop culture which of course includes the telly then :D
I don't know how it saved your exams, because one fact was wrong, the BBC shut down the service before WW2 because it was feared enemy bombers could use the signal to guide them, so the service was shutdown.
Wales' S4C was of course the UK's fourth TV channel opening one day before C4.
Why wasn't there an S4A for Scotland, and an S4(N?) for Northern Ireland to provide mirror Garlic services?
@@dvidclapperton Garlic. lol. There aren't that many Gaelic speakers in Scotland, so there was no need for a channel. And large parts of Scotland have never spoken Gaelic anyway. And they used to have Gaelic opt-outs on BBC2 Scotland before BBC Alba launched. We didn't get the Simpsons on Thursday nights, grr.
Meanwhile the Republic didn't get an Irish language channel until 1996
When you listed the most popular BBC and ITV programmes, it dawned on me I haven't seen a single one of them.
Mysterious0Bob not even doctor who? Shame
Very strange. Obviously you live under a rock and aren’t very current. Tip, if you want to be current and relevant then know what’s going on and open your eyes. Stop living in the past.
Really great video. You should also make a video on British satellite television.
I never knew that the S.R. in Gibbs S.R. stood for sodium ricinoleate! You have educated me. Thanks!
I think it'd be interesting to see A Brief History of Countdown, including the Eight out of 10 Cats Does Countdown "spinoff", the latter of which I absolutely enjoyed watching on UA-cam from the US.
you should do a video on the non terrestrial channels like itv2 and E4
They are terrestrial channels, part of ITV and Channel 4's range of channels the way BBC2 was in the analogue era. You don't have to pay a subscription to Sky or virgin to access them.
It's annoying that people class BBC2 as a terrestrial channel, but don't class ITV3, More 4 or 5 Star e.g. as terrestrial channels. There's nothing wrong about ITV putting sport on ITV4 in the same way that BBC have always put sport on BBC2.
Pick TV is also a terrestrial channel, but you will not see Sky bidding for Wimbledon rights just to show finals weekend on Pick with the crown jewels rules still say it has to be live on terrestrial because as far as Sky are concerned the host saying exclusively Live on Pick TV does not have the same ring about it for them as saying exclusively live on Sky Sports Tennis. You will only see Sky bidding for Wimbledon rights if the crown jewels rules change where finals weekend doesn't have to be live on terrestrial..
@@dvidclapperton I think he means terrestrial channels that where first broadcast via anoluge not digital
Another big tv event happened in 1969 (alongside the transition to colour and the moon landing) as well (particularly affecting viewers in the Yorkshire region) as the transmitter at Emley Moor collapsed in March of that year, leaving loads of viewers without colour BBC2 and black and white ITV. (Black and White BBC1 and BBC VHF FM radio weren’t as they were (until January 1985 for TV, it still broadcasts FM radio alongside DAB), broadcast from the transmitter at Holme Moss
Channel 5 was the first UK Terrestrial broadcaster to launch on the Astra 1C satelllite at 19.2 East alongside Sky Analogue, due to the poor coverage that Channel 5 suffered with, Channel 4 was not available on all transmitters at first, took about 4 years for nationwide coverage. Welsh viewers had S4C instead but viewers living in or near the Welsh border could get both,
Good video - informative and succinct. Have you thought about going into each channel in more detail, making a series?
great voice adam, and still remember channel 5 launch. couldnt get it despite living a few miles from crystal palace transmitter. luckily signed up for sky digital in summer 97 so problem solved.
The bbc tv launch in 1936 will forever go down in British tech history
Why did they call it high definition in 1936? Because way back then in 1936 the then BBC TV channel was shown on low quality 405 line standard definition black and white TV's where TV screens were far more rounded than those even on sale in the 1970's.
@@dvidclapperton because 405 line electronic TV was seen as high definition compared to the mechanical 30 line Baird system.
First words heard on BBC 2 would have seen it closed down today - newsreader Gerald Priestland was reading an item about a bus conductress who described Asian passengers as “stinking wogs” - the news was being broadcast in picture only - when the sound finally kicked in, the first words viewers heard were the words “stinking wogs” - he repeated the news again and the item was heard in full!
So Channel 5 is basically world's first adult channel.
Souwrit Ray It broadcasts Milkshake in the morning for younger children!
SB988 2017 Milkshake is just an abomination of little kids programming!
The only things I ever found worth watching on Channel 5 were the American daytime soap Sunset Beach and the Canadian production of La Femme Nikita. The rest of the channel's output has always been dumbed down trash (which, sadly, ITV is now emulating)
It has never been an adult channel. It does not even provide an Adult channnel style porn service even though some of the programmes on it have an excessive amount of nakedness on them.
Liar! It has Milkshake for lil’ kids!
Like I get Channel 5 launched in the 90s, but that literally couldn’t have been more 90s if it tried.
Just a couple of pointers if you make a 2nd video or one in more detail
I used to have a book about the first 40 years of Coronation Street, and in that it says the first colour of episode of that was on 24/11/1969, and the episode was meant to feature a coach crash. But the technical failed and it wasn't until the episode after in the hospital that it picked up. And there was nearly a strike with the cameramen, causing episodes continuing to air in black and white on an occasional basis until February of 1971.
Secondly, how come nothing about the ITV strike of 1979 was mentioned? Coronation Street got taken off the air for 3 months between August and November.
Who is that conductor, orchestra and soprano that performed on the opening night of BBC1 on November 2nd 1936
my fave main terrestrial tv stations channel 5 & itv
Channel 5 content has improved since you made this video but it's still lacking for the most part. It also had coverage issues for its first ten years due to the frequency it operated on being an issue in some parts of the country, and that they had to pay teams of engineers to visit houses and retune people's VCRs. The channel 4 introduction in 1982 was, at the time, state of the art CGI. Channel 4 were a welcome breath of fresh air at the time, being radical and bold.
Can you do a history of UKTV (as in UK Gold)?
Now I know what UK television is all about! Thank you Obi-Wan!
3:42 No BBC2 launched on 21st April
April 20th opening was rejected because of the powerout
It was on it’s 1st broadcast for 3 years. After 3 years, it shutdown, and after World War II, it was soon back on the air
All channels that are available on all platforns of the new digital era are terrestrial channels in their own right now.
Can you upload the first moments of BBC 2 please I love early tv
Disagree with your comments re channel 5. Though I appreciate they were made 5 years ago. Today, I find that their documentary output is high quality and very interesting. I must admit, I only started watching 5 in the last few years but have to say, it is my favourite channel now. Thank god for it on saturday nights as it beats the other channels hands down.
Very good, however in Wales S4C went on air the day before Channel 4 in 1982.
What is that thing that you use with the 5 and the Lego, I can’t find that anywhere
First time I watched this channel
2:38 known today as Mentadent
In the 1990's we should have had at least 10 channels. We've always had a government lacking ambition
You done it again but for amtv.
Since cable and satellite launched in-between the launches of Channel 4 & 5, it seemed to make Channel 5 a complete irrelevance. It always had incredibly poor quality programming and lots of strange technical issues, even compared to the ropey stuff from Sky. Such a missed opportunity.
I wish you'd said a little bit more about Channel 4...
First saw this on my phone. Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At a wedding
What the heck am I saying
1:00 Where did you find the video
BBC ITV FOREVER
God how I miss Channel 4’s awesome kids lineup of the 2000s like The Clangers, The Hoobs (one of my favourite Channel 4 programmes of All Time) and a couple of kids shows that were imported from other countries Such as France and America (Shows that Previously aired on BBC-1 in Early Mornings/Late Afternoons), Japan (Sonic X: Return of The Raven) and Yet Again England (Which Housed The Clangers of all people)
Now all that’s replaced with repeats of Fucking “Countdown”
Is Channel 5 still considered one of the Big Five? Radio Times seems to regard BBC4 as the fifth "Main" channel and has relegated Channel 5 to the second tier.
@GokuDCP all the rock music documetaries and old Top Of The Pops.
Channel 5 doesn't have any popular programmes either. It's just an old age nursing home for shows that were once mega on ITV1/BBC1 decades ago like Neighbours, Home and Away and Big Brother.
You forgot to say Channel 5 was brought by Viacom
"A Brief History - The 6 Galar Terrestrial Channels (GBC1, MCTV, GBC2, Channel 4, Channel 5, PBC Six)"
Pokemon Sword and Shield?
Note: Im a Fan Of Pokemon!
@@ArianesDrawingPH Yes.
@@MichaelOKeefe2009 I don't know that these tv channels exists in games but if not exist in games will be exist in Pokemon Journeys.
@@ArianesDrawingPH They don't exist. I made them up, except for MCTV which is an acronym of Macro Cosmos Television.
@@MichaelOKeefe2009 It was Owned by the grandfather of Chairman Rose 64yrs prior the events of Sword and Shield.
When are we getting a sixth channel already????????
I like your voice, Adam.
0:55 oh god, I thought he was going to say COVID-19 😳
Except you missed out the 6th terrestrial channel, S4C, which started broadcasting the day before Channel 4, on 1st November 1982.
Wow I thought that too
Are you doing a history of Satellite T.V.?
7/6/46 BBC back on air
ITV was a network not a channel until the 1990s.
Is SKY a English television Station
Yeah.
Not terrestrial though
Sky provides television here in the UK and they have a crapload of Sky channels
Euope all over
You are very harsh. They are doing a lot of high quality documentaries now. In fact they are sometimes better than the ones on Channel 4.
This was me speaking in 2016, I agree with you now for the most part, the quality has improved significantly!
Slightly inaccurate - the fourth channel started in Wales the day before Channel 4 - which was not readily viewable in Wales. S4C was a mixture of channel 4 programmes and Welsh Language programmes provided by both ‘ITV, other programme makers and the BBC and therefore quite different from Channel 4.
Channel 4 was and still is the best UK tv channel
channel 5 has home and away and neighbours australian soaps
the channel 5 launch... dont take drugs kids
Cloud you do milkshake cbbc citv
BBC as of today is much better!
Play school replaced to a colour version in 1969
I only watch police interceptors and traffic cops on channel 5
Interesting the way TV came about from 1936. BBC already transmitting radio from 1922. TV licence introduced 1946. Radio licence abolished 1971. Some countries ahead of UK in TV, e.g. U.S. more TV's per head of population, more channels and introduced colour 1964. US used 525 lines, UK used 625, slowly replacing 405 which ended 1982. I find TV today, unlike past, dull, boring, violent and generally crap and have lived without it for 10 years. Despite improved plasma FST and HD quality, shame programmes aren't good quality and don't stand up to those of the past.
Good post- I think 405 lines was finally switched off in the mid 80s but I don't think anyone by then was watching it anyway. 625 line black and white was the baseline by the mid 70s and colour TVs outsold black and white TVs in 1976.
@@anonUK Thanks anonUK, yes, very interesting.
The text on the opening of channel 5:is that orange nipples?
Me:no its orange lemmons
My brain writing this:what the actual channel 5 did i say
Did we need to know you voted Remain 🤷🏼♂️
You Vote Remain I Vote Leave
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Ok, Adam, you voted remain. I didn't vote, but I lost interest with your comment at the very beginning.
Fair enough, no skin off my nose 😊
No one talks about Channel 5 because it's really bad
And I say success very loosely.
Gosh, you are so British.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
BBC 2
BBC-2,,、good
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I voted Leave 😉
Early Channel 5 was trashy. Football, films 'n' fornication.
HaHa bbc1 itv BBC two 4 5!!!!!
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blatant lies from the start 3.13
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2:08 *FORTNITE*
it tells you to clean your god damn teeth!
Very questionable
BIASED
Very inaccurate information. Trust me this shouldn't be taken as fact.
Mr B enlighten to me what is inaccurate?
Mr B Inaccurate? I'm pretty sure the person who did this video actually did his research on the five channels.
@@AdamMartyn I'll mostly defend you here, 99% of your information is spot on. However BBC TV was shut down at the start of WW2 not because of the silver in the films but because it was feared the Germans would use the unique VHF signal as a means to send bombers to London. However Ally Pally was put to use in sending out signals from those same TV transmitters to jam the German bomber guidance system (which used frequencies in Band 1 VHF) , rendering it useless.