ITV In the Face 5: Yorkshire
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- Made in 2015 to celebrate 60 years of ITV, a look back at a time when it wasn't a single channel but a conglomerate of regional channels, all with their own idents and identity: occasionally bizarre, often charming, this is the show that looks the history of ITV in the face.
Episode five: Yorkshire. Looming brass-band terror, starring Redvers Kyle, Paul Lally and Bruce Gyngell again.
I wish we still had separate ITV franchises giving a feel of regional identity instead of the dumbed down generic bilge we get now
Hopefully with some of us challenging the Tory government and the corrupt media that have been brainwashing us for years, hopefully in the process we can get ITV broken up and bring back the regional looks!
Yeah regional is better
Cable and satellite Netflix etc put paid to that unfortunately.
@@stevedickson5853 true
I think Carlton & Granada put the 1st nail in the coffin.
I've only just realised why I find Matthew Harris so endearing. He sounds like late legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke. This is meant as high praise.
Really?
@@applemask One man's opinion, but yeah. A similar cadence. A storyteller's knack. With unexpected piss-taking and pathos thrown in for good measure.
Yorkshire Television made Heartbeat! ITV have changed the credits on all reruns that were made before the demise of franchises. Episode's made in 1992 will have ITV ©2006 on the bottom. When originally it said 'Yorkshire television for ITV'
Yorkshire was by far the best of all the ITV networks. They made the best programmes and had the best continuity announcers and the best in your face idents.
I used to love the 70's start up music from Yorkshire Television. Written by Ron Goodwin, the same chap who did the themes to The Battle of Britain and the 633 Squadron movies, it was very rousing and made you feel like Yorkshire was going to declare war on anyone they felt like with specially trained ferrets at any moment.
I am shocked that some kids supposedly found the Yorkshire ident scary. I have seen it since I was a baby. I never remotely found it scary at all. I loved it.
Yorkshire had its own record label, "York Records" on which the theme to the series *Follyfoot,* "The Lightning Tree" by The Settlers, was issued 9th July, 1971 as York SYK-505 and pressed & distributed by The Decca Record Company. In Australia the single was issued as Decca Y-9702 on Remembrance Day, 11th November, 1971. Decca product was pressed and distributed here by EMI(Australia) Ltd.
Love these videos - thanks for taking the time to make them. I remember as a kid in the late 80s down on the South coast of England being able to receive in almost perfect quality, TTTV, YTV, Anglia - and a snowy screen from Central one night. Atmospheric conditions, I guess.
Your videos deserve more attention.
They forgot the "Turn to Yorkshire" ad, which was trying to convince Tyne Tees viewers on the border, to have their aerials tuned to YTV. Might have pi**ed Tyne Tees off a bit.
Yorkshire doesn’t scare me.
And i remember The old ITV In the face, bring it back!
This is the same but better.
BBC Batwings looked the scariest. Although Zelda in Terrahawks scared my brother, lol
American ABC 1976-77 for me.
@@applemaskdo you know where I can find the old version because I think I saw it after this series was made
ATV zoom was scary as hell. The stuff nightmares were made of.
I - growing up in the 70s - found the Yorkshire ident quite aggressive, and imagine it followed by an episode of Emmerdale Farm or Mr Trimble. Unsettling.
I live in yorkshire,so i can relate to that ident (and the fanfare)
I so agree about scary TV idents. I remember being scared of Yorkshire. To be honest, Anglia, where I lived was a sharp wake up each morning when they did the start up!
25:27 The special idents, although only used for Yorkshireian programmes, still had about 60/70 variations in that package to say that they would be used on average 5 times a week.
I always liked liquid gold. It was probably their best ident, at least sound-wise.
It's the first one I remember from being a kid.
Living in West Norfolk we got Yorkshire TV due to Belmont being owned by them. Calender every evening never told us about anything in our region. We could not pick up Anglia very well as the Norwich transmitter was not strong enough.
Nevermind the YTV logo & 5 notes from on Ilkley Moor ba'ht 'at, the scariest music from TV is Granada's Picture Box. If you listen to the full version of that on YT, you may have nightmares.
It definitely is. Very, very haunting that music is. YTV music doesn't scare me at all. The one I found slightly sinister was ATV but only a bit. Thames too has a bit of creepy vibe when it opens like a mouth.
The final compromise was thus: Blisdale for Tyne Tees, Belmont for Yorkshire, and Trident to run both. Despite what many believe, Anglia was likely not the third prong of the company, that belonged to Trident's betting shop and casino businesses.
I thought Trident was because Yorkshire has three ridings
To me the logo always represented the hills of the county, and perhaps specifically Ilkley Moor, which would tie in with the music
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HISTORIC COUNTIES IN SPACE!
The BOO at the beginning made me laugh out loud. Yorkshire and ATV idents were a bit scary.
Here in Poland we didn't get breakfast telly until Kawa czy Herbata launched in 1992.
Ireland did not get breakfast television until 1999. Their national broadcaster RTE had always avoided daytime television. It took them until October 1989 before they launched a lunchtime news at 1.00pm. Morning television only arrive at RTE One in 1992/1993 at around 10.00am.
oh god, your comment just unlocked a memory
@@MatiPryjomko What memories you have Mati? You from Ireland?
@@johnking5174Summer holidays spent in the early 80’s come flooding back, was staying in an area that didn’t have cable tv and at that time couldn’t afford the big aerial to pick up the U.K. channels so it was RTÉ for the whole summer (I still shudder at Bosco) for the most part it didn’t bother me except for the lack of cricket.
I've just remembered something more frightening than the YTV 1970s ident. It was the local ads for electrical retailer Amriks. The space void and the echoing repetition of Amriks, Amriks, AMRIKS!! Used to sh1t me to death as a kid!! 🤭
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BOO
in colour
Jumpscare
Best Programme this station ever showed was Knight Rider no doubt
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BOO
In Color
This is the kind of info I never knew I needed, 😂😂😂😂😂
You know whats bad? I dont even live where Yorkshire broadcasted and I know that fanfare would scare the living fudge out of me as a kid. XD
I remeber having debates with my mate back in the day. He was convinced that King's Lynn was actually in the county of Yorkshire. Clearly not understanding the difference between counties and TV regions. Not sure if he still does!
Redvers Kyle was a great continuity announcer. Especially great when announcing, to the delight of Labour voting Yorkshire folk one evening before News at Ten, that (Thames) was unable to bring a party political from the Tories to air to the network by telling us that "... the gremlins appear to be in the works." 👍 Which seemed to be a fave catchphrase of his, on technical faults, as far as I can recall. 😉
Shame almost a third of Yorkshire now votes tory/brexit!
@@whatamalike I not being one of them.
@@Sheffield_Steve that's good to hear; not everybody in Yorkshire is slowly but surely turning into a class traitor 😂
I remember Redvers Kyle from his Rediffusion days... This is Rediffusion, broadcasting from the London transmitter of The Independent Television Authority.
@madcapoperator they voted tory brexit because they were sick to death of not being listened to by a we take you for granted labour party and regarding brexit folk probably sick of being a nobody and taken for granted by the money grabbing gravy train that's the EU
Thank you for covering Yorkshire. You made me laugh on several occasions, but also caused me to realise what we miss now on a daily basis. I think visually my favourite ident was the, "classy look" of 1994. I didn't mind the music either, actually.
I was never aware of the issues with Tyne Tees being literally driven to nothing in the 90s.
Keep up the hard work on these, I have watched msot of the regions now and I've enjoyed each one.
I love this guy's sarcasm. He's right about 321.
321 was so bad the best part about it was dusty bin i switched it off after he appeared at the beginning
always thought the Southern ident was the Sun. it never occurred to me it was a Star .
Enjoyed this. Pity they didn't show in detail the ident outside the YTV studios that started with the lovely Marilyn Webb and gradually pulled back to show all the other staff in the shape of the Y.
The icon is a book lying open, same as the publishing company in the film Elf.
...Yorkshire TV also had the YTV March at startup...which defied all volume control!!!
Please, if possible, could you make a documentary about the near- collapse, crash and burn of London Weekend 1968-69. Can't find anything of that on youtube.
It's brought up in the London episode. It might be interesting to go hardcore on it.
I like all the music I miss them
Yorkshire Television, why on earth was it called that? It didn't even cover all of Yorkshire - Settle area was served by Granada and almost all of the Dales and Moors by Tyne Tees. Then its coverage area also included the East Midlands as far south as Alfreton and Sherwood Forest thanks to the huge footprint of the Belmont transmitter. Mansfield struggles to get regional television from Nottingham, 15 or so miles down the road.
My paternal grandparents live(d) on a hill in Rainworth, near Mansfield and Sutton in Ashfield, and they had the choice of Central or Yorkshire as could pick up both with good quality, depending on the angle of the aerial. They chose Yorkshire.
Grandma still remembers it fondly. (Granddad having passed on a few years back)
Yes that five note trumpet blast was terrifying indeed. It could have been used to signal the declaration of marshall law. I certainly found it an unpleasant, unsettling assault on the ears when I witnessed it as a kid.
It was the talented David Dundas who fleshed it out into an altogether much nicer fanfare, performed using strings, according to a 30th anniversary programme about Yorkshire Television. This was composed for the animated liquid gold ident which was also a massive improvement on the static slide. A pity liquid gold only lasted three years. I personally really liked the 1989 generic ITV ident though. I only ever saw it retrospectively on the internet because the region I lived in, TVS, stuck two fingers up at it and tweaked their own ident instead. It looks as if Yorkshire steadily picked apart the English, Markell & Pockett package to point where the original premise of dual branding was completely lost. The ITV logo of 1989 was definitely a damn sight better that the one in use today!
Does anyone know during the December 1978 strike at Yorkshire Television, could viewers in Yorkshire receive another overlapping ITV region to watch their Christmas shows on? I am thinking Granada could be received in some areas of Yorkshire, with Tyne Tees, Anglia and possibly ATV? Anyone know? Thanks.
I can verify the other way around. Growing up in South Liverpool, my dad was called to fix a TV in the early 1980's after an aerial installation. The picture was near perfect and the lady was moaning she couldn't get Granada, obviously the TV wasn't broken but it transpired that the aerial has been turned to Emley Moor not Winter Hill. My dad rang the installation bloke and it was put right. "I dont want to hear that Yorkshire tune anymore" she said 🤣.
In the early 1990's, my Auntie lived in Holmfirth and you could get an easily watchable TT signal there but no other regions could be received.
@@zetametallic We in Windsor got the old Thames/LWT perfect from London, but on my portable television in my room I could easily pick up the TVS region, snowy but watchable.
@@johnking5174 I would imagine you'd pick up Anglia possibly on a decent aerial from there. Sandy Heath (I used to see it from a flat I lived in Bedford) was a powerful beast. We could get it very poorly along with Central on a high gain aerial in Liverpool. It was funny seeing it and thinking up North they were getting it!
@@zetametallic Oh I do remember my grandparents in Dedworth down the road from us could pick up Central TV in the late 1980s. I just remembered that. They would tune in the four channels, and then my grandfather would self tune in other regions if he could, and Central TV was there because I remember seeing the cake logo they had. Weird.
@@zetametallic I have family back in Ireland, and they had good alternatives to the UK channels - Irish channels. My family living in Derry in Northern Ireland live right near the border. They get the regular UK stations from the Derry transmitter which can be seen from their home. However they also have another aerial pointing toward Donegal and they picked up crystal clear Irish stations since the early 1980s.
After what that mask of Guo Xiang unleashed its terror on my eyes and ears, that static chevron is pretty much a "meh" cakewalk.
But still, YTV still is very much a legend, a major in terms of television things and stuff. Gotta love that Chris Gunning startup tune that was also in Calendar in the '80s. Only if American television was like this...
It was the old TriStar logo that got me in terms of movie idents
Yorkshire Television:The Catra of ITV
Yorkshire was a lesbian cat person who kept making bad decisions towards gaining power to stave off their feelings of insecurity caused by their awful parental figure?
10:08 3, 2 tossing 1! 😂
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BOO
In Color!
Also take a sip every time the Yorkshire Televison Jingle (Or some variation of it) is heard.
We got to see the scary ident a lot up in Gods Own County. It wasn’t scary to me. That said I used to go to bed pretrified of two different idents. Granada with the arrow on the G. The other one was the ATV one. I would lay in bed and have visions of the Atv logo coming to get me.
C'mon, nowt beats the test card girls staring eyes...
Worldvision for me. Terrifying. I’m 40 and I’m still scared of it now.
One of the logos has Alliance music in it
6:52 - PMSL!
Slightly off topic but The Open University theme used to creep me out.
A short piece by the Czech composer Janacek.
@@michaelburling It wasn't by Janacek - it was the Divertimento for Three Trumpets and Three Trombones by Leonard Salzedo (1921-2000)
The only Janacek piece I can think of was the Fourth Movement of his Sinfonietta, which introduced Crown Court.
@@MakerfieldConsort I stand corrected! You are absolutely right - I had the Crown Court tune in my head. Thanks!
@@michaelburling I thought you might have - that's why I mentioned it!
15:01 This is is actually the same company that owned Yorkshire Television.
27:28 is that "Home to Roost"?
Yes.
@@BobtheFishProductions nice
Now I didn't mind channel 3 north east. most people in the NE call ITV channel 3
Hey what about Paul Lally? I know, amendem.
Pulse and Bar used to give me the creeps
6:20 great prediction, poor msmpokegamer’s parents had to deal with that (i think)
I liked them all I think we have a fairy telling us about the logos
YTV made quite a few programmes that were networked. the sandbaggers was a very British take on spy’s from them
Same schedule. Different continuity for each region. If only it continued.
I'm sure this is ex-snooker player Neal Foulds doing the narration
Anybody ever thought of saying its name with a long I in it like "York-shy-er"?
Americans do that all the time with "Shire" and I wish they wouldn't.
@@applemask I'm an American and I wish Brits said it with the limg I added in LOL. Why put it like "York-sure", hmm?
Because that's how it's pronounced.
@@bigdogthehedgehog5906 It's not "sure" either, it's "shur". Although I do admit Yorksure would be a good motto for their tourist board!
ITV
Spelling mistake! 27:12
CHAIRTABLE? Did you mean CHARITABLE? lol
Yorkshire never using in vision continuity is what made me surprised that it was even a thing!
Honestly, if it wasn't the odd instance when I'd pick up tyne tees in my South Yorkshire bedroom instead of YTV I was unaware of IVC and tbh I thought it just looked...cheap. like they couldn't animate something on par with a spinning Chevron or nice enough slides so had to stick a poor continuity announcer in front of a shoddy backdrop.
Funny how we were all unaware back then. Here at HTV Wales region we had IVC on both HTV Wales and S4C in the 80s. BBC were the only ones who didn't. I agree it looked tacky but I wasn't bothered by it.
how the fuck did they let Alan Whicker stand next to a fucking live runway? the olden days were mad
Probably were trying to get rid of him 😂
My scary ident was the COW, specifically the version from BBC Video releases. I was scared to put on my Stoppit and Tidyup video because of it. The trippy music and its doom filled held note at the start and end of the tape are not good for sleeping.
The 1997 BBC Video ident is also scary
@@NathanSimpsonnathanisbeast Not to me. For me '97 is soothing compared to the COW. I don't find that jingle even unnerving. For a long time, I couldn't understand why people on UA-cam went on about that one and not the COW, because I have no problem with '97. I also loved the Channel 4 Blocks and Fourscore, so I couldn't understand how Matthew could have been scared by that. Turns out this stuff is more subjective than I thought.
@@areasquirrel Oh yeah? How about the dreaded 1991 BBC Video logo with the creepy synth music?
You know the one I mean! The one that goes "Dadadum, Dadadum, Dadaduuummmumumumumum..."
Yorkshire also produced Kids Television (ie “The Riddlers” and (sighs) “The (Goddamn) Raggy Dolls” (both for the ITV Network) And also “Puddle Lane” a UK Version of “Sesame Street” (which CTW wanted to Originally pitch to the BBC) crossed with “In The Night Garden” From 33 years later) And even gave Anne Wood a start in Children’s TV before she founded Ragdoll Productions and That’s how she got the job at TV-am! (And gave us Roland Rat!)
Oh I was Forgetting that Yorkshire Television also made “Ragdolly Anna”!
Well? They also made “The Giddy Game Show” as well! (And “Bellamy’s Bugule”!)
The Book Tower was great too, especially hosted by Tom Baker.
For some reason the kids show I remember from Yorkshire was Little Blue, about a baby elephant who fell into a vat of ink and couldn't wash it off, hence the name.
It's Bilsdale not Blis!
It certainly is!!!
Bob the Fishing I love your video's but don't insult Yorkshire National Anthem we like to class Yorkshire as a country not a county
So do we in Cornwall, except that we actually are.
@@applemask And no doubt Cornwall would use a home-grown tune as its anthem - unlike Yorkshire, who borrowed a hymn-tune written in Kent.
"Continuity" announcers appearing on-screen? (7:50) We *NEVER* did that in Australia! The *Only* people who actually appeared on-camera were the station's nightly newsreaders, sports reporters and weather-persons, as well as anyone who presented a "Tonight"-style light entertainment/talk show. If TV programmes were pre-announced, that was done by booth announcers with the station logo and a still from the programme on screen, and even that practice is kept to a minimum.
What the SBS lady? The real one, not Marg Downey keeping her eyes riveted open for that one.
@@andrewarmstrong7254 I think you're referring to a sketch comedy show called "Fast Forward" from the 1980s where they poked fun at SBS when it was still *the new kid on the block* but I don't really recall too many "continuity announcers" on SBS or ABC, though I do wonder where Sylvio Riviere got to.
I have to admit to being a bit scared of ITV Logos and music. The Thames one for me was the worst.
..😂 I loved em, still miss them, the only thing that terrified a young me was the World in Action program tune..
That theme at the beginning belonged to Trident TV! You haven't yet covered that *station.*
Trident was the parent company of YTV and TTTV until they splitted.
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This is a deep cut, specialist interest video too far.
Far too late for that.
Come on this is a lot of nonsense you've let yourself down here with silly anti-Yorkshire rubbish. The same as if I was to do the reverse about southern tv, etc. I was in a pub in Dunster 5 years ago - EE by gum that's Mugabe backwards some great intellect said.
Thy wat ,listen to thee sen lad lol, I thought it was alreet I tell thee