The first guy like… charms you so much it’s crazy. It’s something I really miss on our modern television and one day hope to revive should I ever work on television once again. It’s always nice when the person on the screen expresses care toward the audience, has humor, and a soft voice. It’s incredibly calming and so important especially before your audience goes to sleep. It’s like your parents telling you goodnight and then tucking you in 🤣 compared with the absolute flatness you got from soviet screens, I prefer this one.
Damn this is some great retro content.I would have no problem if tv went back to these old ways of closing down from midnight and the reminder to turn off your tv sets.
0:17 - 1st Closedown: Thames Television 2:07 - 2nd Closedown: London Weekend Television 5:33 - 3rd Closedown: Television South 7:10 - 4th Closedown: Border Television 9:43 - 5th Closedown: Yorkshire Television 10:39 - 6th Closedown: Central Independent Television 13:16 - 7th Closedown: Anglia Television 15:16 - 8th Closedown: Granada Television 18:22 - 9th Closedown: Grampian Television 21:06 - 10th Closedown: Television South West 23:21 - 11th Closedown: Tyne Tees Television 25:14 - 12th Closedown: Harlech Television 28:57 - 13th Closedown: Scottish Television 31:48 - 14th Closedown: Ulster Television
@@imransyah Channel may have went to 24 hour programming by this time. Even in the US TV stations were going to 24 hour programming by the early to mid 1980's.
ahh, why can't modern news programs in the usa be this charming?? i love the novelty of the sweetness in the news anchors' voices and the feeling of being friendly with them. especially the first one and the border one, the border one's silly outgoing manner of speaking really perks me up!
im 48 now.... and i finnaly get the joke billy connoly says about the closedowns.... the border guy.... was hilarius saying... dont forget to lock your windows and doors....fantastic
*A larger list of info, because why not: Part 1* Thames (London Weekday) 0:23 Weather 0:42 In-vision continuity with Philip Elsmore 1:28 Tuesday Evening on Thames 1:38 Good night 1:59 "Don't forget to switch off your television set" LWT (London Weekend) 2:12 Weather 2:35 Sunday on LWT 3:55 Still leading into goodnight 4:30 National anthem with image of Queen Elizabeth II 5:25 "Don't forget to turn off your television set" TVS (South and South East) 5:41 Clock 6:09 National Anthem (a la BBC1) 7:03 "Don't forget to switch off your set" Border (Southern Scotland, Isle of Man, Cumbria) 7:17 In-vision continuity with John Myers [Weather included in continuity] 9:05 Clock 9:30 "Don't forget to switch off your set and check all the doors and windows before you retire to kip" Yorkshire (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire) 9:51 Weather 10:25 Clock 10:38 Jobfinder (Yorkshire used this as their nighttime service for some time) Central (Midlands) 10:51 Weather 11:29 Promo for Independent Radio 11:46 Promo for Jobfinder 12:07 Tomorrow on Central 12:54 Goodnight 13:13 Central Jobfinder Anglia (East) 13:23 Special Announcement 13:51 At The End of The Day 13:57 Clock 14:13 National Anthem with Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana of Wales 15:07 "The voice in the dark" More to come at a later date
*Part 2:* Granada (North West) 15:21 Weather 15:45 In-vision continuity with Charles Foster 16:16 Clock 17:13 Still image of logo 18:07 Independent Local Radio promo with "Don't forget to switch off the television set" Grampian (Northern Scotland) 18:27 Weather 19:20 Clock 19:59 National Anthem 20:58 "Don't forget to switch off and unplug your television set" Television South West (South West) 21:17 Weather 21:49 Clock 22:07 In-vision continuity with Jenny Hull 22:20 National Anthem 23:08 "Please don't forget to switch off your television sets" 23:14 Goodnight animation with Loeki de Leeuw (Loeki the Lion, an animated character who was borrowed a few times for closedown animations on TSW, and previously Westward, though they're known as former mascot of Dutch TV stations) Tyne Tees (North East) 23:28 In-vision continuity with Neville Wanless 24:19 Clock 24:23 National Anthem HTV (Wales and the West) 25:22 In-vision continuity with Arfon Haines Davis [Weather included] 26:32 Clock 26:47 National Anthems (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau [Land of My Fathers], God Save the King) STV (Scotland) 29:01 Clock 29:08 In-vision continuity with Bryce Curdy 30:27 Independent Local Radio promotion 31:15 National Anthem 31:42 "Don't forget to turn off the television set" Ulster Television (Northern Ireland) 31:57 In-vision continuity with Joanne Woods [News and Weather included] 32:35 Still image of Saul Church (Downpatrick) 33:17 National Anthem i did it, go me!
My Nan used to babysit on a Saturday night and would let me stay up. She would be fast asleep by ten. When the telly used to close down I would shit my self for some reason and then couldn’t sleep until I heard my parents get in from a discotheque I presume because it was always gone three.😂 my region was atv/central.
These shows remind me of a friend who loved her TV regimen .She even had one of those TV guides so she could follow her shows and not miss .Coddled I never saw her do any chores although she must have her mom was happy to let her live in and play her position .
@@christopherhulse8385 I had a living room television that used tubes/valves into the mid 1980's. It wasn't that hard to replace a tube/valve on these TVs. I never had a fire from any of my tube/valve televisions but had a solid state television suddenly start smoking like Hell's Lake of Fire in the late 1980's. Ironically, the new 25 inch television I used as a computer monitor at that time was solid state and didn't have any tubes/valves.
@23:13 Huh? That's a little out of place here... Nice to see the ending of a STER commercial break, broadcast in around the same era in The Netherlands, but still, I'm wondering how in the world it ended up in a montage of thoroughly British ITV closedown sequences... For those of you who don't know: STER stands for "Stichting Etherreclame" and was the first ever organisation to allow advertisers to broadcast advertisements for their products and services on Dutch public television. It has been around since the early days of television, and was the _only_ means of advertising on there until very late in the '80s (1987, to be exact, when the first commercial station aimed at the Dutch market started broadcasting from Luxembourg - Dutch law *still* did not allow commercial broadcasts, be they television or radio, to be initiated from land or sea. The law aimed at _finally rectifying this_ did not become effective until about 1992. Up until that time, various entities who did manage to get services aimed at the Netherlands up and running, did so using loopholes such as the one described above (broadcasting from another country).
Westward had the STER bumpers redone for them. TSW didn't run them, but the video maker decided to include the bump that did end Westward's day in their last year.
Thames is pronounced "tem" or "tems" (usually "tem" from my limited experience with hearing people say it) and is the name of a river going through London. I don't have the slightest clue as to where the name originally came from.
Nah, some did but it was very much optional. They weren't as bad as the BBC. At least they still had standards before the 1990 Broadcasting Act came along and deregulated it all.
The first guy like… charms you so much it’s crazy. It’s something I really miss on our modern television and one day hope to revive should I ever work on television once again. It’s always nice when the person on the screen expresses care toward the audience, has humor, and a soft voice. It’s incredibly calming and so important especially before your audience goes to sleep. It’s like your parents telling you goodnight and then tucking you in 🤣 compared with the absolute flatness you got from soviet screens, I prefer this one.
Damn this is some great retro content.I would have no problem if tv went back to these old ways of closing down from midnight and the reminder to turn off your tv sets.
National anthem on Ulster Television? Damn, that's ballsy.
UTV is around October 25, 1982
Did you notice that the North of England stations, except TTT, didn’t play God Save the Queen?
0:17 - 1st Closedown: Thames Television
2:07 - 2nd Closedown: London Weekend Television
5:33 - 3rd Closedown: Television South
7:10 - 4th Closedown: Border Television
9:43 - 5th Closedown: Yorkshire Television
10:39 - 6th Closedown: Central Independent Television
13:16 - 7th Closedown: Anglia Television
15:16 - 8th Closedown: Granada Television
18:22 - 9th Closedown: Grampian Television
21:06 - 10th Closedown: Television South West
23:21 - 11th Closedown: Tyne Tees Television
25:14 - 12th Closedown: Harlech Television
28:57 - 13th Closedown: Scottish Television
31:48 - 14th Closedown: Ulster Television
Well there were then 15 ITV companies then of course too were there not at the time so too?!
He's forget Channel Television
@@imransyah Channel may have went to 24 hour programming by this time. Even in the US TV stations were going to 24 hour programming by the early to mid 1980's.
The LWT closedown is from Saturday 8th/Sunday 9th March 1986.
The Thames closedown is from the night of Monday 11th/Tuesday 12th July 1983.
Thank you there too for this of course!
ahh, why can't modern news programs in the usa be this charming?? i love the novelty of the sweetness in the news anchors' voices and the feeling of being friendly with them. especially the first one and the border one, the border one's silly outgoing manner of speaking really perks me up!
im 48 now.... and i finnaly get the joke billy connoly says about the closedowns.... the border guy.... was hilarius saying... dont forget to lock your windows and doors....fantastic
The wonderful and sadly, late John Myers
Keep the cat in 😂
My favorite one is a tie between Thames and HTV. Still wish Thames was still here
*A larger list of info, because why not: Part 1*
Thames (London Weekday)
0:23 Weather
0:42 In-vision continuity with Philip Elsmore
1:28 Tuesday Evening on Thames
1:38 Good night
1:59 "Don't forget to switch off your television set"
LWT (London Weekend)
2:12 Weather
2:35 Sunday on LWT
3:55 Still leading into goodnight
4:30 National anthem with image of Queen Elizabeth II
5:25 "Don't forget to turn off your television set"
TVS (South and South East)
5:41 Clock
6:09 National Anthem (a la BBC1)
7:03 "Don't forget to switch off your set"
Border (Southern Scotland, Isle of Man, Cumbria)
7:17 In-vision continuity with John Myers [Weather included in continuity]
9:05 Clock
9:30 "Don't forget to switch off your set and check all the doors and windows before you retire to kip"
Yorkshire (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire)
9:51 Weather
10:25 Clock
10:38 Jobfinder (Yorkshire used this as their nighttime service for some time)
Central (Midlands)
10:51 Weather
11:29 Promo for Independent Radio
11:46 Promo for Jobfinder
12:07 Tomorrow on Central
12:54 Goodnight
13:13 Central Jobfinder
Anglia (East)
13:23 Special Announcement
13:51 At The End of The Day
13:57 Clock
14:13 National Anthem with Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana of Wales
15:07 "The voice in the dark"
More to come at a later date
*Part 2:*
Granada (North West)
15:21 Weather
15:45 In-vision continuity with Charles Foster
16:16 Clock
17:13 Still image of logo
18:07 Independent Local Radio promo with "Don't forget to switch off the television set"
Grampian (Northern Scotland)
18:27 Weather
19:20 Clock
19:59 National Anthem
20:58 "Don't forget to switch off and unplug your television set"
Television South West (South West)
21:17 Weather
21:49 Clock
22:07 In-vision continuity with Jenny Hull
22:20 National Anthem
23:08 "Please don't forget to switch off your television sets"
23:14 Goodnight animation with Loeki de Leeuw (Loeki the Lion, an animated character who was borrowed a few times for closedown animations on TSW, and previously Westward, though they're known as former mascot of Dutch TV stations)
Tyne Tees (North East)
23:28 In-vision continuity with Neville Wanless
24:19 Clock
24:23 National Anthem
HTV (Wales and the West)
25:22 In-vision continuity with Arfon Haines Davis [Weather included]
26:32 Clock
26:47 National Anthems (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau [Land of My Fathers], God Save the King)
STV (Scotland)
29:01 Clock
29:08 In-vision continuity with Bryce Curdy
30:27 Independent Local Radio promotion
31:15 National Anthem
31:42 "Don't forget to turn off the television set"
Ulster Television (Northern Ireland)
31:57 In-vision continuity with Joanne Woods [News and Weather included]
32:35 Still image of Saul Church (Downpatrick)
33:17 National Anthem
i did it, go me!
My Nan used to babysit on a Saturday night and would let me stay up. She would be fast asleep by ten. When the telly used to close down I would shit my self for some reason and then couldn’t sleep until I heard my parents get in from a discotheque I presume because it was always gone three.😂 my region was atv/central.
Border closedown is fron the night of Thursday 19th/Friday 20th June 1986.
These shows remind me of a friend who loved her TV regimen .She even had one of those TV guides so she could follow her shows and not miss .Coddled I never saw her do any chores although she must have her mom was happy to let her live in and play her position .
You always felt robbed if they closed down before midnight.
Very good, thanks for sharing.
28:14 This Landscape Is Where Bear Grylls Live!
26:48 This Landscape Is From “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1972)”
0:49 To SML Fans from past and present, do you recognise this music?
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What about Channel Television?
I'm a 2002 baby so bare with me. Why did they always ask for everyone to turn off their TV sets?
It was a carry over from the earlier days when TVs used to catch fire because they had valves inside which gave out a lot of heat!
@@christopherhulse8385 I had a living room television that used tubes/valves into the mid 1980's. It wasn't that hard to replace a tube/valve on these TVs. I never had a fire from any of my tube/valve televisions but had a solid state television suddenly start smoking like Hell's Lake of Fire in the late 1980's. Ironically, the new 25 inch television I used as a computer monitor at that time was solid state and didn't have any tubes/valves.
How come no News at 10 on the Thames programme listings slide - I never remember ITN going out at 9pm during the week?
It did on 12th July 1983. Not sure why though.
@23:13 Huh? That's a little out of place here... Nice to see the ending of a STER commercial break, broadcast in around the same era in The Netherlands, but still, I'm wondering how in the world it ended up in a montage of thoroughly British ITV closedown sequences...
For those of you who don't know: STER stands for "Stichting Etherreclame" and was the first ever organisation to allow advertisers to broadcast advertisements for their products and services on Dutch public television. It has been around since the early days of television, and was the _only_ means of advertising on there until very late in the '80s (1987, to be exact, when the first commercial station aimed at the Dutch market started broadcasting from Luxembourg - Dutch law *still* did not allow commercial broadcasts, be they television or radio, to be initiated from land or sea. The law aimed at _finally rectifying this_ did not become effective until about 1992. Up until that time, various entities who did manage to get services aimed at the Netherlands up and running, did so using loopholes such as the one described above (broadcasting from another country).
Westward had the STER bumpers redone for them. TSW didn't run them, but the video maker decided to include the bump that did end Westward's day in their last year.
@@markjeffries3684 Interesting... I never even knew these bumpers found a use outside of The Netherlands...! Thanks for the info!
Yeah don't forget to...'turn off your television set' 😆👍
How how do they get "Tens" out of the word" Thames"? I've always said TH-AMES like fame but drop the f and and TH.
Thames is pronounced "tem" or "tems" (usually "tem" from my limited experience with hearing people say it) and is the name of a river going through London. I don't have the slightest clue as to where the name originally came from.
@@mharris5047 Thanks!
Sade
I'm surprised the pompous IBA didn't make them all play the National Anthem
Yes
Nah, some did but it was very much optional. They weren't as bad as the BBC. At least they still had standards before the 1990 Broadcasting Act came along and deregulated it all.
The further north you went the less likely it was that the anthem would be played.
Don't like 24h television, it started off ok but deteriorated rapidly afterwards.
Yes it did there then too sadly of course as well too. Not that I see it, but from what I read now then it is pure pants or may as well be too!
And indeed so there then too of course? Whatever, thank you for the highlight!
You forgot CTV and HTV!
HTV is at 25:14
24:14 24:16 24:17 24:18 24:19
23:22 23:23 23:24 23:25
Kinda weird as an American that they would provide Fahrenheit conversions for the weather
UK and US both use Fahrenheit, Miles, and other Imperial Systems
(Keep in mind, UK was the one who founded the Imperial Systems)
Thank God we don't have all that ludicrous anthem nonsense any more. Babies need to be told to turn off their sets and salute a flag, I don't.