Westward TV adverts - New Year's Eve 1980 - YouTube 3 Treasure Hunt 53% 5= Frankie and Brucie's Show 47% The website it directs you to never loads. Then Sports Editor David Vine, host of Sports Desk, informs us that the station has covered no less than 48 different sports. Tom Brokaw began his NBC career in 1966 and has since become one of the most well-known figures in broadcast journalism. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. (On documentary 'Battle over the Atlantic', on Coastal Command), Have you found an error with this catalogue description? Westward had fought off 11 competing bids to win the licence to broadcast to south west England. 2 Double Your Money 55% 6 Billy Smart's Circus (BBC)47 For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun. John Doyle reports 40 years ago. 1.00 News Fifteen-minute sections of Clive Gunnell's walk along the Cornish coast were broadcast by the US Public Broadcasting Service as curtain raisers to the BBC's original version of Poldark in PBS's Masterpiece Theatre series. 1 Coronation St 62% (Mon 8th) Read tagging guidelines. October 4th 1964, 2.45-3pm. Three further Westward programmes were shown on the complete network, while three others were networked to the 'little network' of regional companies, including the children's series Go! 3 Family Solicitor 57% 12.30 Gus Honeybun and Yogi Bear A bill before the Oregon Legislature would use public dollars to set up a new state agency to promote . 9= The Dakotas 38% All copyrights belong to the original creators and any advertisements that appear are not added by me. Westward staff returned to work a few days before the end of the ITV national strike of 1979. 2 Compact (May 1 BBC) 51% TheBluechickens 51K views 10 years ago. 7 Laramie (BBC) 47% 11.55 * Faith for Life - by the Vicar of St Mary's Penzance 10.10 Rhapsody in Blue film starring Robert Alda 9 London Palladium Show 51% 5 Professional Boxing (Rediffusion) 52 Celebrate 60 years of ITV in the south west of England with some Westward TV archives. 2 Coronation Street (July 31) 44% Another popular long-running programme featured a puppet rabbit, Gus Honeybun, who appeared with the duty announcer who read out birthday greetings to the region's children: The story went that Gus was found wandering Dartmoor by a Westward Outside Broadcast unit. A fancy dress Christmas party is interrupted by shattering news. No recordings of the end of Westward Television were known to exist until 2012 (the 30th anniversary of the end of Westward), but then a full video recording of the evening, including the segment of STV's wiped Hogmanay show, was recovered by the classic television organisation Kaleidoscope. A rather odd Christmas-themed start-up sequence from Westward TV. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. Bernard Leach & Barbara Hepworth British Universities Film - BUFVC The Case of The Missing Celebrity Five million visitors arrive annuallly by road and rail. Timeline of Westward Television - EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki Landmark- This was a 1965/ 1966 quiz , with local Women's Institutes competing. This is part of a newer collection of uploads as I have recently got access to some digitised VHS tapes that have been in storage for some time. A special programme, 20 Years of Westward, was broadcast on 21 December 1981[8] to look back on the company's achievements. 3= Steptoe and Son (BBC) 45% Three further Westward programmes were shown on the complete network, while three others were networked to the 'little network' of regional companies, including the children's series Go! Westward Television Limited | The National Archives We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. "Television Simply Wonderful". It's very unlikely ITV would still have access of any of their archive (if they even kept much of an archive til the 80s & it survived the station's closing).Tbh can't imagine a full/major broadcast of a funeral being shown on local telly (as opposed to a national broadcast for somebody like Churchill or a major royal)maybe a small part of the . Virtually no material of this sort survives in the broadcasters archives, and for those reasons, the chances of your programme surviving are approaching zero. Westward Television Limited | The National Archives Home Discovery HO 245/1032 Start new search Print Discovery help Bookmark You are in The National Archives' catalogue HO - Records. Many of the other companies' factual output is dispersed or trapped in copyright hell. 5= Zero One (BBC) 6= Double Your Money 50% 5.00 Christmas Rendezvous 6 The Saint 46% This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded. The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. 7= Treasure Hunt 51% (Westward) 3.10 Indiscreet - film with Cary Grant 7= Laramie (BBC), Week ending 27th Aug 1961 [1] Cadbury named the company after the golf course at Westward Ho! By 1969, Westward had more than 100 correspondents across the region, reporting newsworthy local events, and eight film cameramen who would travel the region gathering footage and compiling reports. 11.40 Faith for Life; Close down Westward Television | ITV Wiki | Fandom Gus's behaviour tended to be excellent for Roger Shaw, but for Judi Spiers and Iain Stirling he could be rather unpredictable. The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film . Children could request that Gus waggle his ears, wink, stand on his head, count their age in "bunny-hops", or turn off the lights. Shaw made the first announcement on TSW: let's say welcome to 1982 from your new television station, Television South West, with the promise of a full-bodied blend of the new and the familiar. [14] This was Westward's final ident and remained with the company until the end of the franchise. 9= Thursday Film: Divided Heart (WTV) 40% 7 Tarzan 46% on the Internet. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, CSAC 63.1.79 - Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of PATRICK MAYNARD STUART BLACKETT, OM FRS BARON BLACKETT OF CHELSEA (1897-1974), CSAC 63.1.79/J.1 - J.158 - SECTION J CORRESPONDENCE, CSAC 63.1.79/J.117-J.118 - Correspondence with radio and television producers, About our 14th February 1965 (Westward) 6.35 What do you Say? A full episode of Gus Honeybun's Birthdays with Judi Spiers, produced by Westward Television sometime in 1980.All rights reserved and acknowledged SWFTA i. 1 Summer Playhouse 46% 7= Mess Mates 10= Kelvin Hall Circus 45%, W/e 3rd March 1968 (Westward) Producer: Roger Gage. Addiction treatment advocates blast proposal to fund new state agency This was called The Show Without A Title, and was the brainchild of the station's then Programme Controller Terry Fleet. we are informed the area is more than this traditional picture. You may have to present yourself, having made an appointment, at their premises on the South Bank in London. 1 Top Secret 51% We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. 3= Coronation Street (July 3) we are informed the area is more than this traditional picture. 2.00 The Cyril Stapleton Show - guest stars Ronnie Carroll, Cleo Laine, Janie Marden PDF ITV PROGRAMME COMPANIES Westward Television Westward Television Menu. privacy policy, Domestic and leisure services > Radio and television, GB/NNAF/C124128 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B26706 ), Westward Television Ltd, independent television programme contractors. For three years viewers in this town had received TWW programmes, but when Westward started, their Stockland Hill transmitter was only 14 miles from Taunton, and the area was designated as a primary Westward area. 10.05 The Pickwick Papers - film starring James Hayter They included: 2 Sportsview (BBC) 58% 10 Legends of the West 43% 5= Val Doonican Show (BBC) I have not monetized any of my videos. 8.00 Ben Casey - August is the Month before Christmas (freezing food) and Keep Britain Slim (slimming). This footage is courtesy of South West Film and Television Archive. Networked programmes are of course also covered. 8= Crossroads (Aug 3), Westward TV area TAM ratings w/e 8 Oct 1967 12.00 Weather Script: Stuart Hutchison and Roger Gage. One or both of the in-vision announcements had been pre-recorded due to the rapid change of outfits. in the 10= BBC: What's My Line, 9 Take a Letter 55% This download is a 60 minute demo version that prompts you to buy the full version for $19.99. Since most of Westward's output was for Home consumption, not much of their limited output was sold to other companies. Westward Television was the first holder of the ITV franchise for South West England, commencing broadcasts on April 29, 1961. By the mid '70s, Westward had taken advantage of this opportunity by finding a small niche producing adult education programmes for the ITV network. A brief glimpse at the Westward TV Schools and Colleges ident. 9 Crossroads 48% (Nov 22) 5.00 Christmas Rendezvous 10= No Hiding Place, Week ending There were filmed contributions from Alan Freeman, Jan Leeming and David Vine and many clips of Westward programmes were shown. 4 Take Your Pick 55% Hastings Mann's Westward Ho! 6.05 News Westward TV Archives - Rewind The first ident featured an image of a boat on the water, before replacing the image with a stylised ship image in a circle, complete with Westward legend and channel nine and twelve identifiers (representing the Stockland Hill and Caradon Hill transmitters of the time), to a tune of four chimes. Local teams competed for The Golden Key. 4= Coronation Street (Nov 19) 51% By the time you reach the 1950s, its safe to assume that the programme in question is lost unless you are very, very lucky. It ran for many seasons. A service in Plymouth run by the NSPCC, which helps prevents online child sexual abuse, is expanding. 5= Taxi! 5= Miss Westward 67 (WTV) 38% A DVD produced from the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). 7= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) Local programmes are shown, with a brief clip of a beauty contest. It was renowned for its devoted, high-quality local programming and presentation, but squabbling between its local management and the London-based management board was to result in its loss in the 1980 franchise round. This was followed by the full version of TSW's ident. [30] Westward used a selection of Clive's films as part of their contribution to About Britain,[32] and due to its network exposure Walking Westward remains one of Westward Television's best remembered programmes. 9= Coronation St 44% (Feb 26) 9.05 A Merry Max - Max Bygraves with Kenny Ball Since most of Westward's output was for Home consumption, not much of their limited output was sold to other companies. 5.55 News; A Christmas Message Dr Ramsey There is a 40 second clip from Coronation Street, while The Beverley Hillbillies rates 45 seconds. Westward Television had a dual policy for its local programming: it produced a wide range of programmes of particular interest to the south-west's rural and agricultural communities, whilst simultaneously producing programming designed to stimulate its audience's interest in new areas. A guide to researching the radio and television broadcasts of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the collections of the Library of Congress. Unlike the other ITV stations that lost their franchises in this round, Westward (having been run by successor TSW since August 1981) opted to hand over at midnight on 31 December 1981. 1968. Another "changing trend" is television viewing, a 50 second clip is shown from a Western, in fact Bonanza, before a graph shows Westward Television's increasing number of viewers. Its presenters included Norah Thomas, Jill Mapson, Pat Webber and Ann Davey. Derry's Cross, Plymouth. Shaw then re-appeared wearing a modern suit, no longer in a dinner jacket and now in a modern chair, surrounded by staff wearing TSW T-shirts and holding 2-inch videotapes. 2 Coronation Street (Sept 27) 60% 6= The Monroes (BBC1) 50% 3= Black and White Minstrels (BBC) I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. 29 April - Westward Television starts broadcasting. 8= The Mortal Storm (BBC) 36% 5= Treasure Hunt (Westward) 47% 6= Lawman 10= Emergency- Ward 10 (April 19) 7= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) Top BBC: Perry Mason 5= Coronation Street (Aug 2) The news would be read by the duty announcer, so MacLeod's role on the Diary was not as a newsreader but a presenter holding the whole package together. 2= Treasure Hunt 50% 10= Englebert, W/e 24th December 1967 (Westward) - new religious quiz (Southern TV) We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. 1 The Dark Number 56% (BBC) 10 Discs A Gogo 50%, Westward TV area TAM ratings w/e 16 May 1965 The regional news was contained in a separate ten-minute Westward News bulletin, broadcast every weekday at 6.05pm, and subsequently supplemented by afternoon and late-night bulletins. The Derry's Cross studios were designed by the architects Treadgold and Elsey, who had previously designed the TWW Studios at Pontcanna, Cardiff and Arno's Court, Bristol (Howett 1994). 12.05pm The Nativity (A-R) Ragtime in December 1965 was bought by Ulster, but, significantly also, by Rediffusion, Westward's first ever sale to one of The Big Four. .. 10.30am Small Time - The Christmas Tree Westward was a frequent user of in-vision continuity, with many of the station's personalities becoming well known in the region. In addition to these idents, Westward used a clock contained in a curved box with both analogue and digital displays, alongside the Westward Television stylised ship logo and name. The Box (Formerly South West Film and Television Archive) 1967 10.05 The Blackpool Show - Tony Hancock with Frankie Howerd, The Kaye Sisters, Lenny the Lion, John Junkin and Peter Gordeno 3= The Saint 58% Local teams competed for The Golden Key. Westward headhunted her to edit and present its new women's interest programming. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. The Friday edition of Sports Desk was a stand-alone programme in the early '70s, but this too became part of the Diary towards the end of the decade. 9.10 No Hiding Place 100,000 Halfpennies Programmes were made on 16mm black and white negative film stock with inhouse printing and editing services. 1 Coronation Street (Sept 24) 60% 5.50 Thank Your Lucky Stars - Shirley Bassey In 1977 his documentary To Tavistock Goosie Fair[33] won "Most Outstanding Regional Production of 1977". ITA Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. 5= Harpers West One 54%