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GOLD is 30 - Roger Darthwell - 01-11-2022

30 years ago today the first of the UKTV channels, GOLD was launched, originally it was a joint venture between the BBC, Cox Enterprises and outgoing ITV franchisee Thames Television, it launched at 7pm and the first programme was Just Good Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4uTQ5yKCEY 


RE: GOLD is 30 - Andrew Wood - 01-11-2022

30th Anniversary ident

https://theident.gallery/player.php/GOLD-2022-ID-30THANNIVERSARY-1-011122 

And break bumper

https://theident.gallery/gold/2014/special/GOLD-2022-BB-30THANNIVERSARY-PALEGREEN-1-011122-2.webp 


RE: GOLD is 30 - Andrew Wood - 01-11-2022

More from Gold's celebratory presentation:

https://theident.gallery/gold-2022-special.php 


RE: GOLD is 30 - Steve in Pudsey - 01-11-2022

All the ads and continuity from the first night courtesy of the ADC Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUKD0uNkA0U&list=PLohd5UVV10lye1qQaIswSZON1qmAWi-Ln 


RE: GOLD is 30 - Larry the Loafer - 01-11-2022

Is it not also the 25th anniversary of the UKTV network? Then again, it's barely recognisable nowadays!


RE: GOLD is 30 - London Lite - 02-11-2022

The dog really was a nice touch to the early days of UK Gold.


RE: GOLD is 30 - Humphrey Hacker - 02-11-2022

I have fond memories of the original UK GOLD. I remember building up a library of videotapes and been bemused by the station never starting on time.


RE: GOLD is 30 - LukeHarrison - 02-11-2022

(01-11-2022, 11:02 AM)Roger Darthwell Wrote:  30 years ago today the first of the UKTV channels, GOLD was launched, originally it was a joint venture between the BBC, Cox Enterprises and outgoing ITV franchisee Thames Television, it launched at 7pm and the first programme was Just Good Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4uTQ5yKCEY 

That may be quite simply the most bizarre opening video I've ever seen! Doesn't really say much about the channel at all, and the whole thing has a whiff of Lambie-Nairn style European surrealism. Not the sort of thing you'd run to open a channel just showing old BBC shows.

Enjoyable though!


RE: GOLD is 30 - London Lite - 02-11-2022

Personally I loved the gold bar presentation of the mid 90s. It was bang on target with the worst being the awful transition from being a full service classic entertainment channel to becoming a comedy channel using the G.O.L.D. moniker as Go On Laugh Daily.


RE: GOLD is 30 - James2001 - 02-11-2022

Calling the channel G-O-L-D was terrible, so was the announcements that used to say "made by the BBC, shown by G-O-L-D". Doubly so when it appeared before episodes of The New Statesman. Which was a Yorkshire TV/ITV show.