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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
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30th Anniversary ident
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And break bumper
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More from Gold's celebratory presentation:
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All the ads and continuity from the first night courtesy of the ADC Collection
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Is it not also the 25th anniversary of the UKTV network? Then again, it's barely recognisable nowadays!
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The dog really was a nice touch to the early days of UK Gold.
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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.
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(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
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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!
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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.
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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.