[Humphrey Hacker]

Always seemed odd to me that LWT never had a news service before 1982. I know that a full service for 2 and half days would have been ridiculous but something similar to ABC might have sufficed:

abcatlarge.co.uk 

Here is the news - THIS IS ABC WEEKEND from Transdiffusion
ABC Weekend and ABC at Large
  Source: abcatlarge.co.uk

And of course LWT did have a strong current affairs remit:

www.youtube.com 

[Milkshake]

According to the Wikipedia page, Chrysalis took over from Screen News from 1990-1992, LNN of course took over in 1993.

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LWT News - 1988. Screen News.

www.youtube.com 

LWT News - 1992 - Chrysalis Television.

youtu.be 

That is correct.

Always seemed odd to me that LWT never had a news service before 1982. I know that a full service for 2 and half days would have been ridiculous but something similar to ABC might have sufficed:

abcatlarge.co.uk 

And of course LWT did have a strong current affairs remit:

www.youtube.com 

in January 1981 both Thames and LWT managed to convince the IBA not to have a joint 7 day news service, instead allowing LWT To hire in Thames. Both companies claimed there was not enough news at the weekends. Talks were on going and IBA allowed LWT To have 5 short bulletins reading stories from LBC.

[Bluecortina]

According to the Wikipedia page, Chrysalis took over from Screen News from 1990-1992, LNN of course took over in 1993.

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LWT News - 1988.  Screen News.

www.youtube.com 

LWT News - 1992 - Chrysalis Television.

youtu.be 

I always get a slight frisson when I see those opening titles to the 6 O'Clock show. The mixer wipe pattern going from the titles to the Studio pictures was designed by me using a BBC computer and Eprom blower etc for the analogue GV300 mixer. I think I designed about 16 different ones if I remember correctly, quite unique to LWT and not to be seen anywhere else in the World! You could do that sort of thing then.

Edited to add. … And it’s precisely 11 years ago today that I retired from telly and hung up my tweakers.

[Humphrey Hacker]

According to the Wikipedia page, Chrysalis took over from Screen News from 1990-1992, LNN of course took over in 1993.

---

LWT News - 1988.  Screen News.

www.youtube.com 

LWT News - 1992 - Chrysalis Television.

youtu.be 

That is correct.

Always seemed odd to me that LWT never had a news service before 1982. I know that a full service for 2 and half days would have been ridiculous but something similar to ABC might have sufficed:

abcatlarge.co.uk 

And of course LWT did have a strong current affairs remit:

www.youtube.com 

in January 1981 both Thames and LWT managed to convince the IBA not to have a joint 7 day news service, instead allowing LWT To hire in Thames.  Both companies claimed there was not enough news at the weekends.  Talks were on going and IBA allowed LWT To have  5 short bulletins reading stories from LBC.

Sounds like Calendar today. Just because its the weekend doesn't mean that life stops.

[W. Knight]

Not necessarily social media, but a forgotten footnote no less - Thames TV on WOR New York, 1976:

(Transdiffusion)

Thames Television announces the opening of its British television service in Ame…
Thames buys a week on WOR-TV Channel 9 and announces it in print on 6 September …
  Source: thames.today

Turns out they did that again 3 years later, this time on RKO's sister station, KHJ in Los Angeles:
franklinavenue.blogspot.com 

Franklin Avenue: Retro Friday: When Channel 9 Was Turned Over to the British
A blog about Los Angeles life, media, TV, radio, politics, restaurants and cultu…
  Source: franklinavenue.blogspot.com

I suspect the idents and junctions there were probably the same skyline in the home base, but the Thames 9 symbol on the KHJ print schedules might suggest otherwise. Anyone in the know here?

[nwtv2003]

Possibly for the first time on YouTube, here’s BBC1 Scotland opening up for the Good Morning Scotland radio vision broadcast from December 1980. Another excellent find from Kaleidoscope.

youtu.be 

[Steve in Pudsey]

Always seemed odd to me that LWT never had a news service before 1982. I know that a full service for 2 and half days would have been ridiculous but something similar to ABC might have sufficed:

But in the context that the BBC weren't doing anything on Sundays in the English regions in that era, and BBC 1 was putting out Tom and Jerry cartoons in London and the South East while the rest of the country opted out for regional news (on the pretext that anything of great interest in the region would be covered by the national news) it's not so strange an idea.

[W. Knight]

Found this pre-1989 ITV animation from TVS on ADC:
youtu.be 

Coupled with the TSW sting at the time period, I wonder did any other regions use it? And why was it there in the first place?
dai.ly 

Untitled

  Source: dai.ly

[Update] Seems like LWT was also a receipient of the stings, as seen at the end of the Michael Aspel promo:
youtu.be 

And of course, their early CGI ident:
youtu.be 

[Spencer]

Found this pre-1989 ITV animation from TVS on ADC:
youtu.be 

   

“Mate, we’ve got Yorkshire on the phone. They want their chevron back.”

 Coupled with the TSW sting at the time period, I wonder did any other regions use it? And why was it there in the first place? 
https://dai.ly/x1tsd6a 

Central also used the pre-1989 ITV logo in a few idents.

https://youtu.be/n49r37mwVkg?t=61

[Steve in Pudsey]

Technical issues mean that Thames viewers get treated to TVS South news and adverts during This Morning

www.youtube.com 

and Thames apologising once they get back on the air

www.youtube.com 

This was in 1992 in the final weeks of both Thames and TVS.

Power cut at Euston, or something went wrong preparing for Carlton? (Unlikely as the latter shared LWT's established facilities)