21-12-2022, 04:36 PM
(21-12-2022, 04:24 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote:(21-12-2022, 03:25 PM)James2001 Wrote: Only you have to take on board the fact that IFE probably wouldn't have acquired TVS had they kept their franchise.I don't think they'd have been allowed to, there were rules limiting foreign ownership of terrestrial broadcasters.
All the 'what ifs' etc aside, its odd to think that it's been 30 years since the big changes..... and that's about 6 1/2 years longer than Thames existed
Well don't forget next month its 40 years of breakfast TV - Jan 17 for the first broadcast of Breakfast Time and Feb 1 for the first broadcast of TV-am. Neither of which are still going but their influence is still present today.
And of course September 2025 will be 70 years of ITV (in London anyway), and Thames was born out of the new company formed between ABC and Associated-Rediffusion, both companies that had started in London in 1955.