TV-am Archives - THIS IS THAMES from Transdiffusion https://thames.today/tag/tv-am Thames TV: a talent for television 1968-1992 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:43:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://thames.today/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-thames-favicon-32x32.png TV-am Archives - THIS IS THAMES from Transdiffusion https://thames.today/tag/tv-am 32 32 Thames News headlines at 0925 in 1986 https://thames.today/thames-news-headlines-at-0925-in-1986 https://thames.today/thames-news-headlines-at-0925-in-1986#respond Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:31:23 +0000 http://thames.today/?p=931 TV-am hands over to Thames News in 1986

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]]> Once formal startups became optional, the ITV companies starting filling the five minutes between TV-am going off air at 0925 and (schools) programmes beginning at 0930 with a variety of things, principally menus or local news.

Here’s Thames, as always falling on to air at 0925 thanks to the ever-unstable switchover from TV-am, and going straight into news read by a man with definitive mid-1980s hair.

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]]> https://thames.today/thames-news-headlines-at-0925-in-1986/feed 0 Thames and the ITV Network https://thames.today/thames-and-the-itv-network https://thames.today/thames-and-the-itv-network#respond Tue, 23 Nov 1982 22:00:45 +0000 http://thames.today/?p=953 How Thames fits into the ITV jigsaw

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]]> Independent Television was set up in in 1955 as a self-financing alternative to the BBC’s television service, which is funded by the television licence fee. Today ITV consists of sixteen companies in a nationwide network.

Fifteen are responsible for providing programmes in particular regions. The sixteenth, Independent Television News (ITN), supplies news programmes for viewers in all the regions.

Because the ITV network operates federally the companies benefit from national unity while retaining a substantial measure of regional autonomy. The companies agree to show some programmes simultaneously across the network, and these provide the basis of ITV programme schedules. But the system still leaves plenty of room for each company to serve its region’s individual needs through local programmes made expressly for local audiences.

There are fourteen ITV regions, stretching from Northern Ireland and Scotland to the Channel Islands. Each has its own programme company. London, the most heavily populated single region, is served by two contractors: Thames Television, which broadcasts from 9.00 a.m. on Mondays to 5.15 p.m. on Fridays, and London Weekend Television which takes over on Friday evenings, and transmits until closedown on Sunday nights. The Thames transmission area is home to nearly fourteen million people who live and work in and around the nation’s capital: the hub of commerce and industry, the financial centre, the seat of national government, focal point for the arts, and the country’s biggest tourist attraction. In fact, in population terms, it’s bigger than many European countries.

Like all ITV companies, Thames operates under the eye of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, set up by Parliament to administer independent television and radio. The IBA owns and operates all the ITV transmitters, and is responsible for the overall standard of programmes, as well as the acceptability of the advertisements that accompany them.

The IBA is also responsible for the recently established Channel 4, which operates as a television service quite separately from ITV and commissions its programmes from a wide range of sources, including Thames. However, its programme policy is entirely its own. Like all other ITV companies, Thames is responsible for Channel 4 airtime sales in its own area, and pays a subscription towards the Channel’s programme costs and upkeep.

Another new service that the IBA will oversee is breakfast television, which will bring regular early morning programmes to ITV viewers. The contract to provide the service was awarded to the TV AM company and transmissions are expected to begin during 1983.

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