What was your ITV region?

[Arran]

Originally STV but I was way too young to remember it. Later Yorkshire TV but after the age of 5 or 6 only its ident and Calendar News distinguished it from other ITV companies.

Yorkshire TV was taken over by Granada in 1997. I remember that event well and it was a dark day in history for viewers east of the Pennines. Granada was previously the weekday ITV company for the territory served by the Emley Moor transmitter prior to 1968. It was as clear as day that the territory served by Yorkshire TV would become nothing more than a colony of Granada - an ITV company that did not recognise that there was a world outside of Manchester (with the possible exception of London as they had previously taken over LWT) and even Preston or Nantwich might as well be on Mars. Granada also automatically took over Tyne Tees as it was owned by Yorkshire TV.

I would have loved to have TVS back in the 1980s.

It's amazing to think that in the year I was born that only one ITV company would still exist today. If a public survey was carried out that year then I seriously doubt that many people would have guessed right.

[beccabear67]

HTV made some interesting shows for young viewers in the '70s... especially Sky about the alien boy and Children Of The Stones!

Thames had my favorite logo music. It was formed from a merger of the earlier Rediffusion and ABC.

[W1 Rover]

If you remember having one, and were you happy with it? Did you think another region might've been better? Did the licensee change like when ATV went off and Central came on? Did you ever get to see much of another region while away or even at home?

Do you remember any of the local programs that weren't shared with the other regions? Favorite announcers?

I'll claim Yorkshire as 'my' region based on that's where my mother's side was from (I'm in Canada), but that one ident they put on at the starts of their own productions in the late '60s-early '70s was quite, er, bracing! Ta-da-dat-dat-daaaah! I'd have liked to get Tyne Tees with it though, even if a bit fuzzy... did every region get their Nobody's House? That makes me wish they'd made more shows!

Mine was Thames, based at Teddington Lock.
Bearing in mind that as a child ( going back some ) screen time wasn't such a big deal as it is now. I loved the Thames TV image/panorama, Saint Paul's cathedral and Tower Bridge both included.

[beccabear67]

If you remember having one, and were you happy with it? Did you think another region might've been better? Did the licensee change like when ATV went off and Central came on? Did you ever get to see much of another region while away or even at home?

Do you remember any of the local programs that weren't shared with the other regions? Favorite announcers?

I'll claim Yorkshire as 'my' region based on that's where my mother's side was from (I'm in Canada), but that one ident they put on at the starts of their own productions in the late '60s-early '70s was quite, er, bracing! Ta-da-dat-dat-daaaah! I'd have liked to get Tyne Tees with it though, even if a bit fuzzy... did every region get their Nobody's House? That makes me wish they'd made more shows!