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Retro: London Wednesday, July 23, 1975

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bpatrick

From The (London) Times:

BBC1

10:05 AM Hector's House
10:10 Daktari
Daktari ends at 11 AM, nothing given
until:

1:30 PM Camberwick Green
1:45 News
News ends at 1:53 PM, nothing given
until:

4:25 Play School
4:50 Z-Shed
5:15 Yao, African Prince
5:45 News
6:00 Nationwide
6:55 Film (would the Brits say "movie"?):
"The Noose Hangs High" with Abbott and
Costello
8:10 Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Lord Peter Wimsey and his manservant in
Scotland, Part 1.
9:00 News
9:25 Royal International Horse Show in the
presence of the Queen
10:40 Diane Solomon
11:10 The Rough With The Smooth, with Tim
Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin
11:40 Weather

BBC2

6:40 AM Open University: Development of
Brain and Behavior
7:05 Climates Of The Past
7:30 Fluorine
This program ends at 7:55, nothing given until

10:35 Nai Zindagi Naya Jecjans (?)
11:00 Play School
Play School ends at 11:25, nothing given until

5:00 PM Open University: Language and Learning
5:25 English Houses Of The 1930s
5:50 Reading Development
6:15 Urban Renewal In Chicago
6:40 Hamlet
Hamlet ends at 7:05, nothing given until

7:30 Newsday
7:45 The Master Game: Chess Knockout
Semi-final
8:10 The Ascent Of Man By J. Bronowski:
Part 8: The Drive For Power
9:00 Die Rote Kapeite: The story of the
Red Orchestra, part 2: 19 Altenburger
Allee
10:20 Beyond The Boundaries: Man's need for
challenge and conquest
11:05 News
11:25 Martin Jarvis reads "Owl" by George Macbeth
11:30 Sign off

Thames (ITV)

10:50 AM Film: "Cargo To Capetown" with Broderick
Crawford, John Ireland, Ellen Drew
12:05 PM Yoga For Health
12:30 Yak
12:40 Mr. Trimble
1:00 News
1:20 Lunchtime Today
1:30 Mr. And Mrs.
2:00 Good Afternoon
2:25 Racing From Sundown Park
4:25 Michael Bentine
4:50 Going A Bundle
5:20 Brady Bunch
5:50 News
6:00 A Town Called Heathrow, with Monty
Modlyn
6:35 Crossroads
7:00 Don't Ask Me
7:30 Coronation Street
8:00 Down The 'Gate, with Reg Varney
(The 'Gate is Billingsgate.)
8:30 Film: "The Stranger Who Looks Like Me,"
with Beau Bridges, Meredith Baxter,
Whitney Blake (real-life daughter and
mother)
10:00 News
10:30 Once Bitten: The Real Risk Of Rabies
11:15 Professional Wrestling
12:00 Personal View, Lord Hailsham

Schedules vary throughout the UK. If anyone wants to
see some of the other regional channels for this date,
I'll post them.
 
>
> BBC1
> 10:10 Daktari
> Daktari ends at 11 AM, nothing given
> until:
>
> 1:30 PM Camberwick Green
> 1:45 News
> News ends at 1:53 PM, nothing given
> until:
>
> 4:25 Play School
>
> BBC2
>
> 7:30 Fluorine
> This program ends at 7:55, nothing given until
>
> 10:35 Nai Zindagi Naya Jecjans (?)
> 11:00 Play School
> Play School ends at 11:25, nothing given until
>
> 5:00 PM Open University: Language and Learning
> 6:40 Hamlet
> Hamlet ends at 7:05, nothing given until
>
> 7:30 Newsday
>

At the time, it was customary for the BBC channels to cease programming at various intervals, often putting up a test pattern with music to fill the time. This ended sometime in the early-1980s.

ITV companies also did something like this until sometime in the 1970s.
 
> >
> > BBC1
> > 10:10 Daktari
> > Daktari ends at 11 AM, nothing given
> > until:
> >
> > 1:30 PM Camberwick Green
> > 1:45 News
> > News ends at 1:53 PM, nothing given
> > until:
> >
> > 4:25 Play School
> >
> > BBC2
> >
> > 7:30 Fluorine
> > This program ends at 7:55, nothing given until
> >
> > 10:35 Nai Zindagi Naya Jecjans (?)
> > 11:00 Play School
> > Play School ends at 11:25, nothing given until
> >
> > 5:00 PM Open University: Language and Learning
> > 6:40 Hamlet
> > Hamlet ends at 7:05, nothing given until
> >
> > 7:30 Newsday
> >
>
> At the time, it was customary for the BBC channels to cease
> programming at various intervals, often putting up a test
> pattern with music to fill the time. This ended sometime in
> the early-1980s.
>
> ITV companies also did something like this until sometime in
> the 1970s.
>
Then a teletext service called Ceefax filled the gaps in the 1980's and early 1990's especially on BBC2 during school holidays. A schedule from January 1984 on one website had BBC2 show Ceefax from 9am to 5;35pm.
 
ITV Weekday And Weekend Franchises (Was: Re: Retro: London Wednesday, July 23, 1975)

Thames held the ITV franchise for London between August of 1968 and the end of 1992, but only from Monday morning until about 5:30 P.M. or so Friday afternoons. A company called London Weekend Television held the ITV franchise for metropolitan London from 5:30 P.M. or so on Friday until sign-off very early Monday morning.

Until 1968, there were different ITV franchisees for weekdays and weekends not only in London (from 1955 until 1968, Rediffusion weekdays and ATV weekends), but in the North (Granada weekdays and ABC [Associated British Corporation] weekends) and the Midlands (ATV weekdays and ABC weekends) as well. And the weekday franchisee remained on the air until sign-off very, very early on Saturday morning. They did not have to hand-off to the weekend franchisee around 5:30 P.M. on Fridays.

After 1968, Granada got the full seven-day week in the North; ATV got the full seven-day week in the Midlands.

Beginning at 12 Midnight, December 31, 1992/January 1, 1993, Carlton took over the weekday ITV franchisee for London. Of course, Granada (which eventually bought LWT) and Carlton merged in 2004 into a company called ITV PLC, and the combined company now owns nearly all of the regional ITV franchises across the U.K.

I'm not a media lawyer in Britain, but I suspect that technically, "Carlton" is still the weekday ITV franchisee for greater London, and "London Weekend Television" is still a separate weekend ITV franchisee for the city, although both are under the exact same ownership.
 
Re: ITV Weekday And Weekend Franchises (Was: Re: Retro: London Wednesday, July 23, 1975)

> Thames held the ITV franchise for London between August of
> 1968 and the end of 1992, but only from Monday morning until
> about 5:30 P.M. or so Friday afternoons. A company called
> London Weekend Television held the ITV franchise for
> metropolitan London from 5:30 P.M. or so on Friday until
> sign-off very early Monday morning.
>
> Until 1968, there were different ITV franchisees for
> weekdays and weekends not only in London (from 1955 until
> 1968, Rediffusion weekdays and ATV weekends), but in the
> North (Granada weekdays and ABC [Associated British
> Corporation] weekends) and the Midlands (ATV weekdays and
> ABC weekends) as well. And the weekday franchisee remained
> on the air until sign-off very, very early on Saturday
> morning. They did not have to hand-off to the weekend
> franchisee around 5:30 P.M. on Fridays.
>
> After 1968, Granada got the full seven-day week in the
> North; ATV got the full seven-day week in the Midlands.
>
> Beginning at 12 Midnight, December 31, 1992/January 1, 1993,
> Carlton took over the weekday ITV franchisee for London. Of
> course, Granada (which eventually bought LWT) and Carlton
> merged in 2004 into a company called ITV PLC, and the
> combined company now owns nearly all of the regional ITV
> franchises across the U.K.
>
> I'm not a media lawyer in Britain, but I suspect that
> technically, "Carlton" is still the weekday ITV franchisee
> for greater London, and "London Weekend Television" is still
> a separate weekend ITV franchisee for the city, although
> both are under the exact same ownership.
>
Just for the record, here is Granada's schedule for the same
day (July 23, 1975) as my other British listings:

10:30 AM Sesame Street
11:30 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
12:10 PM Passing Parade
12:20 Tomfoolery
12:40 Mr. Trimble
1:00 News (from Thames)
1:20 This Is Your Right
1:30 Mr. And Mrs.
2:00 Good Afternoon
2:25 Racing From Sundown Park
4:25 Michael Bentine
4:50 Going A Bundle
5:15 Gustavus
5:20 Crossroads
5:50 News
6:00 Granada Reports
6:30 Firehouse
7:00 Don't Ask Me
7:30 Coronation Street
8:00 Down The 'Gate
8:30 Film: "Sullivan's Empire" with
Martin Milner, Linden Chiles,
Clu Gulager
10:00 News
10:30 Once Bitten: The Real Risk Of
Rabies
11:15 Streets Of San Francisco
12:10 AM Inner Space
sign off 12:40 AM
 
ITV News: then and now (Was: Re: ITV Weekday And Weekend Franchises; and before that, Retro: London Wednesday, July 23, 1975)

> 1:00 News (from Thames)

Actually, this report (along with the 5:50 and 10pm news) would have come from Independent Television News (ITN), an independent company then-owned by all of the ITV companies.

ITN still delivers the news for ITV today (rebranded as ITV news), and even the ownership has changed: the combined ITV plc owns 40%, while Reuters, Daily Mail & General Trust, and United Business Media each own 20% stakes.

Link: ITN<P ID="signature">______________
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