Script: Stuart Hutchison and Roger Gage. 1 Coronation Street (July 10) 51% privacy policy, Need more context? 4= Mrs Thursday "Mr Cadbury back as chairman of Westward TV", Westward Television Ident from 28.12.1980, Bill Covington's website about The Rustiks, ITW Programme Listing for Westward Television, Transcript of detailed interview about Westward Television in 2000 with Kenneth Macleod on Liberal Burblings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westward_Television&oldid=1151894394, Television channels and stations established in 1961, Television channels and stations disestablished in 1981, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. A rather odd Christmas-themed start-up sequence from Westward TV. 2 Take Your Pick 44% Farm and Country news continued as a ten minute report, 11.15am High Mass - from St Dominic's Priory Church London 7= World in Action 11.40 Faith for Life; Close down 6.05 News 4.10 Christmas Diary with Kenneth Macleod, Frederick Harvey, Burda Cann, Plympton School Choir, and Choirs of Wells All copyrights belong to the original creators and any advertisements that appear are not added by me. 10= Take Your Pick, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Dec 3rd 1961 1= Tarzan 48% 2 Coronation Street (May 10) 47% 7.00 Double Your Money 10 Bootsie and Snudge 53%, Week ending 6th May 1962 Westward Television and Television South West (TSW) The largest single collection made up of the news and programme libraries of the ITV broadcasters for the South West region from 1961 to 1992. 29 April - Westward Television starts broadcasting. 5= Double Your Money The series "examines successful farm management in the West County," introduced by Don Rickard. I didn't even bother playing. A non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, Southern and TVS, TWW and Teledu Cymru, and Rediffusion material are all hard to reach for various reason. 10= Kelvin Hall Circus 45%, W/e 3rd March 1968 (Westward) By the time you reach the 1950s, its safe to assume that the programme in question is lost unless you are very, very lucky. A DVD produced from the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly 9 Take a Letter 55% Angela started her journalistic career in newspapers in Devon and later became an established TV reporter/presenter with BBC Plymouth's Spotlight programme (1966 - 1969). 9= Cilla (BBC) 2= Take Your Pick 53% It ran for many seasons. Programmes were made on 16mm black and white negative film stock with inhouse printing and editing services. 10.52 Dial 999 - Extradition 6= Coronation Street49 (Dec 24th) 4.45 Small Time - Fireside Story with June Thorburn 4 Till Death Us Do Part (BBC) 39% This formed part of a longer ident theme titled An English Overture, used at the start of each day's broadcasts. Close down, 11am The Morning Service - from The Church with the Holy Name Claygate . (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) 1.05 Christmas Box - with Noele Gordon 8.55 News 5= Coronation Street (Aug 2) Shirley Bassey in the Sunday Night at the London Palladium is given 40 seconds. 5.00 Gus Honeybun's Birthdays 2 Compact (May 1 BBC) 51% 5.55 News; A Christmas Message Dr Ramsey Westward Television Menu Hello and welcome to Westward TV and TSW. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? 7= Compact (Feb 20 BBC) 57% 9= Val Doonican (BBC), W/e 22nd October 1967 (Westward) Westward Television went on air 29 April 1961 with regional programmes such as Farming Today, Tight Lines and a weekly news programme entitled Westward Diary. Westward staff returned to work a few days before the end of the ITV national strike of 1979. For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun. The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. Finally, Kaleidoscope hunts for missing footagebut charges for access to its database. The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun! 8.00 Ben Casey - August is the Month before Christmas HYDe Park 8262 . The Controller of Programmes is at his desk, proud to reveal that no less than seventeen Westward programmes had been sold to other ITV stations in the period from April to Spetember 1964. A brief glimpse at the Westward TV Schools and Colleges ident. The first edition was broadcast on Tuesday 12 September 1961 at 6:15pm, in place of Westward Diary. on April 29th 1961, transmitting on 9.40 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - You'll Be the Death of Me 5= EW10 (Aug 22) 46% The collection is 38.75 liner feet and is broken up into sixteen series: Appointment Books, Artifacts, Biographical and Personal, Correspondence, Events and Speeches, Honors/Awards/Mementos, Photographs, Press Passes and Badges, Radio Commentary, Reporters Notebooks, Specials, Subject Files, Videos/Film/Audio Cassettes, Writings, Miscellaneous, and Duplicates. Westward Television started A fancy dress Christmas party is interrupted by shattering news. Then Sports Editor David Vine, host of Sports Desk, informs us that the station has covered no less than 48 different sports. Buy, sell, and trade a variety of resources while chasing down the nefarious Mad Russian. A service in Plymouth run by the NSPCC, which helps prevents online child sexual abuse, is expanding. By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. A 1965 18 minute promotional film from Westward Television. this film explores the development of language and the concept of 'More' and 'Less' by way of experiments with children of different ages. It took five series before he reached the south coast. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Westward also had an arrangement with Associated TeleVision (ATV), to play out any networked Westward programmes onto the ITV network. 3= Black & White Minstrels (BBC) ABC Weekends filmed topical archives are held by British Path but that archive also includes decades of newsreel and news film patience is required when searching. The first ident featured an image of a boat on the water, before replacing the image with a stylised ship image in a circle, complete with Westward legend and channel nine and twelve identifiers (representing the Stockland Hill and Caradon Hill transmitters of the time), to a tune of four chimes. 8.25 Mainly Millicent - guest star Cleo Laine 12.01 Faith for Life - Rev Frank Pewtress 9.40 Cider Cellar - Robin Hunter introduces stars including Billy Burden Producer: Roger Gage. 3 Coronation St (4 Oct) 43% on the Internet. 2 Sykes (BBC) 58% A Westward celebrity is missing. 11.30 University Challenge Tournament - quarter finals If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library. Terms and Conditions 2023 The TV Room. Shaw made the first announcement on TSW: let's say welcome to 1982 from your new television station, Television South West, with the promise of a full-bodied blend of the new and the familiar. The Mass Communications History Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society was established in 1955 to document the importance of mass media in 20th-century American life. 2 Coronation Street (July 8) 47% You may have to present yourself, having made an appointment, at their premises on the South Bank in London. Another popular long-running programme featured a puppet rabbit, Gus Honeybun, who appeared with the duty announcer who read out birthday greetings to the region's children: The story went that Gus was found wandering Dartmoor by a Westward Outside Broadcast unit. 2.00 Christmas Fare with Cliff and The Sahdows Many Westward personalities, such as announcer Sheila Kennedy, also contributed articles to the magazine. On 28 December 1980, while the ITV network was showing Drake's Venture (Westward Television's two-hour filmed drama to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, starring John Thaw), ITN interrupted a commercial break to announce ATV was to undergo major changes and Southern and Westward had not had their licences renewed by the IBA; the south-west franchise was awarded to TSW (Television South West). Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. Westward Television Menu. View the catalogue description for. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building faade. 1 Miss ITV 55% 3= Coronation Street (May 2) Westward Television Menu 7= Laramie (BBC), Week ending 27th Aug 1961 2 Double Your Money 61% 7= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 6 Billy Smart's Circus (BBC)47 7= Saturday Show (BBC) 52% Westward Television Menu, Westward also entered two programmes for the American National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards: Breakout, the second part of the Wyvern at War programme, and Battle of Trafalgar, Westward's contribution to the Action at Sea series, Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly This information will help us make improvements to the website. On 19 January 1972, there was a relaxation on the restrictions of broadcast hours that had been set by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. To the Westward Television Menu These are such programmes as the nightly back-bone of the company, Westward Diary, a. weekly Westward Report, the twice - weekly Sports Desk, thrice -daily news 7= The Beverly Hillbillies 51% (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) Many of the other companies' factual output is dispersed or trapped in copyright hell. 7= Ward 10 (Nov 23) 1961. Since most of Westward's output was for Home consumption, not much of their limited output was sold to other companies. 1= Coronation St (Mon) 48% He had begun his television career as a props man at Associated-Rediffusion, where he first met Kenneth MacLeod. Westward Television was the first ITV franchise-holder for the South West of England. A number of experts would visit to present regular features: Ted Tuckerman would present a fishing spot called Tight Lines, Jon Miller (the zoologist, and also presenter of Southern Television's How) would present a spot about nature, architect David Young would examine local architecture of interest, and Topline Broadhurst would present regular gardening spots. 8= Half Hour Story No events. (BBC) 43% 5= All Gas and Gaiters 47% (BBC) 1967 This is later extended by a further year. The first half concentrated on the regional news, whereas the second half included other items of interest to local viewers. ABC Weekend's filmed topical archives are held by British Path but that archive also includes decades of newsreel and news film - patience is required when searching. Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly Its holdings are from 1898 to the present day and its core collections are the Television South West Film and Video Library (which includes all Channel 3 material for the area from 1961 to 1992) and the BBC South West Film Collection (dating from 1961 onward). 6= The Big Valley 50% 4 Take Your Pick 55% Networked programmes are of course also covered. 11.20 Towards 2000 - Cities of the Future You need to sign in to tag. 11.00 Christmas Morning Service from the Church of the Ascension Wembley Westward had fought off 11 competing bids to win the licence to broadcast to south west England. 11.40 Faith for Life; Close down, 4.38 Westward News Headlines A bill before the Oregon Legislature would use public dollars to set up a new state agency to promote . 5.55 News 6= Hawaiian Eye 53% 4 A Chump at Oxford film (BBC) 50 This is an almost complete programme by Westward TV (a UK regional ITV company) from the 1960s. 9 The Good Die Young film Director: John Bartlett. 7= Burke's Law [29] Westward also produced an adult education series aimed at farmers called Acres For Profit. The archive, renamed the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) [6] in 2003, holds the entire surviving back catalogue of Westward and TSW programmes, and several tens of thousands of other items (which all have a connection to the south-west of England) donated by members of the general public. [11] This was replaced in the mid-1960s by a model of the Golden Hind, shot against a black background with a simple Westward caption beneath accompanied by the Holly and the Ivy tune on brass instruments. 2 Double Your Money 55% [17] A second series began on 24 September 1962 and moved to 7pm.[18]. Television South West replaced Westward Television as the holder of the ITV South West England franchise on January 1, 1982, though it had actually taken over Westward five months previously. 2 Top of the Pops (BBC) 54 The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film . The Case of The Missing Celebrity 1 Take Your Pick 62% 6 Sportsview (BBC) 51 3 Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 56% This page was last edited on 26 April 2023, at 22:12. 1= Summer Spectacular HO 245 - Committee on The Future of Broadcasting (1974-1977): Minutes, Evidence and Papers, Subsubseries within HO 245 - Independent Broadcasting Authority: Television Programme Contractors, About our [1] 1962 No events. Close down, Covering the West 9 Bootsie and Snudge 44% From leading . On April Fools' Day, 1973, Westward broadcast a film about the village of Spiggot, which had boycotted decimalisation and were still using pre-decimal currency. [30], Clive was a Londoner. 3= Zero One (BBC) Donated to the University of Iowa in 2016, Brokaws papers cover both his career and personal life. It held the franchise from 29 April 1961 until 31 December 1981. "Television Simply Wonderful". And to get the new year off to a good-humoured start, we have a brand new comedy with Peter Cook and Mimi Kennedy in The Two of Us. The penultimate place to try is the British Film Institute. 7= Crossroads (3 Oct) 41% Local programmes are shown, with a brief clip of a beauty contest. Music and Lyrics: John Bartlett and Terry Roper. A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System, State Funeral of Winston Churchill (1965). Many of the other companies factual output is dispersed or trapped in copyright hell. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. Landmark- This was a 1965/ 1966 quiz , with local Women's Institutes competing. 3 Family Solicitor 57% I didn't want to like it and never get to finish the game. In November 1963[19] The Beatles had to be smuggled into Derry's Cross through a tunnel to record an interview with continuity announcer Stuart Hutchison for the programme, due to the number of fans outside the studios. 2= Coronation Street51 (Apr 15th) The first edition cost 5d, and featured a special article by Westward board member Daphne du Maurier. 1 Top Secret 51% 7= Take Your Pick 1= Morecambe and Wise Show 47% web pages Close down, 12.45 News [34] In 1980 he began work on a series of six films on Dartmoor called Dartmoor. She edited a new programme for women . The Good Old Days, Juke Box Jury, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e 7 July 1963 4 Harpers W1 47% (Howett 1994) By the time Westward began broadcasting, Derry's Cross had cost Westward over 500,000, with the company committed to spending another 20,000 on the studios by April 1962. The monthly show was presented by members of an editorial team that included David Rodgers, who later went on to become a familiar Westward TV staff presenter. Dec 29th 1962, The first original Kerisnel ferry to launch was a freight-only service. Contents 1 History 1.1 Franchise loss 1.2 Closure 2 Studios 3 Identity 4 Programming 4.1 Local programming 4.1.1 News and current affairs 4.1.2 Children 4.1.3 Agriculture Westward's contributions to the network were very rare at first, mainly consisting of one-off programmes and editions of the Morning Service (later renamed Morning Worship). 4 Ironside 49% (BBC) 7= Double Your Money 45% By 1969, Westward had more than 100 correspondents across the region, reporting newsworthy local events, and eight film cameramen who would travel the region gathering footage and compiling reports. Shaw then re-appeared wearing a modern suit, no longer in a dinner jacket and now in a modern chair, surrounded by staff wearing TSW T-shirts and holding 2-inch videotapes. Search the history of over 806 billion 3= Black and White Minstrels (BBC) 1 Take Your Pick 57% in the If you don't have an account please register. Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. 6= Professional Boxing (BBC) [12] This ident was altered slightly in the late 1960s to update the font to Compacta Bold. Then, thankfully, 5 Professional Boxing (Rediffusion) 52 8 Ordinary People (WTV) 43% 4.20 Close-Up - highlights from musicals past and present 2 Emergency- Ward 10 Dec 28th 60 10.05 The Blackpool Show - Tony Hancock with Frankie Howerd, The Kaye Sisters, Lenny the Lion, John Junkin and Peter Gordeno 11.50 Weather Children could request that Gus waggle his ears, wink, stand on his head, count their age in "bunny-hops", or turn off the lights. A Long View a documentary about pioneer tv personality Leslie Mitchell. During Westward's tenure, Derry's Cross had three studios. 7 Maverick 45% 10= Treasure Hunt (Westward)43 Westward programmes Sold Clive Gunnell also made documentaries about inland areas that were also contributed to About Britain. 5= World In Action Check out the "Our History" section of NBCUniversal's website for a great overview of the early days of the radio, television, and film industries, and NBC's role in that history. 2= Treasure Hunt 50% Local teams competed for The Golden Key. For the first time these are now available on one DVD with the original soundtrack. Please ensure the tag is appropriate for the record. 6 Lorna Doone (BBC) 45% 7.25 Batman - Rats Like Cheese part 2 with George Sanders To the Westward Television Menu, Westward programmes Sold The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. In 1973 the Countryside Commission opened the South West Coast Peninsula Walk from Minehead in Somerset to Swanage in Dorset via Land's End. 6 London Palladium Show 48% Then some of the backroom staff are shown in action. 1 Coronation Street (Sept 24) 60% 7.30 Coronation Street - the men go off on a sports outing, while their wives get dinner ready Manufacturing industry is increasing. 9= Coronation St 44% (Feb 26) 3 Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 56 Based at purpose-built studios at Derry's Cross in Plymouth, with a London office (sited at various locations including New Bond Street, Marble Arch and Sloane Square) and a sales office in Bristol. Producer: Roger Gage. 10 Compact (BBC)48, Week ending April 21st 1963 10= Coronation Street (Nov 20) .. 10.30am Small Time - The Christmas Tree 6.30 * Christmas Cartoon Party The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies. The news would be read by the duty announcer, so MacLeod's role on the Diary was not as a newsreader but a presenter holding the whole package together. They charge business-to-business rates as well. Westward headhunted her to edit and present its new women's interest programming. All rights in the Westward and TSW material are held by The Box. Westward was one of the first ITV regions to broadcast a late-evening regional news bulletin (Westward Late News).[16]. Its presenters included Norah Thomas, Jill Mapson, Pat Webber and Ann Davey. 6.30 Stars in the West - Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with Laurence Harvey 2 Route 66 49% 10= Criss Cross Quiz 51% In 1977 his documentary To Tavistock Goosie Fair[33] won "Most Outstanding Regional Production of 1977". 10= No Hiding Place, Week ending 10.10 Rhapsody in Blue film starring Robert Alda The special programme ended with a message from Peter Cadbury, in which he wished TSW well. Description. Bring him to justice and all can rest in the wild West! [36], Like About Britain, Doing Things was a series of half-hour filmed documentaries contributed by the various ITV regions and broadcast in the early afternoon. This collection documents mass communications on both the national level and in the state of Wisconsin, and includes a large. To mark the change, Westward's ident was re-shot in colour.[7]. 10 Film: Last Witness (BBC) 50%, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Nov 25th 1962 10= Panorama (BBC) An illustration of a horizontal line over an up pointing arrow. The comedy programme was followed by further continuity, an epilogue, weather and shipping forecast and closedown - all with TSW branding. 5 Tales of Mystery 53% After this a 20 second clip of a viewers' questions type programme. 3.07 Chipperfield's All Star Christmas Circus - with Arthur Haynes and Richard Hearne . With Del Cooper, Susan Denny, Clive Gunnell, Kenneth Macleod, David Mudd, John Pett, Michael Reinhold, Roger Shaw and Stuart Hutchison. 10.05 The Pickwick Papers - film starring James Hayter 3 Coronation St 48% (Aug 23) Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 5 Coronation Street (Nov 22) 48% 3= Coronation Street (July 1) 46% Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. 2 Coronation Street (July 31) 44% 7= Spotlight Control the destiny of the West as you build thriving towns in a far-away frontier. 5.35 F Troop - Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop 12.30 Gus Honeybun and Yogi Bear 12.30 Gus Honeybun and Yogi Bear May 2nd 1965, 2.50-3pm. 4= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) These extra off-peak hours gave smaller ITV companies a chance to provide some networked or part-networked programmes. Some local news film as well as national ITN and TV-am film is held by Getty. in north Devon, where he played. 22 April - The Huntshaw Cross transmitting station opens, providing better reception across north Devon. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. After this a 20 second clip of a viewers' questions type programme. 7= Star Movie (Stalag 17) Uploaded by 4= Sports Desk (Westward) 7= Candid Camera44 The regional news was contained in a separate ten-minute Westward News bulletin, broadcast every weekday at 6.05pm, and subsequently supplemented by afternoon and late-night bulletins. Virtually no material of this sort survives in the broadcasters archives, and for those reasons, the chances of your programme surviving are approaching zero. 1 Double Your Money 54% A Westward celebrity is missing. 7= Here's Harry (BBC) 3= Burke's Law [25] Westward TV had an Agricultural Advisory committee chaired by R. G. Pomeroy[26] to advise the company on its agricultural output. Kenneth MacLeod had to present Westward Diary in what looked to viewers like almost total darkness, as the union permitted only the house lights to be switched on in the studio. 1= Windfall (BBC) 4= Legends of the West 54% November 13th, 1963 at Westward TV Studios, Plymouth Stuart Hutchinson talks to the Beatles about Paul's recent illness (causing them to postpone a couple of shows), and the group's recent photo opportunity wearing police helmets outside a Birmingham theatre. 5= Coronation Street (May 12) John Doyle reports 40 years ago. 1 Ward 10 (Sept 26) 61% 5.15 The Forest Rangers - The Bird Watchers 3= The Saint 58% 8.55 News To accommodate this, the length of Friday's edition of Diary was extended to an hour, and it occasionally featured a live studio audience. Over 2 million pages have been scanned. What can you expect when pubs, bars and restaurants reopen? 5= Harpers West One 54% Westward Whiskey lead distiller Miles Munroe checks barrels in this Oregonian file photo. So as we say goodbye from Westward in 1981. TSW then began with a short video clip of a champagne bottle being opened, accompanied by the short audio version of the station ident "That's Soul, Write". 8 London Palladium Show 51% in the 7 Tarzan 46% For three years viewers in this town had received TWW programmes, but when Westward started, their Stockland Hill transmitter was only 14 miles from Taunton, and the area was designated as a primary Westward area. This later became a spot entitled "What's On", in Friday's edition of Westward Diary. Westward Television Menu When colour television came to the region on 22 May 1971, the Golden Hind was re-shot against a blue background with the caption altered to include a small stylised ship image in a box in the lower left corner, followed by an outlined 'Westward TV' caption, with 'TV' in red. privacy policy, Domestic and leisure services > Radio and television, GB/NNAF/C124128 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B26706 ), Westward Television Ltd, independent television programme contractors. July 3rd 1966, 2.35-3pm reporter Don Rickard. This information will help us make improvements to the website. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. 2= Coronation Street (18 Oct) The tune that accompanied the colour television ident was originally a nautical fanfare on brass instruments, based on the song "Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl", arranged by Paul Lewis. The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. The Derry's Cross studios were designed by the architects Treadgold and Elsey, who had previously designed the TWW Studios at Pontcanna, Cardiff and Arno's Court, Bristol (Howett 1994). 8 Mrs Thursday 45% US President retweets video containing 'white power' chant, Leicester could see local lockdown following rise in coronavirus cases, Biden slams Trump over report Russia paid militants for attacks. Read tagging guidelines. 10= Rawhide 5= Wagon Train 4 Coronation St (16 Oct) 51% Titled 'Do Children Understand?' This download is a 60 minute demo version that prompts you to buy the full version for $19.99. 7= Ordinary People (Westward) [1] 1962 to 1967. 29 April - Westward Television starts broadcasting. Westward launched the career of many broadcasters who became well known nationally, won numerous awards for its programming, and heavily influenced its successor, TSW .
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