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Thames Television was involved in an attempt to win the new Channel 5 licence [57] [page needed] [58] [page needed] [59] [page needed] when it was first advertised in early 1992. Thames was the main shareholder in a consortium (alongside Warner Bros. Television and others) called Channel Five Holdings. The consortium became the only bidder for ...
May 5, 2024 · So, with one eye on preserving ABC and enhancing the programme quality in London, the ITA - under the leadership of Lord Hill - forced Rediffusion to merge with ABC. The result was Thames Television, with a capital of around £6 million (in old money) with these funds being divided equally between ABC and Rediffusion.
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It’s grown. Grown, for Thames’ evening programmes, by an average of 200,000 homes. That’s more than 14% up on last year. The facts: Thames transmits to the London ITV area from Monday to 7.00 pm on Friday. In Spring last year before Thames began, audiences between 6.30 and 10.30 on those days averaged 1,309,280 homes*. This year, Thames has boosted...
They’ve changed. To help win these bigger audiences, Thames has introduced new programmes to London in all three major fields: drama, light entertainment and features. The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten has been the most successful documentary series ever to appear on the screen. Three new light entertainment programmes – Max, Two in Clover and...
They’re beginning to like us. Last year they mostly watched the BBC, but not any more. For example Magpie, Thames’ magazine programme for London children, quickly became so popular that it went national, twice weekly. After only ten months on the air it’s watched by more families than the BBC’s excellent Blue Peter. Mothers like us too (ask them) b...
There’s a new name for good television. Since Thames began, its productions have won more places in the National Top Twenty than any other company. These nationally popular Thames programmes have included This Week, Opportunity Knocks, Callan, Max, Life With Cooper, The Avengers, Mike and Bernie’s Show, Two in Clover, Armchair Theatre and many othe...
It comes second. From Monday to 7.00 on Friday, London viewers can choose between Thames, BBC1 and BBC2. The programmes they like best come from Thames. Each week we make a private check on the ten most popular programmes in London during our transmission time. The latest figures, for eight weeks ended 2 May, show that Thames had 78% of London’s te...
They’re getting more for their money. In terms of cost per thousand homes viewing, the latest available figures for eight weeks ending 2 May show that Thames’ peaktime rate gave an average cost of 19/1d [rounds to just under 95½p in decimal, £15.75 in 2018 allowing for inflation] per thousand homes – compared to 21/10d [rounds to about £1.09, £18 i...
It’s altering. Thames’ new headquarter and colour studios are nearing completion close to the Post Office tower at Euston, ready for the start of colour broadcasting in November. From this new central complex, and from the riverside studios at Teddington, Thames will continue to produce outstanding programmes for London, for Britain and for the wor...
Sep 3, 2005 · Thames still has a prime time drama on ITV today, despite not having an ITV franchise. “The Bill” began in 1984, and 21 years on, the programme continues to garner good ratings in an even more competitive market than the one it was born into. Thames also produced an incredible amount of children’s programming, both itself and through ...
Despite industry insiders dubbing this as an “unhappy marriage” it gave birth to Thames Television, one of the network’s most enduring and popular franchises. Thames Television made its debut on July 30, 1968, with live cricket as its inaugural broadcast. Over the years, Thames produced an array of high-quality shows spanning various genres.
Thames's The Naked Civil Servant, broadcast on 17 December 1975, was a 90-minute drama written by Granada refugee Philip Mackie, with a startling, multiple award-winning performance by John Hurt as Quentin Crisp. Thames made its mark in children's television, with series ranging from the memorable Tomorrow People (1973-79) to Magpie (1968-80 ...
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Thames Television's most famous skyline ident consisted of a selection of London landmarks reflected over water. This was to last the station over 20 years and, due to it being so recognisable globally, is still generally applied to all archive material sold by FremantleMedia, even productions dating into the 90s.
