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Tribute to ATV
ATV: a fondly-remembered and popular UK broadcaster, operating from 1955 until 1981, at which time, as a condition of keeping their franchise, they had to more reflect the Midlands in their programmes and name and became Central on 1st January 1982.
It's apparently supposed to be an eye with its shadow underneath.
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Your port of call for one of the most famous idents on UK television, and for videos of the ATV Oxford transmitter promo and the opening sequence to the ATV Thursday Picture Show, with a cartoon bloke smashing the ATV logo. Also home to the working ATV Clocks! |
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ATV History Get thinking as sub-TV takes you through ATV's complicated history, from when ATV wasn't called ATV until it forcibly had to change its name to Central. |
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ATV Centre A section about ATV Centre, through the eyes of a Birmingham Post supplement from Thursday, March 19, 1970, the Centre's official opening day. Fascinating stuff, not just about the Centre itself, either! |
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Looks at the regional idents and presentation used by ATV. |
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Test Cards A history of the various test cards used by the ITA/IBA before ATV started the day's programmes. |
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A page on how ATV used to start the day. |
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ATV used many different endcaps during its time. There's loads
of examples here. |
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A selection of trails (advertisements for forthcoming programmes)
and pictures of some of ATV's announcers. |
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ATV Clocks A quick look at ATV's various timepieces over the years. |
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A small section where you can download digitally remastered (by
me!) ATV idents, for use as wallpaper. Also see the ATV
Oxford Voiceover page! |
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