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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 18, 2016 21:53:23 GMT
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Post by John Green on Mar 18, 2016 23:10:39 GMT
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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 19, 2016 10:25:49 GMT
Ah silly me never mind we can watch it again i should have checked cheers John.
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Post by Patrick Coles on Mar 19, 2016 12:54:24 GMT
Southern TV is a fascinating relic of an extinct thing now
- PROPER full regional ITV
Southern TV was like a family - you felt you 'knew' the presenters - figures such as Barry Westwood, Cliff Michelmore (just left us R.I.P. Cliff), Tony Bilbow, Peter Clark (of 'Crime Desk' and 'Complaint's Box'), Trevor 'the weather' Baker (& Cyril Ockenden when Trevor was off), Fred Dineage, Pat Slocombe (with her 'Dorset Diary'), Norman Goodland's county walkabout, Jack Hargreaves ('Out of Town'), Ollie Kite ("Kite's Country')
...presenters (former actors) Brian Nissen, Ian Curry, Christopher Robbie, and a bevvy of pretty young ladies too
later the younger seventies 'trendy boys' Chris Peacock and James Montgomery being all stylish too
when 'Weekend' previewed Saints, Pompey, Brighton etc - back in the days when fierce rivalries were ON the pitch and for the game only....!
and the football coverage was kept objective and accurate, minus all the silly prejudicial tosh we get today...
'Southern Soccer' on sundays with Maurice Eddleston and later Simon Smith brought our local league sides into our homes on a regular basis
when 'Day By Day' was one of the best regional magazine shows of it's kind and ALL areas of the region were covered so well
even kid's shows like 'Freewheelers' were very well made...
all UK regions had distinctive TV stations and Southern TV was in my view one of the very best
veteran 'survivor' dear old Fred Dineage remains our one link back to those so 'taken for granted' local TV days
- a few years back Fred did a lovely mini documentary series where he revisited the old empty studio in Southampton, and showed vintage clips from memorable moments of Southern Television.
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Post by richardlatto on Mar 19, 2016 14:44:11 GMT
Southern TV is a fascinating relic of an extinct thing now - PROPER full regional ITV Southern TV was like a family - you felt you 'knew' the presenters - figures such as Barry Westwood, Cliff Michelmore (just left us R.I.P. Cliff), Tony Bilbow, Peter Clark (of 'Crime Desk' and 'Complaint's Box'), Trevor 'the weather' Baker (& Cyril Ockenden when Trevor was off), Fred Dineage, Pat Slocombe (with her 'Dorset Diary'), Norman Goodland's county walkabout, Jack Hargreaves ('Out of Town'), Ollie Kite ("Kite's Country') ...presenters (former actors) Brian Nissen, Ian Curry, Christopher Robbie, and a bevvy of pretty young ladies too later the younger seventies 'trendy boys' Chris Peacock and James Montgomery being all stylish too when 'Weekend' previewed Saints, Pompey, Brighton etc - back in the days when fierce rivalries were ON the pitch and for the game only....! and the football coverage was kept objective and accurate, minus all the silly prejudicial tosh we get today... 'Southern Soccer' on sundays with Maurice Eddleston and later Simon Smith brought our local league sides into our homes on a regular basis when 'Day By Day' was one of the best regional magazine shows of it's kind and ALL areas of the region were covered so well even kid's shows like 'Freewheelers' were very well made... all UK regions had distinctive TV stations and Southern TV was in my view one of the very best veteran 'survivor' dear old Fred Dineage remains our one link back to those so 'taken for granted' local TV days - a few years back Fred did a lovely mini documentary series where he revisited the old empty studio in Southampton, and showed vintage clips from memorable moments of Southern Television. What was that mini doc that Fred made called? Sounds good. |
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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 19, 2016 19:01:33 GMT
Patrick was that Southern Gold that was a good show that had some nice clips,i can remember the banter between Barry Westwood and Trevor Baker as he was about to do the weather.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 19, 2016 19:04:08 GMT
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Post by Patrick Coles on Mar 20, 2016 13:49:21 GMT
I think Fred's look back at Southern Television was a series within episodes of 'Meridian Tonight' where Fred was back at the old TV studio and showed us around, then we had clips from old Southern shows such as 'Day By Day' etc and included some of the banter etc between the TV presenters - it might well have had an overall title such as 'Southern Gold' - it would make a decent historical television DVD in itself.
Fred paid tribute to his co-presenter Jack Hargreaves ('How !') saying Jack was 'the most natural television presenter he had ever worked with'
(Fred himself is pretty strong at that too )
ALL the old Southern staff were very professional in their 'casual' friendly style making you feel you actually 'knew' them
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 20, 2016 16:57:58 GMT
The programme that Fred presented, which included scenes of the empty Northam studios, was Southern's Golden Years, broadcast on 28 August 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the launch of Southern. As Patrick said, there were also archive segments within Meridian Tonight during that anniversary period.    To commemorate the closing of the Northam site in 2004, the book Dream Factory came with a DVD presented by Fred Dinenage and Jill Cochran, which was presented from in and around the studio. Available on YouTube: Dream Factory (2004)The two series of Southern Gold were much earlier (1993 and 1994). They showed archive material and had interviews with former Southern stars. It had Jack Hargreaves' final TV appearance (broadcast on the evening he passed away) as well as reuniting the Houseparty ladies. ~iw |
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Post by John Green on Mar 20, 2016 17:33:26 GMT
Silly really.I was aboding in a squat in Northam for a few years-when I wasn't hanging out around Derby Road-and yet it was never quite real to me that that was an honest-to-God TV studio over there...
Boy,did I get irritated when they covered the local news,such as it was,in Ringwood or Oliver's Battery.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 20, 2016 20:19:59 GMT
I don't suppose anyone knows how many complete Day By Day's survive i think there's one on youtube or at least there was.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Mar 21, 2016 14:01:20 GMT
I don't suppose anyone knows how many complete Day By Day's survive i think there's one on youtube or at least there was. Very few. Ian Wegg knows more than I on this subject, but there not a huge amount. Some Southern material exists at the Wessex Archive in Winchester (which is a Regional Archive), and it is even viewable by prior appointment. Local News from Southern - on the occasions I could pick it up from Bagshot - was far more interesting than Thames/LWT. West Surrey/ North East Hampshire and East Berkshire were sparingly covered by 'London' Regional TV programmes. If it was outside (what is now the M25), London news programmes were rarely interested. |
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 21, 2016 17:03:14 GMT
Ian Wegg knows more than I on this subject, but there not a huge amount. I only know what I recorded! I have two off-air episodes on VHS, the final one from Dec 1981 Day By Yesterday and this almost complete edition: Day by Day Special from Cowdray Park (1979)
A one hour edition of the Southern Television local news
magazine programme Day By Day. Broadcast to tie in with
the coverage of the Gold Cup Polo Final.
Includes Face of the South competition with Lord Litchfield
and an interview with Prince Charles.
(The ad breaks include a commercial in which Ronnie Corbett
promotes the virtues of TI companies Matrix and Churchill).
Presented by
Fred Dinenage
David Bobin
56 minutes
18th July 1979Either of those may be on YouTube. I don't know how many complete programmes exist as masters (if any) but I'm sure there are others here who do. ~iw |
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Post by Alan Turrell on Mar 22, 2016 10:24:11 GMT
I don't suppose anyone knows how many complete Day By Day's survive i think there's one on youtube or at least there was. Very few. Ian Wegg knows more than I on this subject, but there not a huge amount. Some Southern material exists at the Wessex Archive in Winchester (which is a Regional Archive), and it is even viewable by prior appointment. Local News from Southern - on the occasions I could pick it up from Bagshot - was far more interesting than Thames/LWT. West Surrey/ North East Hampshire and East Berkshire were sparingly covered by 'London' Regional TV programmes. If it was outside (what is now the M25), London news programmes were rarely interested. I had a feeling there wouldn't be many complete Day By Day's we use to have it on virtually every teatime from the 60's onwards,talking about picking up Southern from Bagshot i can clearly remember picking up London and Westward all be for just a few minutes on the odd occasion here on the south coast.I can remember on a friday night Rawhide was being shown on London but not on Southern that night and we could just about pick it up although the picture was very snowy at times. |
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Post by richardlatto on Mar 26, 2016 17:20:26 GMT
I'll check out that prog on YouTube it looks great!
I was lucky enough to meet the man who kept the end cards for Southern recently...
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