Westward Television Menu. 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. 6.15 Spin Along Santa with Alan Freeman, Joe Brown, The Viscounts, Tommy Bruce, Christine Campbell, host Leslie Hoare 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. 1 Double Your Money 59% This allowed regular daytime programming on weekday afternoons, and weekday morning programming during out-of-school term time. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. 2.10 Royalist and Roundhead - Setting the Scene By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. 3.00 The Queen; Chipperfield's Circus for the Westward TV area 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 To accommodate this, the length of Friday's edition of Diary was extended to an hour, and it occasionally featured a live studio audience. Close down, Covering the West Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly 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. 7= Here and Now 9 Steptoe and Son (BBC) 44% 3= Zero One (BBC) Westward Television Menu, A mock West Country accent gives us a travelogue of the region, with pictures depicting rural pursuits. 10= No Hiding Place, Week ending 10= Star Movie (Strange Cargo) 6 The Saint 46% This time around, w. Gus was retained by TSW when they took over the franchise. A rather odd Christmas-themed start-up sequence from Westward TV. I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. [31] He had already walked the new Two Moors Walk from Plymouth to Lynmouth and filmed his journey for Westward Diary. 10= This Is Your life (BBC), TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Sept 30th 1962 I no longer have the original film which has since made its way to an archive. It starred Tamar le Bailly as Maggie[22] and was produced and directed by John King,[23] the father of wildlife photographer and presenter Simon King, who featured as "The Buzzard Boy" in Episode 5.[24]. 6 Lorna Doone (BBC) 45% [2] By 17 January, the deal was done. The Westward Beat Competition had a panel of judges that included Brian Epstein and Dick Rowe and was won by The Rustiks.[21]. 5 Z Cars (BBC)48 Some local news film as well as national ITN and TV-am film is held by Getty. 10.10 Rhapsody in Blue film starring Robert Alda 4 Harpers W1 47% 1.00 News This is an almost complete programme by Westward TV (a UK regional ITV company) from the 1960s. This formed part of a longer ident theme titled An English Overture, used at the start of each day's broadcasts. 10 Legends of the West 43% A mock West Country accent gives us a travelogue of the region, with pictures depicting rural pursuits. In 1980, Westward produced Maggie's Moor, a seven part networked children's drama series about a young girl living on Dartmoor during the Second World War. 5= Frankie and Brucie's Show 47% Fifteen-minute sections of Clive Gunnell's walk along the Cornish coast were broadcast by the US Public Broadcasting Service as curtain raisers to the BBC's original version of Poldark in PBS's Masterpiece Theatre series. Farm and Country news continued as a ten minute report, 11.15am High Mass - from St Dominic's Priory Church London 3= Coronation Street (Mar 23rd)53 The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), 3= Ward 10 (May 14) 43% Landmark- This was a 1965/ 1966 quiz , with local Women's Institutes competing. 8.55 News Sorry, but the short answer is no. 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. July 3rd 1966, 2.35-3pm reporter Don Rickard. 7 Maverick 45% 9.00 News Please feel to add more people to the group and. What can you expect when pubs, bars and restaurants reopen? Again, this is a business-to-business organisation, so charges accordingly. 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. 1= Coronation St (Mon) 48% Westward also had an arrangement with Associated TeleVision (ATV), to play out any networked Westward programmes onto the ITV network. The weeknightly Westward Diary had two halves, separated by a commercial break. 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). 6.05 Westward Diary; Weather 9 Take a Letter 55% 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 The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film archive for the South West of England. 4.45 Small Time - Fireside Story with June Thorburn 5= World In Action 9= Thursday Film: Divided Heart (WTV) 40% Search the history of over 806 billion 5= Coronation Street (Feb 19) 58% 10 Bootsie and Snudge 53%, Week ending 6th May 1962 2 Dr Finlay's Casebook (BBC) 51% this film explores the development of language and the concept of 'More' and 'Less' by way of experiments with children of different ages. Manufacturing industry is increasing. An illustration of a magnifying glass. 5.55 News 3 Treasure Hunt 53% Then, thankfully, 4= Magnificent Mountain (TWW) 42% Indeed, any copy they do have will likely be very expensive to purchase, if thats even possible. For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun! Let us know. 3= Wagon Train 55% 5= All Gas and Gaiters 47% (BBC) 6.15 Spin Along Santa with Alan Freeman, Joe Brown, The Viscounts, Tommy Bruce, Christine Campbell, host Leslie Hoare An illustration of a magnifying glass. 10.35 Out of Town 7= Spotlight 7= Here's Harry (BBC) Christmas Day 1962 - Westward TV (freezing food) and Keep Britain Slim (slimming). A brief glimpse at the Westward TV Schools and Colleges ident. 6 Sportsview (BBC) 51 10 Discs A Gogo 50%, Westward TV area TAM ratings w/e 16 May 1965 This footage is courtesy of South West Film and Television Archive. The Good Old Days, Juke Box Jury, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e 7 July 1963 8 Mrs Thursday 45% on April 29th 1961, transmitting on 6 London Palladium Show 48% 10= Take Your Pick 45% The company now operates up to two sailings per day. 1963 No events. You may have to present yourself, having made an appointment, at their premises on the South Bank in London. A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System, State Funeral of Winston Churchill (1965). Westward began broadcasting in colour in 1971, initially from the Redruth transmitter, and a few months later colour was extended to the Stockland Hill and Caradon Hill transmitters. 1966 No events. 9.10 Peyton Place - Betty and Elliot try to make a new life 7= Treasure Hunt (Westward) 50% (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) [30], Clive was a Londoner. 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. 5.00 Christmas Rendezvous Unlike the other ITV stations that lost their franchises in this round, Westward (having been run by successor TSW since August 1981) opted to hand over at midnight on 31 December 1981. 7.30 Emergency Ward 10 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. 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. Local teams competed for The Golden Key. Well, it's very nearly the end of 1981 and, for Westward Television, it's the end of its franchise to provide an independent television service for the south-west. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. 10.52 Dial 999 - Extradition Details of a few of this Sunday afternoon series: This was followed by the full version of TSW's ident. In addition to these idents, Westward used a clock contained in a curved box with both analogue and digital displays, alongside the Westward Television stylised ship logo and name. 2 Sykes (BBC) 58% Initially, they published weekly programme listings in its own programme journal, Look Westward. On July 10th 1966, 2.40-3.10pm Westward showed Farm '66 A Border TV Production, a complete course of 37 programmes leading to a City and Guilds certificate in farm machinery written and presented by Alfred Luke. For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun! Westward's small size and the structure of ITV (which, at the time, deliberately made it hard for small and medium-sized ITV companies to contribute to the network) meant it produced comparatively little output for the network. 7= Ordinary People (Westward) was part of the region that found reception of the television signal most difficult, until the construction of the Huntshaw Cross relay transmitter in 1968. 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. 4 A Chump at Oxford film (BBC) 50 If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. 1.05 Christmas Box - with Noele Gordon They will facilitate your search, but wont search for you. Westward had fought off 11 competing bids to win the licence to broadcast to south west England. Ragtime in December 1965 was bought by Ulster, but, significantly also, by Rediffusion, Westward's first ever sale to one of The Big Four. 9.40 Cider Cellar - Robin Hunter introduces stars including Billy Burden It's been 40 years since the Brittany Ferries link between Plymouth and Roscoff first began. 1 Coronation Street (Sept 24) 60% Westward Television started We cannot provide copies of programmes, even if the programmes are already available to view on our websites.. 5= Val Doonican Show 47% (BBC) The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. Westward/TSW factual programmes are held at SWFTAwhile ATVs factual output is at MACE. 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. Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly 12.00 Weather One of the best known programmes was Treasure Hunt, a game show presented by Kenneth Horne and Keith Fordyce, among others, which ran for 14 years and at one stage featured Jethro as the pirate co-host.[15]. Westward Television Ltd, independent television programme contractors This page summarises records created by this Business The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s). 4= Mrs Thursday 1 Miss ITV 55% Initially, Westward had an arrangement with ABC Weekend Television (ABC) to provide its network programming. 11.05 On the Braden Beat 7= Take Your Pick Where there was once just sagebrush there's now a burgeoning population! From leading . Celebrate 60 years of ITV in the south west of England with some Westward TV archives. Westward was one of the first ITV regions to broadcast a late-evening regional news bulletin (Westward Late News).[16]. David Rodgers was again one of the regular contributors. NBC is now the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast that operates news and entertainment television networks, a major film studio, several theme parks, and a host of other businesses. From 730,000 homes in May 1961, three years later there are 1,100,000 homes, 68% of all homes in the region. This is later extended by a further year. 5= Juke Box Jury (BBC) 1 Top Secret 51% Let us know. HYDe Park 8262 . 9= Coronation St41% (Aug 21) Westward Television had a dual policy for its local programming: it produced a wide range of programmes of particular interest to the south-west's rural and agricultural communities, whilst simultaneously producing programming designed to stimulate its audience's interest in new areas. on June 28, 2020, 259987-westward-windows-screenshot-settlers-camp.jpg. 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. 5.55 News All rights in the Westward and TSW material are held by The Box. 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 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 was bought by TWW, Tyne Tees, Ulster and Grampian. 1967 saw Acres for Profit on Sunday afternoons. 5= Zero One (BBC)51 12.15pm Sunday Session- The Anatomy of First Aid, 12.35 Les Trois Coups, 12.55 Interval, 1.20 ABC of Do It Yourself- ends 1.45 3 Perry Mason (BBC) 55% 2 Route 66 49% the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. "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. If the programme was after about 1977, you may be in luck but will need to contact the original broadcaster. . 7 Laramie (BBC) 47% Local programmes are shown, with a brief clip of a beauty contest. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. "Television Simply Wonderful". 7= Crane 50 5= No Hiding Place 42% 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). Control the destiny of the West as you build thriving towns in a far-away frontier. 4= Legends of the West 54% 3= Lorna Doone (BBC) In early January 1969, plans were drawn up for a merger between Westward and the Keith Prowse company, as Peter Cadbury was chairman of both. Script: Stuart Hutchison and Roger Gage. 1= Morecambe and Wise Show 47% 3= Burke's Law 8.25 Mainly Millicent - guest star Cleo Laine It held the franchise from 29 April 1961 until 31 December 1981. 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). The comedy programme was followed by further continuity, an epilogue, weather and shipping forecast and closedown - all with TSW branding. Materials related to NBC and associated persons also exist in other Library of Congress divisions can be found in the "NBC Materials in Other Collections" section of this guide. But a New Year's Eve is also a time for looking ahead and, as Dr. Samuel Johnson said, 'New things are made familiar and familiar things made new.' 5= EW10 (Aug 22) 46% This had proved popular and led to the new series Walking Westward.[30]. 3.00 The Queen; Chipperfield's Circus For nine months of the year, Westward broadcast Farming News[27] (later retitled Farm and Country News[28]) on Sunday lunchtimes presented and edited by Peter Forde. During Westward's tenure, Derry's Cross had three studios. 7.25 Batman - Rats Like Cheese part 2 with George Sanders Westward staff returned to work a few days before the end of the ITV national strike of 1979. An illustration of a person's head and chest. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. There were filmed contributions from Alan Freeman, Jan Leeming and David Vine and many clips of Westward programmes were shown. 5.55 News; A Christmas Message Dr Ramsey 3.00 The Queen The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. Another "changing trend" is television viewing, a 50 second clip is shown from a Western, in fact Bonanza, before a graph shows Westward Television's increasing number of viewers. 2 Double Your Money 61% Finally a clip from Westward's quiz Treasure Hunt with Kenneth Horne getting into some difficulty reading a viewer's name and address Shirley Bassey in the Sunday Night at the London Palladium is given 40 seconds. 3= Steptoe and Son (BBC) 45% 1 Take Your Pick 62% Westward Television's corporate branding focused on the sea, and mainly used a ship emblem for their on-screen look. 2 Coronation Street (May 10) 47% Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. Uploaded by 7.30 Emergency Ward 10 [25] Westward TV had an Agricultural Advisory committee chaired by R. G. Pomeroy[26] to advise the company on its agricultural output. Channel 9 (Stockland Hill), Channel 12 (Caradon Hill). 7.55 The Wind Cannot Read - film 4 Ironside 49% (BBC) Taunton was at the forefront of a 1962 clash with TWW. Thus Westward representatives toured the town advising viewers that by turning their aerials they could receive Westward transmissions. (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) Studio 1 was 2,500sqft (230m2), Studio 2 was 400sqft (37m2) and used for news, sport and interview programmes and an announcers' studio was located beside Master control. A DVD produced from the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). Division within HO - Commissions and committees (advisory and investigative), conferences and Royal Commissions. You need to sign in to tag. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! [1] 1962 to 1967. In 1973 the Countryside Commission opened the South West Coast Peninsula Walk from Minehead in Somerset to Swanage in Dorset via Land's End. It developed a reputation for homely presentation and for being more ambitious than Westward but lost in the auction-style 1991 franchise round when it was deemed to have bid too much money for its franchise. As with most other ITV companies, the station also produced a nightly Epilogue under the title of Faith for Life, produced largely from the continuity studio. 5.50 Thank Your Lucky Stars - Shirley Bassey Tom Brokaw began his NBC career in 1966 and has since become one of the most well-known figures in broadcast journalism. 1= Windfall (BBC) Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. A guide to researching the radio and television broadcasts of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the collections of the Library of Congress. Parts of the recording were featured at a Kaleidoscope event[10] and at that year's Missing Believed Wiped at the British Film Institute. 11.51 Faith for Life - Rev John Parkinson Hastings Mann's Westward Ho! 8.00 Ben Casey - August is the Month before Christmas March 29th 1964, Westward Television Menu Another "changing trend" is television viewing, a 50 second clip is shown from a Western, in fact Bonanza, before a graph shows Westward Television's increasing number of viewers. 10 Film: Last Witness (BBC) 50%, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Nov 25th 1962 The series "examines successful farm management in the West County," introduced by Don Rickard. Programmes were made on 16mm black and white negative film stock with inhouse printing and editing services. A fancy dress Christmas party is interrupted by shattering news. 7= Peyton Place 51% (Wed 10th) 11.30 University Challenge Tournament - quarter finals 4 Take Your Pick 55% Westward Television was the first ITV franchise-holder for the South West of England. 3 All Gas and Gaiters (BBC) 50% 7= Arthur Haynes Show Dec 29th 1962, (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) Upload. 3 Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 56 5 Professional Boxing (Rediffusion) 52 6 Treasure Hunt (Westward) 47% No events. 8.00 Dickie Henderson Christmas Show guests Bernard Bresslaw, Hughie Green, Alfred Marks Westward had fought off 11 competing bids to win the licence to broadcast to south west England. Westward Television opened at 2.30pm on April 29th 1961, and transmitted for 20 years until the end of 1981 Westward- origins, Look Westward- stills A crisis in 1963 Farm and Country, Original drama(1966/7) Westward Beat(1964) Cider Cellar(1965) Covering the West(1965) The Case of The Missing Celebrity(1966) Quizzes Some Local TAM ratings It took five series before he reached the south coast. However in 1965, sixteen of their programmes were sold. privacy policy.