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Thames News

(November 2014)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
LO
Londoner
No idea how official this is, but someone has uploaded a load of material from the Thames News archive to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/thamesnews/videos

Thought people might be interested.
LO
Londoner
On further inspection there's a lot more material on this account:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThamesTv
FO
fox1
Some of my favourite Thames News moments, captured by yours truly all those 25 years ago:





Last edited by fox1 on 21 November 2014 12:32pm
WW Update and London Lite gave kudos
LL
London Lite Founding member
Thames News presented their own local election programme in 1982 with Andrew Gardner.

EL
elmarko
fox1 posted:
Some of my favourite Thames News moments, captured by yours truly all those 25 years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTL7Guo-HrY

Any reason why this clip is immediately followed by what looks like the opening to the National Nine News in Australia?
IS
Inspector Sands
Londoner posted:
On further inspection there's a lot more material on this account:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThamesTv

That's the official FreemantleMedia Thames TV archive account.

It's been there for a while, the really good thing about it is that they upload lot of material topically.... for example when a famous person dies they'll often upload an interview with them from the Thames archive. Hence in the last couple of weeks uploads have included fireworks and a documentary about The Berlin Wall.

The Thames News one is interesting, it looks like they've been uploading lots over the last few days. I don't see how it could be anything but official, the clips are split track, there's stockshots and descriptions contain what looks like library cataloguing records (with OCR errors).

I assume that either the YouTube uploads are a shop-window for potential sales, or there's some sort of digitisation happening with the archive and these uploads are the stuff they don't think is sellable. It's interesting stuff in terms of local history but a lot is very mundane
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 21 November 2014 4:57pm
:-(
A former member
So the Grey look much have come in to being either in January 1989 or spring 1989. being kept on air until September 1990

Of course it would seems the orange look was Jan 1988. Any ideas anyone?
FO
fox1
elmarko posted:
fox1 posted:
Some of my favourite Thames News moments, captured by yours truly all those 25 years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTL7Guo-HrY

Any reason why this clip is immediately followed by what looks like the opening to the National Nine News in Australia?


We lived in London for 3 years and returned to Sydney with a heap of Betamax tapes of British TV - which I still have. Just for the TV alone, being in the UK at that time was great - ITN at its zenith, TV-am, Thames and LWT just as they should be, The Channel 4 Daily, Anneka Rice, the brilliant eras of the Nine O'Clock News - the list goes on! And then, I continued taping here. Smile
Last edited by fox1 on 21 November 2014 10:56pm - 2 times in total

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LO
Londoner
BR
Brekkie
Inspector Sands posted:
Londoner posted:
On further inspection there's a lot more material on this account:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThamesTv

That's the official FreemantleMedia Thames TV archive account.

It's been there for a while, the really good thing about it is that they upload lot of material topically.... for example when a famous person dies they'll often upload an interview with them from the Thames archive. Hence in the last couple of weeks uploads have included fireworks and a documentary about The Berlin Wall.

The Thames News one is interesting, it looks like they've been uploading lots over the last few days. I don't see how it could be anything but official, the clips are split track, there's stockshots and descriptions contain what looks like library cataloguing records (with OCR errors).

I assume that either the YouTube uploads are a shop-window for potential sales, or there's some sort of digitisation happening with the archive and these uploads are the stuff they don't think is sellable. It's interesting stuff in terms of local history but a lot is very mundane

Did Fremantle bid at all for the local TV licence in London?
LL
London Lite Founding member
Brekkie posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Londoner posted:
On further inspection there's a lot more material on this account:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThamesTv

That's the official FreemantleMedia Thames TV archive account.

It's been there for a while, the really good thing about it is that they upload lot of material topically.... for example when a famous person dies they'll often upload an interview with them from the Thames archive. Hence in the last couple of weeks uploads have included fireworks and a documentary about The Berlin Wall.

The Thames News one is interesting, it looks like they've been uploading lots over the last few days. I don't see how it could be anything but official, the clips are split track, there's stockshots and descriptions contain what looks like library cataloguing records (with OCR errors).

I assume that either the YouTube uploads are a shop-window for potential sales, or there's some sort of digitisation happening with the archive and these uploads are the stuff they don't think is sellable. It's interesting stuff in terms of local history but a lot is very mundane

Did Fremantle bid at all for the local TV licence in London?


Going by this list, no.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/article/1146967/bidders-londons-local-tv-licence
BR
Brekkie
Not surprised but I suspect the Thames name even 20 years later would have carried a lot of weight. Arguably though losing the ITV franchise was the best thing that ever happened to the company considering where they are now, though of course also undoubtedly one of the worst things to happen to ITV.

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