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Somebody requested a photo of the TV-am tower. TheGrappler 17:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Article edited to remove the reference of Peter Jay as being a presenter. The other member of the 'Big Five' was in actual fact Robert Kee, who presented the 1st program on TV-am, Daybreak, at 06:00 on 1 February 1983
Tgsh2005 3 July 2005 22:14 (UTC)
The article quotes Scofield as having been involved, however his own Wikipedia page says:
"Aged 19, Schofield moved with his family to New Zealand, where he made his television debut presenting the children's music programme Shazam! on 23 February 1982. He also spent two years working for the Auckland-based station Radio Hauraki.[2] In 1985, Schofield returned to England, where he became the first in-vision continuity presenter for Children's BBC"
Poggs ( talk) 17:21, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hopeful to clean up this page soon, IF anyone has any useful refs etc place leave them here. -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 20:46, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
My understanding is that TV-am was an ITV franchise. This article dances all around that fact without actually stating it. It needs to be stated upfront, in the opening sentence or paragraph. Softlavender ( talk) 15:10, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
CrazySeiko starts his/her improvements with the comment "What a pile of crap and rubbish...Some major improvements really are needed on this page". Let's see what "major improvements" have been made (errors or dubious areas are in bold, comments or correction in italics):- [1]
Low-key forerunner added yesterday. "In 1987 technical staff at the station..." becomes "In 1987 the technical staff at the station"; not gramatically wrong, but unnecessary and arguably a subtle difference in meaning.
[2]
Here's where it really starts...
"A broad room [boardroom] battle ensured [ensued] on 13 march [capitalisation] 1983"
"On the same day Angela Rippon and Anna Ford come [came] out publicly"
" Greg Dyke was brought in as director of programmes, to helped [help] build an audience, [(was that comma meant to be a full-stop?)] He moved David Frost to Sundays, and was replaced by sports presenter Nick Owen [Greg Dyke was replaced by Nick Owen?!!] to front Good Morning show [Good Morning Britain?]"
[3] "Australian business tycoon Kerry Packer took a substantial minority interest in the company, ["and" missing?] in early May appointed his own Chief Executive [no capitalisation needed], Bruce Gyngell"
"The station overhauled is [its] children's Saturday morning programme [programmeS?]]"
"Intraindustry dispute" [Not sure if it's a mistake- should it be "intra-industrial dispute"?- but it's certainly pointless jargon]
[ [4]]
" Michael Parkinson(whose weekend show was the only success the station was having" (fine) becomes "Michael Parkinson [[Parkinson's]] weekend show become [became] the only success the station [is there a word missing here?!], largely because the BBC did not broadcast on weekend mornings"
" Michael Parkinson become a director of the company and joined the broad [board] of management"... and presumably joined them in the "broad room"?
"On the First [no capitalisation needed] day of broadcasting, included a interview with Lord terbet [Any relation to Lord "Capital T" Tebbit?!] about the current unemployment, [..] Within two weeks of the launch the ratings were a distorter ["Distorter"?! Does he mean "disaster"?]
Anyone wanting to point out mistakes *I* might have made above, should remember that (a) this isn't the article itself and (b) I'm not the one who arrogantly called the *existing* content "a pile of crap and rubbish" and appointed themselves to make "major improvements", yet littered the article with grammar, punctuation et al far worse than what was there before.
Enough said. Can someone else please take a look at the *factual* content these "improvements" made and and see if the underlying content is worth keeping despite its awfulness? I've had enough of this for now. Ubcule ( talk) 19:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
May the fact you have not undone the edits is because you know refs have now been added in, and some of the incorrect rubbish have been removed. I appointed my selves to make "major improvements", I had no choice, No one else has bother there backside to make any attempt to enhance this page, not even your good self. The article is more factual and has more refs. Yes my grammer skills are some what poor at least I made an effort to get this page improved unlike some..... -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 21:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your further comments. I do have legitimate concerns about this page. I even made them clear 14 months ago , if you look further up to "Major Clean Up" Feb 2013. Since that time no one single proper overhaul of this page has taken place, by anyone. Beside the fact, two Documentaries have been produced, books, website, newspapers are freely available:
This is part of the reason why I come back to this page, to my horror apart from some addition details, the major sticking points about this page remained and its become rather clear no one has bother to deal with the actually bread and butter details in this page. It was very surprising to see some real clanger clogging up this page. The page
The changes have improved the factual reliability of the article, which I hope will spur other to try and get the other section improved aswell, since it still requires some major improvements and enhancements to allow it to reach a decent level, especially in the Bruce Gyngell section.
I do have genuine reason, with my grammar and spelling problems. You my will be correct my attitude did not help, but I was pretty hacked off nothing had been done about this page, and I felt its being left to rot, alas this is not the first page nor will it be the last page to rot away online but surly after 14 months, something would have been improved. I dare say you were as hack off about my complaints as I was about the lack of improvements.
Thank you for letting the legitimise content, to get an airing. -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 23:36, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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The following is series that were broadcast in the Kids programmes, not sure if these should be included
After only two editions on air, Ford was struck with flu and Michael Parkinson stepped in to cover for her. The ratings slide was halted for the first time since the launch and even edged slightly up in the second week of the new team. As Parkinson was hosting the weekend show, sports reporter Nick Owen stepped in for Parkinson on Fridays and Mondays. Rippon was castigated by viewers and the media for her blatant hostility to Owen on air. When he made an error in a link, Rippon stated "You see, it's not as easy as you think." When Ford was fit to return to work, Peter Jay asked her to step aside as the combination of Parkinson, Rippon and Owen was worth continuing to help the ratings. Ford refused, stating that if she stepped down, it would be too easy for the media to pin the disastrous start to the station on her. Rippon's behaviour and Ford's refusal to step aside caused great anger with the TV-am board and director Jonathan Aitken believed Jay incompetent for not removing them both. [1]
The issues around this, is the month of March. Its stated Nick never moved from Sports to Sofa until 4th April 1983, and the points raised with ippon were made then. Pete Jay left to 2 weeks earlier. So if this is correct why is contradict what the newspapers where saying at the time? also TVAM was big news and there nothing about Anna having flu, that would have added more fuel to the fire surly? -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 14:07, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
First off I will be sending this to an admin or etc, as its pretty to clear to all that your failed to even communicate or use this talk page to improve this page. What is even odd is your created this Fallacy that I called "editors liars" I which I never did, I said the source is a lie, please highlight where I said editors were liars. Edit of " 13:55, 11 June 2022 " never say Editors. edit off " 21:49, 16 August 2022" again never mentioned Editors ???
Paragraph above is still problematic, because its contradicts other source and yet NO one has used this talk page to explain why. I have reread the paraph and to make an olive branch.. it looks like the bit ( talk) isn't happy about being mist out is this bit " Rippon was castigated by viewers and the media for her blatant hostility to Owen on air. When he made an error in a link, Rippon stated "You see, it's not as easy as you think." [1] " Im more than happy to put that bit back in, so one of the sections would say this:
So it would say ""On 5th April 1983 sports presenter Nick Owen become one of them main presenters working one week each with Anna and Angela initially only for the month of April [2] [3] Rippon was castigated by viewers and the media for her blatant hostility to Owen on air. When he made an error in a link, Rippon stated "You see, it's not as easy as you think." [1] Just 2 weeks later both Anna and Angela being sacked with Lynd Barry being brought in as stop gap measurement before with Anne Diamond joining from the BBC to become his new co-presenter, From Early June. ""
However these are the bit which are still causing issues:
Anna Fod had the flu and went on the sick on Tuesday 1st March 1983 she returned on Monday 7th March 1983. Ann and Rippon continued to present Good morning Britain until Tuesday 5th April 1983 ( Monday 4th was Easter Monday so only kids programmes were on air) when Nick owen was promoted to the sofa from Sport desk, and nick presented one week each with rippon and Ford, and the pair were both sacked on 18th April [4]
How could Nick Owen step in for Parkinson on Fridays and Mondays when nick first day wasn't until April? Anna was only off air for four days and was back the following Monday. It is believe David frost covered Tuesday and Parkinson Wed- Friday, lus his Sat/sun show, so no one needed to cover his editions. How can Peter Jay asked Ann ford to step down for two people that wasn't even presenting during the week? in fact the Anna had only worked one day of the revised format. How can Jay sacked Rippon's for her behaviour if Jay was sacked two weeks earlier on 18th march. What is even strange is Anna made a public appeal to keep jay in his job, yet Jay wanted to get rid of her, why would anyone do that? [5] [6] [7]
References
Leapman, Michael 1984
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).This article claims that the TV-am studios were sold to MTV in 1993. The Breakfast Television Centre article claims it happened in 1988, with two sources to support that. If that's true, it begs the question, where did TV-am broadcast from between 1988 and 1993? Which date is correct? Dr Greg talk 13:32, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
while this book say the studios were sold to MTV in MArch 1993: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bqqGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA381&lpg=PA381&dq=tvam+studio+camden+sold+to+MTV&source=bl&ots=HbptXn5zPC&sig=ACfU3U1pGXkMaNkEmdZ8mIwEgcB5tdu29A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6lbrTy-f5AhWYFMAKHYu4CYM4FBDoAXoECCIQAw#v=onepage&q=tvam%20studio%20camden%20sold%20to%20MTV&f=false and in fact Television News: Liquidation looms for TV-am ... director of the new ITV Network Centre. And cable and satellite music channel MTV is currently in advanced negotiations with TV-am over its studios in Camden Town, north London. The TV-am board is also reportedly con sidering selling its 50 per cent stake in ... Published: Thursday 28 January 1993: Newspaper: The Stage -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 18:07, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Michael Parkinson went to Australia in early June 1983 for the summer with Henry Kelly taking over his weekend duites. [1] [2] David Frost was given the Sunday slot from 28th August initially for 8 weeks [3] [4] with the belief Parkinson would return to his full duties in October, By November Parkinson return to TVAM but was only given the Saturday slot after Frost had increased the viewership on Sundays [5] Parkinson finally to leave the station in early February 1984 with the company making plans to cut over 40 jobs [6] [7] [8]
In September 1983, TVAM finally joined the Television contractors associations, which give the addition benefit of providing cross promotional content between the 15 regional ITV companies and TVAM. [9] The continuing increase in viewership had still not resulted in an increase in advertising revenue, and throughout October speculation rose the company would collapse at any second. The situation was resolved in November when a new refinance package come into effect with new shareholders including Ladbrook's and the owners of the Daily Express who ejected over £4.5 million into the company. [10] [11]
It seems the above new content is causing one member to have kitten. C ( talk) 07:51, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
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A couple of things with the Children's programmes section. firstly I have delinked Cartoon World as that page was a redirect to Universal's Islands of Adventure which has not connection to the TV-AM programme. Secondly, the acquired programming only has two entries - The Transformers and Challenge of the GoBots. However should some of the many cartoons shown over the years as part of Good Morning Britain not be included? If memory serves correctly these aired for about 5 minutes at c 7.20am and included such things as The Ruff and Reddy Show, 1950s Casper the Friendly Ghost episodes and Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks among others as well. Dunarc ( talk) 21:35, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
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Somebody requested a photo of the TV-am tower. TheGrappler 17:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Article edited to remove the reference of Peter Jay as being a presenter. The other member of the 'Big Five' was in actual fact Robert Kee, who presented the 1st program on TV-am, Daybreak, at 06:00 on 1 February 1983
Tgsh2005 3 July 2005 22:14 (UTC)
The article quotes Scofield as having been involved, however his own Wikipedia page says:
"Aged 19, Schofield moved with his family to New Zealand, where he made his television debut presenting the children's music programme Shazam! on 23 February 1982. He also spent two years working for the Auckland-based station Radio Hauraki.[2] In 1985, Schofield returned to England, where he became the first in-vision continuity presenter for Children's BBC"
Poggs ( talk) 17:21, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Hopeful to clean up this page soon, IF anyone has any useful refs etc place leave them here. -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 20:46, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
My understanding is that TV-am was an ITV franchise. This article dances all around that fact without actually stating it. It needs to be stated upfront, in the opening sentence or paragraph. Softlavender ( talk) 15:10, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
CrazySeiko starts his/her improvements with the comment "What a pile of crap and rubbish...Some major improvements really are needed on this page". Let's see what "major improvements" have been made (errors or dubious areas are in bold, comments or correction in italics):- [1]
Low-key forerunner added yesterday. "In 1987 technical staff at the station..." becomes "In 1987 the technical staff at the station"; not gramatically wrong, but unnecessary and arguably a subtle difference in meaning.
[2]
Here's where it really starts...
"A broad room [boardroom] battle ensured [ensued] on 13 march [capitalisation] 1983"
"On the same day Angela Rippon and Anna Ford come [came] out publicly"
" Greg Dyke was brought in as director of programmes, to helped [help] build an audience, [(was that comma meant to be a full-stop?)] He moved David Frost to Sundays, and was replaced by sports presenter Nick Owen [Greg Dyke was replaced by Nick Owen?!!] to front Good Morning show [Good Morning Britain?]"
[3] "Australian business tycoon Kerry Packer took a substantial minority interest in the company, ["and" missing?] in early May appointed his own Chief Executive [no capitalisation needed], Bruce Gyngell"
"The station overhauled is [its] children's Saturday morning programme [programmeS?]]"
"Intraindustry dispute" [Not sure if it's a mistake- should it be "intra-industrial dispute"?- but it's certainly pointless jargon]
[ [4]]
" Michael Parkinson(whose weekend show was the only success the station was having" (fine) becomes "Michael Parkinson [[Parkinson's]] weekend show become [became] the only success the station [is there a word missing here?!], largely because the BBC did not broadcast on weekend mornings"
" Michael Parkinson become a director of the company and joined the broad [board] of management"... and presumably joined them in the "broad room"?
"On the First [no capitalisation needed] day of broadcasting, included a interview with Lord terbet [Any relation to Lord "Capital T" Tebbit?!] about the current unemployment, [..] Within two weeks of the launch the ratings were a distorter ["Distorter"?! Does he mean "disaster"?]
Anyone wanting to point out mistakes *I* might have made above, should remember that (a) this isn't the article itself and (b) I'm not the one who arrogantly called the *existing* content "a pile of crap and rubbish" and appointed themselves to make "major improvements", yet littered the article with grammar, punctuation et al far worse than what was there before.
Enough said. Can someone else please take a look at the *factual* content these "improvements" made and and see if the underlying content is worth keeping despite its awfulness? I've had enough of this for now. Ubcule ( talk) 19:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
May the fact you have not undone the edits is because you know refs have now been added in, and some of the incorrect rubbish have been removed. I appointed my selves to make "major improvements", I had no choice, No one else has bother there backside to make any attempt to enhance this page, not even your good self. The article is more factual and has more refs. Yes my grammer skills are some what poor at least I made an effort to get this page improved unlike some..... -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 21:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your further comments. I do have legitimate concerns about this page. I even made them clear 14 months ago , if you look further up to "Major Clean Up" Feb 2013. Since that time no one single proper overhaul of this page has taken place, by anyone. Beside the fact, two Documentaries have been produced, books, website, newspapers are freely available:
This is part of the reason why I come back to this page, to my horror apart from some addition details, the major sticking points about this page remained and its become rather clear no one has bother to deal with the actually bread and butter details in this page. It was very surprising to see some real clanger clogging up this page. The page
The changes have improved the factual reliability of the article, which I hope will spur other to try and get the other section improved aswell, since it still requires some major improvements and enhancements to allow it to reach a decent level, especially in the Bruce Gyngell section.
I do have genuine reason, with my grammar and spelling problems. You my will be correct my attitude did not help, but I was pretty hacked off nothing had been done about this page, and I felt its being left to rot, alas this is not the first page nor will it be the last page to rot away online but surly after 14 months, something would have been improved. I dare say you were as hack off about my complaints as I was about the lack of improvements.
Thank you for letting the legitimise content, to get an airing. -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 23:36, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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The following is series that were broadcast in the Kids programmes, not sure if these should be included
After only two editions on air, Ford was struck with flu and Michael Parkinson stepped in to cover for her. The ratings slide was halted for the first time since the launch and even edged slightly up in the second week of the new team. As Parkinson was hosting the weekend show, sports reporter Nick Owen stepped in for Parkinson on Fridays and Mondays. Rippon was castigated by viewers and the media for her blatant hostility to Owen on air. When he made an error in a link, Rippon stated "You see, it's not as easy as you think." When Ford was fit to return to work, Peter Jay asked her to step aside as the combination of Parkinson, Rippon and Owen was worth continuing to help the ratings. Ford refused, stating that if she stepped down, it would be too easy for the media to pin the disastrous start to the station on her. Rippon's behaviour and Ford's refusal to step aside caused great anger with the TV-am board and director Jonathan Aitken believed Jay incompetent for not removing them both. [1]
The issues around this, is the month of March. Its stated Nick never moved from Sports to Sofa until 4th April 1983, and the points raised with ippon were made then. Pete Jay left to 2 weeks earlier. So if this is correct why is contradict what the newspapers where saying at the time? also TVAM was big news and there nothing about Anna having flu, that would have added more fuel to the fire surly? -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 14:07, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
First off I will be sending this to an admin or etc, as its pretty to clear to all that your failed to even communicate or use this talk page to improve this page. What is even odd is your created this Fallacy that I called "editors liars" I which I never did, I said the source is a lie, please highlight where I said editors were liars. Edit of " 13:55, 11 June 2022 " never say Editors. edit off " 21:49, 16 August 2022" again never mentioned Editors ???
Paragraph above is still problematic, because its contradicts other source and yet NO one has used this talk page to explain why. I have reread the paraph and to make an olive branch.. it looks like the bit ( talk) isn't happy about being mist out is this bit " Rippon was castigated by viewers and the media for her blatant hostility to Owen on air. When he made an error in a link, Rippon stated "You see, it's not as easy as you think." [1] " Im more than happy to put that bit back in, so one of the sections would say this:
So it would say ""On 5th April 1983 sports presenter Nick Owen become one of them main presenters working one week each with Anna and Angela initially only for the month of April [2] [3] Rippon was castigated by viewers and the media for her blatant hostility to Owen on air. When he made an error in a link, Rippon stated "You see, it's not as easy as you think." [1] Just 2 weeks later both Anna and Angela being sacked with Lynd Barry being brought in as stop gap measurement before with Anne Diamond joining from the BBC to become his new co-presenter, From Early June. ""
However these are the bit which are still causing issues:
Anna Fod had the flu and went on the sick on Tuesday 1st March 1983 she returned on Monday 7th March 1983. Ann and Rippon continued to present Good morning Britain until Tuesday 5th April 1983 ( Monday 4th was Easter Monday so only kids programmes were on air) when Nick owen was promoted to the sofa from Sport desk, and nick presented one week each with rippon and Ford, and the pair were both sacked on 18th April [4]
How could Nick Owen step in for Parkinson on Fridays and Mondays when nick first day wasn't until April? Anna was only off air for four days and was back the following Monday. It is believe David frost covered Tuesday and Parkinson Wed- Friday, lus his Sat/sun show, so no one needed to cover his editions. How can Peter Jay asked Ann ford to step down for two people that wasn't even presenting during the week? in fact the Anna had only worked one day of the revised format. How can Jay sacked Rippon's for her behaviour if Jay was sacked two weeks earlier on 18th march. What is even strange is Anna made a public appeal to keep jay in his job, yet Jay wanted to get rid of her, why would anyone do that? [5] [6] [7]
References
Leapman, Michael 1984
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).This article claims that the TV-am studios were sold to MTV in 1993. The Breakfast Television Centre article claims it happened in 1988, with two sources to support that. If that's true, it begs the question, where did TV-am broadcast from between 1988 and 1993? Which date is correct? Dr Greg talk 13:32, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
while this book say the studios were sold to MTV in MArch 1993: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bqqGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA381&lpg=PA381&dq=tvam+studio+camden+sold+to+MTV&source=bl&ots=HbptXn5zPC&sig=ACfU3U1pGXkMaNkEmdZ8mIwEgcB5tdu29A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6lbrTy-f5AhWYFMAKHYu4CYM4FBDoAXoECCIQAw#v=onepage&q=tvam%20studio%20camden%20sold%20to%20MTV&f=false and in fact Television News: Liquidation looms for TV-am ... director of the new ITV Network Centre. And cable and satellite music channel MTV is currently in advanced negotiations with TV-am over its studios in Camden Town, north London. The TV-am board is also reportedly con sidering selling its 50 per cent stake in ... Published: Thursday 28 January 1993: Newspaper: The Stage -- Crazyseiko ( talk) 18:07, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Michael Parkinson went to Australia in early June 1983 for the summer with Henry Kelly taking over his weekend duites. [1] [2] David Frost was given the Sunday slot from 28th August initially for 8 weeks [3] [4] with the belief Parkinson would return to his full duties in October, By November Parkinson return to TVAM but was only given the Saturday slot after Frost had increased the viewership on Sundays [5] Parkinson finally to leave the station in early February 1984 with the company making plans to cut over 40 jobs [6] [7] [8]
In September 1983, TVAM finally joined the Television contractors associations, which give the addition benefit of providing cross promotional content between the 15 regional ITV companies and TVAM. [9] The continuing increase in viewership had still not resulted in an increase in advertising revenue, and throughout October speculation rose the company would collapse at any second. The situation was resolved in November when a new refinance package come into effect with new shareholders including Ladbrook's and the owners of the Daily Express who ejected over £4.5 million into the company. [10] [11]
It seems the above new content is causing one member to have kitten. C ( talk) 07:51, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
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A couple of things with the Children's programmes section. firstly I have delinked Cartoon World as that page was a redirect to Universal's Islands of Adventure which has not connection to the TV-AM programme. Secondly, the acquired programming only has two entries - The Transformers and Challenge of the GoBots. However should some of the many cartoons shown over the years as part of Good Morning Britain not be included? If memory serves correctly these aired for about 5 minutes at c 7.20am and included such things as The Ruff and Reddy Show, 1950s Casper the Friendly Ghost episodes and Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks among others as well. Dunarc ( talk) 21:35, 8 December 2022 (UTC)