Tiptoe through the Startups - 3
Roddy Buxton continues his trawl through the Transdiffusion archives
Previous articles
ABC Weekend Television
In the Midlands and the North, the ultimate TV station starts the day
The grammar of television
How presentation - and daily start-ups - provided the full stops and commas of TV
Grampian Television
The weird way to start each day with the northern Scotland contractor
Granada (pan-North)
From the North and showing it - Granada shows its roots
Strike Service
What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise
London Weekend
The cuckoo in the nest re-invents the daily start up
Radio with pictures
Constant and unchanging - an environment where branding was king
A Post Office genre
Bureaucracy, slow and deliberate, creates a new art form
Thames Television
Keeping up the traditions set by ABC Television
TVS
The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies
Yorkshire Television
Combining ABC and Rediffusion the opposite way to Thames
Start the day the Granada way
Granada says hello in the 1960s.
