© ITVplc/LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION 1984
AT LAST! My first LWT closedown! With the number of Thames closedowns I've been finding recently, I knew I must come across an LWT closedown sooner or later... and I did! The closedown time was 12:50/12:51am.
End of Golf coverage
C4 trailer: Scarman Returns
LWT optical ident slide: Night Thoughts
LWT optical slide with electronic text: Weather forecast
LWT optical slides electronically composited: Sunday night line-up
LWT optical slides: Weather forecast background then ident slide: closing announcement
Unbranded optical slide of Liz The Tax Money Leech with tune of parochial crap
Switch off TV warning
Black and silence
Philips PM5544 testcard with tone
25:45 - loss of sync (yeah, sometimes the way the original VCR recorded this triggers my Panasonic VCR to show a blank grey screen, almost as if the original VCR didn't record control track pulses. Some could generate their own control track when recording if there was no sync pulse incoming from the TV signal (as VCRs use the sync pulses in an analogue TV signal to create and record a control track on the tape as a reference point for speed and tracking when playing back). Other VCRs - like the one that recorded this - couldn't generate their own control track to record in the absence of sync pulses, they were entirely reliant on the presence of sync pulses being received from the TV signal. It's that lack of control track that triggers VCRs like mine to go to a grey (or blue) screen when playing back. There's no option in the menu on my VCR to switch off this grey screen feature).
Transmitter shutdown briefly seen around 29:30