I'm glad we still get some form of regional broadcasting with the News here in the UK. With Fred Dinenage on the regional news with his excellent co-workers makes geat viewing. I am sick of the BBC and miss more regional dedicated broadcasts, with the plethora of available channels, why is there not more. Long gone are the days of quality content from Southern and TVS.

Very easy to make comment and judgement looking from the outside. Perhaps there was more to the franchise loss than people realise. Southern was a fine regional broadcaster, arguably the finest of the smaller ten. "Day By Day"was second to none; and, as ,mentioned , Barry Westwood was not only an excellent tv journalist and presenter, he was a most decent man, a pleasure to know. Very genuine guy.

@Texbaslery I am saddened to hear of Barry's death. He was a true people person and a fine broadcaster. His life after Southern (He was not offerred a job with TVS) consisted of running a PR company. He specialised in training Exectives to deal with the media, and a lot of media people famous today were taught by dear old Barry Westwood. RIP Barry. GLF

Hi Jay, Thank you for your comments. To answer you question.-Yes, if the UK had followed the American licence system then Southern could, possibly still be in existence. I think it somewhat unlikely though.

Southern threw their toys out of the cot.... TVS, when they lost their franchise 10 years later, reacted far more maturely.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they were pissed to lose their fancy studio they built a decade earlier.

@edwardchannell7369

6 жыл бұрын

AMATEUR & 11M RADIO TIM

@Texbaslery I pass the old Northam site fairiy frequently too, it's a shame it has been left to rot. I visited the old Ship many, many times. The Southern launch was named "Southerner" Do remember Barry Westwood and the team from "Day by Day"? That was regional telly, not the nonsensical rubbish that is mostly served these days on ITV.

In a way, it seems strange to see Fred Dinage there amongst the frontline broadcasting staff, looking so young. Now, of course, he has been retired from the local ITV regional programme himself, for a few years.

My pleasure.

On visits down South over the year's I have meet people saying that Bruce Parker is a marmite person you either like him or hate him I did meet him once and he was a decent and nice person to speak to

John Caine. Bet he wished he was never employed by Central with the way his career ended.

When Southern did they last broadcast Good Bye To All That they did it as a all mighty up yours to the IBA. But when TVS did their's in 1992 Good Bye To All That they did it with pride and joy and hope and fun and no up yours to the ITC

@scottpeacock5492

7 жыл бұрын

Sound to me Southern tv couldn't handle losing there licence as they were the longest serving local tv network for the South and Southeast since the 50's, The only programme that I knew that came out of Southern tv I know of was children story Worzel Gummidge. Television South had more on offer in the 80's with children Satursday morning programme number 73 and family gameshow such as catchphrase.

@richardsharpe2966

7 жыл бұрын

***** Well Scott it was so with Southern Television sour grapes

@cosmicleo3671

4 жыл бұрын

Wait, Southerns very last programme was And it’s goodbye from us. TVS did Goodbye to All that.

@Rassilon72

3 жыл бұрын

TVS, when they presented their farewell programme, inferred that they would bid again when the franchise's came up for tender in another 10 years. Sadly, the franchise process never happened again and TVS as a company was wound up.

I must apologise. I missed the vulgar remark made by rebelvodka. That person has been blocked from my site, and the offending string removed.

It sounded like that no one's happy with the news.

Let me start by saying I'm an American and our relicensing process is a bit different. The F.C.C. licenses individual stations (usually 1 transmitter, 1 facility) as opposed to networks. Not knowing how the IBA worked, could Southern conceivably still be in existence if the U.K. regulatory "scheme" (which solely means dirty or underhanded in American English) had followed a path similar to ours? I love the sign-on music and find myself humming it frequently.

@sillygoose635

4 жыл бұрын

honestly yeah, it would.

Is that Sir Alec Guinness at 0.38?

That Bruce Parker always seemed a smug old git, a bit too old school boy. And smug he was especially when he was doing this bulletin about the demise of Southern TV. I bet some of those people leaving work that night, knowing they might be out of a job soon, felt like jumping out of their cars and giving smug face Parker a good kick in the bollocks.

@antster1983

7 жыл бұрын

There was a Report South special broadcast on BBC 1 South once the deadline for bids had passed presented by Bruce Parker and "TV critic for the Financial Times" Chris Dunkley, going through all the bids and interviewing the heads of most of the prospective companies (Southern declined the interview but allowed Report South to film in their studios). You can find the full programme on that other video sharing site D@ilymotion.

@vincentallen1863

Жыл бұрын

My maternal grandfather worked (as an electrician) at the BBC South studios, when they were based at the Old South Western Hotel site in Southampton. I recal that he found Bruce Parker fine to talk to, not a snobbish type. Actually, I personally, met Bruce Parker last Summer, in the Cathedral Refectory, in Winchester. I must say, that he was very friendly when I told him that I recognised him from when he presented South Today all those years ago. He said that he remembered my grandfather. I do, of course, appreciate that I didn't have to work with him, and that others might well have an entirely different experience of him.