1960s
Yorkshire TV Ident1968
The very first ident from Yorkshire Television featuring it's famous Chevron symbol, Just what is it supposed to be?
First Night1968
A short clip from Yorkshire TV's Launch night programme First Night with Bob Monkhouse.1970s
Yorkshire TV Ident1970s
The front-cap to ITV's programmes made in the 1970s
What's Coming on, Emmerdale Farm or Farmhouse Kitchen?
Yorkshire TV Start-Up1970s An early 1970s start-up sequence and "In Colour". Pity everything is either in beige or brown!
Yorkshire TV Clock1974
Before a double helping of Emmerdale Farm, it's the News at 10 at 13 past 10!
Yorkshire TV Start-Up1977
An earlier start-up at 8.25am preceding Britain's First Breakfast Television Programme, "Good Morning Calendar"1980s
Yorkshire Television (In Colour) Ident1981
A couple examples of the Yorkshire Television - In Colour Ident from 1981
Yorkshire TV Idents1981 / 1984
These were only seen in the Yorkshire Region to introduce programmes.
Yorkshire TV Ident1983 An early version of the Serving 6 Million Viewers animation.
Right clip - Next it's the News at 5.45 from the studios of ITN in London
Yorkshire TV Christmas Start-Up1984
Here we have a computer generated snow covered chevron from Christmas Morning 1984. The graphics are rather basic but the announcement from Paul Lally is delightful!
Yorkshire TV Idents1986 It's that Serving 6 Million Viewers slogan again, this time with a map. Here it is again, this time starting from Outer Space!
Yorkshire TV Ident1986
The 'Liquid Gold' YTV ident cost £40,000 to make. Judge for yourself if it was worth the money!
Yorkshire TV Production Ident1988
The liquid gold ident again, but the one used for network made programmes
YTV Continuity?
Just before the introduction of the 1989 ITV logo which Yorkshire Television used more than most other regions, YTV used a revolving chevron, as can be seen in this clip.
Yorkshire TV Christmas Ident1986
'This Is Your Christmas' Radio-type jingles promote Xmas night before the first of those programmes
right clip - A bank holiday period wouldn't be complete without a James Bond movie on ITV. For Christmas 1986, ITV showed 'The Spy That Loved Me.'
Yorkshire ITV Ident1989
YTV used its version of the 1989 generic look.
Right clip - Later on in '89 they re-edit so that it has the chevron moving to the center and ITV disappearing.
1994 - 1996
Yorkshire Television Ident1996
A new set of idents introduced following the demise of the ITV 1989 generic corporate look.
1996 - 1999
Yorkshire TV Idents1999
It's the welcome return of that music.
The light version was used during the day and the darker version at night.
1999 - 2002
Yorkshire TV Ident1999
During 1999 Yorkshire introduced a set of new idents, used for continuity into local programmes, such as Calendar. The announcer in this example is Pete Haslam.
1999 - 2002
Yorkshire ITV1 Ident2001
ITV became ITV1 on 11th August 2001. This is an example of the Yorkshire version.
Right clip - ITV1 links into the World News. No mention of Yorkshire sadly.
2002 - 2006
ITV1 Yorkshire Ident2002
On Monday 28th October 2002 a brand new look was introduced for ITV1. All networked programming for the english regions was preceded by the ITV1 network idents. Regional idents were now only used prior to local programming. This is the ident for ITV1 Yorkshire.
