ITV at 65: The Ultimate Regional Ident Collection!

The Year: 1955
The Date: September 22
The Time: 7.15 PM

At this exact moment 65 years ago, commercial television launched in the United Kingdom with the birth of London-based station Associated-Rediffusion; followed over the next 7 years by various other stations assigned to different regions of the country. Many of these stations-and the regulatory bodies which have overseen their operations -have come and gone over the ensuing decades and today all but 2 of the 16 existing franchises are licensed to the single company ITV plc under the supervision of Ofcom. The two exceptional franchises are similarly held by a single company, the Glasgow-based STV Group.

As Britain's first commercial television enterprise celebrates its senior anniversary, I have taken it upon myself to take up as great a collection as possible of the various idents used by the 26 former regional companies which had collectively operated the network until that fateful day of 28 October 2002 when ITV relaunched as a nationally-branded network, complimented a year later by the merger of Carlton Communications and Granada Television which created the unified operation and schedule we know today.

With that said, it is time now to cross over to the video studios of Youtube's own MutliAnimationDude so that we may at last enjoy the fullest collection to date of ITV's Regional Idents over it's first 47 years. A few final notes before we begin the presentation:
1. All idents are to be shown clean and without the presence of continuity announcers. This will mean, unfortunately, that certain idents have had their natural audio track substituted in the event where a natural clean ident could not be recovered. I hope this does not spoil your enjoyment of the programme.
2. Thanks to TV-Ark for reopening their website to the public following a three-year hiatus, which has allowed for the recovery of a considerable number of the idents featured.
3. Thanks also to any and all Youtube contributors who have first posted the collected idents; including but not limited to:
TR3X Productions
647Logo
AntVee Productions
BelarushianYoshiEditor2020
STCFetishMuffin
JontyMaster
JCA Graphic Library
TFN
HorizionPoint (Planetb365)
SonicWarrior2006
Plasma Storm
Blake Ashton
Davidjr
George’s Retro Channel
Sashabox Entertainment
Hanksterman
SF08Alt
RichYong
Cambridge Historian Archive
The TV Museum
RetroVideoFan2
Grampian Studios Copyright Grampian TV/STV
Helical Memories

So now I invite you all to sit back, and enjoy the celebration of this most cherished anniversary of a great institution of British media!