Articles about start-up music

A brilliant composer, particularly of TV music, has died.

HTV starts the day in 1973

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1962

Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract

Ulster Television starts the day one morning in 1978

Harlech starts the day one evening in 1968

The musical habits of a lifetime

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1974… in black and white

An unpopular war in the Middle East forces a change of identity for the biggest ITV company

Thames swings into colour

ATV Midlands starts the day with a rousing tune and a pretty slide

The ultimate startup from the backbone of ITV

Combining ABC and Rediffusion the opposite way to Thames

Thames keeps up the traditions set by ABC Television

ATV London starts the day with a rousing march from Eric Coates

The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies

Associated-Rediffusion starts the day with pomp and circumstance

Start each day with the north-eastern Scotland contractor

What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise

From the North and showing it – Granada shows its roots

The cuckoo in the nest re-invents the daily start up

In the Midlands and the North, the ultimate TV station starts the day

Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.

Roddy Buxton continues his trawl through the Transdiffusion archives

Roddy continues his journey through the Transdiffusion archives.

Roddy Buxton looks into the TBS basement files

The Tyne Tees way

How Associated Rediffusion started the day in its first few months

Folk medleys defined many aspects of start-up music, says Richard Elen

The early days of start-ups on Associated Rediffusion

Richard Elen has been searching for 35 years for one tune

How presentation – and daily start-ups – provided the full stops and commas of TV

Bureaucracy, slow and deliberate, creates a new art form

Constant and unchanging – an environment where branding was king

Gavin Sutherland reconstructs the most famous ITV start-up

Kif Bowden-Smith starts the day with ITV

Gavin Sutherland on the composer of the Thames ident

Gavin Sutherland on the composer of Three Rivers Fantasy

Gavin Sutherland shows us how he recreates lost works

Music maestro