God Bless Soundcloud. I now have this on my playlist. I can’t believe it’s a TV station theme.

Epic music, sounds like the sountrack to a movie or something. Ah... what happened to the days of grand presentation on TV like this? It disappeared with the digital age.

It's sad, but the music is beautiful for a TV announcement.

Wow..that epic piece of music. And all they were doing was introducing the TV programmes for the day! TVS was my favourite ITV company, even though I live in the Anglia region. They produced some smashing shows, like Catchphrase, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Art Attack, Concentration and All Clued Up!

I remember watching this on New Years Day 1982. TVS were 'the best view in the South.'

"Good Morning, It's New Year's Day,1982.And this is Television South, TVS. The new Independent Television Company that's proud to serve both The South and South East of England. To begin with we bring in the new with for the first time our symbol which will soon become very familiar!".

And thus I finally comment on this video 30 years to the day that TVS began broadcasting.

My left ear really appreciated this,

They had a particularly nasty send off from Southern with an evening of programmes celebrating the achievements of Southern, which were quite modest, turning  into a rant against TVS with a video of the chairman of Southern insulting the IBA and Richard Stilgoe singing a sarcastic son.

Knew TVS News Editor Jim Monfort really well as I wrote to him several times as a child during the 1980s. My interest in tv prompted him to give me a special tour of the TVS Studios in Southampton which will never be forgotten. Meeting Fern Britton was the highlight 😂👍🏻

God this musics like from a epic film :)

When I saw the news on Q January 1982 and saw that great logo compared to the ** we got with Central. We lost ATV and it was replaced with something like a broken egg

We didn't get the transmitter announcement for TVS until a couple of months later: This is TVS for the south and south east of England.

OMG THIS VIDEO WAS UPLOADED WHEN I WAS BORN! 6-9-09 :D :D :D

What idiot firm of big four accountants came up with that ridiculous bid?  I'm sure if they had bid £15 million less they'd have retained that franchise.   But it was a disasterous mistake buying MTM.  Well it's all history now.

I lived in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex between 1984 and 1986, the house I lived in had a Super High Gain Horizontally Polarized Wideband Aerial pointing at The Sudbury Transmitter in Suffolk, Yet this Aerial was able to get TVS as well. Even though the picture was a little fuzzy it was watchable.

TVS also made On Safari, No 73, Motormouth, Ultra Quiz, The Telebugs & How 2.

4:10
A Enchanted Morning to all, It's Labor Day 2025 and SMS of Enchanted Kingdom's 3rd Anniversary and This is Enchanted Kingdom Television, EKTV, The New Cable Channel Service from Santa Rosa City, Laguna. "To begin with You Make Me Feel Brand New" and for the first time our symbol which eill some become very familiar.

I'm pretty sure that would be where the systems were all being started up.  The power to start the gallery up would be a heck of a lot, also, where the soundtrack would run off a RTR tape, the drop in power would cause the audio to faulter like that.  That's what I reckon... :-)

The music is not "New Forest Rondo".  I bought a second-hand TVS "Country Ways" CD which contains a track by that name but it is not this tune nor anything like it.  I believe the music may just be called "The New Forest", but I'm not remotely sure.