Thames News
Thames News was the station's main regional evening news magazine programme, broadcast between September 1978 and the end of 1992, when the Thames TV franchise ended.
It succeeded Thames at Six and, before that, the Today programme, which had been presented by Eamonn Andrews and Bill Grundy (everyone has seen the clip of the latter's disastrous interview with The Sex Pistols in 1976).
Thames also produced a Friday evening bulletin for London Weekend Television, called Thames Weekend News, which either stood alone or formed part of LWT's The Six O' Clock Show.
The final edition of Thames News, on 31 December 1992, was presented by Steve Clarke and Gytha Hutton.
Thames News titles - 1982
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Thames News opening titles from 1982 with Rita Carter presenting. |
Thames News titles - 1984
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Thames News opening titles from 1984 with Andrew Gardner in the chair. |
Thames News titles - 1988
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Thames News opening titles from 1987 with John Andrew as the newscaster. |
Thames News headlines (short) titles - 1989
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The short version of the Thames News headlines titles from 1989. |
Thames News headlines (long) titles - 1989
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The extended version of the Thames News headlines opening titles from 1989 . |
Thames News Headlines titles - 1991
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Robin Houston with the Thames News from 1991. |
Thames News titles - 1992
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Thames News opening titles from 1992. |
Here's an advertisement for Thames News from the London Evening News newspaper in 1984.
Here is a report on the closure of Thames Television and Tv-am from the final lunchtime edition of Thames News from 31 December 1992.
Read our section on Thames News presenters.
