31 Facts About TVS Entertainment

TVS Entertainment ceased broadcasting on 31 December 1992 after losing its franchise to Meridian Broadcasting during the review of franchise holders in 1991.

TVS Entertainment's aims were for a different line of programming in the early evening slots, to win back the 50,000 viewers it claimed were switching over to rivals, due to the poor service provided by Southern.

TVS Entertainment retained their original philosophy for regional and children's programmes.

Dyke accepted the IBA criticism, but highlighted that TVS Entertainment had already begun remedying the issues and faults, with a new editor for their Southampton news operation, and a new head of religious output was brought in, along with a controller of drama - a first for TVS Entertainment.

Once again, TVS Entertainment expressed concern about their relationship with the Big Five ITV stations, and how they controlled the channel's output.

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The result was that the accounts revealed TVS Entertainment had become bigger than Yorkshire Television in terms of advertising revenue, and was quickly catching up with the other Big Five ITV companies.

In 1986, TVS Entertainment were successful in buying Midem, an organisation that promoted trade fairs; and Gilson International, a Los Angeles distribution company selling programmes outside the US.

Ahead of the ITV franchise round, James Gatward resigned from TVS Entertainment, after being informed his services were no longer required, as the board believed he was not showing sufficient resolve in preparing TVS Entertainment for the franchise bid.

TVS Entertainment passed the quality threshold – indeed, as the incumbent broadcaster, it could hardly have failed to do so, as failure would have called the regulatory regime of the new Independent Television Commission into question.

However, the ITC asserted that there was now a third criterion, a requirement that the ITC could confidently expect the winning company to sustain its annual payments throughout the entire period of the 10-year licence; the ITC used this to foot-fault TVS Entertainment and claimed that the company would not be able to sustain the proposed annual £59 million licence payments.

TVS Entertainment could have sought a judicial review, but the legal advice that it received was that the prospect of success would be slim and the costs would be enormous.

The Maidstone Studios were retained with the news facility being leased to Meridian as TVS Entertainment planned to continue trading as an independent producer.

TVS Entertainment ceased broadcasting to the South and South East of England at just before midnight on 31 December 1992.

TVS Entertainment finally completed the purchase of the Southampton site, equipment, news library and staff pension fund in August 1981.

Meridian Broadcasting, the new licensee, were not offered the studios as TVS Entertainment initially intended to become an independent producer.

TVS Entertainment used Dover as a regional studio for a year until completion of Vinters Park when it disposed of the site; the buildings have since been demolished and the site is St James Retail Park, a shopping outlet.

TVS Entertainment acquired the former Plaza Cinema in Gillingham, Kent, as a stopgap measure between the commencement of broadcasting and the completion of Vinters Park.

Production at Gillingham was limited; it was used for several quiz shows and it was the base of the regional afternoon magazine show Not for Women Only while TVS Entertainment recorded the UK inserts for Fraggle Rock at that base.

TVS Entertainment sold the theatre in 1988 to an independent production company.

TVS Entertainment maintained small news studios in Brighton, Reading and Poole.

Studio at Westminster was created for parliamentary coverage; TVS Entertainment had two cameras in the basement studio of the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Broad Sanctuary, as well as a news crew.

TVS Entertainment operated a dual region, where the company both offered different services for the South and South East of England.

TVS Entertainment's identity featured a six-coloured fleur-de-lis symbol that formed up in three stages from the outside in, before zooming out and sitting alongside the TVS Entertainment lettering, accompanied by a shortened version of the station theme New Forest Rondo.

Three versions were produced: a normal ident, a short ident where the TVS Entertainment logo rotated into the lettering, and a minute-extended ident featuring video from the regions that was used upon start-up and in some of the longer junctions.

TVS Entertainment produced a vast array of programming covering a wide aspect of areas.

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TVS Entertainment innovated with the experimental Afternoon Club, a dedicated programme encompassing a number of afternoon soap operas, quiz shows etc.

TVS Entertainment produced its own afternoon magazine series, Not for Women Only.

TVS Entertainment was instrumental in providing separate non-news programmes for the South, South East and Thames Valley areas, including the chat show Coast to Coast People and the listings guide This Way Out.

In 1990, TVS Entertainment brought back How as How 2, and began production of Art Attack.

TVS Entertainment provided a number of networked factual and science-based programmes, including In The Mouth of the Dragon and The Real World, the latter of which was twice broadcast in 3D with special glasses given away with the magazine TV Times.

TVS Entertainment continued Southern Television's tradition of providing classical music programmes, but these were broadcast on Channel 4 instead of ITV, principally involving The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under conductor Owain Arwel Hughes.