Several acquired afternoon serials running on Channel were disrupted during the switchover from TSW to TVS and the Channel TV Times detailed how they affected viewers.

Following the sale of TVS in 1993, the studios were acquired by TVS's new owners IFE and Meridian's agreement came to a premature end.

TVS was in turn acquired by Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment in late 1992.

However, when TVS lost their franchise, TVS ' plans were to become an independent production company based at Vinters Park, Maidstone, where the former TVS South East division was located.

* The British inserts were filmed at the TVS Television Theatre in Gillingham, Kent ( since closed ) and presents Fraggle Rock as a rocky sea-island with a lighthouse.

Five months later, on 1 June TVS was launched, mostly consisting of NTV / TV-6 staff, only to stop airing 1 year later.

They are related to TVS diodes, but can " breakover " to a low clamping voltage analogous to an ionized and conducting spark gap.

It was a co-production between British regional ITV franchise holder Television South ( TVS ), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates ( later Jim Henson Productions ), the show was filmed on a Toronto sound stage, ( later at Elstree Studios, London ).

Television South ( TVS ) was the ITV franchise holder in the south and south east of England between 1 January 1982 at 09: 30 GMT and 31 December 1992 at 00: 00 GMT.

TVS was formed to apply for the franchise for South and South-East of England in the 1980 ITV franchise round under the working title of South and South-East Communications Limited, following discussions between James Gatward ( a television producer ), Bob Southgate ( a television executive who had previously worked at ITN and Thames Television ) and Martin Jackson ( a journalist ).

On January 20, 1968, TVS put together the " Game of the Century " ( see below ) between the UCLA Bruins and Houston Cougars basketball teams at the Houston Astrodome.

Besides Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( who worked with Merle Harmon on the January 7, 1973 contest between Kansas and Notre Dame ), other broadcast teams for TVS ' college basketball coverage included John Ferguson and Joe Dean ( who called the February 21, 1970 contest between Kentucky and LSU ), Monte Moore and Ed Macauley ( who called the January 2, 1971 contest between Dayton and UCLA ), Charlie Jones and Elgin Baylor ( who called the January 26, 1972 contest between Providence and USC ), Ray Scott and Bill O ' Donnell ( who called the January 14, 1973 contest between SW Louisiana and Oral Roberts ), Al Michaels and Tom Hawkins ( who called the January 26, 1974 contest between Notre Dame and UCLA ), and Jay Randolph and Billy Packer ( who called the November 17, 1979 contest between Duke and Kentucky and November 22, 1980 contest between DePaul and Louisville ).

* TVS, aka Television South, the ITV franchise holder in the South of England between 1982 and 1992

In December 1996, he left the club to head TV sports channel TVS, a newly formed corporation between national TV stations DR and TV2, the Danish Football Association and telecompany Tele Danmark.

How 2 was an informative children's programme produced by TVS between 1990 and 1992, and STV Productions ( Scottish Television ) from 1993 to 2006.

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television ( in association with Blue Heaven Productions ) for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.

** ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively.

Einhorn told Hemmeter that the league had effectively bet its whole credibility on Namath coming to, and none of TVS ' affiliates would commit to broadcasting the 1975 season unless Namath signed with the Winds.

The company operated under various names, initially as Television South plc and then following reorganisation in 1989 as TVS Entertainment plc, with its UK broadcasting arm referred to as TVS Television plc.

TVS began broadcasting at 09: 30 GMT on 1 January 1982.

TVS ceased broadcasting to the south and south east of England at just before midnight on 31 December 1992 at 23: 55 GMT.

While most other ITV stations were broadcasting of the Thames Television farewell programme The End of the Year Show, TVS chose to opt-out and air its own final programme entitled Goodbye to All That a retrospective of TVS's programming presented by Fred Dinenage and Fern Britton, pre-recorded in front of a studio audience at the Northam studios in Southampton earlier in the day.

This facility was available for hire to other broadcasting organisations when not needed by TVS.

TVS used Dover as a regional studio for a year until completion of Vinters Park when they disposed of the site.

In Southern's final programme, And It's Goodbye From Us, a song was featured, composed and performed by Richard Stilgoe, deriding the incoming TVS as Portakabin TV and mocking TVS for choosing Maidstone as a production base in the newly-enlarged dual region despite the fact that Southern itself had already purchased the site in Vinters Park, Maidstone, for a planned studio complex which Southern would have built had it retained its franchise.

The studios were operated by TVS in 1982 and home to ' Coast to Coast ', however they closed a year later when the company moved their operations to the newly complete Television Centre in Maidstone.

In 2001 and 2002, TV channels NTV ( previously owned by Gusinsky ), TV6 and TVS ( owned by Berezovsky ) were all taken over by media groups loyal to Putin.

In 1982, TVS broadcast a documentary on the poets.

The league's only national television contract was with the TVS Television Network, a syndicator of American sports programming.

Merle Harmon and Alex Hawkins served as the announcers TVS ' Thursday Night Game.

According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

By the time of the World Bowl, the games were struggling to achieve Nielsen ratings above 2. 0, and TVS found it nearly impossible to sell advertising.

TVS, the original broadcasters, has passed through several owners since 1992 and only these twelve episodes are known to have survived, out of the 96 that were made.

Of the 96 British inserts to the 1980s franchised Anglo-American / Canadian children's show Fraggle Rock, only 12 are known to exist as the library of the British producer ( TVS ) has been sold and subsequently split up.

Syndicated by TVS, it is the first prime-time national broadcast of men's college basketball and helps pave the way for the sport's March Madness.

Channel's arrangement with Westward changed over, in 1982, to TSW, the new ITV contractor for the South West ; however, in 1986, Channel changed over to TVS, and this continued with Meridian from 1993 onwards.

For instance Channel had to miss 172 episodes of The Young Doctors, the first nine episodes of Prisoner Cell Block H which had been screened on TVS in 1985, and it had to re-show 83 episodes of Sons and Daughters as TVS was behind TSW.

The decision by TVS, the new ITV station in the south and south east of England, to drop the Central-produced half of the last series in favour of their own Saturday morning programme No. 73 saw fans of Tiswas picket outside their Southampton studios.

The eighth series was broadcast on TVS upon the end of No. 73s first series.

There were viewer complaints about the editing, and after a few weeks Thames and TVS both opted out of the run and instead showed the original uncut episodes at 10. 30pm on Mondays.