Edited sentence: Just before midnight on December 31 1992 TSW went off-air replaced by Westcountry Television (later taken over by Carlton Television, renamed ITV Westcountry in 2002).That ended a long 32-year era of fame around the world and a long 11-year era.This final closedown - or rather, by this time, final message before the franchise changeover at midnight, for we were now into the era of 24-hour transmissions on ITV - is most notable for TSW’s asserting themselves in a continuum, as though there had been no franchise change 11 years earlier, as announcers Ian Stirling and Ruth Langsford spoke of “the last 31 years” (since 1961 when Westward began).This, in many ways, was quite true - after a brief assertion of its comparative youthfulness and modernity, TSW had become effectively “son of Westward”; when Westcountry took over at midnight on 1st January 1993, in-vision continuity disappeared, the Derry’s Cross building was abandoned in favour of the nondescript Language Science Park, and Gus Honeybun was confined to theme park Britain.Westcountry Television started, beginning one of the saddest days ever in ITV history.of the world-famous Television South West and it faded to an image of Big Ben, and then