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Article: tv & radio: FAB 4; Countdown to birth of a channel.(Features)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2007
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Byline: by Roz Laws
IT was a quiet start for a TV station which went on to make a big noise in broadcasting.
With no fanfare, at 4.45pm on Thursday November 2, 1982, Richard Whiteley appeared on the new Channel 4 to host a simple game show involving numbers and letters.
And 25 years later, Countdown is still going strong.
Carol Vorderman, the first woman to appear on Channel 4, got the job when her mother forged her signature on an application form and sent it in, after her daughter had said: "Don't be so silly - the idea of ...