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RE: YouTube Gold - Inspector Sands - 23-06-2022
The story of the greatest piece to camera in TV history:
https://youtu.be/c5a987U9Kdc
RE: YouTube Gold - Neil Jones - 25-06-2022
Courtesy of the VideoTapeFTW channel, here's some in-vision continuity from Nickelodeon December 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsIyA_oYvNM
Your presenter is Sarah Cawood.
RE: YouTube Gold - nwtv2003 - 27-06-2022
A bit of an unusual one here, an S4C closedown from 1992, however there’s no sight of the ETP1 testcard which would have still been in use that the time, minus the IBA legend.
https://youtu.be/KURwgHY1Dio
RE: YouTube Gold - thegeek - 30-06-2022
While he spent most of his 25 year BBC career on the wireless, here's a nice little summary of Zeb Soanes' life at the Beeb, including a bit of his TV work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipdOS2kGKlQ
(he starts on Classic FM on Monday.)
RE: YouTube Gold - RDJ - 30-06-2022
A fascinating look back at Final Score on Grandstand in 1987.
It's interesting to see the enthusiasm of Des Lyman and the excitement he builds when we're literally just looking at a screen of letters and numbers. Though he does desperately ponders for things to say when the videprinter goes a bit quiet.
There's also random £ symbols appearing on the Videprinter which Des can't help but comment that he doesn't know why it does it!
A perfect example on how Saturday afternoons were captivating, even for those growing up like me who has no interest in sport at all!
https://youtu.be/B1RoigBJcDo
RE: YouTube Gold - W. Knight - 30-06-2022
The Hong Kong handover from Britain to PRC, as reported by TVB Pearl, 1997:
https://youtu.be/x2IjqQ4ZiVk
This youtube channel has a compilation of Pearl recordings that night, including a documentary on the British rule and special news updates on the event.
And the build up for the event, one week prior, by ATV World:
https://youtu.be/Eb5q_V-Jp9U
Over in Taiwan, this is what preceded the handover event in Chungtian TV, the predecessor to CTi News.
https://youtu.be/rJuHNin96bM
Then, the channel was part of the Hong Kong-based CTN, but was soon sold to various owners like a hot potato.
RE: YouTube Gold - Neil Jones - 30-06-2022
(30-06-2022, 02:23 PM)RDJ Wrote: A fascinating look back at Final Score on Grandstand in 1987.
It's interesting to see the enthusiasm of Des Lyman and the excitement he builds when we're literally just looking at a screen of letters and numbers. Though he does desperately ponders for things to say when the videprinter goes a bit quiet.
There's also random £ symbols appearing on the Videprinter which Des can't help but comment that he doesn't know why it does it!
A perfect example on how Saturday afternoons were captivating, even for those growing up like me who has no interest in sport at all!
Related: I'm just going to leave these (spoofs) here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew1-FVgre-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACMcjbmniC8
Please try not to fall over them. Thanks.
RE: YouTube Gold - Tom - 30-06-2022
On this day in 2001, a power failure takes BBC programmes off the air:
BBC One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_n3Cxe2Ix4
BBC Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80NReQeWjE&t
RE: YouTube Gold - James2001 - 30-06-2022
(30-06-2022, 02:23 PM)RDJ Wrote: A fascinating look back at Final Score on Grandstand in 1987.
It's interesting to see the enthusiasm of Des Lyman and the excitement he builds when we're literally just looking at a screen of letters and numbers. Though he does desperately ponders for things to say when the videprinter goes a bit quiet.
There's also random £ symbols appearing on the Videprinter which Des can't help but comment that he doesn't know why it does it!
A perfect example on how Saturday afternoons were captivating, even for those growing up like me who has no interest in sport at all!
https://youtu.be/B1RoigBJcDo
Interesting how apart from the font (which I think changed not long after this), these graphics stayed looking pretty much the same into the late 90s.
RE: YouTube Gold - Steve Williams - 01-07-2022
(30-06-2022, 09:11 PM)Tom Wrote: On this day in 2001, a power failure takes BBC programmes off the air:
I watched this whole thing live, which was very exciting. I was watching I Love 1975 - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_two_england/2001-06-30#at-21.00 - even though I'd already watched it the first time around, and also the compilation at Christmas, but you got your archive kicks where you could in those days. I remember they lost the picture, and then my parents came in from the other room where they'd been watching the film Red Corner, which was a premiere - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/2001-06-30#at-21.00 - and my mum said, as she always did when there was a breakdown, "is that us or them?". Flicking through the channels I noticed BBC1 and BBC2 were off but the others weren't, and then quickly whacked in a VHS to record it all for posterity.
After about twenty minutes they were able to resume Red Corner and I Love 1975, and BBC2 dropped God, The Devil And Bob (a controversial series in America, broadcast in the UK to no response whatsoever) to get back on schedule. Convenient it happened at that time when there were no live programmes, unlike the one a year earlier, as had it happened an hour or so earlier Wimbledon would have gone for a burton and the BBC1 news would have been affected. I was always under the impression Red Corner got a quick repeat to make up for the break in transmission, but Genome confirms it actually didn't, I suppose it's no different to showing films around News at Ten.
(30-06-2022, 09:49 PM)James2001 Wrote: Interesting how apart from the font (which I think changed not long after this), these graphics stayed looking pretty much the same into the late 90s.
Yes, I wasn't very interested in football in those days but I did always find the Final Score sequence very pleasing, I enjoyed waiting for the score draws counter to be updated. There's some great clips online of the sequence from before it became computerised in 1984 when the score draws counter is very clearly someone pulling along a strip of paper with numbers on it. It's fascinating to see from these programmes how much emphasis they put on the pools, there are some ITV Results Services from the same period online where they seem to be more concerned about the results from a pools perspective rather than their sporting merit, but in those days everybody did them, and now nobody does them.
Of course, these days when there's no Premier League, there isn't a Final Score even if all the other leagues are playing, but the fact is, the Beeb don't have the rights to those, so it would be like the old days of Final Score with one man reading the scores off the teleprinter. That would have cut it as a viable bit of telly in the past, but not anymore, as you can literally do that yourself. But the football results leading up to 5pm on a Saturday must be one of the longest-running fixtures on BBC1, having been there for over sixty years.
A friend of mine once said he never knew why the teleprinter made a noise, because it didn't have to.
RE: YouTube Gold - thegeek - 01-07-2022
(01-07-2022, 09:04 AM)Steve Williams Wrote: I was always under the impression Red Corner got a quick repeat to make up for the break in transmission, but Genome confirms it actually didn't, I suppose it's no different to showing films around News at Ten.did Red Corner suffer a spectacular breakdown on another occasion, or am I misremembering that?
RE: YouTube Gold - Inspector Sands - 01-07-2022
I saw a photo on a Facebook group the other day of the old pre-computer classifieds board. I won't post it here as it was a privtaeit had never occurred to me that the numbers were on strips of paper threaded through holes and then pulled through to reveal the correct one. The cards with the team names had the name written in biro on the back.... The glamour of television!
I never understood why the results were 'classified'... why all the secrecy? As a kid I also never understood how come the Vauxhall Conference went on so long, the political party conferences only lasted a week.
One of my TV holy grails is the vidiprinter printing 'fire in building, we are evacuating' one afternoon
RE: YouTube Gold - Steve in Pudsey - 01-07-2022
Quite why they used GM Vauxhall Conference for that sponsorship, when they don't use the GM brand in the UK was also a mystery.
RE: YouTube Gold - Colm - 02-07-2022
When their sponsorship period of the Conference began in 1986, General Motors were coming to the end of the era where the Vauxhall and Opel brands were marketed together alongside the GM logo - which had only begun in the autumn of 1981.
If you look at any Vauxhall advert from around then, you'll notice the Vauxhall/GM/Opel logo in use; the dealerships carried similar branding too.
Edit: Research suggests Vauxhall print and TV advertising featured the GM logo in 1980, prior to combining the two marques.
Opel cars stopped being marketed in the UK in 1987/88, and around that time, the triple-branding was also dropped - the 'Once driven, forever smitten' campaign, which by the looks of it went into overdrive (pun intended) TV-wise on Boxing Day 1987, was, I believe, the first to promote Vauxhall without GM/Opel references in over six years.
I recall, and this is backed up by evidence through websearching, the Vauxhall/GM/Opel branding lasted longer on display at dealerships; only being updated when Vauxhall's first round 'Griffin' logo was rolled out from 1989 onwards.
As to why the 'GM Vauxhall' brand was kept for the official name of the Conference, possibly for contractual reasons as that was the brand name they signed up to it under?
RE: YouTube Gold - Steve Williams - 02-07-2022
(01-07-2022, 02:43 PM)thegeek Wrote: did Red Corner suffer a spectacular breakdown on another occasion, or am I misremembering that?
Think that was Heaven Can Wait, which I think broke down twice.