11-06-2022, 09:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2022, 10:01 PM by Steve Williams.)
(11-06-2022, 07:22 PM)Markymark Wrote: Back on topic late 70s/early 80s South Today Saturday Teatime was a basic affair of a two headed show. Paul Harris or Peter McCann with the news, and John Hughes with the sport. Just slides, no moving footage of anything. One week someone had clearly got Programme and Preview on the vision mixer transposed, because whenever one presenter was talking, we saw the other. Exciting times, the 1970s
It's interesting to think about what a brute those programmes would have been to make in the seventies and early eighties, even though there were no moving pictures it would have been incredibly frantic to put together, sorting out all the images and the captions. I love the ones with the racing results on a revolving drum. I think it's in Bob Wilson's book where he says in his training they told him that when they were writing to still images like that, their name had to be the very first thing you said to give the viewer time to process who it was.
There was a similarly frantic radio programme on Radio 4 at 6.30 when it used to have regional variations in the seventies. In London it was again done by the network team who had just done five hours of Sport on 2 and went under the name of Sports Session. Des talks in his book about listening to Christopher Martin-Jenkins present it one night while he was in the office, and they were all absolutely baffled when with ten minutes to go, CMJ said "That's the end of Sports Session, goodnight." And then there was about a minute of shuffling papers before CMJ said "I'm afraid that wasn't the end of Sports Session. And now the rugby."
The other regular Saturday sporting staple right up until the end of the nineties was the news bulletin on BBC2 around seven o'clock. There used to be a couple of news bulletins on BBC2 up until the mid-eighties, but they were all dropped apart from this one which ran for another decade or more. Seemingly it stayed there because it included an extended sports bulletin in it.