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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 22-09-2023

‘Retro T’ on YT offers a rare look at the highly local output of GBC in Gibraltar ranging from the early 80s to the late noughties - including Pres, adverts, news etc.

https://youtube.com/@retrot4975/videos 

A couple of examples - the evening news from October 1982, shortly after the Spanish general election (and including some BBC packages)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7xKtljxsuY8 

In-vision continuity linking into a YTV drama series, Airline (with Roy Marsden)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wwNeAEAx68g 

A later example of Newswatch, replete with off-air BBC Parliament footage of that day’s top story.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNckQHj-b40 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - W. Knight - 23-09-2023

(18-09-2023, 08:14 AM)Stooky Bill Wrote:  A clip of TV coverage of 9/11 that I haven't seen before, this is the opening of Live with Regis and Kelly which started at 9am New York time.

Very odd the way it went from cheering crowd to teroor attack in 5 minutes. Interesting that the audience had been in the studio for a while and didn't know anything about it until Regis mentioned it on air. I wonder if they even came back after the break

https://youtu.be/o6Jl73KQZeo?si=mz6OPYyNdQTFEBnq 

The original owner of the 9/11 clip has posted the full recording of Live. It seems the WABC team (under the Live branding) had been dipping in and out of ABC News coverage after half past 9 until 9.43.
https://youtu.be/_h1wDjMwkOA 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 23-09-2023

Just been reading up about GBC, not a broadcaster was aware of before. Must have one of the smallest audiences of any national broadcaster, the population is abut 32,000 - much smaller than the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

Their Wikipedia entry is very detailed, but only to about 2012. One thing that intrigues me is that they simulcast the BBC's 6 o clock news when it launched and supposedly the BBC newsreader used to welcome Gibraltar and mention the time there. Sounds a bit iffy, I wonder if that ever happened even as a one off or whether GBC got the BBC to record something for them

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Humphrey Hacker - 23-09-2023

(23-09-2023, 08:18 AM)Stooky Bill Wrote:  Just been reading up about GBC, not a broadcaster was aware of before. Must have one of the smallest audiences of any national broadcaster, the population is abut 32,000 - much smaller than the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

Their Wikipedia entry is very detailed, but only to about 2012. One thing that intrigues me is that they simulcast the BBC's 6 o clock news when it launched and supposedly the BBC newsreader used to welcome Gibraltar and mention the time there. Sounds a bit iffy, I wonder if that ever happened  even as a one off or whether GBC got the BBC to record something for them

I don't know about GBC but I do know when BFBS launched its live service to troops and families in Germany in the early 1980's News At 5.45 had a story about it (16.45 onwards):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wok0R4KAvgk 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 23-09-2023

Things have moved on at a gradual pace since that Allan King report mentioned on Wiki.

Most of the schedule is still local programming (with a few lower-end imports) and confined largely to peak time, but last year, they started simulcasting Radio Gibraltar’s lunchtime news show in a format not too dissimilar to Nicky Campbell’s 5 Live phone-in.

They moved into a new HQ a couple of years ago and since revamped - and revamped again - their main news programme. There was also a documentary to mark the move (another was in the pipeline for their 60th anniversary this year)

https://www.gbc.gi/tv/programmes/gbc-move-1189 

Most of their output’s on their website (save for the occasional live Europa League game or UEFA qualifier) - makes for interesting, if sometimes, meandering and heavily parochial viewing to the outsider.

Probably one of GBC’s biggest efforts in recent years was a series called Cops on the Rock, which was co-produced for Dave through their indie subsidiary, Wheelhouse Media.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Bluecortina - 23-09-2023

(23-09-2023, 10:18 AM)Humphrey Hacker Wrote:  I don't know about GBC but I do know when BFBS launched its live service to troops and families in Germany in the early 1980's News At 5.45 had a story about it (16.45 onwards):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wok0R4KAvgk 

I know about this because I was working at the BFBS HQ in Stonebridge Park when it went ‘live’. I’m 99% sure I even edited that programme.

I suspect we had champagne on the first live day. I think the BBC news later on that evening made a similar reference to new viewers in Germany? Very happy days.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 23-09-2023

(23-09-2023, 09:12 PM)Bluecortina Wrote:  I suspect we had champagne on the first live day. I think the BBC news later on that evening made a similar reference to new viewers in Germany? Very happy days.

Yes, they did - it was the closing story on the Nine, as seen in the video above.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Bluecortina - 23-09-2023

(23-09-2023, 09:45 PM)lookoutwales Wrote:  Yes, they did - it was the closing story on the Nine, as seen in the video above.

Thank you. I’ve seen that video many, many times and I wasnt going to plough through it again.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Humphrey Hacker - 23-09-2023

(23-09-2023, 09:12 PM)Bluecortina Wrote:  I know about this because I was working at the BFBS HQ in Stonebridge Park when it went ‘live’. I’m 99% sure I even edited that programme.

I suspect we had champagne on the first live day. I think the BBC news later on that evening made a similar reference to new viewers in Germany? Very happy days.

I'm sure they were. Must have been a hell of a feeling.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Bluecortina - 24-09-2023

(23-09-2023, 10:25 PM)Humphrey Hacker Wrote:  I'm sure they were. Must have been a hell of a feeling.

It was, the live link was a very long time coming and it’s prospect was the butt of jokes for many years. At the time we were told the hold up was due to the lack of PTT permissions for the microwave masts in Belgium. A change of engineering management at the top of BFBS coincided with a push to get the link completed, a complete re-installation of the London Control Centre etc*. The microwave link was installed by Marconi and the UK part of it was maintained under contract by the IBA. It was incredibly reliable but then again it was completely engineered to military standards so I guess it should have been. I’m told by engineering colleagues who went to the German end of the link that the technical quality was such that unless you knew different you would think the signals were coming from a room next door rather than north London. 

* I’ve had look at a few bits of that video again now and it shows the London end as it was originally with quad vtrs etc. It was a long time ago, but from memory the whole technical area was re-engineered before the service went live with 1” vtrs etc etc. So, I’m not sure when this video was made and how it relates to the actual live service? All too long ago to recall by me with any accuracy. 

The whole idea of the tv service to the troops and their families in Germany was the idea of BFBS’ controller at the time in the early 1970’s - a chap called Ian Woolf. He dreamt it up and pushed it through to fruition. He was a very very charismatic man and his obit is worth looking up on the www.

There is, of course, an alternative ‘engineers’ version of that video but I couldn’t possibly post it!

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