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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 27-01-2024
Sci-fi writer Stephen Gallagher sharing a few recollections and details about his time as an assistant transmission controller in Granada’s presentation department during the mid-late 70s.
https://www.stephengallagher.com/television/granada-days/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Bluecortina - 28-01-2024
(27-01-2024, 10:22 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: Sci-fi writer Stephen Gallagher sharing a few recollections and details about his time as an assistant transmission controller in Granada’s presentation department during the mid-late 70s.
https://www.stephengallagher.com/television/granada-days/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
In my experience that's a very accurate and typical experience of the job. Interesting up to a point, but a dead end.
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 31-01-2024
A morning closedown from Channel 4 (when they ended up showing a World Cup qualifier between Australia and Scotland live - as ITV was otherwise tied up with its usual morning output)
Not so much the usual closing routine (despite the presence of announcer John Livesey), more akin to how BBC1 / BBC2 used to return to a 'trade test transmission'.
https://tvark.org/channel-4-closedown-morning
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - robertclark125 - 31-01-2024
Interesting they didn't have the channel 4 logo breaking up, as they usually done at night closedown.
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - nwtv2003 - 31-01-2024
(31-01-2024, 07:31 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: A morning closedown from Channel 4 (when they ended up showing a World Cup qualifier between Australia and Scotland live - as ITV was otherwise tied up with its usual morning output)
Not so much the usual closing routine (despite the presence of announcer John Livesey), more akin to how BBC1 / BBC2 used to return to a 'trade test transmission'.
https://tvark.org/channel-4-closedown-morning
Great to see some subsequent continuity after all this time, video of the match itself has been online for a while. The issue with the match was that it had a 9:00am kick off and TV-am wouldn’t move, so Channel 4 was the solution.
When Channel 4 had the party conferences for a little while, there were gaps during the middle of the day, so one could hazard a guess that they’d return to the testcard in a similar manner.
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 31-01-2024
It presumably wasn't just TVam that was in the way, ITV Schools too.
There used to be quite a lot of shifting sport to Ch4 when it was connected to ITV. Friday evening Athletics being a regular example
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 05-02-2024
This ties in very nicely with the discussion a while back about GMTV's Northern Ireland opts - a look behind the scenes at the Reuters operation in Belfast, from where Sky News also based its bureaux at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5CA0lJiHms
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - thegeek - 05-02-2024
(31-01-2024, 08:02 PM)nwtv2003 Wrote: Great to see some subsequent continuity after all this time, video of the match itself has been online for a while. The issue with the match was that it had a 9:00am kick off and TV-am wouldn’t move, so Channel 4 was the solution.
When Channel 4 had the party conferences for a little while, there were gaps during the middle of the day, so one could hazard a guess that they’d return to the testcard in a similar manner.
To save anyone else looking, here's the match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3XXFnp7zrk
it includes the half-time and post-match studio analysis, and a couple of ad breaks (but not the continuity at the start or end).
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 12-02-2024
From the Youtube archive of ex-announcer Terry Pearson, clean versions of Central's 1993 pres kit (with VT clocks) - followed by the video introducing the following year's package, which you've probably seen on another Central Pres compilation doing the rounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PluIDvoaNXs
RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Allanbuzzy - 12-02-2024
(12-02-2024, 12:10 AM)lookoutwales Wrote: From the Youtube archive of ex-announcer Terry Pearson, clean versions of Central's 1993 pres kit (with VT clocks) - followed by the video introducing the following year's package, which you've probably seen on another Central Pres compilation doing the rounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PluIDvoaNXs
God, this video makes me appreciate how beautiful the Central 1994 look was, feels very Channel 4 2015 in comparison, for the more younger posters here.
Always a treat to see these VTs.