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RE: Pages from ceefax music choice - Milkshake - 29-06-2023
I have to throw my hat in and say Sweet mood and the delights of Jerzy Milian.
RE: Pages from ceefax music choice - Si-Co - 29-06-2023
Excuse my ignorance here, but what type of machines and “tapes” would have been used by the TV companies around the 1980s era to play testcard, interval (eg ITV Schools, Channel 4 break fillers) and breakdown music. The tracks and tapes themselves have often been referred to but I’ve no idea how they were played to air. I’ve seen examples of tracks played directly from LP, which would work during a short breakdown, but what about during longer junctions and trade test transmissions?
RE: Pages from ceefax music choice - James2001 - 29-06-2023
One of the posts in this thread said they were quarter inch tapes, which would be a pretty standard reel to reel format used across all industries.
RE: Pages from ceefax music choice - Bluecortina - 29-06-2023
I know I was talking about the music accompanying the Test Card F rather than the music played alongside Ceefax, but having spoken to my wife again she confirms there was only one quarter inch tape machine. This would reinforce why they had to keep within the one minute max ‘rule’ when changing tapes, this has also been confirmed to me by another ex-BBC POA of the same era. She left the BBC in 1984.
All the ITV Pres control areas I was involved in had a single quarter inch tape deck, a professional EMT turntable and Sonifex audio cart machines. I moved away from that ‘sort of thing’ in the early 90’s so I don’t know what followed.
RE: Pages from ceefax music choice - TIGHazard - 01-07-2023
Funnily enough speaking of Techmoan... Guess what he just posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENRbOWDXmI
RE: Pages from ceefax music choice - Dadeki - 01-07-2023
(01-07-2023, 11:33 AM)TIGHazard Wrote: Funnily enough speaking of Techmoan... Guess what he just posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENRbOWDXmI
The full contents of the tape (both sides) can be listened to here:
https://youtu.be/a_0xLaSQAQ0