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Not the most exciting thing, but a rare sighting of the ITV version of ETP-1 from Grampian in September 1987. Sadly the recording cuts out before the signal was transferred to TV-am.
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(25-10-2023, 09:25 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: Cable and Wireless didn't bother to provide a data bridge, so when they inserted their ads, teletext disappeared. Bloody annoying when you were trying to read Mailbox onPText
Lady On A Rooftop. That takes me back
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(25-10-2023, 10:20 PM)James2001 Wrote: Not the most exciting thing, but a rare sighting of the ITV version of ETP-1 from Grampian in September 1987. Sadly the recording cuts out before the signal was transferred to TV-am.
Pedantically, nothing to do with Grampian at all, the test card was from the transmitter site so broadcast by the IBA themselves
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(26-10-2023, 01:45 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: Pedantically, nothing to do with Grampian at all, the test card was from the transmitter site so broadcast by the IBA themselves
Had it came from Grampian, it would've had bars above and below the IBA, like on C4. The lack of bars confirmed it was coming from a transmitter site.
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Wasn't the bars above and below purely a channel 4 thing?
I don't think ETP1 (or Test Card F before it for that matter) ever originated from the ITV companies, always the IBA/ITA themselves.
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Some stuff from the BBC Archive YouTube channel:
Things you'd never get away with today #12:
Eric Morecambe smoking a pipe in front of a group of children in 1973, on an episode of Val Meets The VIPs:
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And from the same channel, here's a BBC Breakfast insert from 2013 re: BBC Idents. I can't see this has already been posted and I did search so if has been posted... oops.
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And for now, here's a look at VERA from 1958, Britain's first video tape recorder, and somebody mentions the ability to wipe the tape when they've fnished with it. Nobody would be silly enough to record a programme on tape and then wipe it... would they?
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(26-10-2023, 11:58 PM)Neil Jones Wrote: Some stuff from the BBC Archive YouTube channel:
Things you'd never get away with today #12:
Eric Morecambe smoking a pipe in front of a group of children in 1973, on an episode of Val Meets The VIPs:
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And from the same channel, here's a BBC Breakfast insert from 2013 re: BBC Idents. I can't see this has already been posted and I did search so if has been posted... oops.
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And for now, here's a look at VERA from 1958, Britain's first video tape recorder, and somebody mentions the ability to wipe the tape when they've fnished with it. Nobody would be silly enough to record a programme on tape and then wipe it... would they?
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Speaking of video tapes, here's a clip from the BBC in 1982 warning us of the dangers of buying counterfeit video cassettes:
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And now for something you'd never get away with.
March 2003 - the late great Tony Wilson, during a mid-afternoon Granada News bulletin, lets rip at his production crew during the lead package. Unfortunately, someone left his mic up.
Wilson apologised at the end, but was suspended - he left Granada Reports a few months later.
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This video can only be viewed on
YouTube.
NSFW, obviously.
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(27-10-2023, 11:26 AM)lookoutwales Wrote: And now for something you'd never get away with.
March 2003 - the late great Tony Wilson, during a mid-afternoon Granada News bulletin, lets rip at his production crew during the lead package. Unfortunately, someone left his mic up.
Wilson apologised at the end, but was suspended - he left Granada Reports a few months later.
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NSFW, obviously.
This is mentioned in one of the books about him. I'd never actually seen the clip though. It says he ad libs an apology at the end and there was another apology on the 6pm programme, which he stood down from.
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Channel 5 I believe shown this during one of their "When (insert subject) goes horribly wrong" programmes if I remember rightly.