16-04-2023, 06:13 PM
Regards the TV-am to No. 73 phone call, this was an explanation I got on the Southern, TVS group on Facebook.
It looks like the transmitter switch from TVam to the local ITV stations happened at the end of WACaday - you can see the recording lose servo-lock when the close-up of the phone key pad appears suggesting a non-sync cut. (The cut from TVam to the local ITV franchises was non-sync ISTR as it was done at the lines level?). I think that TVS will have booked a feed of the output of the TVam studio in Camden to allow the two-way to take place - then I suspect the No.73 gallery will have played in the TVS ident ?
Further to this, someone else, who worked at TVS, added this comment:
We at TVS gave a clean feed of No73 to LWT who fed the whole network.
I was on the MCR desk feeding the studio to LWT and liaising all the communications including a 4-wire to LWT Presentation.
Obviously, it doesn't explain what happened the previous week, that Ethel and Timmy alluded to.
And another person made this comment:
I'm sure a pres expert will confirm, but you can see the switch between TVAM and the ITV network. I would say that Maidstone still had a live link to Camden as there are no commercials at the end of WAC and no time to record a link. With the delay before Sandi dialed I would say both are live, but could be wrong.
It looks like the transmitter switch from TVam to the local ITV stations happened at the end of WACaday - you can see the recording lose servo-lock when the close-up of the phone key pad appears suggesting a non-sync cut. (The cut from TVam to the local ITV franchises was non-sync ISTR as it was done at the lines level?). I think that TVS will have booked a feed of the output of the TVam studio in Camden to allow the two-way to take place - then I suspect the No.73 gallery will have played in the TVS ident ?
Further to this, someone else, who worked at TVS, added this comment:
We at TVS gave a clean feed of No73 to LWT who fed the whole network.
I was on the MCR desk feeding the studio to LWT and liaising all the communications including a 4-wire to LWT Presentation.
Obviously, it doesn't explain what happened the previous week, that Ethel and Timmy alluded to.
And another person made this comment:
I'm sure a pres expert will confirm, but you can see the switch between TVAM and the ITV network. I would say that Maidstone still had a live link to Camden as there are no commercials at the end of WAC and no time to record a link. With the delay before Sandi dialed I would say both are live, but could be wrong.