21-09-2023, 05:31 PM
(21-09-2023, 12:42 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: I think my suggestion that they were simple was from the BBC perspective, everything originated in Con, no outside sources unless there was a PIF.But the engineers in Presentation also had late night payments ..
And it took at least half an hour to put the network to bed from CAR
….. and until Ceefax was regionalised network had to be going out
To sustain the nations …. Wales in particular…..
And in the early days of BBC 2 there was a tendency for the last programme to overrun
Sometimes for an hour ! (It was often produced by Pres like OGWT)