[Steve in Pudsey]

Perhaps this should be a thread in the tech section but I'll mention it here for now:

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Dickie Davies anchoring ITV Sport's coverage of Torvill and Dean on location, from the 1984 World Figure Skating Championships in Ottowa

I'm surprised that we have Dickie presenting in vision with phone quality sound. I know phone-type circuits were used to add commentary to a host broadcaster feed (what we would now call a world feed) but surely if ITV were able to get a unilateral vision circuit, getting a quality audio circuit shouldn't have been too challenging? (I know this is probably pre sound-in-syncs, but still).  Was that a common thing or was this likely to have been a back up arrangement?

Incidentally, I believe this was before the power cut which delayed the competition, and led to Peter Lewis introducing a Thames programme on LWT (and the rest of the network)!

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