29-06-2023, 08:37 AM
(28-06-2023, 12:16 PM)Bluecortina Wrote: As an aside, my wife used to be a POA (Presentation Operational Assistant) in BBC presentation in the early 1980’s. The role was to switch between the various sources incoming to Presentation. One of the jobs during the day was to play the quarter inch music tapes that accompanied the Test Card (so not Ceefax) and she tells me they could put on any tape they wanted within the ones supplied to them so no fixed order or anything like that. The only stipulation given to them was that they had to change the tape that had run out to the next one within 60 seconds - no doubt this was to a avoid excessive periods of silence going to the transmitter network.
As Techmoan has shown us on Youtube over the years, there was a wide variety of long playing endless loop cartridges on the market for various industries between the 60's & 80's. BBC Radio even used one type for jingles. I'm surprised BBC Presentation didn't just get one of those as they were designed to just sit in a room playing music continually with minimum maintenance.