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[Hamburger Pimp]

Mrsvic is correct.

Pete, hang your Leicestershire head in shame. Coca Cola indeed.

[Pete]

Well they do sell it in Florida

[John W. SNRG]

Pete, on 07 August 2009 - 06:10 PM, said:

I to watched the opening night of TTTV and the only advert that I can remember was for Sharps Toffee, I also remember watching Broderick Crawford 10 4 over and out, not sure if it was the opening program but it definitely was on, on the opening night. I seem to remember the opening ceremony was about 6.30, or 7.00.

Pete.
Just stumbled upon this thread.

This website might be of interest:
http://www.transdiff...g/tmc/cityroad/

My first recollections of TTTV are the One O`clock Show live from City Road studios.
That was the day I was bitten by the TV/Radio production bug which shaped the rest of my life.
Now our local independent TV station comes from a shoebox in Gateshead!

Edited by John W. SNRG, 18 January 2012 - 11:34 AM.

[Pete]

John W. SNRG, on 18 January 2012 - 11:24 AM, said:

Pete.
Just stumbled upon this thread.

This website might be of interest:
http://www.transdiff...g/tmc/cityroad/

My first recollections of TTTV are the One O`clock Show live from City Road studios.
That was the day I was bitten by the TV/Radio production bug which shaped the rest of my life.
Now our local independent TV station comes from a shoebox in Gateshead!

Just checked that link John W its fantastic, the opening night schedule brings back memories. Threegee mentioned Robin Hood and it was indeed the first program. Highway Patrol was the program that I was thinking of but one that did bring back memories was Double your Money hosted by Hughie Green, you could buy the board game in the fifties and I remember playing it with some friends.

One program that I do remember from the fifties and I am not sure if it was on the commercial channels or BBC, was a program called The Grove family, one of the main characters was Granny Grove,do you or anyone remember this program?

[foxy]

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One program that I do remember from the fifties and I am not sure if it was on the commercial channels or BBC, was a program called The Grove family, one of the main characters was Granny Grove,do you or anyone remember this program?

What about Harbour Command?

[foxy]

Made a right !*!@# of that post did'na

[Fourgee™]

foxy, on 18 January 2012 - 08:29 PM, said:

Made a right !*!@# of that post did'na

Fixed, though you should be able to edit for a short time after posting

[threegee]

Pete, on 18 January 2012 - 04:50 PM, said:

One program that I do remember from the fifties and I am not sure if it was on the commercial channels or BBC, was a program called The Grove family, one of the main characters was Granny Grove,do you or anyone remember this program?

The Groves were defo on BBC! It would have been produced live too. In those days the only option to getting up in front of an on-air camera was a telecine, and the later cost real money; so you only filmed if you could resell it. It took the Beeb a long time to work out that their output could be sold to other TV broadcasters, or indeed was worth the expense of preserving.

As an aside, did you know that Tyne Tees TV had one of the very first video recorders, long before the mighty BBC? It was an american Ampex with 2 inch tape and almost filled an OB van. I was in the van when they were showing it off in London at "The Radio Show" exhibition one year. The cost then was massive - millions in today's money. The BBC wouldn't pay the money, though they played around with their own system for years before finaly abandoning it and buying commercial machines.

ITV companies had to embrace recorded TV very early on, because their advertising revenue depended on it, and they didn't have all the on-site production facilities the BBC had.



Nope! The above is a small modern one. The model that TTTV had is briefly shown here:-

[John W. SNRG]

Now you`ve started somthing Threegee.

This is the beauty I did my very first edit on;


Just listen to that Helical scan head drum. How geeky is that a comment!

The Shibaden SV 700. Only mono but steady as a rock! I`ve still got the BASF tape somewhere. Insert edit out was a bit tricky though. There was a 5 sec. difference between audio & video out.

Ironically the prog. was about leisure provision in the new WDC & featured footage of the new Ashington Leisure Centre.

I was a student, then technician in the TV Production unit at Ashington Tech when I first used this kit.


The 640 colour vtr:
http://3.bp.blogspot...510+A88+-+3.JPG
was rubbish.
Used to go through heads like nobodies business.
Made a packet for Tyne Video though!

I then progressed on to the Ampex 1" highband machine

http://www.rewindmus...ampexvr5003.jpg

Very Happy Days.

Many thanks to my old Lecturer Dave Rixon!

[John W. SNRG]

Found a better SV700 clip. It has it`s clothes on this time:



A trained ear tells me this guy is running a damaged tape.