1959 – ‘THIS IS THE BBC’ – RICHARD CAWSON’S DOCUMENTARY.
POST No. 6 By DAVID TAYLOR In 1959 Richard Cawson produced this great documentary showing 24 hours of the BBC. It features BBC Radio in Broadcasting House, BBC World Service at Bush House and BBC TV at Lime Grove and both radio and TV at a couple of the the BBC ‘regional outposts’. Television Centre…
1955 – A BBC OB MCR SCANNER AT WEMBLEY | A QUICK LOOK
POST No. 5 by DAVID TAYLOR Here’s a short video, courtesy the superb BBC Archive …well in this case their Twitter account. It shows the sort of equipment that BBC OB’s had in one of their Pye TVT built ‘Mobile Control Rooms’ at the Wembley ‘Palace of Arts’ OB base in 1955. Great seeing the…
1969 – I MOVE ON TO LONDON WEEKEND…via THAMES
by DAVID TAYLOR JUNE 2020 [Please Note: Some of these articles are long-so use the ‘Print’ or ‘PDF’ buttons on the right to generate a suitable print or pdf version. You can choose to delete sections before committing to make the copy that you can read ‘offline’.] In 1968 Independent Television had received it’s first…
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