1968 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | SOME MORE PHOTOS
BY DAVID TAYLOR As I’ve come across some more images, here is an additional post about Anglia Television, culled from a couple of Anglia promotional brochures from 1967 or 1968.For my first post about Anglia TV, start HERELet’s start with the OB Scanner. CVG333D was delivered in 1966 in time for the commencement of the…
1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ | THE ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ O.B. AT ABBEY ROAD WITH THE BEATLES
PART TWO: ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ For ‘PART ONE: 1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ Live TV links ‘THE WORLD’….HOW IT WAS MADE AND PRESENTED’….start HERE. THE IDEA FOR THE BEATLES SEGMENT The decision to make a Beatles recording session part of the ‘Our World’ programme, might have come from either the producer Aubrey Singer or…
1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ LIVE TV LINKS ‘THE WORLD’ | HOW IT WAS MADE AND PRESENTED.
PART ONE: MAKING THE ‘OUR WORLD’ PROGRAMME Part One: An in-depth look at how this worldwide live programme was put together, and with lots of video excerpts, will hopefully explain the finished programme.Part Two: How both the recording teams that worked with the Beatles and the television crew that set up in EMI Studio 1…
1970 – BERNSTEIN’s VERDI REQUIEM – ST.PAUL’S CONCERT | and 50 years later – a recovered stereo mix.
PART ONE OF TWO By DAVID TAYLOR In February 1970 I’d only been with London Weekend TV for a few months when we broadcast a classical concert that affected me more than any other I had then experienced. This was Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in the Verdi Requiem in St.Paul’s Cathedral. As…
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…
1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | ‘GLAMOUR ’67’ OUTSIDE BROADCAST
POST No. 4 by DAVID TAYLOR First posted in March 2020 For the first in this series of posts on my years at Anglia Television look HERE In the summer of 1967, Anglia took the OB Unit around East Anglia’s seaside towns and as the Anglia region was reaching well into Lincolnshire, we sometimes headed…
1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | LIVE AT AN AIRSHOW.
POST No. 3 by DAVID TAYLOR First posted in MARCH 2020 For the first in this series of posts on my years at Anglia Television look here: HERE In September 1967 the large RAF fighter base at RAF Coltishall was one of the many RAF stations that opened their doors at the anniversary of The…
1966 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | MY FIRST DRAMA OB, ‘WEAVERS GREEN’.
POST No. 2 by DAVID TAYLOR First posted in February 2020. For the first in this series of posts on my years at Anglia Television look HERE: Like all the Regional ITV Stations, Anglia TV served their ‘local area’ with a regular output of local programming, now sadly missing from television. For this reason we…