Author: David Taylor

1955 – A BBC OB MCR SCANNER AT WEMBLEY | A QUICK LOOK

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 Marconi MkII camera,…

By David Taylor 2020-06-24 2

1969 – I MOVE ON TO LONDON WEEKEND…via THAMES

LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION TELEVISION SOUND THAMES TELEVISION WEMBLEY STUDIOS

by DAVID TAYLOR In 1968 Independent Television had received it’s first shake-up, when licenses were all up for renewal and although Anglia retained its licence, the separate weekend contracts for the North and the Midlands became full seven day ones and the North was split into two regions.London continued as two separate week and weekend…

By David Taylor 2020-06-11 0

1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | a look at the ‘GLAMOUR ’67’ OUTSIDE BROADCAST

ANGLIA TELEVISION LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT OUTSIDE BROADCAST POPULAR MUSIC TELEVISION SOUND

By DAVID TAYLOR 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 north, around The Wash up as far as…

By David Taylor 2020-06-05 3

1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | LIVE AT AN AIRSHOW.

ANGLIA TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

by DAVID TAYLOR 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 Battle-of-Britain and held an airshow. Anglia TV decided…

By David Taylor 2020-05-17 2

1966 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | MY FIRST DRAMA OB, ‘WEAVERS GREEN’.

ANGLIA TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

by DAVID TAYLOR 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 went off frequently to do Outside Broadcasts around…

By David Taylor 2020-05-17 12

1966 to 1969 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | MY FIRST YEARS IN TV SOUND.

ANGLIA TELEVISION TELEVISION SOUND

by DAVID TAYLOR I started in the summer of 1966 when Sid Denney, the Head-of-Sound at the ITV broadcaster Anglia TV, took a gamble and let me join the Sound Department in Norwich. He didn’t have much to go on as there were no college courses at that time…I’d just showed an interest in sound…

By David Taylor 2020-05-17 11

EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF BROADCAST AND RECORDED SOUND

ITV LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION TELEVISION SOUND WEMBLEY STUDIOS

Examining the techniques from the ’50s to the ’90s in sound broadcasting and recording. The aim of this blog is to hopefully show some of the changes in professional sound that took place during the years that I worked in the industry. I joined the Anglia Television Sound Department in the summer of 1966 and…

By David Taylor 2020-05-17 6