Category: BBC TELEVISION

1965 to Early ’80’s – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | THE OB SCANNERS PART TWO

PART TWO CONTENTS: SCANNERS GET BIGGER – WITH SEPARATED VISION, PRODUCTION and SOUND The ’70’s with the silicon transistorised mixers: BBC CMCR13 1968-1970 BBC CMCR TYPE 2 SCANNERS The BBC version of the Pye transistorised console of the 1970′ Smaller Pye desks were still to be found ATV‘s BIG SOUND REQUIREMENTS The world still wants…

By David Taylor 2021-04-23 2

1949 to 1967 – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | THE OB SCANNERS PART ONE

BBC TELEVISION ITV OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

PART ONE CONTENTS: The early scanners with valve mixers:1949 – BBC MCR3 and 6 1951 and 1952 – BBC MCR11 and 12 1953 – Pye scanners go InternationalThe Aussies restore their very first scanner1955 – ITV arrives and starts buying scannersThe ’60’s with the first germanium transistorised mixers:1962 to 1967 – BBC MCR19 to 28The…

By David Taylor 2021-04-23 0

1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ | THE ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ O.B. AT ABBEY ROAD WITH THE BEATLES

1967 BBC TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST POP and ROCK MUSIC RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS TELEVISION SOUND THE B.B.C.

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…

By David Taylor 2020-09-03 0

1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ LIVE TV LINKS ‘THE WORLD’ | HOW IT WAS MADE AND PRESENTED.

1967 BBC TELEVISION BBC TELEVISION CENTRE OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND THE B.B.C.

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…

By David Taylor 2020-09-03 2

1959 – ‘THIS IS THE BBC’ – RICHARD CAWSON’S DOCUMENTARY.

1959 BBC RADIO BBC TELEVISION BBC WORLD SERVICE TELEVISION SOUND THE B.B.C.

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…

By David Taylor 2020-06-30 2

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

1955 BBC TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND THE B.B.C.

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…

By David Taylor 2020-06-24 0