Category: BBC TELEVISION

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 Video excerpt one: 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…

By David Taylor 2021-06-30 0
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1965 to Early ’80’s – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | THE OB SCANNERS PART TWO

Associated Television BBC TELEVISION ITV OUTSIDE BROADCAST Pye TVT TELEVISION SOUND THE B.B.C.

PART TWO CONTENTS: SCANNERS GET BIGGER – WITH SEPARATED VISION, PRODUCTION and SOUND The Colour Demonstration Unit 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 1970Video excerpt one: Smaller Pye desks were still to be found ATV‘s BIG…

By David Taylor 2021-06-23 2
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1950’s – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | PART THREE | THE VALVE STUDIO MIXERS

ANGLIA TELEVISION BBC RADIO BBC TELEVISION BBC TELEVISION CENTRE GRANADA TELEVISION ITV Pye TVT SCOTTISH TELEVISION TELEVISION SOUND TELEVISION STUDIO PROGRAMMES THE B.B.C.

Contents: 1950’s – THE VALVE STUDIO MIXERS Typical 1950’s Installations Anglia TV’s Pye desk Granada’s Studio 10 at The Chelsea Palace The Duke at The Palace Replacing The Valves THE FIRST IN THE FOUR ARTICLES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PYE’s AUDIO CONSOLES IS HEREA .PDF FILE OF THIS ARTICLE CAN BE DOWNLOADED (1Mb) with this…

By David Taylor 2021-06-14 0
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1960’s – PYE BROADCAST AUDIO CONSOLES | PART FOUR | THE INNOVATIVE PYE TRANSISTOR TV STUDIO MIXER

Associated Television BBC RADIO BBC TELEVISION BBC TELEVISION CENTRE ITV LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT Pye TVT RECORDING SESSIONS RECORDING STUDIOS TELEVISION SOUND TELEVISION STUDIO PROGRAMMES THE B.B.C. TYNE TEES TELEVISION

CONTENTS:THE FIRST MODULAR BROADCAST STUDIO MIXER ATV’s four 34-channel consoles for Elstree The modular ‘cassettes’ Enough ‘Drama’ for the Gram Op ‘The Plane Makers’ being recorded in September 1963 Video excerpt one: The last of the Elstree Pye’s Pye’s for other clients The BBC equip with even bigger desks The biggest UK broadcast desk The…

By David Taylor 2021-06-13 0
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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
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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 4
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