Category: OUTSIDE BROADCAST

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

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

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

1968 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | SOME MORE PHOTOS

1959 1966 1967 1968 ANGLIA TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

CONTENTS: ON THE ROAD WITH OB’s HERE’S ANGLIA’S FIRST OB SCANNER – IN ACTION…..ON THE MOVE BACK TO THE STUDIOS AGAIN THE ORIGINAL 2 inch QUAD A FEW MORE FROM AROUND THE BUILDING BY DAVID TAYLOR A .pdf file of this article can be downloaded at the bottom As I’ve come across some more images,…

By David Taylor 2020-09-07 4

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 4

1970 – BERNSTEIN’s VERDI REQUIEM – ST.PAUL’S CONCERT | 50 years later – the recovered stereo mix.

1970 CLASSICAL MUSIC LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

PART ONE OF TWO By DAVID TAYLOR CONTENTS: BIG MUSIC IN A BIG ROOM BERNSTEIN LEAVES A POLITICAL PROBLEM BEHIND BERNSTEIN’S ‘INSANE SCHEDULE’ “TALE OF 3 TENORS AND A CONDUCTOR” LWT GOES INTO ‘CO-PRODUCTION’ HUMPHREY BURTON’S MEMORIES MIKING THE ORCHESTRA 50 YEARS LATER…A LOOK AT THE PICTURES and SOUND VIDEO EXCERPT ONE – DIES IRAE…

By David Taylor 2020-08-05 0

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

1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | ‘GLAMOUR ’67’ OUTSIDE BROADCAST

1967 ANGLIA TELEVISION LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT OUTSIDE BROADCAST POPULAR MUSIC TELEVISION SOUND

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…

By David Taylor 2020-06-05 3

1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | LIVE AT AN AIRSHOW.

1967 ANGLIA TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

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 Battle-of-Britain and held…

By David Taylor 2020-05-17 0

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

ANGLIA TELEVISION OUTSIDE BROADCAST TELEVISION SOUND

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 went off frequently…

By David Taylor 2020-05-17 6