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 1| 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 Pyes 2| Pyes for other clients 3| The BBC equip with even bigger desks The biggest UK…
1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ | PART TWO: ‘ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE’ | THE BBC O.B. AT ABBEY ROAD WITH THE BEATLES
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 the TV director Derek Burrell-Davis but both…
1967 – ‘OUR WORLD’ | LIVE TV LINKS ‘THE WORLD’ | PART ONE: HOW IT WAS MADE AND PRESENTED
By David Taylor 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 all together made something…
1970 – BERNSTEIN’s VERDI REQUIEM – ST.PAUL’S CONCERT | 50 years later – the recovered stereo mix
BY DAVID TAYLOR PART ONE OF TWO (Part Two covers the parallel CBS Records recording done by Bob Auger at The Royal Albert Hall.) CONTENTS:BIG MUSIC IN A BIG ROOM BERNSTEIN LEAVES A POLITICAL PROBLEM BEHIND AN ‘INSANE SCHEDULE’ “TALE OF 3 TENORS AND A CONDUCTOR” LWT GOES INTO ‘CO-PRODUCTION’ HUMPHREY BURTON’S MEMORIES MIKING THE…
1959 – ‘THIS IS THE BBC’ – RICHARD CAWSON’S DOCUMENTARY.
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 didn’t get finished…
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,…
1969 – I MOVE ON TO LONDON WEEKEND…via THAMES
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…
1967 – ANGLIA TELEVISION | a look at the ‘GLAMOUR ’67’ OUTSIDE BROADCAST
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…