News – Page 2

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

New articles

We have added some new articles recently:

Jeffrey and Paul have followed up their BVWS article Carry On Trucking with a new one looking at Vivat in particular: Long Live Vivat!
Trevor Brown has kindly sent us some more articles from CQ-DATV:
- The Lightweight Revolution looks at the rise of Electronic News Gathering.
- Five go to Amsterdam recalls an earlier life when we took a RCA TR70-B VTR and a Marconi Mk VII camera to IBC in Amsterdam – we billed it as “the world’s largest camcorder”!
Dan Cranefield continues his reminiscences with Early Location Drama in Colour, which dovetails with Richard’s Roving Eye article as it also discusses the conversion of Roving Eye 5 into the LMCR.

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

Roving Eye article updated again

Richard’s Roving Eye article continues to evolve, with more history appearing!

Updates include:

REII photographs at Fairoaks Airfield, Chobham for a stunt flying programme from Brian Balshaw.
REII photographs from Pat Jessup.
NYN 286Y is transferred to Pebble Mill, for Top Gear.
Some re-arrangement of the sections to improve the time-lines.
More on the proposed CRE rebuild.

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020

Roving Eye article updated

Richard’s article about The BBC Roving Eye vehicles has been updated again, as more information is being brought to our attention!

The latest update includes some colour pictures of REII at Churchill’s funeral and some new pictures of NYN 286Y.

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

World Radio History

World Radio History is a brilliant resource for US equipment and all sorts of global magazines, and it has a British section too!

It offers all manner of magazines and data sheets, plus some whole manuals.

Topics include Early Radio, DX Amateur, Business and Technical Periodicals, and lots more.

November 16, 2020December 29, 2020

Marconi Mk III TV camera production line is re-born

Paul Marshall reports on an ambitious project – on a small scale

Since the beginning of lock-down, hardly a day has gone past when some aspect of the old main Marconi Chelmsford works hasn’t been re-invented here at our base near Lincoln.

November 12, 2020June 8, 2021

BBC Power Generators article

There were only ever ten of these as eventually the BBC simply hired generators from outside organisations.

Richard’s article relates everything that he could discover about each of the ten.

You can read this article here: BBC Power Generators.

RXX905-P4 — Is this really a BBC Generator van? Photo: Dave Hill

November 7, 2020November 7, 2020

RCA TRT-1B restored at WMBT

TRT-1B-VTR — TRT-1B. Credit: VT OldBoys.

The Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, RI have recently completed the restoration of a RCA TRT-1B Videotape machine dating from 1961.

November 7, 2020December 29, 2020

Eyes Of A Generation

“In essence, this is a Television history book with 5000 stories, 10,000 rare photos and hundreds of one of a kind videos“.

Eyes Of A Generation website.
Eyes Of A Generation public Facebook group.

November 7, 2020November 7, 2020

The Early Television Foundation Society and Museum

The Early Television Foundation in Hilliard, Ohio is dedicated to the preservation of the technology from the early days of television. The website’s mission is to preserve and make available to the public the history of early television, from the mechanical systems of the 1920s through the introduction of colo(u)r television in the 1950s.

November 7, 2020November 7, 2020

WMBT – The Museum of Broadcast Technology

MBT, The Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, Rhode Island is dedicated to the restoration of early TV cameras, videotape systems, and related technologies. The museum’s collection reflects the broadcasting and teleproduction industries from their early days through the ensuing decades.