ITV Central News have posted another video to YouTube, this one is a follow-up item about the event at BCU.
It includes interviews with Chris Perry of Kaleidoscope, Michael Steele and Dr Paul Marshall of BECG.
YouTube from last night
The Central News item has now been posted on YouTube.
PS: The sound problem at the start was not ours, it was fine leaving us (as the saying goes!).
Colour TV Comes to Town
An event that celebrates ’50 years of Colour TV’ on the main terrestrial channels (BBC1 and ITV).
The event will be a mix of showing rare early archive colour footage from the BBC and ITV alongside honoured guests who will be interviewed live on stage in front of the gathered audience, concerning their recollections and any amusing anecdotes of working in TV during the transition period from black and white to colour TV during the late 60’s / early 70’s.
BECG will be supporting the event by showing one of the early OB units built for colour TV outside broadcast namely ‘Southern‘ (Southern TV’s OB Unit 1) along with a chance to view examples of Marconi MK VII’s and EMI 2001 early colour TV cameras!
Click on the following link for more information and to book your free tickets –
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colour-tv-comes-to-town-tickets-75577425113
Mentions
We’ve been mentioned on BBC West Midlands and Birmingham City University’s Twitter feeds and on the BBC West Midlands website!
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcmtd/status/1195372728351637505
https://mobile.twitter.com/BCUPressOffice/status/1195399110473457675
Not too late
It’s not too late to get a free ticket to the Kaleidoscope event “Colour TV comes to town” tomorrow at Birmingham City University.
Tickets are still available from the Eventbrite website here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colour-tv-comes-to-town-tickets-75577425113
Live tonight on Central News
We will be on Central News from 6pm tonight, live from Birmingham City University for the Kaleidoscope event “Colour TV comes to town”.
Colour TV Comes to Town
Join us on Saturday 16th November 2019 at Birmingham City University for an event that celebrates ’50 years of Colour TV’ on the main terrestrial channels (BBC1 and ITV).
The event will be a mix of showing rare early archive colour footage from the BBC and ITV alongside honoured guests who will be interviewed live on stage in front of the gathered audience, concerning their recollections and any amusing anecdotes of working in TV during the transition period from black and white to colour TV during the late 60’s / early 70’s.
BECG will be supporting the event by showing one of the early OB units built for colour TV outside broadcast namely ‘Southern‘ (Southern TV’s OB Unit 1) along with a chance to view examples of Marconi MK VII’s and EMI 2001 early colour TV cameras!
Click on the following link for more information and to book your free tickets – https://becg.org.uk/event/colour-tv-comes-to-town/
Southern extra distribution amplifiers
One of the problems that we have always noted with Southern is the lack of space for distribution amplifiers, for both video (VDAs) and pulses (PDAs). Rack space is in very short supply after accommodating four Marconi MkVII camera control units with power supplies, aperture correctors and coders, plus the space required for monitors and the mixer electronics, so we had only fitted one set of distribution amplifiers.
Burton Waters Boating Festival
We will be exhibiting Southern TV OOW999G at the “Boating Festival” at Burton Waters, Lincoln on Saturday 15th June.
This is your chance to see a restored Outside Broadcast vehicle with working period equipment dating from 1968.
Did you know that Southern Television also had an “Outside Broadcast boat”? It was a converted WWII motor-torpedo boat with a full TV studio on board!
For more details on the boat, see our Southerner article.
Southerner
By Paul Marshall
From the late 1960s through to 1981 (when they lost the broadcasting franchise for the southern region), ITV Southern Television was unique in the world in having a dedicated outside broadcast boat.