BBC VT Christmas Tapes
Zaxx
Chris Booth - BBC VT 1963 - 1993
I don't suppose anyone out there knows where
I can get decent copies of the BBC VT Christmas Tapes?
By the way how many were there?
What is a sports PA as sung by Suzie Quantro?
I have the 1978 & 1979 tapes but the quality is
very poor (mainly due to being a copy of a copy)
Thanks
Zaxx
Chris Booth
<h...@ndthere.com> writes
>Chris Booth - BBC VT 1963 - 1993
>
>I don't suppose anyone out there knows where
>I can get decent copies of the BBC VT Christmas Tapes?
Mr Birt offered us the opportunity to leave :-) in 1993 there was a
complete set on D3 in the 'Tea Room'. I do know that the Tea Room is a
thing of the past (development used it for a technical area a few years
ago) but I'm sure that the archive has survived. I only have Good King
Memorex on a very old VHS as well.
>
>By the way how many were there?
Centre were equipped with industrial vidicons to provide channel idents
for the machines - the device really was a cheap black and white camera
pointing at a piece of card. It was not long before 'extension leads'
were fabricated and a couple of 'programmes' were made at Lime Grove -
certainly before 1968.
The ITV companies began (as far as I can remember) the Christmas Tape
idea with an interchange of tapes which, if they were feeling generous,
CAR (Central Apparatus Area) extended downstairs to VT.
(Perhaps one of our regulars can give us a history of them?)
This tape exchange is not to be confused with the Eurovision 'Cultural
Exchange' each New Year which stopped, if my memory serves me right,
when it was accidentally transmitted in Denmark.
The BBC Christmas tapes as such began in 1978 and, as I said above,
continued at least right up to our departure in 1993. The original
mastermind was Grant Watkins and then Dave Rixon took over the mantle.
>
>What is a sports PA as sung by Suzie Quantro?
Grant Watkins persuaded her to sing new words to one her songs - she was
appearing on Top of the Pops. The 'video' featured the majority of the
Sports Production Assistants at the time, including a very new member of
the team, Brian Barwick, now Head of ITV Sport.
I hope this gives a bit more detail.
>
If you're out there, Grant, you're the one to tell the full story!
--
Chris Booth BBC VT 1963 to 1993
Mark Carver
"Chris Booth" <chris...@froyle.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The ITV companies began (as far as I can remember) the Christmas Tape
> idea with an interchange of tapes which, if they were feeling generous,
> CAR (Central Apparatus Area) extended downstairs to VT.
They got as far as certain broadcast kit manufacturers. I've got
somewhere early 80s BBC and ITV Xmas tapes that I dubbed onto
Betamax.
> This tape exchange is not to be confused with the Eurovision 'Cultural
> Exchange' each New Year which stopped, if my memory serves me right,
> when it was accidentally transmitted in Denmark.
ISTR TSW (Plymouth ITV 82-93) 'accidentally' Tx'd their one after
closedown,
Chris Booth
<mark....@gmx.net> writes
>They got as far as certain broadcast kit manufacturers. I've got
>somewhere early 80s BBC and ITV Xmas tapes that I dubbed onto
>Betamax.
>
mid 80s and, after a discussion with our services guys, they suggested
he ought to speak with the Head of Department, and gave his name. "Oh,
you mean ***" (his pseudonym on the Christmas tape). Asked how he knew
that, he replied that ".. he had seen the tape on an oil rig in the
Persian Gulf!"
--
Chris Booth
nospam
Through the Keyhole with the stolen VT edit suite in the garden shed
:))
cant remember the year though early 90's
Anthony Frost
"Mark Carver" <mark....@gmx.net> wrote:
> "Chris Booth" <chris...@froyle.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:lG8$uLAfjH...@froyle.demon.co.uk...
> > This tape exchange is not to be confused with the Eurovision 'Cultural
> > Exchange' each New Year which stopped, if my memory serves me right,
> > when it was accidentally transmitted in Denmark.
>
> ISTR TSW (Plymouth ITV 82-93) 'accidentally' Tx'd their one after
> closedown,
Nope, not true. The only after hours transmission happened when some
students from the Poly managed to hijack Plympton relay transmitter back
in the days when there was still a closedown.
Anthony - Who would have been one of the recipients of the
major league bollocking had your memory not been
faulty.
--
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Tony Quinn
<Vu...@vulch.org> writes
>Nope, not true. The only after hours transmission happened when some
>students from the Poly managed to hijack Plympton relay transmitter back
>in the days when there was still a closedown.
>
> Anthony - Who would have been one of the recipients of the
> major league bollocking had your memory not been
> faulty.
>
Good to see you back - where have you been hiding?
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Mark Carver
"Anthony Frost" <Vu...@vulch.org> wrote in message
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> >
> > ISTR TSW (Plymouth ITV 82-93) 'accidentally' Tx'd their one after
> > closedown,
>
> Nope, not true. The only after hours transmission happened when some
> students from the Poly managed to hijack Plympton relay transmitter back
> in the days when there was still a closedown.
Ah, that explains it. I heard from one of my contemporaries
while I was a student there in the early 80s.
News User
it closed for refurb) I expect they are in the safe hands of a fellow
Duty Manager ......
Anthony Frost
Tony Quinn <to...@sixpints.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <40f9e3b44a%Vu...@kerrier.vulch.org>, Anthony Frost
> <Vu...@vulch.org> writes
> >
> > Anthony - Who would have been one of the recipients of the
> > major league bollocking had your memory not been
> > faulty.
>
> Good to see you back - where have you been hiding?
Not really been away, just had a period of lurking and not replying to
much. Autumn has started, and the evenings are getting darker though...
Anthony
pr...@cix.compulink.co.uk
student tv club, SUTV. We pulled a few stunts at Westward which are best
left unmentioned.
BTW I've got 3 VHS tapes full of as many Xmas promos you can fit onto 540
mins of tape, some are excellent, others don't seem as funny no was they
did at the time.
Paul Ryan
Mark Carver
<pr...@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I was a student at Plymouth Poly from 1972 - 1976, very active in the
> student tv club, SUTV. We pulled a few stunts at Westward which are best
> left unmentioned.
Would they have involved a certain rabbit ?
Mark (PP '82-85)
Lan
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Anthony Frost
"Mark Carver" <mark....@gmx.net> wrote:
Instructions for engineers operating the bunny on sunday mornings before
the ATC came in... "Don't get so enthusiastic with the bunny hops that
the rabbits head comes off"
Anthony
Lan
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Keith McHugh
I can tell you that those D3 are still there , or at least they were
when I
worked at TVC last year - they were kept in the VT Co-ord area... and I
think go right up to 1999.
Keith.