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northernanorak commented 1 month ago

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Christmas Eve on BBC1

From the BBC VT Christmas Tape 1979 - a rundown of the this year's festive viewing. **CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE**

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northernanorak said:

@alanc71 the clip might have been from 1978 but this compilation was part of the 1979 Christmas Tape.

• northernanorak commented 9 months ago

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  Christmas Eve on BBC1

  From the BBC VT Christmas Tape 1979 - a rundown of the this year's festive viewing. **CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE**

  58,962 views

  northernanorak said:

  @feckingbillgates The Christmas Tape itself was never broadcast - they were made for the amusement of the BBC staff only

• northernanorak commented 9 months ago

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  Christmas Eve on BBC1

  From the BBC VT Christmas Tape 1979 - a rundown of the this year's festive viewing. **CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE**

  58,962 views

  northernanorak said:

  @feckingbillgates no it wasn't intended for broadcast

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  Christmas Eve on BBC1

  From the BBC VT Christmas Tape 1979 - a rundown of the this year's festive viewing. **CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE**

  58,962 views

  northernanorak said:

  @fraserkatie I think it's just one announcer, plus Kenny Everett.

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northernanorak commented 1 month ago

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CBBC - Fluff in the broom cupboard

Legendary DJ Alan "Fluff" Freeman stops by the broom cupboard to talk to Toby about 30 years of Top of the Pops. (1994)

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northernanorak said:

Embarrassing to cock up the back-timing on the music in front of a pro such as Fluff!

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  Phillip Schofield, Andy Crane and Gordon the Gopher, 1987

  After Newsround, Jonny Briggs trailer, continuity with Schofield, Crane and Gopher. Followed by Sea View.

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  northernanorak said:

  @doubledeckers 1987 would be when Andy Crane took over on a permanent basis (when Phillip Schofield went to Going Live), but he'd been deputising for Schofe for some time before that.

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  Phillip Schofield, Andy Crane and Gordon the Gopher, 1987

  After Newsround, Jonny Briggs trailer, continuity with Schofield, Crane and Gopher. Followed by Sea View.

  3,156 views

  northernanorak said:

  This was presumably the spare continuity suite NC3/Sub Control, which is smaller than the main NC1. It was here that the "broomcupboard" name was originally coined to refer to.

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  Thames Handover to LWT - Jan 1982

  The first 5:15 handover between Thames and LWT in 1982

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  northernanorak said:

  @cwilliams1976 sync pulses had nothing to do with this one, ITN would have adjusted their SPG to match C4 pres in the same way that any incoming source to the BBC did. It was only ITV that needed to resync before each network prog, having so many disparate playout centres. The time changed pure...

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northernanorak commented 3 months ago

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BBC Breakfast News 1991 (03.07.91)

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northernanorak said:

Apparently Newcastle Poly nearly became "City University Newcastle upon Tyne" - the acronym was only realised when they were putting the new signs up

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  Look North moves from New Bridge Street to the 'Pink Palace' in Fenham

  It's January 1988 and BBC North-East moves into a new purpose-built building in Fenham. For years it had been based in an old hospital opposite the...

  1,583 views

  northernanorak said:

  @akg451 The 1991 "smokey" world was from laserdisk. This one, the Computer Originated World or COW was solid state, produced by the box you can see being uninstalled at 2.44

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  LEEDS UNITED - WEMBLEY MIX 96

  This song was made before the FL Cup final of 1996 and features a mix of all the old favourites. Written by Kevin Smith, Ray Fensome & Ian De Whyte...

  4,772 views

  northernanorak said:

  Have you got the B side of this which was a tribute to Tony Yeboah?

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  Yorkshire Start-Up

  This is a Yorkshire Television start-up from March 1977, around the time that their breakfast television programme began at 0830 hours in the days ...

  20,192 views

  northernanorak said:

  @ajay999999 almost - it was written by Derek New and arranged by Ron Goodwin, who as you say wrote the Dambusters music.

  Oh and congratulations to Cwilliams1976 for actually uploading something genuine and useful for once :)

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  The Search for the Broom Cupboard 2

  Part 2 of the search for the original broom cupboard studio starring Andi Peters and Chris. Will they finally find the holy grail (as in what they ...

  13,213 views

  northernanorak said:

  If you want to see the corridor with the Broomcupboard it's on this video of National Tank Top Day youtube.com/watch?v=_3oRtezQOyY

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  Mock Review - AngliaKnightIdent - 2 closedowns

  I saw AKI seemingly ask BadmocksTV to review his mocks, and I thought of this.

  Visuals improved for some reason between one mock and the next......

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  northernanorak said:

  @GeoNeilUK yep, produced by Dave Jeffery for Andrew Wiseman's site

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  Mock Review - AngliaKnightIdent - 2 closedowns

  I saw AKI seemingly ask BadmocksTV to review his mocks, and I thought of this.

  Visuals improved for some reason between one mock and the next......

  247 views

  northernanorak said:

  The clock looks very much like a Dave Jeffery production, as seen on 625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash/bbc1_clock_84.asp

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northernanorak commented 5 months ago

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BBC TV Studio P, Manchester last txm - 12th September 1980

During this era of BBC1, each region of the UK would transmit a junction between each programme, either out of vision or in vision, giving details ...

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northernanorak said:

@RobinCarmody I thought the Midlands one was dated as 1979 on TV-Ark, where the clip was originally posted?

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  BBC TV Studio P, Manchester last txm - 12th September 1980

  During this era of BBC1, each region of the UK would transmit a junction between each programme, either out of vision or in vision, giving details ...

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  northernanorak said:

  @treffynnon19 I think the R4 opts continued in some areas - Cornwall and Devon had them until their local stations launched in 1982 IIRC

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  Yorkshire start up

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  northernanorak said:

  Interesting that the Authority Announcement here just mentioned Emley Moor - it usually mentioned Belmont (or Scarborough before 1974 while Belmont was an Anglia transmitter)

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  Tyne Tees Channel 8 Opening Night

  This is the TTTV's opening night in full up to the start of "The Big Show"

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  northernanorak said:

  Was that Redvers Kyle voicing the Max Factor ad?

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northernanorak commented 6 months ago

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Doncaster English Democrats Interview FAIL

Toby Foster of the BBC Sheffield Breakfast Show with the first radio interview with new Mayor of Doncaster, Peter Davies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i...

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northernanorak said:

Is it just me or do people commenting failing to understand the concept of devil's advocate? Calling somebody to account on their manifesto, after the election because they can't during it, isn't biassed, it's good public service journalism. If the guy can't answer reasonable questions about th...

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  Children's BBC - BFT 1990 - Titles & Opening

  The titles and opening moments of the first BFT (summer morning programmes) from Children's BBC in 1990. Presenters are Simon Parkin, Philippa Forr...

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  northernanorak said:

  Is it a coincidence that the animation in the titles is similar in style to Points of View from this era?

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  Children's BBC Presentation - BFT Tuesday 08.08.89

  It's Tuesday 8 August 1989 and season 3 of BFT (formerly "But First This") is underway in the school holiday mornings.

  In this first link of the d...

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  northernanorak said:

  So this was the original Broomcupboard then? (The smaller spare con which was where the Broomcupboard name was coined and then stuck when they went back to Con1)

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  Children's BBC Presentation - BFT Tuesday 08.08.89

  It's Tuesday 8 August 1989 and season 3 of BFT (formerly "But First This") is underway in the school holiday mornings.

  In this first link of the d...

  510 views

  northernanorak said:

  So this was the original Broomcupboard then? (The smaller spare con which was where the Broomcupboard name was coined and then stuck when they went back to Con1)

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  Cwilliams1976 has uploaded 1,000 videos...

  cwilliams has uploaded his 1000th space wasting TV mock.

  So i've created this little message for him...some criticism and some advice.

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  northernanorak said:

  @cwilliams1976 add (mock) to the title, then people wouldn't come across them by accident thinking it's the real thing and get annoyed that you've wasted their time.

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northernanorak commented 11 months ago

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BBC Schools - Odd Interval Slide

Here we have the end of Music Time going into perhaps a "one off" interval slide before History File. I havn't seen a slide like this before. To ma...

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northernanorak said:

@cwilliams1976 no it wouldn't. It certainly wouldn't have had a continuity announcement if it were from the tx site

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  Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version (REFRAMED)

  NON-CAT version (now blocked worldwide):

  http://www.youtube.com/watc...

  Lyrics changed to describe the video. The first upload was blo...

  1,298,587 views

  northernanorak said:

  @ImYourLastResort Sony and/or YouTube clearly don't understand fair use, it's clearly a parody so should be allowed.

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  Neville Wanless and closedown on Tyne Tees

  It's 1981 and Tyne Tees Television announcer Neville Wanless says good night and has a special message for the engineers at the local transmitter. ...

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  northernanorak said:

  Emley Moor was the Regional Operations Centre which would have been monitoring and remotely controlling Pontop Pike and Bilsdale.

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  The flying Leeds fan Oxford v Leeds 1990

  A funny moment from Leeds promotion season 89/90

  Look at the Leeds fans behind the goal when Fairclough scores at 1 min 5 seconds

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  northernanorak said:

  Sounds like the much missed John Boyd (formerly of Radio Leeds) doing the commentary in a posh voice

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  BBC - Broadcasting Complaints Commission Statement - 1991

  Something you don't seem to see these days, a staple of old junctions. Slightly truncated at the end! Plus credits from an unidentified Clive James...

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  northernanorak said:

  I'd forgotten that Alan Deadicoat was a TV continuity announcer

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