BU
To be fair it's pretty amazing that BBC Parliament show these things, let alone anyone else...when they started with 1979 and 1997 back in one weekend in September 2002 I think a lot of us thought it would be a one-off. That they've continued over a decade with every single surviving programme - along with heaps of other archive stuff along the way - is of huge credit to them and whoever has kept that going over such a long period.
NG
Probably not hugely expensive. It's basic metalwork at the end of the day - and the kind of thing you do at OBs all the time. I doubt they needed to do lots of smooth tracking - and so a basic flat painted/martac-ed/lino-ed surface would have been OK.
Interesting that TC7's gallery was used as a hub.
That newsletter makes interesting reading. The article about the extendible roof over Pebble Mill's courtyard for the 6.55 Special is also interesting - the bones for that roof remained in situ right to the end!
ISTR they had to stop using it as it got quite discoloured?
noggin
Founding member
Well I stand corrected!! What an extraordinary solution... at a staggering cost I should think.
Probably not hugely expensive. It's basic metalwork at the end of the day - and the kind of thing you do at OBs all the time. I doubt they needed to do lots of smooth tracking - and so a basic flat painted/martac-ed/lino-ed surface would have been OK.
Interesting that TC7's gallery was used as a hub.
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That newsletter makes interesting reading. The article about the extendible roof over Pebble Mill's courtyard for the 6.55 Special is also interesting - the bones for that roof remained in situ right to the end!
ISTR they had to stop using it as it got quite discoloured?
HC
Just a thought. It's great that we have the BBC election night coverage unspooled at regular intervals, but does the same extensive archive exist for ITN?
It would be great if BBC Parliament could show one or two - or would the amount ITN Source would ask for, break the budget for the channel?
It would be great if BBC Parliament could show one or two - or would the amount ITN Source would ask for, break the budget for the channel?
SW
Of course, in the Inside BBC Television book, they go behind the scenes of the previous year's Children in Need and they used TC7 as a phone room.
The appearance of Alastair Burnet in 1974 has been explained but in fact although he was associated with ITN, he'd actually left them in 1965 as a full-time staff member and when News at Ten began in 1967 he actually did it as a freelance, combining it with his day job editing The Economist, and left it after three months. He also did the 1966 and 1970 elections for ITV as a freelance.
His spell as the Beeb only lasted about two years, from 1972 to 1974, and he was still editing The Economist at the same time, but it was a very fruitful one for him as it involved him presenting two elections, a Royal Wedding and the resignation of Richard Nixon among numerous other big events. Then he left TV completely at the end of 1974 to edit the Daily Express but didn't have a very happy time there and rejoined ITN in 1976.
Interesting that TC7's gallery was used as a hub.
Of course, in the Inside BBC Television book, they go behind the scenes of the previous year's Children in Need and they used TC7 as a phone room.
The appearance of Alastair Burnet in 1974 has been explained but in fact although he was associated with ITN, he'd actually left them in 1965 as a full-time staff member and when News at Ten began in 1967 he actually did it as a freelance, combining it with his day job editing The Economist, and left it after three months. He also did the 1966 and 1970 elections for ITV as a freelance.
His spell as the Beeb only lasted about two years, from 1972 to 1974, and he was still editing The Economist at the same time, but it was a very fruitful one for him as it involved him presenting two elections, a Royal Wedding and the resignation of Richard Nixon among numerous other big events. Then he left TV completely at the end of 1974 to edit the Daily Express but didn't have a very happy time there and rejoined ITN in 1976.
JW
I've no idea. I'm amazed she didn't get Newsnight or The Nine O'clock News after that.
What ever happened to Sandy Marshall?
I've no idea. I'm amazed she didn't get Newsnight or The Nine O'clock News after that.
BP
I know times are tough at the BBC (what with Delivering Quality First etc) but surely they could scrape together enough cash to buy whatever bit of kit is needed to produce astons that look the same as those on BBC News and BBC World News? The current set-up just looks cheap and weird.
VG
I'd quite like to know how the captions are formulated...I think I knew someone who knew someone who did type up the captions on Parliament - which sort of suggests there's no automated system. You must need a good knowledge of all 650 MPs!
Those are almost certainly generated by an Aston machine, which is the same as the regions. It would be quite expensive to get a VizRT in to run it all, compared to staffing costs etc. However it shouldn't take someone long to tweak what they have now to make it meet the News channel output, seems like a lack of effort!
I know times are tough at the BBC (what with Delivering Quality First etc) but surely they could scrape together enough cash to buy whatever bit of kit is needed to produce astons that look the same as those on BBC News and BBC World News? The current set-up just looks cheap and weird.
I'd quite like to know how the captions are formulated...I think I knew someone who knew someone who did type up the captions on Parliament - which sort of suggests there's no automated system. You must need a good knowledge of all 650 MPs!
Those are almost certainly generated by an Aston machine, which is the same as the regions. It would be quite expensive to get a VizRT in to run it all, compared to staffing costs etc. However it shouldn't take someone long to tweak what they have now to make it meet the News channel output, seems like a lack of effort!