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The BBC globe playing out for half an hour - must have felt like an eternity.
Probably not as much as you might imagine, the 60s and 70s were full of
hours and hours worth of the test card during the day, so to have 30 mins worth
of a caption, in silence, wouldn't have been that alien.
I understand but in the middle of programming and after the very brief announcement of the death of a President (especially during the Cold War era), surely it would have been at least a bit of a concern?
I 'll ask my parents, but I think the shock of what happened (as you imply) far outweighed what was or wasn't due to be screened, I'm sure most people simply turned the TV off, and discussed the implications (no bad thing IMHO)
The BBC globe playing out for half an hour - must have felt like an eternity.
Probably not as much as you might imagine, the 60s and 70s were full of
hours and hours worth of the test card during the day, so to have 30 mins worth
of a caption, in silence, wouldn't have been that alien.
I understand but in the middle of programming and after the very brief announcement of the death of a President (especially during the Cold War era), surely it would have been at least a bit of a concern?
I 'll ask my parents, but I think the shock of what happened (as you imply) far outweighed what was or wasn't due to be screened, I'm sure most people simply turned the TV off, and discussed the implications (no bad thing IMHO)