JA
I don't think the "Nordic" service ran any of the programmes they promoted there either (Dennis the Menace, Art Attack and Batman).
JA
I shouldn't be reading the comments on these YouTube videos, they're making my brain melt...
Fantasy posts that the channel is coming back, people basically just posting a comment to tell you what the videos are, people demand you upload videos of things you don't have (I've had all these things on my own videos too). You feel your IQ dropping just by reading them.
Fantasy posts that the channel is coming back, people basically just posting a comment to tell you what the videos are, people demand you upload videos of things you don't have (I've had all these things on my own videos too). You feel your IQ dropping just by reading them.
RO
Then there's the user that comments on every single video with "nice"...
rob
Founding member
I shouldn't be reading the comments on these YouTube videos, they're making my brain melt...
Fantasy posts that the channel is coming back, people basically just posting a comment to tell you what the videos are, people demand you upload videos of things you don't have (I've had all these things on my own videos too). You feel your IQ dropping just by reading them.
Fantasy posts that the channel is coming back, people basically just posting a comment to tell you what the videos are, people demand you upload videos of things you don't have (I've had all these things on my own videos too). You feel your IQ dropping just by reading them.
Then there's the user that comments on every single video with "nice"...
SP
And didn't bridge the Teletext feed, so you would be sitting there reading Mailbox on PText and all of a sudden it disappears
And speaking of Cable & Wireless, I remember they used to cut into ad breaks on certain channels to run promotions for their own services, which I always found bizarre.
And didn't bridge the Teletext feed, so you would be sitting there reading Mailbox on PText and all of a sudden it disappears
TI
Videos of 2002 era CBBC nearly always have a "It looks like Cbeebies lol" comment. I presume most are kids who have been born after that era, grew up with Cbeebies still having that look and then find the old footage and don't know any better.
Also at least when I ask people if they have something, I ask, I don't demand and if they don't have it, I don't ask again.
I shouldn't be reading the comments on these YouTube videos, they're making my brain melt...
Fantasy posts that the channel is coming back, people basically just posting a comment to tell you what the videos are, people demand you upload videos of things you don't have (I've had all these things on my own videos too). You feel your IQ dropping just by reading them.
Fantasy posts that the channel is coming back, people basically just posting a comment to tell you what the videos are, people demand you upload videos of things you don't have (I've had all these things on my own videos too). You feel your IQ dropping just by reading them.
Videos of 2002 era CBBC nearly always have a "It looks like Cbeebies lol" comment. I presume most are kids who have been born after that era, grew up with Cbeebies still having that look and then find the old footage and don't know any better.
Also at least when I ask people if they have something, I ask, I don't demand and if they don't have it, I don't ask again.
IN
I don't think this was unique to Cable & Wireless, it happened quite a bit in the analogue era. I suppose it dates back to the early years, when many of the channels content would arrive at the cable company on tape; presumably they 'bought' this content and stuck their own adverts in. (This method appears to be what was used to playout the Cable & Wireless version of TCC, albeit with no evidence of adverts.)
I remember seeing adverts for one of the local chains (I think either Carpet Barn or Carpetmania) on Diamond Cable; I guess it could have been Cable 7 but I don't remember them carrying proper adverts (only a holding feed which appeared to be generated by Powerpoint 95). The advert was more or less a series of generic stills with the radio advert of the time playing over it.
The TCC thing was bizarre though, wasn't it? Didn't they just shut down one day without warning, even running a "see you tomorrow" trailer on the handover on the last day? And their website was still online for the best part of a decade.
And speaking of Cable & Wireless, I remember they used to cut into ad breaks on certain channels to run promotions for their own services, which I always found bizarre.
And speaking of Cable & Wireless, I remember they used to cut into ad breaks on certain channels to run promotions for their own services, which I always found bizarre.
I don't think this was unique to Cable & Wireless, it happened quite a bit in the analogue era. I suppose it dates back to the early years, when many of the channels content would arrive at the cable company on tape; presumably they 'bought' this content and stuck their own adverts in. (This method appears to be what was used to playout the Cable & Wireless version of TCC, albeit with no evidence of adverts.)
I remember seeing adverts for one of the local chains (I think either Carpet Barn or Carpetmania) on Diamond Cable; I guess it could have been Cable 7 but I don't remember them carrying proper adverts (only a holding feed which appeared to be generated by Powerpoint 95). The advert was more or less a series of generic stills with the radio advert of the time playing over it.
JA
We had (well I guess technically still have... after 19 years, a switch to digital and several rebrands) Diamond Cable too, and I don't remember them ever cutting into adverts with their own. Maybe I just didn't watch the right channels.
When you talk of strange adverts though, there's a series of adverts that's been running on ITV in the Central area for the last year or so for a car place, that's strangely totally silent (apart from the newest one anyway, which has the animation and sound of someone putting a stamp on the picture). I still find it bizarre every time I see (but not hear!) it.
When you talk of strange adverts though, there's a series of adverts that's been running on ITV in the Central area for the last year or so for a car place, that's strangely totally silent (apart from the newest one anyway, which has the animation and sound of someone putting a stamp on the picture). I still find it bizarre every time I see (but not hear!) it.
GE
A colleague was telling me recently about her days in playout for Bravo, where they'd hand over to Playboy TV. It was a fairly seamless switch - presumably the same company uplinked both - but every so often it would be apparent from their off-air receiver that the uplink provider would forget to switch on the encryption...
thegeek
Founding member
They probably weren't the only channels that timeshared on a transponder that come from completely different places either.
A colleague was telling me recently about her days in playout for Bravo, where they'd hand over to Playboy TV. It was a fairly seamless switch - presumably the same company uplinked both - but every so often it would be apparent from their off-air receiver that the uplink provider would forget to switch on the encryption...
IS
A colleague was telling me recently about her days in playout for Bravo, where they'd hand over to Playboy TV. It was a fairly seamless switch - presumably the same company uplinked both - but every so often it would be apparent from their off-air receiver that the uplink provider would forget to switch on the encryption...
The opposite was true of UK Living and TVX, they came from the same suite, they just played the last announcement of UKL then a 'TVX follows shortly' slide then into the TVX '10 minute preview'
In their suite they had an off air monitor that showed the channel un-decrypted. After the 10 minute preview if they could see pictures on that it meant they were free to air and they had to go into breakdown. The encryption was done by equipment in a secure room that I don't think they had access to. I don't know whether the 3 modes of encryption were timed or whether the TX controller had to manually switch it.
Incidently the overnight TX controller there had an odd schedule to deal with - American talk shows in the evening, porn overnight and then at 6am, toddler programmes
A colleague was telling me recently about her days in playout for Bravo, where they'd hand over to Playboy TV. It was a fairly seamless switch - presumably the same company uplinked both - but every so often it would be apparent from their off-air receiver that the uplink provider would forget to switch on the encryption...
The opposite was true of UK Living and TVX, they came from the same suite, they just played the last announcement of UKL then a 'TVX follows shortly' slide then into the TVX '10 minute preview'
In their suite they had an off air monitor that showed the channel un-decrypted. After the 10 minute preview if they could see pictures on that it meant they were free to air and they had to go into breakdown. The encryption was done by equipment in a secure room that I don't think they had access to. I don't know whether the 3 modes of encryption were timed or whether the TX controller had to manually switch it.
Incidently the overnight TX controller there had an odd schedule to deal with - American talk shows in the evening, porn overnight and then at 6am, toddler programmes
JA
The 10 minute preview, something pretty much every teenage boy watched and sniggered at in the 90s and early 00s, pre high quality internet porn :p