Live Inside No. 9 breakdown

I wonder if they changed it because so many people thought Albert+Sustainable were a production company?

I think that the overall logo and text looked like a Prod Co credit (Albert+Sustainable Production). The new logo and text (Albert Sustainable Production Certification) is less ambiguous.

While the comments on that YouTube clip say that people actually remember watching this and it was real, i'm in awe of the fact that there's next to no delay between what we're seeing of Jasper and the picture of him on the TV. Think of what the delay would be these days! Wonder if that particular channel was tuned into the OB unit rather than being an actual TV channel? Then again, seeing as though they used to use clocks on analogue TV, i can imagine there being next to no delay back then..

I love the uproarious laughter from the audience on that Jasper Carrott clip, you get the sense of just how outrageous the idea of showing what was on "the other side" would have felt at the time.

I always remember Nina Myskow sitting next to a bank of four monitors on The Television Show, each showing live output of the four respective channels.

You can see them from about 13:20 here...



Spot the spinning blocks Channel 4 ident!

Just rewatching it and loving the dig at BBC Three.

If you give Election 97 a watch, they cut to a Labour club early on, again with hardly any delay.

In those days the delay would have been in the 10s of milliseconds probably, as there was no digital compression, and the only things that put delays in pictures were occasional synchronisers (and in the 70s they weren't universal), cables and the radio waves used to get the pictures to your home. It was perfectly possible for OBs, Studios etc. to use off-air sound and vision as a remote cue.

Yes - analogue circuits, analogue broadcast to the home and terrestrial microwave links from OBs to broadcast centres all have very low delays compared to digital compressed systems and satellites.

The clip of Simon Biagi demonstrating a TV set he was doing on QVC by showing BBC Four is amusing.

Nobody had realised Screenwipe would be with big full screen graphics that probably needed a content warning

Wish I’d watched it live now as I think I’d probably have been sucked in (but have never seen the series 1 ep so would have stayed watching).

Great attention to detail in using the actual (and pretty new) breakdown slide and on-duty announcer. Wonder if all that was done live or prerecorded and played out by the team? I’m guessing they took over at least two galleries at Granada Maidstone Studios - one for onscreen and the other for the actual production.

Who’d have thought the slide’s first appearance would have been deliberate!

And that Bobby Davro clip is still quite alarming to watch, totally unable to help himself.

I'm sure it would have been played in by the production not by Red Bee.



Or possibly the gallery shots were pre-recorded ? (I need to re-watch them to see I they have anything that proves that they are live shots?)