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Think I've mentioned this before, but at Tyne Tees (at least when I saw it) the 'phone' was a button on the desk rather than a physical phone. It was backlit red though.
It was a physical handset back in 1987. There were three handsets by the TC's desk - one was connected to the Speaking Clock, one was the 'red phone' (though I can't recall if it was actually red), and there was one other.
Did Border transmit that themselves or did it come down the line from elsewhere?
They were part networking it to half the country, which made it worse, as in more embarrassing, for them !
Surprised to hear that Border were part-networking H&A. I think Thames (and later Carlton) had the masters, and played it out at lunchtime (regions either screening it via their feed or recording it to play back themselves - the lunchtime tx's as well as the tea-time repeats were scheduled at different times across the network). Anyone who recorded it would then have a copy to play back at 5.10, 6.00 or 6.30 too.
I noticed that the 5.10 episodes weren't all coming from the same source (I saw a 1993 episode on HTV, Granada and YTV and they all started at a slighly different time). Do we have any idea who was playing the episodes out and to whom?
It was red.
Think I've mentioned this before, but at Tyne Tees (at least when I saw it) the 'phone' was a button on the desk rather than a physical phone. It was backlit red though.
It was a physical handset back in 1987. There were three handsets by the TC's desk - one was connected to the Speaking Clock, one was the 'red phone' (though I can't recall if it was actually red), and there was one other.
Border did have some amazing breakdowns - the one I remember from my childhood, was when they were showing an episode of Home and Away, and there was no part 2 on the tape
Did Border transmit that themselves or did it come down the line from elsewhere?
They were part networking it to half the country, which made it worse, as in more embarrassing, for them !
Surprised to hear that Border were part-networking H&A. I think Thames (and later Carlton) had the masters, and played it out at lunchtime (regions either screening it via their feed or recording it to play back themselves - the lunchtime tx's as well as the tea-time repeats were scheduled at different times across the network). Anyone who recorded it would then have a copy to play back at 5.10, 6.00 or 6.30 too.
I noticed that the 5.10 episodes weren't all coming from the same source (I saw a 1993 episode on HTV, Granada and YTV and they all started at a slighly different time). Do we have any idea who was playing the episodes out and to whom?
