Worth noting that the Discovery Channel showed it (when they cared about this type of thing), but they came on air during the day which didn't happen normally, shock horror they interrupted the Home & Leisure channel for a couple of hours to broadcast it.
This was the BBC's weather map from near the start of their live programme. I loved this old look – that weather map looked a lot more trustworthy than today's. (Yes, it has to be in 4:3 as well)
Like, when they said CLOUD, you were gonna get CLOUD:
Nowadays, it's all horribly filmed from below.
Maybe they got the idea from Helen Young's floor map:
ITV england took a film called "Lost in Yonkers" Alas this was the period were half the ITV companies just didn't care about its daytime line up with This morning off the air.
Up north there had local programme called Summer Discovery Ie scottish this morning type thing.
Only Westcountry covered coverage of the Eclipse, it was offered to the network but they declined and apparently later apologised to Westcountry for not taking its coverage. ITV showed a film and the break was conveniently timed for the Eclipse, to which they switched to ITN for a few minutes with John Suchet in London.
This report says ITV had only three news reports. Had ITN been spending a lot of money covering the Kosovo conflict?
TV review from the following day, including BBC, C4 and C5. Apparently, no channel except Sky News covered the foreign eclipse events with better weather:
Destroyed the CCD of my camcorder filming the eclipse in 1999 - everything I filmed after that had a big pink crescent superimposed over it. A bit like an irritating Cheshire Cat.
Somehow managed to get it replaced free of charge under warranty. Which was nice.
Hah, I thought that it was only real eyes that got damaged by direct sunlight, not electronic ones. I suppose the manufacturer thought the same thing? Wouldn't be surprised if they've improved the technology since then.
Hah, I thought that it was only real eyes that got damaged by direct sunlight, not electronic ones. I suppose the manufacturer thought the same thing? Wouldn't be surprised if they've improved the technology since then.
CCDs are far more immune than camera tubes, which could be easily permanently burnt by bright lights, never mind sunlight !
I have a old home video where (for some reason) I decided to film the sun and zoom into it for about 10 seconds. The camera was fine afterwards though.
Apparently, no channel except Sky News covered the foreign eclipse events with better weather:
BBC's live show did have a minute or two from Reims in France before they went off air. (And of course their highlights show in the OP could cover more places.)
