Television Presentation From Defunct Countries and Regimes

A montage of behind-the-scenes photos of RTV/RBC in white-ruled, internationally unrecognized, post-UDI Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe):



A poor-quality, very rare off-air clip of Rhodesian television in the 1970s:



(According to the YouTube comments, the news reader is Joy Cameron-Dow, whom we saw doing continuity announcing for South Africa's SABC on the previous page.)

A sample Rhodesian TV schedule from 1965:

http://gallifreybase.com/w/images/0/07/Zimb_AUC.JPG
Source: http://gallifreybase.com/w/index.php/Main_Page (in accordance w/ that site's Creative Commons license)

...and 1979:
http://gallifreybase.com/w/images/f/f3/Rhod1979.JPG
Source: http://gallifreybase.com/w/index.php/Main_Page (in accordance w/ that site's Creative Commons license)



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Czechoslovak TV news from 1986, three years before the fall of Communism:



Czechoslovak TV start-up ident:

Some rare surviving fragments of television from Nazi Germany (with English subtitles):

Some great clips again WW.

Television Under The Swastika is an interesting documentary to watch. All this survives due to a good proportion of German television was filmed on 35mm then scanned.

Maybe I'm going to have to start a thread in the Mocks forum for 'fantasy television presentation from defunct countries and regions', but someone's made a contemporary station start-up for a DDR TV channel. It's not bad, either - although I think that logo's a bit too oblique.

A 1976 commercial for milk from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, one of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia (Bordering Italy and Austria, Slovenia was always influenced by Western advertising techniques):

Staying in communist Yugoslavia but heading east, here's the news produced by the TV station in the town of Novi Sad (on this particular day broadcast to TV stations in the Socialist Republics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro):

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWYaCdkU-xA

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1eMUDFuPdA

From the 1972 book The Universal Eye: World Television in the Seventies by Timothy Green, here's a description of what a TV viewer in Moscow would have seen on a typical evening:

"The choice in Moscow, for instance, at eight o'clock one Tuesday in July 1971 was -- U.S.S.R. soccer championships on Channel 1, a profile of worker in a vacuum cleaner factory on Channel 2, a German lesson on Channel 3, and a new film, Bracelet 2, on Channel 4."

According to Green, the first channel was the flagship channel, broadcast across the Soviet Union, but not simultaneously because of the country's many time zones. The second channel was the local Moscow channel, "concentrating primarily on the capital scene..., covering events of the day, local sports and including plenty of live coverage of concerts and ballet." The third channel was "purely educational," while the fourth channel was mostly highbow/cultural.

At the time, the Soviet Union was the only country to use satellites as a primary method of domestic television distribution.

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From SABC in South Africa, a portion of an Afrikaans-language newscast from 1985:



And some fragments of the English-language SABC news from 1984:

Part 1: [missing]
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rPWzNv1e08
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrppufr-vO4
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbwWy4dAU0



Here are various other clips or Springbok Radio and Radio South Africa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqjUTburuw

And here are several vintage radio commercials for SAA (South African Airways):

This pic:
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reminded me of this:
http://i45.tinypic.com/wv4o3o.jpg

Coincidence?

That what I was just think and was just about to post as well!!!

And that's not the only part of that clip that looks familiar:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/az2si/sabc-nbc-seven-1a_zpsc26a19e0.png

A Soviet commercial for a portable TV set:

These are really fascinating clips. It'd never passed my mind what TV would have looked like in the futile minority-ruled Rhodesia and South Africa.

My limited understanding informs me that trade with Rhodesia was forbidden - how then did they show Doctor Who? Was it an unauthorised airing? Where would the transfer have come from?