Great stuff! Thanks, Toni.
Angela
Dr Angela Smith
Reader in Language and Culture
University of Sunderland
http://sunderlandcultureresearch.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sunderland.academia.edu/AngelaSmith
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From: The History of the BBC [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Toni Charlton [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 August 2013 13:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BBC-HISTORY] Outside broadcast and live two-ways
Dear Angela
As Jean Seaton discovered a couple of months ago ......part - if not all - of the Engineering Information Department's photographic archive may been dumped in a skip when it was closed down by John Birt! Fortunately a sharp-eyed video tape editor at Television Centre rescued what he could - and the classic 'over-the-shoulder' type of photographs of OB equipment in action at major events like royal weddings that we can remember from Radio Times articles and Annual Reports be found on http://www.vtoldboys.com/arcmenu.htm
This is the note that I received from an ex-colleague - about another very useful website:
From: "Chris Booth" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Royal Wedding pix
Date: 19 June 2013 09:52:25 GMT+01:00
To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Hi Toni,
A long time passing!!!
The pix in the Archive section were genuinely found in a skip – I suspect they were dumped when Engineering Information Department was closed in the multi re-organisations in the 90s.
As far as I am concerned they are available for use as part of the historical record that was not deemed worth saving!
All the other OB pictures in http://www.vtoldboys.com/1960.htm, http://www.vtoldboys.com/1970.htm, http://www.vtoldboys.com/1980.htm, http://www.vtoldboys.com/1990.htm were freely donated by those who took/discovered them.
Our pix have been used in several magazines, books and programmes and I have never had a problem.
Perhaps a credit to VTOldboys.com<http://VTOldboys.com> as a source would be nice.
It could well be the originals are BBC, but no-one admits to it!!!
Those on the web site are optimised for the web – I can easily supply decent copies of any originals.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes.
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Chris B
Happy hunting.
Toni
On 22 Aug 2013, at 13:07, Angela Smith wrote:
Wow! Thank you, Paul. This is really interesting.
Angela
Dr Angela Smith
Reader in Language and Culture
University of Sunderland
http://sunderlandcultureresearch.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sunderland.academia.edu/AngelaSmith
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From: The History of the BBC [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Paul Tweedy [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 August 2013 12:59
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Subject: Re: [BBC-HISTORY] Outside broadcast and live two-ways
Interesting page with technical detail about the 1980 climb here:
http://www.vintageradio.co.uk/htm/tvprojects4b.htm
Paul
On 22/08/2013 11:33, "Martin Briscoe" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
As far as Outside Broadcasts using satellite are concerned.
BBC did a live OB of a climb in Glencoe in 1980. They had a satellite
terminal which I think was on loan (Ferranti?) to try out but also had a
back-up series of terrestrial OB links (and to keep the union happy!). It
took about three terrestrial 'hops' just to get out of Glencoe.
Two years later in 1982 they did a live OB of a climb on Ben Nevis that
relied solely on a satellite link. I think it was the first BBC mobile
satellite terminal and was quite large, mounted on a trailer.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
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From: The History of the BBC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Angela Smith
Sent: 22 August 2013 10:23
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Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] Outside broadcast and live two-ways
I wonder if anyone could enlighten me about the technology used by the BBC
in the mid 1980s? I am trying to find out how widespread the use of
satellite broadcasting was in the case of live two-ways. For example,
would
this have been the technology used to broadcast a live two-way between a
BBC
studio in Paris or Brussels and the London studios? And would the same
technology have been used to broadcast live two-ways that are outdoors in
places such as Belgium, Holland and France around this time?
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