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John Rml
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BSB Power Station becomes Sky Movies Plus, Monday 8 April 1991
BSB Power Station's final "Swing Shift" followed by Sky Movies Plus trailers. It's hard to tell if there are any breaks in this recording - there may well be. It's as I found it. The final video that Wikipedia mentions being shown at 03:56 am is missing and the clock on Sky Text as I'm going through the channels says 05:17 am despite closedown supposedly being at 4am but the recording doesn't appear to stop anywhere. I thought I'd upload anyway just for the historical value that the video does have.
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IBA Engineering Announcements BSB Startup - D-MAC DMAC - 27 March 1990
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Engineering Announcements for 27 March 1990: "It's go for UK DBS", BSB startup, some explanation of the D-MAC transmission format and mention of the UK's first 16:9 widescreen channel. (The start of the video is grainy, as I was recording the beginning in NICAM stereo from the Emley Moor transmitter, which was out of range for me).
IBA Engineering Announcements - Graham Sawdy on NICAM - 20 March 1990
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Interview with head of IBA Telecomms Development Graham Sawdy on the introduction of NICAM stereo. This clip has poor audio quality because of damaged VHS HiFi tracks. Unfortunately I no longer have the original tape to try again.
As well as Jo Whiley, looks like Holly Samos (one of Chris Evans' radio posse from the 90s) there as well.
8:45 weird to see a video crypt signal on a dmac 2 signal
Pat Hawker much missed
hold tight big don cheeseman
Why did BSB receivers have a coax input rather than f type as with other sat receivers of the time?
The saddest thing here is the guy switching the channels in disbelief after the shutdown. Poor guy
Choice FM 96.9 MHz BCR FM 96.7 MHz FTP FM 97.2 MHz Isle of Wight Radio 1242 kHz KCBC 1530 kHz
The upcoming Batman movie and Hellraiser 😊
33 years on. Memories live forever! RIP The Power Station. <3
If anyone cares, the show that just ends at the begining is Giant Robo, a show that was dubbed as Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot. More specifically it is the 16th episode.
Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if BSB still existed. The merger we got was just a hostile takeover that favoured Sky over BSB because Thatcher was friends with Rupert Murdoch. Frankly, there was no need to cover all of Europe.
7:04 BSB Power Station R.I.P ❤
don't you just love how people argue about things that don't matter anymore?
When the IBA did an actual test broadcast of Engineering Announcements in NICAM Digital Stereo, sending a stereo feed up to Emley Moor near Huddersfield West Yorkshire and to Crystal Palace in London, the Emley Moor feed was tardy with constant crackle and drop out to analogue mono sound, but the Crystal Palace feed was perfect and flawless.
I remember being very excited by this upgrade. I somehow managed to convince my Dad to swap our TV rental from Visionhire for a Nicam set. Shame it had puny speakers though.
4:40 Did he just shown the middle finger!?
It’s British, that’s all you need to know
it was their last day and it looked like one the cameramen but they didn't care which at the time was understandable.
Monday 8th April 1991
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That song at the beginning is a banger
There were too many conditions imposed on BSB - No wonder it blew hundreds of millions
Vim pela tv formosa.
Vale Jonathan Coleman 😔. It’s nice to see UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪 viewers that remember his body of work on top of what he did here in Australia before and after he moved to England.
Donald Trumpetburger??? [See credits at 5:00].
Probably a alias
The wrong broadcaster won. BSB was far better in every way.
Similarities to VHS and Beta.
Your wrong BSB was low quality af and sky is 2K/4K
it is now but back then Marco pollo satellites were in D-MAC and not PAL which meant digital sound. IMO, sky should of kept the the D-MAC and became the first digital satellite company and (although i didn't witness it) you wouldn't of got rain spots as you did with astra analogue.@@Bfdiguy4566
But BSB didn't have the Conservative government in their pocket like Murdoch had (has).
@@PsykelektricIt took you 1 month
©SKY UK 1991
So sad to hear Jono has died. RIP Jonathan Coleman
Jono Coleman R.I.P #Legend
RIP Jono
Probably more British people on screen in that goodbye party than Sky One managed in about a year's worth of programming.
Ooofff.....burn
You're right; at the time, Sky One's schedule was almost entirely made up of American imports. Meanwhile, Galaxy (BSB's answer to Sky One which closed down four months before the Power Station) featured a mix of British, American and Australian programmes. Big difference.
Anyone know who the delightful test card ladies are at 7:58 etc?
I used to have a BSB Satellite - and had some brilliant channels & shows until SKY swallowed them up.
Very interesting info. Worth remembering Murdoch out-manoeuvred the sclerotic IBA and BSB by going cheaper and quicker with PAL rather than the superior but costlier and delayed new standard.
At 4am The Power Station Shutdown and At 6am Sky Movies Plus on April 8th 1991
D-MAC was an excellent system with flawless component RGB camera to satellite pictures and crystal clear digital stereo sound that used a similar sound format to NICAM Digital Stereo but it wasn't NICAM format sound as used in terrestrial transmissions. Not all cable operators offered the BSB 5 night pre satellite launch week schedule, my local cable system East Lancashire Cablevision Limited didn't offer the pre satellite launch week programmes.
Component wasn't RGB tho, but YPbPr or something similar.
@@fungo6631The cameras used for bsb studio and video tape productions were coupled up in component for the studio broadcasts and recording direct to tape to give the high quality pictures.
@@fungo6631 Technically that's correct but in everyday practical use they're very much the same and both far superior over the composite system used in PAL. The first time is saw digital television over SCART-RGB on a 50Hz CRT set without any picture manipulation I was quite stunned what a difference that made. So much clearer, sharper and much better colors. 50hz CRTs could really shine with digital feeds via RGB and SCART.
@@notsorandumusername Can confirm. Cheaper TVs benefited the most. I had some no name brand Soundcolor CRT TV and switching to RGB SCART made a BIG difference in image quality, it was much sharper!
Rest in Peace BSB November 2 1990-April 8 1991
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Now that's what I call awful singing
That's what you get if ball drop having some power outage.
Transcript
The Power Station had better idents than Sky Movies, by the look of things.
All the BSB idents were better than their respective Sky idents.
Nicam stereo was a good stereo sound system for analogue TV, and sounded pretty good.
Is that Holly Samos (Holly Hotlips) from the Chris Evans bullyboy breakfast show on Radio 1 and Virgin 1215?
Is there any T.V. Buffs that can say what the bleep was for when a channel went off-air? Was it done to wake up people to "turn off their set" or scare them in to do doing it before bed through fear of being awoken by it in the middle of the night, trouncing about trying to turn it off by the remote or worse, having to get up and turn it off at 3am?
The tone on testcards is generally to test that sound/related systems are working correctly afaik, it probably has other purposes too (possibly to check that the frequency is tuned correctly, it might shift in key or be a few semitones out if the tuning is misaligned). It might just be as simple as it being the cheapest way to have continual sound for checking check transmission/reception of audio, as generating a simple tone is very easy with just basic circuitry. I suspect it's not there to scare or "wake people up" although I suppose that might be handy if you've left your TV on, but I suspect Sky couldn't care less if you had.
My Dad got Sky in 1990 when I was 5 and I do not remember this channel at all.
BSB was not on astra which SKY was on. THE Power Station was on the Marco Polo satellite.
@@woking1970 That's super Mark but at age 5, the satellite could've been called mint Polo and I still wouldn't of known this channel and let's say it is called "Mint Polo" Markus o' Rellius, I still don't know this channel dear-heart.
@@Hertfordshire247 Well sounds like your dad had Astra which most would of had.
@@woking1970 Who knows. It's 1 and only crime was that I become a WWF fan. 30 years later, I am still a WWE fan. There should be implications for this.
6:33 There You Go
Better quality than MTV Europe, excellent component RGB quality on Scart socket connection and excellent digital stereo sound. What was MTV Europe? Inferior PAL quality with fuzzy cross-colour ringing moire patterning and flicker plus sparklie pictures in bad weather or if too small a dish size is used in Northern England Northern Ireland and Scotland ie 60cm or less, and hissy analogue FM Stereo sound unless you had genuine Wegener Panda 1 noise reduction fitted to your Astra Satellite receiver which cheaper Amstrads and budget brands often didn't use.
And then there were sparklies all over UK Gold because the footprint was not centred over the UK.
best music channel ever
I'm the very young guy in the blue shirt. My first real job after university. I was the guy who travelled around all ITV companies installing, testing and troubleshooting the NICAM system as we rolled it out. It was the first "digital" system and saved the ITV companies an absolute fortune as they could (and did) cancel all the analogue audio circuits from BT and put the audio down the existing video cable. Funny to see my boss being interviewed !
Did you know Pat Hawker?
4:40 The TRUE reason The Power Station closed down.
a middle finger in the tv! 🤣🤣🤣
What were the special announcements on that day. I have a feeling that Stockland Hill was on reduced power, much like most other editions of the engineering announcements.
Wait, Jono is wearing trousers ???? I thought he could only wear shorts.
what is the song did they sang
I think that's New York, New York with changed lyrics
Straight from Swing Shift to a trailer for the Bond film Licence To Kill