Lovely heartwarming closedown there brings back great memories of my now deseased parents which I will cherish just like Fosters closedown. Great to see there are some other people of the the same ilk on here. cheers.
A month after this closedown Abba members Benny Andersson & Anni-Frid Lyngstad announced they were getting divorced & the group released their final original album for 40 years ’The Visitors' later in the year which contained the songs One Of Us, When All Is Said And Done & Slipping Through My Fingers.
@@sillygoose635 TV was still rubbish back then, just not as bad as today. I could never stand Julie Walters and Victoria Wood, not remotely funny at all.
A heartbreaking closedown which sums up just how Britain, especially the North of England, felt at this point - the consensus on which people had built their lives was being destroyed, political resistance rendered impossible by stupid squabbles, and these words were all anyone could (impotently, tragically) say. In the end, that collective spirit was broken. The same spirit broke Granada itself. In the next ten years we *really* will realise the extent of the damage done. Many thanks.
@@kyle8952 And people's lives are being destroyed right now, but not by a so called virus but by all the fascist rules with lockdowns, restrictions, mandatory vaccines and passports (now in Wales but soon everywhere unless people grow a backbone and say NO), but does any of this get mentioned in the local or national news? nope. It's OK when we had the miners strikes, poll tax riots etc, but when it comes to the anti-lockdown and anti vaccine protests, the media are nowhere to be seen.
Fantastic continuity and closedown. This happens to be the earliest Granada closedown currently on the net! If you ever want a conversion of the betamax tapes, I'll always be willing to do it for free - I have a full working Sanyo VTC-M10 from 1984.
I never knew that was Charles Foster's voice on that show, not that I watch that drivel but I have heard the voice over on it occasionally. I thought he would've passed away years ago, he looked old in the 1980s.
@@Embracing01 Yeah, I thought that and decided to do a bit of research as I thought he must be well into his 90s by now but it turns out he was younger than he looked back then. He was born in 1936 so was only 44 here.
Excellent stuff from my region - nice one, Granada! While Happy New Year would've been a good choice of song, The Way Old Friends Do is still a damn good and apt Abba song to let in the new year! Will be having this as my new year's closedown on my Facebook retro tv group! :D
anybody out there who want's to know what the music is played at the end of this video, It They Way Old Friends Do by ABBA this song is on the 1980 album Super Trooper
5:54 i do remember that some TV channels in the 80s the announcer reminds people to switch off their TV set because the test card will soon appear with the continuous beep.
@@zackdoesgamesmusic3469 Nonsense, it was only a few TV chassis that got such a reputation (the Pye 697 colour TV chassis in the mid-70s, the late 1950s Ekco TVs where the plastic casing for the line output transformer could begin melting and self ignite *even if the set was switched off and unplugged!!* And then the Thorn 1615 chassis - which has the honour of being the last large-screen (available in 20" and 24" sizes) black and white TV to be made in Britain, from 1979 in increasingly smaller batches (as demand for b/w TVs dwindled) until the last small batch rolled off the production line in 1986. Of these three chassis, the Thorn 1615 was the only one to be recalled and mass-destroyed by the manufacturer. Out of a network of 400+ collectors, I and only one or two others hold examples of these sets. Mine is awaiting restoration where the regular faults that caused them to self-combust will be dealt with before I even switch it on to see what other faults there are. Granted, there were a few cowboy TV repairmen back then whose slapdash repair work could cause a TV to become dangerous, but not enough of them to be of any real concern to the safety of the public. The reason for the warning was so that people's electricity wouldn't be wasted, as early TVs weren't known for their energy efficiency. Most British-made TVs up to the late 70s used resistive (as opposed to capacitive) mains ballast droppers, which did run quite warm (and gave off quite a strong "fusty" smell) but used up about 150 watts for a black and white TV (that's what my 1972 HMV-branded TV using the Thorn 1500 chassis uses, as well as most of the other b/w TVs in my collection). Even in 1981, I think a third of all TV licences (the only way of measuring who was watching in colour or b/w) were still sold as black and white licences! Early colour TVs like those using the Decca Bradford chassis, Rediffusion Mk1 chassis and the various colour chassis from Rank, Pye, GEC and Thorn could have consumption as high as 300W! Compare that to most Japanese TVs that had been on the British/European market since the early 70s, where - even on a large-screen colour TV - power consumption could be as low as 100W. Why? Because they didn't use a resistive mains dropper (they instead used an autotransformer to get the desired voltages from the mains supply - much more energy efficient but much more expensive, and that's why initially Japanese colour TVs made for the British market were more expensive to buy or rent than British-made ones). This drive to get the power consumption low wasn't because of concerns of electricity consumption, but to make the sets as reliable as possible, because regular exposure to those levels of heat (the back cover could get *very* warm after a couple of hours use!) isn't healthy for the electronic components inside. Self-generated heat - or lack of air convection inside a TV - was and still is the biggest cause of electronic breakdowns. All that thankfully changed for new British-made TVs towards the end of the 70s when British manufacturers dragged themselves into the age of the microchip and started producing much more advanced and elaborate, but much more energy efficient, power supply sections for their TVs. A 1983 22" Ferguson colour TV I have in my collection using the Thorn TX9 chassis only consumes 65W, which is slightly less than the average for large (32"+) flat panel TVs now (about 80W). So no, not down to fire concerns, but down to energy consumption and to make the TVs more reliable (the more they are off, the less heat they give off and therefore the less chance of a component breakdown) - their theory was that one more broken TV is at least one less viewer.
@@stickytapenrust6869 I fully engaged with the first 2/3 of what you wrote, but that took ten minutes than I gave up and read the last sentence which was pretty good. You know your stuff! 😉
get a Sanyo Vtc5000 or VTC5150. They are ultra reliable, parts are still available and are as common as muck on ebay. i have a VTC5150 and the only work it has needed in its 29 year life is 1 new set of belts and 1 new idler.
Hear-hear! Awful bloody things, the old sets were! You'd switch the bloody things on, and the buggers'd come on about a bleedin' hour later, and the sods were absolutely notorious for over-heating!
The Announcer should have said Don't forget to switch off your tv set, if this is not done you go to bed with it left on,, Your set will catch fire and your house burnt to the ground. So don't forget, Goodnight.
@@scottpeacock5492 Nonsense, it was only a few TV chassis that got such a reputation (the Pye 697 colour TV chassis in the mid-70s, the late 1950s Ekco TVs where the plastic casing for the line output transformer could begin melting and self ignite even if the set was switched off and unplugged!! And then the Thorn 1615 chassis - which has the honour of being the last large-screen (available in 20" and 24" sizes) black and white TV to be made in Britain, from 1979 in increasingly smaller batches (as demand for b/w TVs dwindled) until the last small batch rolled off the production line in 1986. Of these three chassis, the Thorn 1615 was the only one to be recalled and mass-destroyed by the manufacturer. Out of a network of 400+ collectors, I and only one or two others hold examples of these sets. Mine is awaiting restoration where the regular faults that caused them to self-combust will be dealt with before I even switch it on to see what other faults there are. Granted, there were a few cowboy TV repairmen back then whose slapdash repair work could cause a TV to become dangerous, but not enough of them to be of any real concern to the safety of the public. The reason for the warning was so that people's electricity wouldn't be wasted, as early TVs weren't known for their energy efficiency. Most British-made TVs up to the late 70s used resistive (as opposed to capacitive) mains ballast droppers, which did run quite warm (and gave off quite a strong "fusty" smell) but used up about 150 watts for a black and white TV (that's what my 1972 HMV-branded TV using the Thorn 1500 chassis uses, as well as most of the other b/w TVs in my collection). Even in 1981, I think a third of all TV licences (the only way of measuring who was watching in colour or b/w) were still sold as black and white licences! Early colour TVs like those using the Decca Bradford chassis, Rediffusion Mk1 chassis and the various colour chassis from Rank, Pye, GEC and Thorn could have consumption as high as 300W! Compare that to most Japanese TVs that had been on the British/European market since the early 70s, where - even on a large-screen colour TV - power consumption could be as low as 100W. Why? Because they didn't use a resistive mains dropper (they instead used an autotransformer to get the desired voltages from the mains supply - much more energy efficient but much more expensive, and that's why initially Japanese colour TVs made for the British market were more expensive to buy or rent than British-made ones). This drive to get the power consumption low wasn't because of concerns of electricity consumption, but to make the sets as reliable as possible, because regular exposure to those levels of heat (the back cover could get very warm after a couple of hours use!) isn't healthy for the electronic components inside. Self-generated heat - or lack of air convection inside a TV - was and still is the biggest cause of electronic breakdowns. All that thankfully changed for new British-made TVs towards the end of the 70s when British manufacturers dragged themselves into the age of the microchip and started producing much more advanced and elaborate, but much more energy efficient, power supply sections for their TVs. A 1983 22" Ferguson colour TV I have in my collection using the Thorn TX9 chassis only consumes 65W, which is slightly less than the average for large (32"+) flat panel TVs now (about 80W). So no, not down to fire concerns, but down to energy consumption and to make the TVs more reliable (the more they are off, the less heat they give off and therefore the less chance of a component breakdown) - their theory was that one more broken TV is at least one less viewer.
Wow. Saara Aalto was born in Finland on 2nd May 1987. Saara Aalto shares her birthday with Princess Charlotte because Princess Charlotte was born on the same day as Saara Aalto, but Princess Charlotte was born in 2015. Princess Charlotte was born on Saara Aalto's 28th birthday in 2015.
@happylad65 I don't "diss any era after the 1970s", and I well know there were problems then - I just feel Britain has made profound mistakes in my lifetime, that's all.
well the reason that they remind us to turn of the TV in the 80s is because after few seconds or minutes of the blank screen there will be continuous beeps and test cards
@@zackdoesgamesmusic3469 Nonsense, it was only a few TV chassis that got such a reputation (the Pye 697 colour TV chassis in the mid-70s, the late 1950s Ekco TVs where the plastic casing for the line output transformer could begin melting and self ignite even if the set was switched off and unplugged!! And then the Thorn 1615 chassis - which has the honour of being the last large-screen (available in 20" and 24" sizes) black and white TV to be made in Britain, from 1979 in increasingly smaller batches (as demand for b/w TVs dwindled) until the last small batch rolled off the production line in 1986. Of these three chassis, the Thorn 1615 was the only one to be recalled and mass-destroyed by the manufacturer. Out of a network of 400+ collectors, I and only one or two others hold examples of these sets. Mine is awaiting restoration where the regular faults that caused them to self-combust will be dealt with before I even switch it on to see what other faults there are. Granted, there were a few cowboy TV repairmen back then whose slapdash repair work could cause a TV to become dangerous, but not enough of them to be of any real concern to the safety of the public. The reason for the warning was so that people's electricity wouldn't be wasted, as early TVs weren't known for their energy efficiency. Most British-made TVs up to the late 70s used resistive (as opposed to capacitive) mains ballast droppers, which did run quite warm (and gave off quite a strong "fusty" smell) but used up about 150 watts for a black and white TV (that's what my 1972 HMV-branded TV using the Thorn 1500 chassis uses, as well as most of the other b/w TVs in my collection). Even in 1981, I think a third of all TV licences (the only way of measuring who was watching in colour or b/w) were still sold as black and white licences! Early colour TVs like those using the Decca Bradford chassis, Rediffusion Mk1 chassis and the various colour chassis from Rank, Pye, GEC and Thorn could have consumption as high as 300W! Compare that to most Japanese TVs that had been on the British/European market since the early 70s, where - even on a large-screen colour TV - power consumption could be as low as 100W. Why? Because they didn't use a resistive mains dropper (they instead used an autotransformer to get the desired voltages from the mains supply - much more energy efficient but much more expensive, and that's why initially Japanese colour TVs made for the British market were more expensive to buy or rent than British-made ones). This drive to get the power consumption low wasn't because of concerns of electricity consumption, but to make the sets as reliable as possible, because regular exposure to those levels of heat (the back cover could get very warm after a couple of hours use!) isn't healthy for the electronic components inside. Self-generated heat - or lack of air convection inside a TV - was and still is the biggest cause of electronic breakdowns. All that thankfully changed for new British-made TVs towards the end of the 70s when British manufacturers dragged themselves into the age of the microchip and started producing much more advanced and elaborate, but much more energy efficient, power supply sections for their TVs. A 1983 22" Ferguson colour TV I have in my collection using the Thorn TX9 chassis only consumes 65W, which is slightly less than the average for large (32"+) flat panel TVs now (about 80W). So no, not down to fire concerns, but down to energy consumption and to make the TVs more reliable (the more they are off, the less heat they give off and therefore the less chance of a component breakdown) - their theory was that one more broken TV is at least one less viewer.
What a legend Charles Foster was. RIP.
Beautiful song to end off 1980.
I like how he said "May I be the first in 1981 to remind you to turn off your television set. And a happy new year.
This closedown brings back memories I was only 9 years old (3 days before my 10th birthday) now I’m 49 nearly 50
Lovely heartwarming closedown there brings back great memories of my now deseased parents which I will cherish just like Fosters closedown.
Great to see there are some other people of the the same ilk on here.
cheers.
I remember this closedown I was 10 at the time happy times of yesterday
A lovely, gentle, sentimental way to say goodbye to the Old Year and welcome in the New. What a great presenter!
What a guy
The perfect song to end 1980 on.
A month after this closedown Abba members Benny Andersson & Anni-Frid Lyngstad announced they were getting divorced & the group released their final original album for 40 years ’The Visitors' later in the year which contained the songs One Of Us, When All Is Said And Done & Slipping Through My Fingers.
I didn't know ABBA sang this until Charles Foster said the man is a legend R. I. P.
The song is The Way Old Friends Do.
Lovely closedown from Chuck F.
You would never see this now. Proper television.
nah, not proper at all. still, I doubt that.
@@sillygoose635 TV was still rubbish back then, just not as bad as today. I could never stand Julie Walters and Victoria Wood, not remotely funny at all.
@Stevie If you can just get out, I would be fine.
A heartbreaking closedown which sums up just how Britain, especially the North of England, felt at this point - the consensus on which people had built their lives was being destroyed, political resistance rendered impossible by stupid squabbles, and these words were all anyone could (impotently, tragically) say.
In the end, that collective spirit was broken. The same spirit broke Granada itself. In the next ten years we *really* will realise the extent of the damage done. Many thanks.
You were right.
@@kyle8952 And people's lives are being destroyed right now, but not by a so called virus but by all the fascist rules with lockdowns, restrictions, mandatory vaccines and passports (now in Wales but soon everywhere unless people grow a backbone and say NO), but does any of this get mentioned in the local or national news? nope. It's OK when we had the miners strikes, poll tax riots etc, but when it comes to the anti-lockdown and anti vaccine protests, the media are nowhere to be seen.
this is depressingly accurate
Chin up.
Fantastic continuity and closedown. This happens to be the earliest Granada closedown currently on the net!
If you ever want a conversion of the betamax tapes, I'll always be willing to do it for free - I have a full working Sanyo VTC-M10 from 1984.
Charles Foster is still in the TV business, his voice can be heard on Judge Rinder, narrating the upcoming case and the result of the case afterwards.
thats good to hear a new g share his g just as i did 20 years ago
I never knew that was Charles Foster's voice on that show, not that I watch that drivel but I have heard the voice over on it occasionally. I thought he would've passed away years ago, he looked old in the 1980s.
@@Embracing01 Yeah, I thought that and decided to do a bit of research as I thought he must be well into his 90s by now but it turns out he was younger than he looked back then. He was born in 1936 so was only 44 here.
@@andygriffith5160 My god, he didn't look 44 there. I suppose alot of people back then did look older than they look today at that age.
Excellent stuff from my region - nice one, Granada! While Happy New Year would've been a good choice of song, The Way Old Friends Do is still a damn good and apt Abba song to let in the new year! Will be having this as my new year's closedown on my Facebook retro tv group! :D
When times were much more simple
Very Classy for a closedown (sign-off).
Just over 38 years ago. 1980 into 1981. It's now 12.17 AM on January 2nd where I live.
Thanks for uploading this. I haven't heard Abba's "The Way Old Friends Do" for years.
Nice closedown sequence
RIP Charles, and indeed Redvers Kyle who did the network trailers from Lecds!
A longer than normal view of the clock on that closedown.
This is because it was a special NYE closedown.
1981 was a good year! i was born in september on the 23rd!
Yes it was. Holly Willoughby was born in that year because she was born on 10th February 1981. She is now 40 years old.
R.I.P Charles Foster
anybody out there who want's to know what the music is played at the end of this video, It They Way Old Friends Do by ABBA this song is on the 1980 album Super Trooper
That clock looks very similar to the Tyne Tees clock of the same period in history.
I only seem to remember in-vision continuity in 1981! In the daytime and evening it was just the Granada ident!
5:54 i do remember that some TV channels in the 80s the announcer reminds people to switch off their TV set because the test card will soon appear with the continuous beep.
It was to prevent televisions from catching on fire, because those old TVs were prone to catching on fire if they were left on too long
@@zackdoesgamesmusic3469 Nonsense, it was only a few TV chassis that got such a reputation (the Pye 697 colour TV chassis in the mid-70s, the late 1950s Ekco TVs where the plastic casing for the line output transformer could begin melting and self ignite *even if the set was switched off and unplugged!!* And then the Thorn 1615 chassis - which has the honour of being the last large-screen (available in 20" and 24" sizes) black and white TV to be made in Britain, from 1979 in increasingly smaller batches (as demand for b/w TVs dwindled) until the last small batch rolled off the production line in 1986. Of these three chassis, the Thorn 1615 was the only one to be recalled and mass-destroyed by the manufacturer. Out of a network of 400+ collectors, I and only one or two others hold examples of these sets. Mine is awaiting restoration where the regular faults that caused them to self-combust will be dealt with before I even switch it on to see what other faults there are. Granted, there were a few cowboy TV repairmen back then whose slapdash repair work could cause a TV to become dangerous, but not enough of them to be of any real concern to the safety of the public.
The reason for the warning was so that people's electricity wouldn't be wasted, as early TVs weren't known for their energy efficiency. Most British-made TVs up to the late 70s used resistive (as opposed to capacitive) mains ballast droppers, which did run quite warm (and gave off quite a strong "fusty" smell) but used up about 150 watts for a black and white TV (that's what my 1972 HMV-branded TV using the Thorn 1500 chassis uses, as well as most of the other b/w TVs in my collection). Even in 1981, I think a third of all TV licences (the only way of measuring who was watching in colour or b/w) were still sold as black and white licences!
Early colour TVs like those using the Decca Bradford chassis, Rediffusion Mk1 chassis and the various colour chassis from Rank, Pye, GEC and Thorn could have consumption as high as 300W! Compare that to most Japanese TVs that had been on the British/European market since the early 70s, where - even on a large-screen colour TV - power consumption could be as low as 100W. Why? Because they didn't use a resistive mains dropper (they instead used an autotransformer to get the desired voltages from the mains supply - much more energy efficient but much more expensive, and that's why initially Japanese colour TVs made for the British market were more expensive to buy or rent than British-made ones). This drive to get the power consumption low wasn't because of concerns of electricity consumption, but to make the sets as reliable as possible, because regular exposure to those levels of heat (the back cover could get *very* warm after a couple of hours use!) isn't healthy for the electronic components inside. Self-generated heat - or lack of air convection inside a TV - was and still is the biggest cause of electronic breakdowns.
All that thankfully changed for new British-made TVs towards the end of the 70s when British manufacturers dragged themselves into the age of the microchip and started producing much more advanced and elaborate, but much more energy efficient, power supply sections for their TVs. A 1983 22" Ferguson colour TV I have in my collection using the Thorn TX9 chassis only consumes 65W, which is slightly less than the average for large (32"+) flat panel TVs now (about 80W).
So no, not down to fire concerns, but down to energy consumption and to make the TVs more reliable (the more they are off, the less heat they give off and therefore the less chance of a component breakdown) - their theory was that one more broken TV is at least one less viewer.
@@stickytapenrust6869 That has to be the most comprehensive reply I've ever had the privilege to read on RUclips.
@@duncanpriestley964 Yup. It’s basically a long paragraph that says “I have Asperger’s”.
@@stickytapenrust6869 I fully engaged with the first 2/3 of what you wrote, but that took ten minutes than I gave up and read the last sentence which was pretty good. You know your stuff! 😉
do you have any Granada closedowns from Malcolm brown?
Kinda creepy his voice coming in at the end reminding to you to "switch off the set" That's something I've never heard on a sign-off until now.
it's not that creepy it's heartwarming
It means something really heavy , it means there's no more telly its time to go to bed...
Funny....so was I! =D
BTW, I'm from Canada. =)
get a Sanyo Vtc5000 or VTC5150. They are ultra reliable, parts are still available and are as common as muck on ebay. i have a VTC5150 and the only work it has needed in its 29 year life is 1 new set of belts and 1 new idler.
i was born in 81 in september so was a good year
Did you know? Holly Willoughby was born on 10th February 1981.
Hear-hear! Awful bloody things, the old sets were! You'd switch the bloody things on, and the buggers'd come on about a bleedin' hour later, and the sods were absolutely notorious for over-heating!
The Announcer should have said Don't forget to switch off your tv set, if this is not done you go to bed with it left on,, Your set will catch fire and your house burnt to the ground. So don't forget, Goodnight.
@@scottpeacock5492 Nonsense, it was only a few TV chassis that got such a reputation (the Pye 697 colour TV chassis in the mid-70s, the late 1950s Ekco TVs where the plastic casing for the line output transformer could begin melting and self ignite even if the set was switched off and unplugged!! And then the Thorn 1615 chassis - which has the honour of being the last large-screen (available in 20" and 24" sizes) black and white TV to be made in Britain, from 1979 in increasingly smaller batches (as demand for b/w TVs dwindled) until the last small batch rolled off the production line in 1986. Of these three chassis, the Thorn 1615 was the only one to be recalled and mass-destroyed by the manufacturer. Out of a network of 400+ collectors, I and only one or two others hold examples of these sets. Mine is awaiting restoration where the regular faults that caused them to self-combust will be dealt with before I even switch it on to see what other faults there are. Granted, there were a few cowboy TV repairmen back then whose slapdash repair work could cause a TV to become dangerous, but not enough of them to be of any real concern to the safety of the public.
The reason for the warning was so that people's electricity wouldn't be wasted, as early TVs weren't known for their energy efficiency. Most British-made TVs up to the late 70s used resistive (as opposed to capacitive) mains ballast droppers, which did run quite warm (and gave off quite a strong "fusty" smell) but used up about 150 watts for a black and white TV (that's what my 1972 HMV-branded TV using the Thorn 1500 chassis uses, as well as most of the other b/w TVs in my collection). Even in 1981, I think a third of all TV licences (the only way of measuring who was watching in colour or b/w) were still sold as black and white licences!
Early colour TVs like those using the Decca Bradford chassis, Rediffusion Mk1 chassis and the various colour chassis from Rank, Pye, GEC and Thorn could have consumption as high as 300W! Compare that to most Japanese TVs that had been on the British/European market since the early 70s, where - even on a large-screen colour TV - power consumption could be as low as 100W. Why? Because they didn't use a resistive mains dropper (they instead used an autotransformer to get the desired voltages from the mains supply - much more energy efficient but much more expensive, and that's why initially Japanese colour TVs made for the British market were more expensive to buy or rent than British-made ones). This drive to get the power consumption low wasn't because of concerns of electricity consumption, but to make the sets as reliable as possible, because regular exposure to those levels of heat (the back cover could get very warm after a couple of hours use!) isn't healthy for the electronic components inside. Self-generated heat - or lack of air convection inside a TV - was and still is the biggest cause of electronic breakdowns.
All that thankfully changed for new British-made TVs towards the end of the 70s when British manufacturers dragged themselves into the age of the microchip and started producing much more advanced and elaborate, but much more energy efficient, power supply sections for their TVs. A 1983 22" Ferguson colour TV I have in my collection using the Thorn TX9 chassis only consumes 65W, which is slightly less than the average for large (32"+) flat panel TVs now (about 80W).
So no, not down to fire concerns, but down to energy consumption and to make the TVs more reliable (the more they are off, the less heat they give off and therefore the less chance of a component breakdown) - their theory was that one more broken TV is at least one less viewer.
1980's winter era
My sister was born on December 27th 1981.
Wow. Saara Aalto was born in Finland on 2nd May 1987. Saara Aalto shares her birthday with Princess Charlotte because Princess Charlotte was born on the same day as Saara Aalto, but Princess Charlotte was born in 2015. Princess Charlotte was born on Saara Aalto's 28th birthday in 2015.
@happylad65 I don't "diss any era after the 1970s", and I well know there were problems then - I just feel Britain has made profound mistakes in my lifetime, that's all.
must check to see if my tv is switched off : > )
@AidanLunn You thought I'd been stealing your comments haha :P Dunno when you wrote that on my account, but oh well. Silly billy :P
Why did they have to remind you to turn off the TV? You may have had VHS tapes you wanted to watch or something!
I don't know of anyone who had a video recorder in 1980.
well the reason that they remind us to turn of the TV in the 80s is because after few seconds or minutes of the blank screen there will be continuous beeps and test cards
It was to prevent fires because those old TVs were prone to catching on fire
@@zackdoesgamesmusic3469 Nonsense, it was only a few TV chassis that got such a reputation (the Pye 697 colour TV chassis in the mid-70s, the late 1950s Ekco TVs where the plastic casing for the line output transformer could begin melting and self ignite even if the set was switched off and unplugged!! And then the Thorn 1615 chassis - which has the honour of being the last large-screen (available in 20" and 24" sizes) black and white TV to be made in Britain, from 1979 in increasingly smaller batches (as demand for b/w TVs dwindled) until the last small batch rolled off the production line in 1986. Of these three chassis, the Thorn 1615 was the only one to be recalled and mass-destroyed by the manufacturer. Out of a network of 400+ collectors, I and only one or two others hold examples of these sets. Mine is awaiting restoration where the regular faults that caused them to self-combust will be dealt with before I even switch it on to see what other faults there are. Granted, there were a few cowboy TV repairmen back then whose slapdash repair work could cause a TV to become dangerous, but not enough of them to be of any real concern to the safety of the public.
The reason for the warning was so that people's electricity wouldn't be wasted, as early TVs weren't known for their energy efficiency. Most British-made TVs up to the late 70s used resistive (as opposed to capacitive) mains ballast droppers, which did run quite warm (and gave off quite a strong "fusty" smell) but used up about 150 watts for a black and white TV (that's what my 1972 HMV-branded TV using the Thorn 1500 chassis uses, as well as most of the other b/w TVs in my collection). Even in 1981, I think a third of all TV licences (the only way of measuring who was watching in colour or b/w) were still sold as black and white licences!
Early colour TVs like those using the Decca Bradford chassis, Rediffusion Mk1 chassis and the various colour chassis from Rank, Pye, GEC and Thorn could have consumption as high as 300W! Compare that to most Japanese TVs that had been on the British/European market since the early 70s, where - even on a large-screen colour TV - power consumption could be as low as 100W. Why? Because they didn't use a resistive mains dropper (they instead used an autotransformer to get the desired voltages from the mains supply - much more energy efficient but much more expensive, and that's why initially Japanese colour TVs made for the British market were more expensive to buy or rent than British-made ones). This drive to get the power consumption low wasn't because of concerns of electricity consumption, but to make the sets as reliable as possible, because regular exposure to those levels of heat (the back cover could get very warm after a couple of hours use!) isn't healthy for the electronic components inside. Self-generated heat - or lack of air convection inside a TV - was and still is the biggest cause of electronic breakdowns.
All that thankfully changed for new British-made TVs towards the end of the 70s when British manufacturers dragged themselves into the age of the microchip and started producing much more advanced and elaborate, but much more energy efficient, power supply sections for their TVs. A 1983 22" Ferguson colour TV I have in my collection using the Thorn TX9 chassis only consumes 65W, which is slightly less than the average for large (32"+) flat panel TVs now (about 80W).
So no, not down to fire concerns, but down to energy consumption and to make the TVs more reliable (the more they are off, the less heat they give off and therefore the less chance of a component breakdown) - their theory was that one more broken TV is at least one less viewer.
@@LeverStreet My family had a Betamax video recorder that year & I had to tune it in as a 3 year old.
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On 15th January 1990, nearly 9 years after the birth of Holly Willoughby, Billie Shepherd was born. Billie is 31 years old.