Thursday 17th September 1981 BBC2 - Test Card - Liberal Party Assembly
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Channel: BBC2
Date: Thursday 17th September 1981
Time: 9.15am approx.
Continuity Announcer: Roger Maude
• Continuity: Test Card and music
• Continuity: Liberal Party Assembly Follows Shortly and music
• Continuity: into Liberal Party Assembly
• Start of Liberal Party Assembly
The BBC2 COLOUR Test Card F of old with music-and with the countdown numbers too. Very nice too-thank you!!
Great that the clip began with the lovely "Fire Island Fantasy"
Thank you for this-nice to see Test Card F followed by the twin lined 2. The music following it I have heard before on another video from March 1983 with the PM5544-Test Card G which I guess is also somewhere on You Tube. Well done!!
Thank you of course!! The latter video was on BBC2 on 14 March 1983 (I found the time in an old copy of the Radio Times for that week), between 3.55-5.10pm. At the time of course, BBC2 was still closing down for much of the day as it had done since 1975. The closedown here as I said was filled with the test card. By May that year most slots were replaced by Ceefax; then the 19 September that year brought Daytime On Two, and also Ceefax (not Test Card mostly) during downtime from then onwards. Well done!!
Also, the latter video had the then twin-lined 2 clock with the announcer saying that Play School was starting over on BBC1 at the same time, whilst here on 2 'until those Ministers Talking at 5.10 (the next programme after a rundown menu beforehand) we return to a Trade Test Transmission'. Thank you!!
@Bruce Danton, in my novelisations the announcer says, "Play School is starting over on BBC1 whereas here on 2 until those Ministers Talking at 5.10 - we return you to the test card and some music".
@@grahampearson5670 Thank you for that of course.
And so then too.
Very nice too as before-in fact 10 out of 10 really too! Thank you anyway there too of course.
That is very nice of you so too!
Oh the original countdown timer!!!! One of my first memories!
I love this post of Yours . And yes , am watching all 24 minuits ofit . I was a bit worried in the 6th minute 'cause it went blank with no sound .. So Happy though when it came back on and the broadcaster spoke with the Liberal party assembly being on . This has to be your longest post . Brilliant post as alwas of yours at 8 am daily . Wasn't Carol Hersey's Dad in televison? . I rerad that a few years ago . I can't remember what He did though . This post brings back great Childhood memories . Thanks for this Brilliant post ..
Kev, there was always about a minute's gap between the end of the testcard and the start of transmission on both BBC channels then
@@jasondarcy4089 30 seconds, actually
George Hersee was part of the team which designed the various Test Cards.
didn't expect that at 19:29
Test card with music from the tulsa tape
What's the music that starts at 14:44? It's so soothing and relaxing!
Don't know but it is stunningly beautiful and takes you to a different place...there are simply no words to describe it.
The start up is long
Good to see they kept the testcard tape tulsar
Perhaps the test card was on BBC1
The testcard was on BBC1 awaiting schools programmes to begin unless they began at 9am!!!!
2 things struck me: a 15 minute startup, which seems excessive. And their ANCHOR electronic caption system going wrong and losing the letter A! How did that happen!
Genome has the start time for Assembly coverage as 9.15, so the extended start-up and holding slide was presumably for those who tuned in at the billed time.
The not terribly good way that the fault was corrected has entertained me very much.
I was eleven and had been at senior school just two weeks then. The countdown timer is not seen very often!
The timer was introduced to let engineers know when the test card was going off air.
@@DaveMuirheadIntroduced in August 1976 on BBC2 (there was a feature introducing it in the Service Information that morning, the first tape it was used with was Flying Over San Jose) and almost exactly 2 years later it was extended to BBC1.
It's hard to know what was worse, watching the testcard all day long or watching this. It was a disgrace the BBC were granted a second channel and how many decades was it on with utter drivel that nobody watched
Personally I would rather see Ceefax or the testcards with music than politics or sport anytime really given a choice somehow!!