IBA Engineering Announcements 1989 (888)

Who didn't love an edition of Engineering Announcements for the radio and television trade?
Tuesdays still don't seem right without them.
Here's one I taped from early-ish 1989, preceded by a good blast of the overture from The Yeoman of the Guard.
Enjoy a varied postbag, transmitter news, and details of two new relays near Carmarthen.
Channel 4. Belmont. Subtitles on page 888.

[@Glamking1]

Yeomen of the Guard on the blue caption was soon replaced by Euroline by Chris Evans-Ironside in the spring of 1989 right up until the 7th of August 1990 which was entirely different to Gilbert and Sullivan overtures. I’d assume Euroline was played in the early morning slot of 5.41am.

[@marnanel]

Thanks for subtitling this. What transmitter is shown on the card at the start?

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Definitely before the 3rd April because Channel 4 Daily began on that date

[@gerrynicol3951]

We do appoliges for break in our programmes . in the meantime we will have some music ..hows thats mrs

[@christopherhulse8385]

Hannington using channel 66 for channel 4 caused lots of problems, group B aerials were always fitted before channel 4 came along, if the channel allocation was followed at Hannington, then channel 4 would have used channel 52, but it was already in use in an adjoining area, better planning could have helped prevent this.

[@JoshuaGalka]

Cool!

[@jasejj]

I don't think that NICAM answer was actually true was it?
Every stereo VCR I used would down-mix the received NICAM signal to mono, so even the linear track would have contained the announcements. Switching NICAM off would have worked of course though.
I know this for a fact with the specific Ferguson machine pictured, as when Bilsdale first went NICAM I had one of those machines. There were some technical issues afflicting Channel 4 where there would be loud glitches in the sound every couple of minutes - this was definitely recorded on the mono track on the VCR!

[@bgmnetwork187]

Next : Theme Central schedule (1986/1989) Recording not yet known

[@solojinglesradio1]

you are unknown

[@Blissful690UK]

Why did you reupload this? Was there a video/audio glitch or something?

[@JamesCooke-fd1fg]

What date is it broadcast in?