IBA Engineering Announcements 1982/5
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2015
- By request ! All I have of the weekly IBA Trade announcements which used 'help' the tv trade, from 3/8/82, 15/11/83, 21/12/83, 22/10/85 and 29/10/85. The two drops in audio were as broadcast - re-assuring from the experts.
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I've just sat and watched 14 minutes of 80s Engineering Announcement s. I make no apologies for this.
I used to watch as a kid marvelling at the place names (after not being able to reach the letterbox on the test card)
3:51. I love that little model of the IBA Headquarters all decked out for Christmas.
The latter IBA jingle was later used by Granada for their stripe idents (in a higher key)
Excellent upload!
Thanks again :)
6:04 The IBA Archive has the Engineering Announcements programme from 22nd October 1985 in full on its RUclips channel - ruclips.net/video/9p-hxkOh0eg/видео.html
They keep changing after a certain amount of time.
Did Northern Ireland not get Channel 4 at launch? England and Scotland were mentioned as seeing the Channel 4 launch advert, and of course Wales with S4C, but Northern Ireland wasn't included in the report.
Northern Ireland did get Channel 4 at launch - why it was not mentioned, I have no idea. Every region, except Wales of course, had at least one transmitter operating.
I thought that the transmitter at Divis was based in the Ulster region. It's interesting to note that no transmitters in the Border and Channel regions were equipped to receive Channel 4 at launch.
The Divis transmitter was on trade tests by August 1982 according to the first Engineering Announcement, so I imagine Channel 4 did go to Northern Ireland at launch.
Adding to that - Limavady was equipped for Channel 4 in August 1983 and Brougher Mountain in November 1983.
The last main station to go live with Channel 4 was Bressay on the Shetland Islands in November 1984.
Equipping the existing smaller relays took longer, and the last relay to be retrofitted with Channel 4 was Gunnislake in Devon, a relay of Caradon Hill, in December 1987.
Timeline of main transmitters going live with Channel 4/S4C:
November 1982:
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Crystal Palace (Thames/LWT)
Sutton Coldfield (Central - West)
Oxford (Central - West)
Waltham (Central - East)
Winter Hill (Granada)
Emley Moor (Yorkshire)
Belmont (Yorkshire)
Rowridge (TVS - South)
Hannington (TVS - South)
Dover (TVS - South East)
Mendip (HTV West)
Wenvoe (HTV Wales - S4C)
Llanddona (HTV Wales - S4C)
Carmel (HTV Wales - S4C)
Preseli (HTV Wales - S4C)
Blaenplwyf (HTV Wales - S4C)
Moel-y-Parc (HTV Wales - S4C)
Black Hill (Scottish)
Tacolneston (Anglia)
Sudbury (Anglia)
Sandy Heath (Anglia)
Pontop Pike (Tyne Tees)
Bilsdale (Tyne Tees)
Caradon Hill (TSW)
Stockland Hill (TSW)
Caldbeck (Border)
Selkirk (Border)
Durris (Grampian)
Angus (Grampian)
Divis (Ulster)
Fremont Point (Channel)
December 1982:
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Bluebell Hill (TVS - South East)
March 1983:
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Craigkelly (Scottish)
June 1983:
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Rosemarkie (Grampian)
July 1983:
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Heathfield (TVS - South East)
August 1983:
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Limavady (Ulster)
September 1983:
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Beacon Hill (TSW)
Darvel (Scottish)
The Wrekin (Central - West)
October 1983:
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Ridge Hill (Central - West)
November 1983:
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Midhurst (TVS - South)
Redruth (TSW)
December 1983:
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Brougher Mountain (Ulster)
February 1984:
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Rumster Forest (Grampian)
April 1984:
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Knock More (Grampian)
June 1984:
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Keelylang Hill (Grampian)
July 1984:
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Huntshaw Cross (TSW)
August 1984:
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Eitshal (Grampian)
Torosay (Scottish)
September 1984:
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Chatton (Tyne Tees)
November 1984:
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Bressay (Grampian)