[720p/50p] BBC1 | transmitter warmup, startup and continuity | 18th November 1995 | Part 2 of 4
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I would have been five years old when this was broadcast and I definitely remember around the ages of 5, 6 or 7 waking up early on Saturday mornings, going downstairs, switching the TV on and being greeted with the testcard!
Unfortunately, this clip has not been preserved perfectly! Even on an SVHS VCR with timebase corrector, this is the best result I could get! The original VCR that recorded this back in 1995 will have lost synchronisation among all the motors in its mechanism when the BBC1 transmitter at Crystal Palace shut down the previous night while it was still recording as there would have been no signal (including sync pulses) transmitted when the transmitter was off air. When it started up again, the VCR recording this back in 1995 was supposed to lock on to the new sync pulses from the transmitter, but clearly... it didn't!
I've done the best I can with this in my Panasonic VCR. My JVC could play it but with an even shakier picture, the Sanyo kept playing it but with tracking bars going up the screen every half a second and the Sharp just played it with a solid blue screen.
Transmitter warmup
BBC1 Test Card F with BBC1 GLITS tone
Pages from Ceefax (Level 2 teletext) with "muzak"
BBC1 virtual globe: opening announcement
BBC1 trailer: Just William
BBC1 clock (07:25am): BBC News
Weather forecast with Rob McElwee
BBC2 CBBC promo: Sunday mornings
Children's BBC ident
CBBC IVC (Simeon Courtie): SuperTed
Headlines:
- Clinton stopped from sending troops to Bosnia
- John Major meets with John Bruton to try to break deadlock in Northern Irish peace process
- Old bat to receive members of Britain's biggest benefit-scrounging family in expensive hospital.
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Rare to see a weather man wearing a _green_ jacket - must be using blue for the chroma key ! Great upload.
Had to turn off after 10 seconds- I’m still hungover 🎉
Around the time of my 13th Birthday!
I used to remember when I was six years old and I would get up early on Saturday mornings switch the TV on and the Testcard would be on.
It frightened me back in the day so I would switch it on to Channel 4 and watch Sesame Street and Ovide instead
Similar memory to you, except the testcard didn’t scare me but the tone annoyed me.
@@stickytapenrust6869 It was the clown that scared me back in the day.
BBC2 had a low pitch test tone which would have really creeped me out back in the day.
As kids in the early 80’s we would watch the test card while waiting for programs to start + our TV took about 10 minutes to warm up and show any picture so we had to plan ahead.
Summer High is the tape playing here on BBC 1 Ceefax pages
Superted used to air on the BBC? I thought it was only S4C and Channel 4 in England. Great find.
It definitely was on bbc1 when it first came out
Was on S4C in Wales (Welsh language) and on BBC1 (including Wales) in English.
Remember that S4C is a joint effort between the BBC, HTV/ITV and C4!
@@stickytapenrust6869 Just now in her announcement, the culture secretary reminded people about the licence fee covers S4C.
@@naysmith5272 WOW! We have a culture Secretary that knows about the media for once! Unlike Nadine Dorries!
I was surprised to find that Superted was originally done in Welsh.
Roger Maude opened up BBC 1 that day.
Unfortunate with the loss of genlock but better this than not recovering it at all.
Maybe a small teletext glitch @9:35
How did they get o much colors on the telext? I'm used to only see 8 colors there.
This is level-2 teletext, which had a higher number of colours available. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_System_Teletext