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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 13h

Just happened to have it on hand ...

Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 2d

America had some live drama production from New York with a Broadway tradition in the early day but that was effectively already dead before videotape. It was missed by some even then.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 2d

As a contrast early ITV stockpiled film drama before it started through a scarcity of multi-camera studios for making it live. They apologised promising they'd make more studio stuff as soon as they could. That was what TV was thought to be - a performance. Even tape recording didn't change that.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 2d

As shown here the notional coverage area of BBCtv Holme Moss 2V was vast. However, particularly in summer the effective area could become very much less, down to no more than 30 miles arising in the main from Sporadic E interference. Band III relays helped later from Winter Hill & Belmont.

TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 2d

More Holme Moss: this undated BBC leaflet (very probably from 1962) explains the station's operations.

Holme Moss

All you ever needed to know about an engineering achievement high in the Pennines

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 3d

If asthma is poorly controlled you still qualify. No consideration that your asthma might well become poorly controlled through catching COVID - which happened to me back in 2022. I needed a drug regime change for the first time in 40 years to recover control which is significantly more expensive.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 6d

Aerial photography. One really heavy pigeon doing all the damage.

Pigeon on the right of an aerial listing at 45 degrees.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6d

BBC News currently showing what looks like an interesting report, but the subtitles are underneath the banner for most of it. Does anyone from the control room keep an eye on what *actually* goes out?

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 6d

The 2000 crowd that turned up for the opening would have known Sid James but not many would be familiar with Tesco as this store in Leicester was the first outside of the Hone Counties.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 6d

"Need some fruit? Step right in and pick up a nice juicy pear. Nyak nyak nyak"

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 8d

Enhanced by the Foehn effect possibly.

Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 8d

Although it reached 84F/29C widely across London on 6 October 1921. Prolonged exceptionally warm spell that lasted a week in Southern England with that as the peak day.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 8d

Just work on a Gallic shrug.

Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 10d

At least there's no risk of sunburn.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 12d

A mixture . For example compensation for delay triggered by longer waits (6 hours for long haul). However, gain of right for one included cabin bag.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 13d

And much the same rag bag apart from the Third part.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 14d

Network Three & later the Music Programme were in part BBC defences against a perceived threat that as the Third Programme only occupied a few hours at night the frequencies could always be removed at least during daytime & used for a commercial station. The money for these extra services was scant.

TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 14d

Happy birthday to BBC Network Three, born on this day in 1957. Network Three will be something of an odd-sock drawer, picking up things like adult education and sport that don't fit well on the Home Service, Light Programme or Third Programme, and is pitched as being a station for people's hobbies.

Cover of the Radio Times advertising "the new pattern in sound broadcasting"

Lindsay Wellington, Director of Sound Broadcasting, explains how the existing networks are also being shaken up to bring them closer to the remit they have drifted from in the past decade.

The Home Service and Network Three explained.

The Third Programme and the Light Programme explained.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 16d

Not sure how protected it is against AI bots "learning".

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 16d

Search function rarely works these days. Left to rot sadly it seems.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 16d

If you compare with the previous valorisation method (RPI with an informal 2.5% floor) it has only significantly pulled away from that in the last few years. Mainly through income increases remaining depressed through the 2010s. Also income rises have lagged inflation in time.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 16d

The official organ of the BBC was later played by Reginald Foort & Sandy MacPherson.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 16d

Also Labour ran a de facto triple lock on pensions from 2007 without naming it.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 17d

Just a coincidence that the boy and dummy had the same name.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 17d

Where I worked always had handing in the old one as part of the process of getting the new issued.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 18d

Digging into it a bit, full length & technically better versions of season 1 were run on a Canadian channel a few years back. The best hope for seeing these at some time I guess is streaming but there is nothing legal at the moment.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 20d

It does seem to be chopped into almost as many lots as possible - small bundles of scripts etc. The sort of thing you'd like to be kept together in a collection but maybe no one is around who could come to acceptable terms on it.

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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 21d

LibDems are now largely a South of England party plus a few traditional other spots (plus a scattering of individuals in councils). Outside of these their difficulty is getting any visibility at all. Battered into irrelevance.

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