Interesting read 📻 www.superhifi.com//newsroom/su...

Thank You ❄️

(and defrosting the car)

Fear not....some of us are eating breakfast and drinking tea ☕ 🍴#BreakfastShift

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A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: BBC2 from 12 April 1989 2024:40

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3349

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A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Channel Four from 11 April 1989 1224:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3348

The BBC's "V for Victory" tuning signal, developed during the last world war and still in use on shortwave when we recorded it in the 1960s. Auditory hauntology.

A tale of two Mitches ITV's most famous clock has a secret

A tale of two Mitches

ITV’s most famous clock has a secret

Happy 10th Anniversary to the time I managed to play a BBC Two Wales symbol into The One Show.
(If you must know, Network extended their junction, and changed the symbol to Dog Display. I tried to follow suit but only searched for "Dog" in the database as I was playing out a PPB. Silly me.)

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A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Grampian from 04 April 1988 1324:01

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3340

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A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Tyne Tees from 31 March 1990 2024:14

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3334

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A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Tyne Tees from 31 March 1990 2024:14

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3334

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A new service has been recovered by TesTVWhirl: Granada from 30 March 1992 2024:55

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3332

Cool FM studio, Kiltonga, Newtownards

Been a while since I was last in this studio 📻...

Downtown Radio Newsbooth, Kiltonga, Newtownards.

A fabulous afternoon, meeting up with old colleagues for a last visit to Kiltonga Industrial Estate and the home of Downtown Radio and Cool FM. 37 years ago this month I sat down in this News Booth for the first time....

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A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Channel Four from 29 March 1991 0024:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3330

One last time at Downtown's studios at Kiltonga in Newtownards with @paulbuckle.bsky.social .

"I can smell cat" (May have a cat)

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A new service has been recovered by TandCsApply: BBC2 from 27 March 1980 2124:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/3328

52 years ago on March 27, 1974, 'The Rockford Files" starring James Garner premiered as a TV movie on NBC.

Earth, Wind and fire. Transuranic elements may not be used where there is life. #TOTP

Ah.... AFN on 873 and 1107 Memories indeed Al!

Now as then, TV is powered by tea. Somethings never change.

Picture of a Book: It Brought A Smile To Your Ear Downtown Radio 50 Years On. With 293 Downtown Radio Logo

Apparently, I asked from the back seat, way back in 1976, "why does Downtown vanish everytime we go under a bridge?"... Very enjoyable read. Ivan Martin and @jrradioni.bsky.social have captured the station I grew up with perfectly. "For the memories and the music..." 📻

The clues to the construction are *fascinating*. The adastral is being driven by a clock mechanism, as expected. It's the seconds hand that's driving it – the blur seems identical to the blur on the seconds of the main clock. The star is all the way back from the face, perhaps to clear the...

...mechanism from the main clock's own mechanics. Not very thick, either, so perhaps paper or foil? The dial is very far forward and presumably kept there by a pin or pins. The Science Museum has flattened it!

And the camera is so far away! And the lighting rig is amazing!!

Mitch, Associated-Rediffusion's station clock, the camera and the lighting rig. The spinning adastral has blurred.

==The Fred Bonfield collection in the Transdiffusion archives==

Finally for this ad hoc set (more after our dinner, probably!) the set-up at Television House for Mitch, Associated-Rediffusion's station clock, showing the camera and the lighting rig. The spinning adastral has blurred.

Random transistorised equipment at Television House or Wembley.

==The Fred Bonfield collection in the Transdiffusion archives==

The new slide scanner arrived, and we've scanned the first half dozen ad hoc to see what we can see.

Most of them, because Fred was a highly skilled engineer at Rediffusion and Thames, are of equipment. We'll need help identifying it!

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ó Pirate.ie.

Listen here to recordings of Irish #pirate #radio from St Patrick's Day in the past.

pirate.ie/archive/tags...

“Excuse me. Do you sell barrels?”

Too soon?