(This memory is of an incident which occurred in the 1970s, when Jane Mclean was working on autocue on ‘Pebble Mill at One’). The one and only time I ever saw Bob Langley lose his rag was when I had altered the autocue/loo roll so much that it was too thick to go through [...]
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Tagged as: Bob Langley,Jane Mclean.,Pebble Mill at One | Posted in: Blog, Building, Factual, Memories, Television, Transmission lists
In Birmingham in the mid 60′s the BBC had offices and studios scattered across the city including: Carpenter Road, Edgbaston was the HQ for the region. The site for the building is now a housing estate. In the grounds you also found the Film Unit and the Outside Broadcast Garage. In the 60′s the Midlands Region operated [...]
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Tagged as: Carpenter Road,Dave Kirkwood,Johnny Haynes,Malcolm Stent,Midlands Light Orchestra,Zella Records | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories
Photos by Peter Poole, no reproduction without permission. I took these photos about 1980. I worked with Andrew in the Dubbing Theatre and Film Transfer Suite. He later became a Studio Manager at The World Service. Then he became a Radio Producer working at Bush House and Broadcasting House. After leaving the BBC he was [...]
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Tagged as: Andrew Godsall,Film Transfer,Peter Poole | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Photographs, Photos
Photos by Peter Poole, no reproduction without permission. I took these photos in 2003. They show the self-opt presentation studio which was operated by the news reader. They could opt out of the network programme and switch all the Midlands transmitters to enable a regional news bulletin. With the increasing number of regional bulletins during [...]
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Tagged as: Peter Poole,Presentation Studio,Stuart Gandy | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Photographs, Photos, Regional, Television
Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission. The photo shows Jim Gregory and Dave Schoolden in Pebble Mill’s TK area in 1976. TK was also known as Telecine, and was the technical area where film was transferred to video.
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Tagged as: Dave Schoolden,Jim Gregory,Pebble Mill,TK | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Photographs, Photos
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