Wow. This brings it all back. I never worked on the One O'clock news but I did plenty of live fast news cues from VT back then. I've not heard the studio buzzer for decades, one for yes, two for no. A lot of 'no' in this ! I still have dreams of when I had to double buzz on a live broadcast. That was how television was done. Bravo everyone - especially Philip Hayton ! I think this is a Phillips VCR recording - incredibly rare to have the talkback recorded. Is there any background story on this? What was 'TX' ? - I presume it was a VT machine but there were calls to VT 1 and 2. Many thanks for posting this. Was this really Philip Hayton's first time on the One O'clock? - That makes it even more impressive.
@@andyreeves8556 That was NOT my question. I did the job for a decade. I should have said what machine did the TX - or was TX referring to live output from the studio camera.
@@tortysoft I might be completely wrong here, but I know someone who works routing signals into, out of and around a broadcast centre (I'm being deliberately vague, because I don't want to get my friend into any sort of trouble). As part of that, he plays back up copies of news VTs. If, for some reason, the news studio gallery can't play a VT, his backup copy can go to air and the viewers would hardly notice. I wonder if there was a similar arrangement here, with TX playing some VTs because of some technical problems, or just a lack of capacity, in the studio gallery. Like I say, I could be completely wrong. I'm only speculating.
The amount of ‘ f***ing hells ‘ you can audibly hear in this is shocking. I thought BBC galleries were more ‘oh fiddle sticks’ type environments ? Maybe with the odd ‘push off’ if someone was really narked ??!
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Good DA keeping calm and her counts accurate. Supporting the director. Great work.
Wow. This brings it all back. I never worked on the One O'clock news but I did plenty of live fast news cues from VT back then. I've not heard the studio buzzer for decades, one for yes, two for no. A lot of 'no' in this ! I still have dreams of when I had to double buzz on a live broadcast. That was how television was done. Bravo everyone - especially Philip Hayton !
I think this is a Phillips VCR recording - incredibly rare to have the talkback recorded. Is there any background story on this?
What was 'TX' ? - I presume it was a VT machine but there were calls to VT 1 and 2. Many thanks for posting this.
Was this really Philip Hayton's first time on the One O'clock? - That makes it even more impressive.
TX is television talk for ‘Transmission’.
@@andyreeves8556 That was NOT my question. I did the job for a decade. I should have said what machine did the TX - or was TX referring to live output from the studio camera.
@@tortysoft I might be completely wrong here, but I know someone who works routing signals into, out of and around a broadcast centre (I'm being deliberately vague, because I don't want to get my friend into any sort of trouble). As part of that, he plays back up copies of news VTs. If, for some reason, the news studio gallery can't play a VT, his backup copy can go to air and the viewers would hardly notice.
I wonder if there was a similar arrangement here, with TX playing some VTs because of some technical problems, or just a lack of capacity, in the studio gallery.
Like I say, I could be completely wrong. I'm only speculating.
The buzzer stuff is interesting! Had no idea that was how it was done
In This Clip, From 6:17 To 6:50, It Was BBC-TV's BBC News' The 1 O'Clock News Video Close From Thursday Afternoon, December 25, 1986.
Funny i remember a 1992 fault where the One O'Clock News theme played again during a VT. I was young at the time but I always remember it!
In the days before Video Servers they were the people who put the tapes into the playout machine and played them under the Director's instructions
I was that man...
TX is broadcasting jargon for "transmission".
What's VT? Video tape? is that what the guy is saying all the time? or BT?
Vee Tee - Video Tape.
@AccordionManiac Yes it's VT that they're saying and it means videotape. That's what the reports were run on.
No all of them, TK means film - Telecine
What does TX stand for, and what is their role?
The amount of ‘ f***ing hells ‘ you can audibly hear in this is shocking. I thought BBC galleries were more ‘oh fiddle sticks’ type environments ? Maybe with the odd ‘push off’ if someone was really narked ??!
The kind of pressure these people were under, the enclosed space, I'm surprised the language isn't worse.
@@applemask If you ever hear the talkback from Top of the Pops you will get what you expected - it was live back then.