The BBC's Most Bizarre Closedown Ever...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Way back in 1978, the BBC, in an effort to help audiences with the impending changes to radio, would employ the help of THE KING'S SINGERS to create what is undoubtedly one of the STRANGEST CLOSEDOWNS in television history...
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We really do need the King's Singers to remind us to retune our Freeview boxes and TVs!
I remember the TV close downs. A signal that as a kid you either were on holiday or you stayed up far too late!
The BBC sent a strip of little red diamond shaped stickers to every household in the country with 1,2,3 & 4 so that they could be peeled off & stuck onto your radio dial to remind you of where your favourite station had moved to. One of the biggest changes was for Radio 2 from longwave to medium wave & Radio 4 being moved to Long Wave. I don't think VHF was affected, but many household radios didn't necessarily carry this frequency. Incidentally, radios that were 11 or more years old like ours often had Light, Home & Third marked on them.
RTE, the state broadcaster in Ireland, used to closedown with the national anthem up until 1998. Then it went 24 hours. It always was a novelty to stay up and watch the tv closedown for the night during the school holidays or even at weekends. I may be a bit old-fashioned here, but I really wish television stations would close down for the night in 2024.
Anyway, thanks once again for an interesting video.
NHK, the state broadcaster in Japan, still has regular closedowns.
@@jonarthritiskwanhc Not just NHK, but most Japanese broadcasters also do closedowns (if I remember correctly).
Good lord, I remember this! It also ran on BBC radio stations as well.
Could you imagine a monthly "Freeview channel list update" like this...?
I don't think I'd listen after the third or fourth one!
I'm 22 years old. Just thinking that my grandparents lived through these times is crazy to think about. Only just learned today that they had the news then they go off air. I geuss that makes sense actually for the time. I remember growing up and seeing the news come on and I was thinking I better go to bed after this because it's late lol. I'm happy how far we have come. I can watch whatever I want now and even learn skills from the Internet.
I love the idea that you might invite in a scout to turn your tuning dials...
Mr Herbert had a stack of deliberately out of tune radios for that very purpose!
Poor kid absolutely shitting himself
Especially one who looked as nervous as the one shown in the clip on this video! 🤣
the harmonization is impressive
amazing... there are somethings that are so uniquely british, like the shipping forecast as well, people may criticize the bbc sometimes but in the world of audio they are amongst the best and most distinctive providers.
BBC Radio 4 on longwave later changed from 200 kHz to 198 kHz in 1988. I doubt the King's Singers were employed again to announce that change in song.
Was not expecting that.
BBC 2 used to close down to music and images.
This was available as a 7 inch single, we had it along with stickers to put on the front of the radio.
Thanks for confirming that. I know I’d heard it before but it wasn’t on the closedown as I was too young g to be up that late. I’m not sure if I’m remembering this wrong but I think this may have been used on other bbc shows, possibly nationwide? I don’t suppose you can confirm?
The test card was legendary
Needs to be brought back more regularly!
This video makes me miss the channel closedown thing honestly. They were very special to those who stayed up to witness it. 24/7 broadcasting is great, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something about watching a channel closedown that just fills me with memories. Excellent video Adam. 👍👍👍
The BBC closedown lives on on Radio 4, complete with the National Anthem. Just close your eyes and pretend you've been watching the box...
@@dVb9I thought it was a bit creepy, can’t think why though. It’s an odd thing.
@@dVb9Yep, and tune in for Sailing By and the Shipping Forecast before the national anthem! After that, it hands over to the BBC World Service.
Imagine hearing this in a dark, abandoned house at 3AM.
Not gonna lie, their voices sound mesmirizing.
So glad that you finally made a video about this! Tell you what Adam, you have a bright future as a documentary maker!
There was no way this became a single 😱😱😱😱
Some years before George Martin had a group called _The Master Singers_ sing the first pages of the Highway Code in Anglican Chant. This is in the same mould.
I'll admit I found this really hard to head bop to
Superb reportage Adam!
This is Pythonesque in its ridiculousness, I love it and miss this kind of british eccentricity. Hearing them sing provoked some kind of memory, they must’ve been on TV in the 80s too as I wasn’t born until 1980.
Those Scouts must have been run off their feet - having to pop around to everyone whenever somebody wanted to listed to a different channel (or were you stuck with the channel 'your Scout' deemed most appropriate for you on their only visit).
OMG, a glimpse here, too, of The Kings Singers appearing on The Good Old Days. This was a variety show broadcast from the old City Varieties In Leeds and was presented as an Edwardian Music Hall evening, complete with gavel-wielding emcee (Leonard Sachs) and an audience all clad in their versions of period costume. This was, I'm sorry to say, one of my most hated programmes (perhaps unsurprising for a then pre-teen and teenaged youth!)
Some extra info Adam, what you probably didn't notice: the whole song was done in the style of a chanting psalm. Go to any Anglican church with a choir on a Sunday morning and the choir will sing/chant their way through a psalm as part of the service. Psalms are a mixture of poem and prayer and almost never accompanied by a musical instrument.
Also, you thought hearing something like this was soothing and sent you to sleep? Try singing it! 🤪 Seriously, singing the unimaginative versions of these blasted things is so dull I found it hard to concentrate when performing.
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As a little child at the time, I thought the Kings Singers were quite weird
I remember hearing the jingle “BBC Announces Frequency Change” on the World Service on 11750 at the time. I was listening in Lalor in the north of Melbourne and reception was poor so I couldn’t hear the details
I was born in 2000, the very backside of the 20th century (2001 was the new century/millennium per the calendar) but I still think old time radio and TV has a certain charm and vibrancy that we just don't have today. The name of my channel is even a refference to it.
I was born in November 1987 and while I did see Closedown in the Channel 4 listings back in the day, I never saw any TV channel closedowns until I discovered satellite TV around the halfway point of the decade! The first one I saw was the Cartoon Network pin-to-the-sun closedown, saw it round a friend’s house, the second one I saw was Nickelodeon’s then-closure, they just used the dogs ident from the mid-80s on air look the US Nickelodeon had, TCC at the time had a spacey-looking closure. Shortly after this, TCC started to instead close with “TCC will be back tomorrow at 6am with these shows” and Nickelodeon closed with a rather unsettling animation of cows singing! Even though I was 9 or 10 at the time, that cow animation closure was unsettling, the animation and the singing! To those who didn’t already know: in ITV franchise Westward’s last few years before they were replaced by TSW (I do NOT live in the South West, I live in the South EAST!), they played an animation of Loeki The Lion playing a trumpet SHORTLY AFTER closedown! It would’ve been cool if other ITV franchises in the 70s, 80s and 90s used Loeki commercial bumpers!
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A fascinating feature, Adam! I remember when the frequencies changed in 78 but wasn't aware of the King's Singers single. Did you notice that 'Wavelengths ' in 'Some Enchanted Wavelengths' on the single is missing the 'g'?!
I did notice that... very odd typo!
It's a wonder that it wasn't just Richard Stilgoe!!
Well that was quite something. Agreed it was quite soothing to listen to (not to sing though I'm sure), kind of like how some people find Gregorian chants to be, although I've never been a fan of those personally. I remember when BBC Radio 5 (now fivelive) launched in the early 90s and it was on that old Radio 2 wavelength 693/909 MW! No, I'm not sure how/why I remember that either...
For us radio hams, we need to go back to giving out broadcast wavelengths rather than frequencies!
Radio 1 on 303 centimetres.
Also crazy to think that LW R4 still runs a 1.5 kilometre wave!
Whilst I didn’t see that closedown, I’m fairly certain that the tune was played on other bbc shows, possibly Nationwide. It would be interesting to see if others could confirm this.
Needing a Scout to turn up and tune your radio for you sounds bizarre, surely everyone who was using a radio already knew how to turn the knob to tune it to a radio station.
People weren’t as technically minded back then as they are now. I remember when channel 4 started my friends made a killing by charging 50p to retune people’s tv. Sadly I was in hospital at the time so I couldn’t join in.
@@footynutguy Turning the dial to tune into radio stations is something you did all the time in the 70s before saved presets became common. Everyone who owned a radio knew how to do it.
@@jonny5alive123you never met my mother then :)
So was the retuning thing just a rouse? Or did people just want a scout to come round to twiddle their knob for them?
@@footynutguy I remember hearing on John Craven's Newsround that Channel four was coming and how to tune it in... we flipped down the flap on the front of our telly and adjusted the little white dial... and marvel of marvels we found a channel 4 logo to look at!!! And every day we would flip to that channel to see if anything had happened!! Occasionally we'd get test footage which was stunning to our three channeled minds as kids! And then the day before four launched we got a moving 4 logo! Actually hurried home to watch the first programme... to discover.. Countdown! ugh!
How difficult is it just to move the dial and find the station? It's not quantum mathematics. Why did they have to make such a massive production out of something quite simple?
i think in 1972 which my father was born in, the bbc logo was tilted and rounded if im correct
THIS is how the USA should have handled the changeover to HDTV back in 2009. :)
True, it might've helped us against all the confusion.
would you consider doing a a video on the radio 4 uk theme? when it ended in 2006 it was released as a single and made the uk top 30
I do actually remember the song but I didn't listen to all because it got a bit boring after one minute😮
The old times were so different even though i was born in 2011
Even stranger than you think. We even had to go outside to talk to friends as there was no internet then. Some of the things we got up to would have health and safety panicking if they happened today.
This comes from the days when someone would have a clever idea, get it organised and bung it out there…. no committee of poorly educated numbskulks deliberating over every word for months, sanitising the joy out of it!
True.
BBC 1 2 &3 not forgetting 4 which was shunted lonely to Long Wave life on the ocean as per the dhiping forecast dogger German bight
Will Cbbc close next year?
bbc claims to close cbbc down in 2025 if so, yes
@@IsaacKelsalljust of tv or the whole thing?
I thought I heard this year that they backtracked on those closure plans? They did announce funding cuts for kids programming this year, but I thought they announced CBBC will stay on the air throughout next year after all?
@@footynutguy just tv
@@IsaacKelsallher little sister mom and dad are going to miss her very much
And also this is the most Lonnnnnnnnnnngest Shutdown of all time
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