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RTE technical info broadcasts - 1983 on Youtube

  • 18-03-2009 8:58pm
    #1
    Antenna
    Registered Users Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭


    very interesting:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Fb9Zqg44o

    A technical bulletin for the TV trade with various RTE radio and TV transmission news items starting at '11:30 Tuesday' on a date in 1983 accompanied by relevant still pictures!
    Though news of an increase in coverage of Spur Hill UHF transposer (which used to be on channels 29 and 33) is accompanied by a picture of the town of Cobh - which I know it never covered!

    when did these ' TV trade' news broadcasts come to an end?


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  • #2
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    Nice spot !:) That really brings me back.


  • #3
    Foggy43
    Registered Users Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Foggy43


    I think they came to an end when the teletext service 'Aertel' started. I do not know when that was.


  • #4
    DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    OMG... WOW and other TLA's cannot express the wonderment of seeing this again!! :)

    1986 for Aertel, but I cannot give a firm year when Tech Info disappeared off screen.


  • #5
    cmylod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭cmylod


    Very much a radio programme with static pictures, isn't it!

    This text is what the voice man is reading out.
    Here's a photo vaguely related to a location mentioned.

    When did Kippure drop the Band III (or "111"!) extension ch. J?


  • #6
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    cmylod wrote: »
    Very much a radio programme with static pictures, isn't it!

    This text is what the voice man is reading out.

    A lot of adverts on RTE prior to about 1990 used the same format (for a long time it appeared to be two live announcers on each adbreak)
    When did Kippure drop the Band III (or "111"!) extension ch. J?
    Late eighties/early nineties RTE1 moved down to channel E and RTE2 inherited channel H. Why they didnt do this from the outset is beyond me.


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  • #7
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    A lot of adverts on RTE prior to about 1990 used the same format

    I rememeber UTV back then having adverts like that.


  • #8
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Loved the bits about Maghera FM's (or rather "VHF/FM's") being on reduced power because they couldnt get spare parts for the TX and how "illegal broadcast stations" (and to a lesser extent "radio telephones" -whatever they were) were apparently the source of all evil.

    How quaint :P


  • #9
    bazzer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭bazzer


    Great piece of nostalgia!

    You have to love them playing out to the theme tune of The Pink Panther!! :D


  • #10
    Stasi 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Stasi 2.0


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Late eighties/early nineties RTE1 moved down to channel E and RTE2 inherited channel H. Why they didnt do this from the outset is beyond me.

    Maybe Channel E couldnt be used prior to the mid 1980's because of cochannel UK 405 line transmitters ?


  • #11
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    Stasi 2.0 wrote: »
    Maybe Channel E couldnt be used prior to the mid 1980's because of cochannel UK 405 line transmitters ?

    There certainly would have been overlap with ch. 7 (St. Hilary), & ch. 8 (Strabane, Preseli).


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