old cablelink tv adverts from the 90,s

waynedublin28

hi can u help
were can i find any old cablelink tv adverts from the 90,s

thanks

wayne

highdef

Are you looking for the old Cablelink promo ads or the ads for pay per view events or a bit of both? Either way, I think they are long gone unless online somewhere. The ads were produced by BSkyB and were played out locally from Cablelink. The tapes were Betacam SP and they would've been all dumped when Cablelink stopped playing out the ads and moved out of it's Ballsbridge offices.

JDxtra

Those ads were so rubbish! They'd press play (on what seemed like a tape player) then after the promo, paused it. You were usually left with a paused "video tape" image on screen for 3 or 4 minutes. Typically at 6.45 on Sky 1 on Sunday during The Simpsons!

Dreadful, dreadful things.

highdef

They were pretty crap alright. They were played out manually from 2 Beta SP tape players and at the end of the ad, there was about a one minute still of the last frame of video. No need to press pause so.....most of the time!
The tape operator had no idea when ad breaks were coming up nor did they have any idea of the length of each ad. The Cablelink promo ads varied in length between 30, 45 and 60 seconds and the operator would vary between a selection of up to 5 or 6 ads of varying length over the course of the evening. Usually, the 60 second ad would be run at the start of the ad break as it's safer, time-wise. But if the Sky ads were not of the normal length (usually 30 or 60 seconds), there would often be a still image on screen for 30 seconds or more.
With regards to playout control, the operator had two monitors - one with the tape output/live feed and the other with the original Sky ads running. That way, he could see when to cut back to the Sky feed. It didn't always go to plan as I'm sure you remember and there were many a time when a Cablelink promo would be cut short on Sky news if the ad break was cut short due to breaking news.
I think the last Cablelink ads were run in the spring/early summer of 2001. Hopefully that has been of some help to you......no video though

JDxtra

Best I could find online was a screen grab from one of the adverts:



http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~icdg/local_link.htm

Bazzer2

You would know when the VT was being queued up for an ad break, because the picture would jump for a split second. This would cut out all the teletext information, so if you happened to be using text subtitles in the run-up to the ad break, you were left with nothing!

icdg

highdef wrote: »

I think the last Cablelink ads were run in the spring/early summer of 2001. Hopefully that has been of some help to you......no video though

The Cablelink name was ditched in July 2000 so it would have been before that. The writing on the wall for them was not really the change from Cablelink to NTL but the decision of Sky to start running seperate Irish adverts. As I recall negotiating with Cablelink/NTL to get them to stop runnng their promos on Sky One and Sky News (which IIRC they had been doing since the channels return in 1994) was a big quid pro quo for Sky to launch the seperate Irish feeds and actually delayed the launch of Irish advertising on Sky One and Sky News for a while. I can't remember if many, if any, of these promos actually aired in the NTL era though. They were only ever aired on Sky One or Sky News, never on terrestrial channels (Irish or UK) and I don't recall them appearing on other channels either.

As for general TV advertising (or RTÉ/TV3/TG4 as opposed to opt-out advertising on Sky), Cablelink did not do much general TV advertising in the "Not Someday Now" era. They didn't need to, they had a huge take-up and Sky's DTH subscriber base in Ireland was minisicule at the time.

Solair

Here's a Cork Multichannel (Cable) warning of service disconnection :

Interrupting a HTV Wales ad break

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cwPa3jp5jQ

From 1985 !


And in better quality :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbOcvgRN1S0 This time interrupting an ad break after some Western on HTV