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When did RTÉ television stop filming in black and white?

  • 27-01-2011 7:30pm
    #1
    Nolanger
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    There was an old news clip on Primetime last night from 1983 and it was in black and white. Thought RTÉ would have switched fully to colour by then? I know some shows still use black and white intentionally e.g. Savage eye but when did RTÉ stop this for their serious shows/news reports?


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  • #2
    paulosham
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    I got this over at the RTE website.
    The Advent of Colour Television: 1971
    The 1970s saw tremendous investment by RTÉ in the new technology of colour television. The first broadcasts in colour had taken place in 1968, but it took a further five years of work before colour transmissions became a regular event on Irish television. Colour was introduced into RTÉ in three phases. Firstly, relays of sports events and other programmes were taken from the Eurovision network. Secondly, colourisation of playback equipment allowed transmission of home-produced films and video productions. Lastly, the studios and Outside Broadcasting Units were converted to full working colour.
    In 1976, "The Late Late Show" finally went colour, the last major programme to undergo the change. By this year all studios, outside broadcast and film production units were full colour.
    The Railway Cup Finals of 1971 was the first home-produced colour production, followed soon after by Ireland's first hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest in April.


  • #3
    telekon
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    Yea, the Ben Brisco interview said 1983 alright. Dunno what the story with the b&w was though. :confused: It was like something you'd see from one of those state television stations in a stalinist bloc country or something...grim stuff.


    Speaking of grim: the content of that brisco interview!! What an utter gombeen tool of a man. I hope to god that in 20 years time we will have seen the last of these fools. :mad:


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