Andrew Wiseman
@aswiseman.bsky.social
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Runs old telly website
https://625.uk.com
This ad popped up in my YouTube feed earlier. Could someone lend Secret Escapes an 'o', they seem to have run out.
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WEBSITE UPDATE: On this day in 1997, the balloon idents launched, on which the BBC showed off its new corporate logo. To celebrate, here's the balloon-era clock from Northern Ireland re-created. Thanks to
@nmsni.co.uk
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625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg...
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BBC1 Northern Ireland Balloon Clock
The BBC1 Northern Ireland clock, based on the network clock introduced in October 1997, reproduced in SVG format for viewing on phones and tablets.
https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/bbc1_ni_clock_97.asp
about 2 months ago
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Pages from Oracle in 1973 just shown on ITV News at 70...
about 2 months ago
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Mark Simpson
2 months ago
New watch face. Thanks to
@nmsni.co.uk
for extracting the background from the GNAT original hardware. 😎
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HQ capture (3/3)
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On this day in 1970, London Weekend began using a new logo on screen, with a flowing blue, white and orange stripe. There was also a version with the orange and blue reversed, which introduced S1E7 of Don't Drink the Water. To celebrate, I re-created it:
625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg...
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2 months ago
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UKADS
3 months ago
Deeply saddened to hear that Mr Voiceover Ray Brooks has passed away. For me he'll be remembered as Mr Benn drinking R Whites in 1991 :(
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Why Don't YouTube?
4 months ago
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: it's twelve noon in London, 7am in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid. Uploaded this very morning, everything except the music from the BBC2 (and BBC1 after the late news) marathon.
www.youtube.com/watc...
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Live Aid - COMPLETE (apart from the music)
Saturday, 13th July, 1985: Live Aid is one of those events that's attained near-mythical status in the four decades since, and it truly was a day like no other. That said, while the cause and concerts will quite rightly forever be the main focus, my channel is all about how telly used to be, and I'v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma-BMH8ajLI
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WEBSITE UPDATE: The ITV/C4 re-creations now number one hundred. The eight new additions include ATV and Central production captions and clocks from Scottish including this colourful affair...
625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg...
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Scottish Television Clock - Blue
Scottish Television's clock with thistle logo, as seen in 1991, reproduced in SVG format for viewing on phones and tablets.
https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/scottish_clock_91.asp
5 months ago
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Mark Simpson
5 months ago
A final closedown from our brilliant colleague David Olver after 47 years as an announcer with BBC Northern Ireland. Looking forward to a celebration with him this evening.
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WEBSITE UPDATE: Finally revised the page about the BBC 1 'COW' following the 40th anniversary of EastEnders in February. The lovely people at BBC Wales, who resurrected their device for live presentation duties, kindly sent me some photos, so we can look inside the box!
625.uk.com/tv_logos/bbc...
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BBC 1 1985
A look back at the first computer-generated ident for BBC 1.
https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/bbc1_85.htm
6 months ago
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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel
6 months ago
it's that time of week again
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"Cooler", surely, Google?
#teampixel
7 months ago
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Fast Tunes Ltd
7 months ago
IT’S OUT TODAY! On hearing that we’d received several enquiries, the Major shot up from his morning drink and said “WE CAN’T AFFORD TO TURN DOWN HALF A DOZEN SALES! GET THEM ON EBAY, MAN!” With the website and downloads to follow, I’m proud to say it’s now buyable. Links in comments.
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Squidge Rugby
7 months ago
The most Welsh Rugby image of all time
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Steve Rosenberg
7 months ago
Woke up feeling all nostalgic for Saturday morning children’s TV. For me, growing up in Britain in the 70s and 80s, Saturdays were all about Swap Shop, Superstore and Tiswas. Here I try to play their theme tunes, including the Swap Shop original by
@mikebatt.bsky.social
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Swap Shop & other Saturday Morning TV themes on the piano
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
https://youtu.be/hXSwX53L3Vs
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Oregon 🕎🎲
8 months ago
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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sub-TV.co.uk has a reader suggesting the boxed ATV Colour Production caption appeared with "AN" above it on a schools programme. Probably. We do know that version appeared at the end of Crossroads for at least a month. It was also there on Mon 27-Mar-1973 but gone the following day...
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sub-tv.co.uk/atvendcaps.asp
has the ATV Production slide from Crossroads 3533 where Meg departs on the QE2. It suggests it probably used Paul McCartney & Wings' theme. BUT it was a brass band playing Sailing. (Although apparently a VHS release used the standard theme.)
archive.org/details/cros...
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sub-TV : ATV Endcaps
http://sub-tv.co.uk/atvendcaps.asp
8 months ago
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Twenty years ago yesterday (gah! missed it by one day),
sub-tv.co.uk
by
@jaseinblack.bsky.social
had its last update. Which is a shame, because I finally have an answer to one of the questions it posed on its ATV pages ... :-)
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sub-TV
http://sub-tv.co.uk/
8 months ago
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blogmywiki
8 months ago
I set my ZX Spectrum HTV logo to music...
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Al Dupres
9 months ago
It went out with sound. Preceded by the Test Card with a new, smaller logo and HD in the version box.
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
When we tribute, we tribute good! 🏴🌍📺
#Eastenders
#40years
#TVPres
#WeAreTVPresentation
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Why Don't YouTube?
9 months ago
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: big things coming to early evening BBC1 from tomorrow.
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
And here’s how we did it, to introduce Life On Mars -
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
Another bit of BBC Wales ident revival from 2006. This one involved dusting off and re-powering the old mechanical globe, replacing a blown bulb with one from Steve’s car and getting veteran BBC Wales Announcer Geraint Jones to record his VO from the commentary booth at the Welsh Open Snooker.
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Why Don't YouTube?
9 months ago
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: something new is on the way, three times a week.
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ZXGuesser
9 months ago
Here we go, it's far from perfect and not animated, but just to prove it's (almost) possible 😁
#TeletextArt
#HoldMosaicHell
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
Another bit of Welsh TV branding we revived. It’s from the same era as the mechanical globe, brought back to life in 2011. If you were watching the news on BBC Wales tv back in the 70s or early 80s, this is what was on screen just before it 🕘📺🏴
#WeAreTVPresentation
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tvbeurope.bsky.social
9 months ago
TVBEurope talks to the team who brought a piece of broadcasting history back to life on BBC Wales last night
@matt.cymru
www.tvbeurope.com/live-product...
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How BBC Wales returned live to 1985 - TVBEurope
TVBEurope talks to the team who brought a piece of broadcasting history back to life on BBC Wales last night
https://www.tvbeurope.com/live-production/how-bbc-wales-returned-live-to-1985
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
I can guarantee it was like that back in the 80s because the only COW to come live from the original hardware tonight was the BBC1 Wales tx!
vimeo.com/1056578810
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BBC Wales COW Revival
On Thursday 13th February BBC One Wales brought back to life a famous blue and gold globe to celebrate its 40th birthday
https://vimeo.com/1056578810
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
The story of how Mark and Dave brought a COW back to BBC Wales.
vimeo.com/1056578810
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BBC Wales COW Revival
On Thursday 13th February BBC One Wales brought back to life a famous blue and gold globe to celebrate its 40th birthday
https://vimeo.com/1056578810
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LF Lightning-Barugh
9 months ago
If you recall, the final series of Life on Mars came with a CGI BBC1 Colour globe. Except for viewers in Wales, where they got the original physical model out, put a new bulb in, and got an original 1970s announcer to record the intro.
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The TV Room
9 months ago
🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC One COW ident dusted off for EastEnders anniversary. Network, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales versions aired.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEW2...
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BBC One COW ident reappears for EastEnders anniversary (13th February 2025)
YouTube video by The TV Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEW2ApRPuK8
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Matt Rosser
9 months ago
Resurrecting a thing for tomorrow night.
#TVPres
#BBCWales
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Mike Batt
9 months ago
A LUCKY ESCAPE! Jimmy Savile had auditioned/tested for the Wombles narraton before they found Bernard Cribbins. Here's a letter to me inviting me to try. I don't remember ever trying for it, I stuck to the music and singing, and they found Bernie Cribbins soon afterwards.
#Wombles
#JimmySavile
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I was on this :-). (Not the first episode, but later in the run.)
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9 months ago
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Did You See?
9 months ago
#OnThisDay
9 February 1981 TOO RUDE TISWAS - A Royal Act Is Banned The
#Tiswas
children's TV team had to re-write their act yesterday. They were told that a stage act they had rehearsed was too rude to set before Princess Margaret at the first Children's Royal Variety Performance.
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Al Dupres
10 months ago
It could have been very different.
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WEBSITE UPDATE: If regional ITV identity is your thing, I've added a re-creation of a colour clock from Ulster Television
625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg...
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Ulster Clock
Ulster's clock as seen in the early 1980s, reproduced in SVG format for viewing on phones and tablets.
https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/svg/ulster_clock_83.asp
10 months ago
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Steve Rosenberg
10 months ago
This year ITV turns 70. I miss the ITV I grew up with: a network of local TV stations with their own identities. So, from Anglia to Thames, here’s my tribute to regional ITV and its jingles.
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ITV regional jingles on the piano
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
https://youtu.be/cFx1guxow6A
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Use Zoom or Teams? Fancy livening up your background for Christmas? Here are some photos of BBC sets you can use - they're all there: Mike Yarwood, Little & Large, Only Fools and Horses and even The Flumps...
www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/h...
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Empty Sets: Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fempty_sets_Christmas%2Fz4f7dp3
11 months ago
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Al Dupres
12 months ago
This is the Advent Calendar you've been waiting for!
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WEBSITE UPDATE: New BBC clocks from the past re-created, including the BBC 1 Christmas clock from 1976. No Wallace & Gromit in sight :-)
625.uk.com
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625.uk.com - Andrew Wiseman's Television Room
A celebration of British television. Site includes TV Logos of the Seventies and Eighties, PDC and digital TV explained, all about Channel 5, a tribute to Public Information Films, TV Themes an...
https://625.uk.com/
12 months ago
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From BBC1, thirty years ago today, the close of The Full Wax, with Ruby Wax singing karaoke with US TV evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in her bath, followed by promos for The Royal Variety Show and First Born with Charles Dance. The snooker is on BBC2. Here on one it's Everyman...
youtu.be/CoxnX4w2Nak
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BBC1 - 27 Nov 1994 - inc. Royal Variety Performance promo, swirly globe ident
YouTube video by 625tvroom
https://youtu.be/CoxnX4w2Nak
12 months ago
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UKPRES
12 months ago
Can anyone guess the programme?
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UKPRES
12 months ago
Did you know TVS used the promo as an ident in Sept 88?
@thetvroom.com
@theident.gallery
@htw.bsky.social
@transdiffusion.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDvb...
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ITN News at Ten clip, adverts (28-Sep-1988)
YouTube video by VHS Bits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDvb7gz05ks&t=3s&ab_channel=VHSBits
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra
12 months ago
WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS
youtu.be/zNl_lMb2AFc?...
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