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Tvam- Timeslot - Steve in Pudsey - 14-06-2021
Robertclark125 post_id=18771 time= user_id=1163 Wrote:The cameras at TV-am's regional studios were, I believe, controlled remotely from London. Is that correct?
Eventually, but I think this upset the unions.
Tvam- Timeslot - Neil Jones - 14-06-2021
garethni post_id=19489 time= user_id=1507 Wrote:A strange question, but were Tv-am's studios in London supposed to be haunted? I remember getting a WAC/Wacaday annual one Christmas and it had a ghost story in it. Whether it was written to be a 'true' ghost story or not I cannot remember, or maybe never thought about it as a child.
Anyway, from the depths of my memory, the story went something like there was some manager in the WAC studio the night before they started broadcasting. Near the set he looked and saw some ghostly figure (who might have been some miscreant from times long past) lifting up a trapdoor and going down the stairs inside. Then they moved the set as it was terrifying. I wish I still had that book.
The building used to be a car showroom before TV-am rocked up, so unless somebody got run over, probably safe to assume it was a fabrication.
Teddington was apparently supposed to be haunted though.
Tvam- Timeslot - James Martin - 14-06-2021
Steve in Pudsey post_id=19573 time= user_id=942 Wrote:Yes - and for some reason I have a dim memory of this being the source of a dispute?Robertclark125 post_id=18771 time= user_id=1163 Wrote:The cameras at TV-am's regional studios were, I believe, controlled remotely from London. Is that correct?
Eventually, but I think this upset the unions.
Tvam- Timeslot - garethni - 14-06-2021
Neil Jones post_id=19578 time=1623653543 user_id=961 Wrote:The building used to be a car showroom before TV-am rocked up, so unless somebody got run over, probably safe to assume it was a fabrication.
Teddington was apparently supposed to be haunted though.
He was supposedly from an earlier period, maybe Victorian. I remember the rather vivid illustration that I found quite scary.
Tvam- Timeslot - Neil Jones - 15-06-2021
garethni post_id=20290 time= user_id=1507 Wrote:Neil Jones post_id=19578 time=1623653543 user_id=961 Wrote:The building used to be a car showroom before TV-am rocked up, so unless somebody got run over, probably safe to assume it was a fabrication.
Teddington was apparently supposed to be haunted though.
He was supposedly from an earlier period, maybe Victorian. I remember the rather vivid illustration that I found quite scary.
I don't know what the full history of the Camden Lock building was but by 1977 it looked like this (and had apparently been a car showroom since 1958):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rtw501/6902776428
Tvam- Timeslot - Steve Williams - 15-06-2021
garethni post_id=20290 time= user_id=1507 Wrote:He was supposedly from an earlier period, maybe Victorian. I remember the rather vivid illustration that I found quite scary.
Yes! I remember this, it was in the 1988 WAC Annual which I had at the time and, funnily enough, was looking at just a few weeks ago as it's still among a pile of my old books at my parents' house. It's exactly as you say, apparently some technician was working there the night before the first show and saw it, and was so nervous he got them to move the set to another part of the studio. And there was a suitably creepy illustration.
I was totally taken in by it at the time although I feel it's a story that may have been, at best, embellished for the book.
Tvam- Timeslot - deejay - 15-06-2021
This is the photo of Henlys Garage, which looks more familiar to us TV Geeks
![[Image: henleys.jpg]](https://inlanding.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/henleys.jpg)
Tvam- Timeslot - Steve in Pudsey - 15-06-2021
Neil Jones post_id=20351 time= user_id=961 Wrote:I don't know what the full history of the Camden Lock building was but by 1977 it looked like this (and had apparently been a car showroom since 1958):
Hence the BT circuit IDs having the prefix HOG - Henley's Old Garage
Tvam- Timeslot - VMPhil - 15-06-2021
deejay post_id=20383 time= user_id=880 Wrote:This is the photo of Henlys Garage, which looks more familiar to us TV Geeks
Must admit I'm a fan of the old TV-am building with its 80s postmodern architecture, certainly compared to what it replaced. Seems a bit of a shame that they rebuilt the front of it a few years ago and got rid of most of that.
Tvam- Timeslot - Neil Jones - 15-06-2021
There are online maps that show what Hawley Crescent had as far back as 1891 (Victorian England would have been 1837-1901) and the only thing one can ascertain for certain is that Hawley Crescent existed in Victorian Times, seemingly as back to back terraced housing, in the days of outhouses and also apparently completely behind a brewery company (the entire area is now occupied by what was TV-am's studios). So any "ghosts" probably date from getting high on the fumes if the wind blows in the right direction.
Of course its impossible to prove that ghosts exist and nobody can prove any building anywhere is haunted, sending the likes of Derek Acorah doesn't prove anything. But if believing makes you happy...
Tvam- Timeslot - Robertclark125 - 15-06-2021
Does anyone know if the very last part, of the very last TV-am, where they all said goodbye, and waved, and the picture went still and turned black and white, was done live, or pre recorded? If live, how did they manage to get it turned black and white and the image to go still?
Tvam- Timeslot - Hatton Cross - 15-06-2021
There must have been a 'pause' effect button on gallery vision mixer console, then using another pre-set effect to cross fade out of colour output, and into black and white?
I've seen a pause done before on live output, so I assume it is less technical to pull off than viewers think.
Tvam- Timeslot - Markymark - 15-06-2021
Hatton Cross post_id=20558 time= user_id=1471 Wrote:There must have been a 'pause' effect button on gallery vision mixer console, then using another pre-set effect to cross fade out of colour output, and into black and white?
I've seen a pause done before on live output, so I assume it is less technical to pull off than viewers think.
Assuming it was the original 1983 installed vision mixer, I can't think of one that early that had a frame memory.?
I suspect it was a near live pre record?
Edit: However, they would have had a DVE for live use, and you could do it with that live
Today DVEs are simply incorporated within the vision mixer
Tvam- Timeslot - Newsdog - 15-06-2021
Did TVAM record much of Sunday’s output such as Frost on Sunday or was it live?
I notice from 1986 the ‘Jonathon Dimbleby on Sunday’ was billed as a look back on the weeks events so could have been easily recorded.
Tvam- Timeslot - Steve Williams - 15-06-2021
Newsdog post_id=20753 time= user_id=1461 Wrote:Did TVAM record much of Sunday’s output such as Frost on Sunday or was it live?
I notice from 1986 the ‘Jonathon Dimbleby on Sunday’ was billed as a look back on the weeks events so could have been easily recorded.
For at least a few years it was all pre-recorded on Sundays, because there was a union agreement that they wouldn't do live shows on Sundays or Bank Holidays, in Morning Glory Mike Hollingsworth refers to it as "the most appalling union agreement for a live television channel". That went badly wrong on 1st April 1984 when their April Fool was about Albert Tatlock from Coronation Street, and Jack Howarth who played him had died overnight.