24-02-2022, 07:29 PM
Michael's show was I think the biggest success the show had in the early days- due to the fact Breakfast Time wasn't on air on weekends, so it was the only thing on.
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24-02-2022, 09:09 PM
A comment on the "TV-am daybreak on day two" video (also on Transdiffusion 's YouTube channel) suggests
Quote:As someone pointed out to [ Transdiffusion ] (on Twitter or Facebook or the like), [Robert] Kee was sold on the idea of presenting a daily Panorama, with big resources to set the news agenda for the day and eclipsing the Today programme on Radio 4. Parkinson (it says here) became a director of the company about two or three months after he first appeared on air.
24-02-2022, 09:41 PM
VMPhil post_id=70058 time= user_id=1043 Wrote:Incidentally, how long did Robert Kee and Michael Parkinson last at TV-am? We know David Frost stayed there until the end, and Anna Ford and Angela Rippon were sacked in April. Kee presented during the 1983 election campaign - the TV Times points out he did a regular campaign report and interview every day - and also the whole programme the morning after the election. But I don't think he lasted very long after that. Parky left in March 1984, I think - all five were only contracted to work six months of the year and Parky saved up all his holiday and took it all at once, so he was absent for the entire summer of 1983, came back in October for another six months, then went again and never came back.
24-02-2022, 10:01 PM
Steve Williams post_id=70084 time= user_id=1326 Wrote:Thanks Steve - Kee lasted longer than I thought. I can't imagine he was impressed with Daybreak being ditched.VMPhil post_id=70058 time= user_id=1043 Wrote:Incidentally, how long did Robert Kee and Michael Parkinson last at TV-am? We know David Frost stayed there until the end, and Anna Ford and Angela Rippon were sacked in April. ![[Image: 1592580878_1869298444.svg]](https://up.metropol247.co.uk/062020/1592580878_1869298444.svg)
24-02-2022, 11:42 PM
VMPhil post_id=70090 time= user_id=1043 Wrote:Thanks Steve - Kee lasted longer than I thought. I can't imagine he was impressed with Daybreak being ditched. Well, the initial plan was for him to do the main Good Morning Britain programme at various points like all the others, and in the TV Times in the week of launch he talks about how he was quite looking forward to doing all the cookery and lifestyle stuff, but it never happened in the end. As I say, all five were contracted to do six months of the year so there'd be different combinations of the hosts all through the year, with Frost and Ford for February, and Ford and Rippon for March, except that fell apart pretty sharpish with Nick Owen presenting with Rippon in April (where there were loads of complaints she was rude and patronising to him) until she went and Lynda Berry joined him. Seems a bizarre idea anyway, in terms of keeping the show consistent, but it's another example of their rather idiosyncratic ideas that illustrated that it was a bunch of people used to being on television playing at making it. I mean, Robert Kee doing Good Morning Britain is the perfect example, that's just them being self-indulgent and thinking it would be a daft laugh, and never mind the viewers. And you can't imagine some of them still getting up at 4am after a few months, with their money. Of course it was the issue of who presented when that saw it almost collapse, as Anna and Angela only managed one day in March before Anna fell ill and Parky stood in for her, and that was the first presenter pairing that actually worked and the editor said he wanted to have Parky on weekdays full time. He was told that they couldn't do that because the presenters were on a par with management and they'd decide when they presented, and he said that was a ridiculous way to run a TV channel and resigned, telling Peter Jay he had no confidence in him, and that set in motion the events that led to Jay leaving and Anna and Angela being fired and so on.
27-02-2022, 08:40 PM
Some Channel 4 downtime in vision teletext from 1985. When the clock reaches 12:15 and it's time to switch from 4-tel to Oracle, you can see someone physically keying in the page number to change the page! Later on the change between the two seemed to become automated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Vb4sulUww
04-03-2022, 06:02 PM
Really hard to believe it'll be ten years this year since the Daybreak 2.0 revamp. Not fondly remembered but I loved the theme music.
https://youtu.be/yrCYgwdvaXs?t=54
04-03-2022, 06:10 PM
The first programme to come from TC1 in 1991 after its refurbishment was Blue Peter, so of course they took full advantage of the opportunity to show the studio off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mij1U_qDrZA&t
Write that down in your copybook now
04-03-2022, 11:57 PM
Clearly a very oversized studio for Blue Peter, but then showing off the size was clearly the point of that episode.
That bus is one that operated in the area I live as well!
06-03-2022, 07:44 PM
James2001 post_id=70595 time= user_id=956 Wrote:Some Channel 4 downtime in vision teletext from 1985. When the clock reaches 12:15 and it's time to switch from 4-tel to Oracle, you can see someone physically keying in the page number to change the page! Later on the change between the two seemed to become automated. I remember this happening. The “Oracle on View” page changed a few times, from 596 to 599 to 592 I think. Sometimes the operator would be caught out and initially key in the old page number - on at least one occasion nobody noticed and we had 15 minutes of a holiday ad instead of the rolling pages!
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06-03-2022, 10:33 PM
While looking at stuff from the 1997 elections. I stumbled across a part from Breakfast With Frost and I noticed from the background that the set had a framed picture of the BBC logo but it looks like it’s the sombre version.
https://youtu.be/BICmuK8GqjM
07-03-2022, 08:22 AM
FanOfTV99 post_id=72070 time= user_id=1014 Wrote:While looking at stuff from the 1997 elections. I stumbled across a part from Breakfast With Frost and I noticed from the background that the set had a framed picture of the BBC logo but it looks like it’s the sombre version. That was on the wall behind him for a while, I don't think it got replaced when the logo changed. It's just the BBC corporate logo of the time on its standard background. It's what was seen on screen when the networks combined for Diana's death known in presentation as the 'family symbol' (as in family of channels).
07-03-2022, 11:18 AM
Si-Co post_id=72030 time= user_id=1388 Wrote:James2001 post_id=70595 time= user_id=956 Wrote:Some Channel 4 downtime in vision teletext from 1985. When the clock reaches 12:15 and it's time to switch from 4-tel to Oracle, you can see someone physically keying in the page number to change the page! Later on the change between the two seemed to become automated. It also happened in December 1994 where they shown the Talking Heads slide for 12 minutes, which only for Channel 4 to turn their transmitter off after that time (from 7:35 onwards) https://youtu.be/1xletTCFN7s?t=455
10-03-2022, 11:06 AM
One of the more interesting mash-ups:
What happens if you take the opening theme from The Muppet Show, replace the lyrics with those from A Whiter Shade of Pale, and then get David Mitchell to "perform" it on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue? Well, you get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFxc5Vd-fBM And the other way round - lyrics of The Muppet Show to the tune of A Whiter Shade of Pale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xkP3rYeEI |
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