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29th November 2011 #1
75 years of UK TV
School Reporter Amy visited Alexandra Palace, the first home of BBC TV to find out more about the history of the box.
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29th November 2011 #2
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Another British claim to fame.
300 years if you include all the repeats.
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75 years of TV, and most of what's been broadcast has been absolute garbage
I have to admit I do have a soft spot for the Beeb and don't begrudge my licence fee, it's worth the fee for the natural history and travel/exploration/historical documentaries, Top Gear and Cbeebies If it's available, I always watch BBC World when I'm travelling.
I never watch ITV and only watch C4 for the evening news and some of their documentaries.
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'Never watch ITV'.
You sound like my dad.
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30th November 2011 #5
you beat me to it, 75 years of repeats , i hope enders doesn't go on for 75yrs
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Yep, my daughter has a few Dora DVD's, she's learning how to count in Spanish and say "Hola" or "Buenas Dias, soy Dora"
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I remember the first TV we got.
It was a floor standing model in a huge walnut cabinet.
Now that set could only get BBC anyway.
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I didn't see a TV until I was 7 years old, as we had been living in Malaya and there was no such thing out there.
I can remember the very first programme I watched after we arrived at Aunty's house...the owner of one of these amazing machines ... Popeye, and I've been a fan of his ever since.
I can also remember listening to a whole range of programmes on BBC World Service though, when we were in Johor Bahru.
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Nowt wrong with that.
At least they taught kids how to speak correctly, unlike some of these ignorant bar steward presenters on telly now.
Talking of the ads, reminds me of my son laughing at me when I'm sitting there shouting at the tv....
" Any chance of squeezing a programme in-between the adverts !!! ?"
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1st December 2011 #14
75 years of British Television ... the last forty-five of them showing complete and utter tripe!
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I don't think we HAD one until then Arthur...or a telephone.
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1st December 2011 #16
Dearie me ... it's enough to make the likes of poor John Logie Baird and Lord John Reith - eminent Scotsmen BOTH - turn in their graves!!
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1st December 2011 #17
... NOR my parents, Graham. Indeed ... they asked me to choose between taking part in a school trip to Paris for 8 days - with a bunch of 4th year lassies from our French class - at Easter 1960 ... or forking out the sixty~odd quid it cost at that time for a TV. And ... needless to say ... ... since none of my pals intended going, I opted for the latter!
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Hahaha I'd have taken the women also.
I think we got our first telly before Coronation Street, because I can remember watching the first episode (mother hooked ever since ), but we went sometimes for years without one, and indeed I didn't get one myself until I was about 24.
Too busy out enjoying myself !
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1st December 2011 #19
Saturday nights on the box were invariably enjoyable back in the early '60s. Real family entertainment! Starting off around teatime, there was 'Dixon of Dock Green ... followed by a Western. Next ... a half-decent variety show ... and finally, a good film - usually a thriller - but ALWAYS "smut-free" (unlike nowadays!!)
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Rawhide ?
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God I feel old.
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Maybe Wagon Train ?
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I wonder if they can dumb it down any further than the level a lot of it has sunk to - Big Brother, Celebrity Jungle, X factor and so forth. It would save production costs if they just re-ran old childrens TV at peak hours and had premium rate phone ins so the saps could vote for their preferred Teletubbie
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My telly went on the blink a few years ago, and I never bothered to replace it.
Tell me, does Albert Tatlock still drink in the snug at the Rovers......
.... and are Bennie and Miss Diane still working at the Crossroads Motel ?No man is an island, but Barry is
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