Studio and Outside Broadcast Operations
Television Outside Broadcasts from 1937
(with some experiences up to 1962)
Early developments in the BBC's National and International outside
broadcasts.
New: BBC News at Alexandra Palace.
Memories of
Operations at BBC South
Early days at one of the "Island Sites"
Radio Engineering family Trees from 1983 and 1989 (Contributed by Geoff Woolf).
Drawing numbering system (Contributed by Geoff Woolf).
Mike Jordan's ExComms pages
Pictures and memories of the BBC's large Outside Broadcast
base at Kendal Avenue, London.
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New: BBC MCR Contributed by Geoff Woolf: A BBC Television Mobile Control Room from the "Eagle Annual of Cutaways" published in 2007. Geoff says that this is an excellent book which is a compilation of a great many cutaway drawings from the old Eagle comic. The drawings in the book are not dated, but Jeff Longbottom has emailed to report that the original drawing appeared in the Eagle Comic published on 4th November 1961. Click the image to see a larger version, and use the Back button on your browser to return. Following an application made by Martin Ellen, this image is reproduced by kind permission of the Dan Dare Corporation Limited.
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Eagle Towers This picture was taken in the front car park of Kingswood Warren, the home of BBC Research, and the year was probably 1959. It shows two outside broadcast radio link vehicles with "Eagle Towers". Further information is available on the Information Exchange & Contact page. Scroll down to the Dinky toy picture like the one below.
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High Definition Television OB Vehicle A modern equivalent in almost the same spot as the picture above, some 46 years later. This picture was taken at the R&D open day in 2005.
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A view from the top! Picture taken at 250 metres above ground by a BBC Transmission engineer who was commissioning a masthead rotator system for BBC News & Current Affairs (used for receiving programme contributions).
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External web sites
Old
broadcasting equipment and memories
Pictures of old BBC radio equipment and memories from the people who used it.
The Tech Ops History site
Pictures and memories from "the golden age of television".
An incomplete history of
London's television studios
Deals mostly with the main large studio complexes that have a history that
goes back to the origins of ITV and the BBC.