The Great Storm 1987 uk tv coverage
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- The 16th Of October 1987. Replacing the previous 4 minute selection, this 40 minute compilation is everything I recorded. Tv-am, Breakfast News, the One O'clock News and a tidy up at 9pm.
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Old skool...I was nearly 10..
When people on TV could speak properly. I miss those days.
They still do.
@@graemestarkey7524 What the Professor means is that all TV presenters should speak like they have plums in their mouths.
It is interesting watching this, as the main TV transmitters in the badly affected areas were all off air. Crystal Palace in London, Rowridge in the south of England, and more were off air, as power cuts forced them off air. BBC and the IBA had to ensure the rest of the country could receive television from London, so the links from BBC Television Centre in London to all BBC regions were via cable, as too were the links for the ITV network output from Thames to all other regions, otherwise there would have been no BBC One or ITV on air from London at all. Thanks to the coxial cable links.
"We didn't tell the ambulance people because they didn't tell us to." :D
I remember this happening even though I was only 3 years old at the time. I remember my mother tucking me into bed and said there's gonna be a storm tonight. I remember sometime later I could hear the wind rustling badly and other things which scared me as I was trying to get to sleep. When I woke up in the morning my mum took me into the garage and showed me the damage the storm had done. It had blown down part of our garage wall.
I vividly remember it too, I was only four myself, I was in a childrens hospital at the time and I had a bed next to the window, it was scary stuff, all the best
U was 1 i remember the news b4 it happened
"The government is yet to commit itself" on funding recovery, here we are in 2021 and some things never change.
12:37 - BBC Breakfast Time in 1987 was still based at BBC Lime Grove, which did not have emergency generators. BBC Television Centre did have generators by 1987, and so Jeremy, Sally and the team had to make their short journey to BBC Television Centre, where no doubt they used one of the smaller presentation studios.
Well done, Nick. All that chitter-chatter in your ear from panicked producers and directors in the gallery....
16:47 - The newsroom based set, used for the daytime news summaries in 1987 is brought into use, and you can see the emergency lighting in use.
BBC Breakfast Time's main studio in 1987 was still based at Lime Grove Studios, which had no back up generator and the studio was blacked out. The team had to make their way to BBC Television Centre, which had emergency power, and this is why the programme was delayed.
I well remember the Great Storm; a seventeen year old YTS trainee at the time. It was my brother Anthony's 20th birthday. The south bore the brunt of the fiercest winds - my uncle, aunt and cousins were affected as they lived there back then.
I remember this. I lived in Stevenage. The French exchange visitors had their London day trip cancelled and had to stay in school with us.
Slept through this storm and woke up to armageddon, whole roof's in the road but probably the most memorable was looking over ramsgate harbour and seeing splinter's of wood creaking where all the boat's used to be.
Ah, the days when a storm was just called a storm. No names,, no packdrill.
Remember it well live in London the street lights was out and home light aswell
You've got one of the best quality recordings of the famous Michael Fish forecast there, even if it was a re-broadcast from the following day.
I was out in the storm from around 2am in Southend on sea, Essex with my anemometer, during the four hours I was out in the storm I had never or even since heard the wind roar like it did on that awesome night the winds went way beyond the scale on my anemometer, I would estimate sustained winds were near 90mph and gusts were a ferocious 120mph or greater!
I went near the local golf course in a high top van - that was nerve racking
The fake phones though
What a time to be alive
I was staying with my girlfriend at the time. She had a tiny bedsit opposite Kew Gardens. I honestly thought the windows were going to blow in. Never known winds like that. The next morning the deastation was everywhere. So many trees blown over , crushing loads of cars.
Good clip. Do you have the end of the One O’Clock news from the day before with the infamous weather broadcast ? I just wanted to see the report on the actual hurricane Fish claimed to be talking about.
The first clip is from 2pm the day before when Fish was showing the expected rain. At the end of the recording during the 9pm News is the famous off the cuff remark he made. It’s odd that 30 minutes AFTER he made the hurricane crack, he didn’t repeat it at 2pm.
@@bdavebaldwin Yes. He always said afterwards though that his remark referred to a report on the One O'clock News about a hurricane in Florida. I wanted to see if that was true or he was just 'covering his back' as he claimed tapes of it no longer existed.
@@jameswindle7065 looking around I don’t t think anyone has recorded that bulletin (I haven’t a clue why I recorded the 2pm but no American storm featured). Floyd in the USA had dissipated the day before so I doubt it would have been mentioned. Fish had variously altered his story about the phone call that wasn’t, then attributing it to a friend of a colleague. Truth is probably he made a smart remark that normally would have been brushed aside.
@James Mitchell James Windle was asking if I had the full news bulletin - one of the reasons Fish gave for his comment was a reference in the bulletin that no longer apparently exists.
@@bdavebaldwin Fish's off the cuff comment was indeed after the One O Clock News on the 15th October. Bill Giles repeated the forecast of winds but not storm force after the Nine O Clock news on the Thursday evening.
Michael Buerk really putting the Boot in 😆
Just about right. No need to go over the top but……
I get real "The Day Today" vibes from that bit haha
Where did Witchell decamp to? It looks like a radio studio possibly?
Remember the broom cupboard on cbbc1 presentation…. That’s it without all the kids drawings on the wall.
@@bdavebaldwin Interesting! I always thought it was a regional news studio outside London
@@tomgreen663 No, the regional news for London on the BBC back then was based at Lime Grove studios which were blacked out, BBC Breakfast Time based there had to decamp to BBC Television Centre, which had back up generators.
How interesting the way news was covered in a professional way. Now Newscasters think their STARS not news readers It has deteriorated dreadfully.
Even radio newsreaders no longer deliver the script in a flat tone. Now raising and lowering their voices to imply which side of the story we should have sympathy with. During the Polish miners strike years ago someone pointed out to the BBC that anywhere else in the world what the miners were doing would be classed as terrorism not freedom fighting
@@bdavebaldwin Hi David, it is interesting watching this, as the main TV transmitters in the badly affected areas were all off air. Crystal Palace in London, Rowridge in the south of England, and more were off air, as power cuts forced them off air. BBC and the IBA had to ensure the rest of the country could receive television from London, so the links from BBC Television Centre in London to all BBC regions were via cable, as too were the links for the ITV network output from Thames to all other regions, otherwise there would have been no BBC One or ITV on air from London at all. Thanks to the coxial cable links.
@@johnking5174 i don’t know whether the air-force background of many BBC senior staff in the 1970s had anything to do with it but, for the 1972 Olympic Games the BBC had its own private circuit installed for its coverage.
Thus when the plug was pulled on international coverage of the terror attack the BBC could continue broadcasting.
@@bdavebaldwin The whole of the country was linked together by the Post Office through coxial cable. This helped expand television across the country, feeding transmitters. Some relays relied on microwave links, but the cable link was always the backbone of the system.
24:53 "They didn't ask us to" (blows raspberry).
9:07 it’s pronounced Sand-BATCH!!
Remember this morning very well. Crewe, which is next to Sandbach, was getting the full force of it that morning. And we still had to go to school!!
Wasn’t Nicholas Witchell in the CBBC Broom Cupboard?
You can just see the shadow of Kettley as he has to shuffle his chair into vision
In the east of England we have a town called Market Weighton (weeeton). BBC1 Leeds for ages used to say it wrongly
Everyone not from Cheshire seems to get Sandbach wrong. That morning I was going to school in Congleton which is not far the other side of Sandbach, and my memory is while it was a bit blowy it wasn't anything very unusual. Yes, Witchell is in the broom cupboard - as they say Lime Grove (where Breakfast Time was based) had a power cut.
I was 20 back then in 1987 and this was my first challenging driving experience in this storm after working nights. I remember it well..
@@darrenenever4662 I was driving a high top van and for only a few seconds I was running on the drivers side wheels. Talk about life wizz before your eyes.
meanwhile no1 as been stabbed in london today so far
Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Come in, Over.
Over serious casters of the content.