1950s Film, How Television Came to the Midlands

1950s BBC Film showing the technicalities of extending its network to the Midlands. How they had to build several repeater stations just to transfer a 2.5MHz signal (plus 12 voice channels) 100 miles north! Rather different to today when almost anyone could do the job with an IP connection from their laptop! Several weird "vox pops" towards the end. Oh how times have changed! Quality is the best I can manage as this was sourced from an old VHS tape.

[@mikemallen9378]

Fantastic record of broadcast engineering, thank you

[@johnconlon9652]

A wonderful historical filum. I appreciate the Received Pronunciation, Standard English as I was taught in the fifties (Irish Mater!).
Slante!
☘👿

[@tomservo56954]

When war was declared, the BBC shut down in the middle of a Mickey Mouse cartoon...six years later, when peace returned, they signed back on with the same cartoon--starting where they had left off.

[@thentertaineronyoutube]

please dont take me away