Ceefax Olympics AM BBC1 ident Breakfast Time with Selina Scott in Southend-on-Sea & Mike Smith in London, news from Fern Britton and sport with Bob Wilson
Wow, what a superb find. Too young to really appreciate this at the time, it’s magnificent to see Olympic Ceefax playing in all its glory nearly 40 years to the week since it was broadcast.
Music playing: Ceefax AM Tape 7a Sailing By (tape originally started with Capability Brown). These were compiled by the Presentation team, hence a number of excellent test card and light music tracks. Normal Ceefax tapes would have played from the start of the transmission, fading down at 5.55am for that day's AM compilation.
Do you have any info on Sailing By, and the tracks played in this outing, or no? I've been looking for info on the CEEFAX AM tapes, and have been at an utter loss of information there
The ceefax am tapes were compiled by Orwyn Evans from tele-pres. He'd been there fro many years and thus remembered many of the golden test card oldies and also Ronnie Hazelhurst's Montage.
@@RealC2rblx Suggest you contact the BBC written archives centre on these tapes because the full listings were on the daily logs rather than the separate ones for TT tapes. WAC hold all the tv logs and for a fee might send you scans.
Alas, no, I don't have any cue sheets, but I would recommend joining the Test Card Circle - on their website there is a short article and I know they have all the details. Was a member and the amount of info they have is amazing.
@@NeilMiles Maybe all of this was being done from the Breakfast Time mixing desk and not the BBC1 network control desk (with the network control desk just set to pass through anything from the Breakfast Time control desk)? So maybe they didn’t have access to control the globe and just had a prerecorded announcement? I did note on your upload of the 11th August 84 closedown that the Breakfast Time clock appeared briefly… coincidence?
