IBA Engineering Announcements - 17/7/90 

Its a shame, isn't it, that the Broadcasting Act swept ITV off its feet, made the BBC feel vulnerable to follow downmarket and took away the careful, quiet practices like these Broadcast Engineering Announcements. As the presenters mention, the IBA itself would soon be gone and eventually - though it took some time - what was left was either bought over, closed down or farmed out to independents. Not that all of this is bad of course, its grateful to look at these little time capsules. Quite comforting in a way and interesting to note the name Mike Brown, I immediately thought of the website mb21, and the BSB testcards.

I always felt the IBA was rather paternalistic in its approach. But looking back there was a comfort in it.

Vertical polarization doesn't have ground reflections, so the signal won't travel as far. By limiting propagation, they can allocate the frequency without causing interference to other stations. They should have answered it technically. It's an issue of you want a limited service, or no service at all?

My friend and I used to sit together and watch the transmitter announcements on channel 4 at about 9.15 am on a Tuesday morning.

Fascinating video. I loved this era.

Just loooove these; I must be a geek lol

If I were back at this point of time and if I were anywhere in the United Kingdom, my wish is for the IBA not to sacrifice itself or die to bring up the TRANSCOM infomercial. I would be crying to myself that I really don't want the Independent Broadcasting Authority to go, but at the end of July, the entire "organisation" along with the _Engineering Announcements_ "programme" already went bye-bye, and there's nothing much we can do about it now! Waaaa-haa-haaaa!!! 😢

How did you get such a good quality transfer? There is no jitter and the text looks perfect. Were these digitally cleaned up?

"Stereo radio on medium wave" - was it ever trialled in the UK? I know other countries had AM Stereo.

What that music on 0:39? Sounds nice

ITV... another thing Margaret Thatcher ruined. It's sad seeing them talk about the end of the IBA in this video.

2:37

IBA intro music sounds like Granada ident.

UK TV Transmitters should never been privatised, since that happened UK transmitter technology is way behind like USA and Europe as some contries are testing 4K transmissions UK won't have this as it being forced to view 4K tv via internet, i feel this is completely wrong decision to do that then now we have maybe 10 years of terrestrial TV and radio left

5.45 am? What a stupid time to have it on at.

0:01 invader zim theme?

"The use of vertical polarisation from a site where pixed polarisation is already estasblished as the norm seems spectacularly perverse to say the least." I agree.

Why was it really axed.