Andrew Barker

Now retired I am an ex-Risk Manager and BBC TV producer. I am a mathematician by training and have interests in Broadcasting history/policy and video games.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

This is a math joke, circulating widely on the Web.

[APTS Archive @APTSArchive]

#OTD 24 June 1946.
The BBC released "Television Is Here Again", a pictorial record of pre-war television productions, and also a look to what the future might contain.
This was used as a test film for engineers installing new television receivers, and for retailers to demonstrate new receivers.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@APTSArchive Agreed. It is an excellent piece.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@IBHallofFame One exception I know of is DDR: Dublin Digital Radio. Very different indeed.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@IBHallofFame @RTEdoconone Thanks. That's one hell of a story. What a turbulent history for that station.

[APTS Archive @APTSArchive]

#OTD 12 May 1937 - Coronation of #KingGeorgeVI & #QueenElizabethTheQueenMother.
Film from BBC Film Unit & film recorded from TV screen by Mr J.E. Davies, an amateur film enthusiast & an employee of the Marconi Company.
Documents from #DHMunro files held in APTS Archive.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@peterjukes Thanks. A very interesting article.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@MediaHistoryNow Beautiful!

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@pickover Why do mathematicians keep emerging from caves? What do they have down there?

[The Irish Pirate Radio Archive 🇮🇪 📻 @IBHallofFame]

75 years on @RTERadio1 history. @CNaM_ie @IBIreland @RTEHistoryShow

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@allenanalysis @MichaelBarnes54 VISIBLE

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@BBCNewsnight Why did Paddy O'Connell attempt to both-side this issue when BBC Verify had already concluded that Good had not attempted to run over an ICE agent?

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@BBCentury Ho ho ho.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@libertarianspir Thanks for all the work you have done on this.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

And which paper has been in the forefront of the charge against the shoddy standards at the BBC? 🤔
Not splicing two bits of comment together, instead making the quote up entirely 🤷🏻‍♂️

[The British Broadcasting Century podcast @BBCentury]

Tell you what, Spectator - you stop talking about 'our BBC'.

[Jaka Bartolj mediahistorynow.bsky.social @MediaHistoryNow]

Slovenian public television's 1978 news open featured a clever design with pencils and the geographic coordinates of their headquarters. This got the designers interrogated by the Yugoslav Army. It turned out that geographic coordinates were considered classified information!

[APTS Archive @APTSArchive]

#OTD - 2 Nov 1936
The BBC high definition television service from #AlexandraPalace officially began at 3pm.
Baird (240-line) & Marconi-EMI (405-line) systems were employed (until Feb 1937), when it became a completely electronic system.
The service closed down on 1st September 1939.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

@APTSArchive It's fantastic to see that closedown script for the first day of broadcasting.

[Andrew Barker @DogsBarker]

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