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Originally Posted by cheerfulcharlie
Yorkshire TV's Marconis in action.
..meanwhile while they were wiping popular programmes videotapes to save a few quid
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In fairness it was a lot more than ‘a few quid’ - quadruplex videotape was very, very expensive and, as it was re-useable, there was absolutely no way that archiving would be tolerated by the ‘bean counters’ - what material that has survived was often a result of being ‘mislaid......’ - the BBC was not at all unique in this - it was a widespread practice globally - all very regrettable in hindsight but the truth was that the budgets of the day simply could not sustain single use of videotape