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Old 10th Jan 2018, 7:46 pm   #1
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Default British Relay Colour TV advert

Hello to all,
I found this ad in the Daily Telegraph Magazine No 145 dated July 14th 1967. It's nice to see an early advert promoting colour TV but the claims it makes seem a bit of a stretch. Amusing all the same.
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Old 10th Jan 2018, 7:52 pm   #2
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Given that "British Relay" was an early cable-TV provider, I wonder what would have happened to any customer who asked for their service outside the areas BR had cabled-up??
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Old 11th Jan 2018, 10:26 am   #3
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Although BR were originally just cable, they also branched out renting 'normal' TV's, in the pre-colour era.
I worked for them many moons ago!
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Old 11th Jan 2018, 10:51 am   #4
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The set looks very much like a RBM CTV25, anyone recognise which make and model it is?
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Old 18th Feb 2018, 8:16 pm   #5
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Default Re: British Relay Colour TV advert

I also worked for British Relay many moons ago - until it was acquired by Visionhire. That does indeed look like a Bush CTV25 off air receiver.
When I worked for them, there were far more cable receivers in the estate than off air.
Colour cable models were sourced from RBM (briefly), Pye, GEC and latterly ITT.
Visionhire introduced a receiver capable of cable AND off air reception, GEC 20/22V6 to cope with expanding channels and the limitations of the archaic cable system.
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Old 19th Feb 2018, 10:09 am   #6
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When I worked for BR in Manchester, there was no cable there. Colour sets were RBM CTV25, Philips 511, Thorn 2000/3000/3500, Decca and Pye hybrids. When UK colour sets here became difficult to get we started using Zanussi, Luxor and the occasional Philips K70.
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Old 20th Feb 2018, 6:02 pm   #7
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British Relay, that's a blast from the past, who remembers Spectra TV rental, and did they operate outside central London, they were bought out by Granada circa 1976 ? I think.
Lots of GEC hybrids and Pye 205`s such fun !!!
I think it was compulsory for A Spectra customer with A 26 inch GEC Hybrid enclosed in a Queen Ann style cabinet to always live on the top floor of a block of flats with no lift.
Was it me !
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I read about British Relay's operations in Whitehaven.

A lot of the town was cabled up due to it being a weak reception area.

After they were taken over by Visionhire no new sets were made & as the demand for colour grew most customers had to struggle with valve colour sets unless they were lucky to get a solid state one.

This meant customers started to go elsewhere, putting up high gain aerials to geta decent signal.
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Originally Posted by Mike Phelan View Post
Although BR were originally just cable, they also branched out renting 'normal' TV's, in the pre-colour era.
I worked for them many moons ago!
Also a rebadged version of the Marconi VT161.

DFWB.
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Old 21st Feb 2018, 1:08 pm   #10
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Seems that British relay tv was born in my local town of Gloucester.
I found this a little while ago on YouTube when looking for something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltI09lTuGjk

Lots of great looking Aerials too
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