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10th Jan 2018, 7:46 pm | #1 |
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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. |
10th Jan 2018, 7:52 pm | #2 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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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11th Jan 2018, 10:26 am | #3 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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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11th Jan 2018, 10:51 am | #4 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
The set looks very much like a RBM CTV25, anyone recognise which make and model it is?
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18th Feb 2018, 8:16 pm | #5 |
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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. |
19th Feb 2018, 10:09 am | #6 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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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20th Feb 2018, 6:02 pm | #7 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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 ! |
20th Feb 2018, 6:49 pm | #8 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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. |
21st Feb 2018, 1:01 pm | #9 | |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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21st Feb 2018, 1:08 pm | #10 |
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Re: British Relay Colour TV advert
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 |