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Aberdeen, Feb. 21-22. (Permission granted for journalism outlets and educational purposes. Not for commercial use. Must be credited.) Photo courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting. ©2014 SDPB
Speech Broadcasting Building - Building 86 (A/M Drg No: 10786/41)
These buildings were commonly found on the airfields Technical Site, often in the vicinity of the Control Tower (Watch Office) and comprised a small blast-proof building housing the amplifying equipment for the Tannoy System used for operational instructions to be given clearly, rapidly and simultaneously to Personnel at dispersal points and other distant parts of the airfield. Microphones placed in the main operational buildings, the Operations Block, Control Tower or Watch Office and the Battle Headquarters, these were all connected to the Speech Broadcasting Building, from which cables running within pipes were connected to an average of 150 loudspeakers dotted around the airfield.
RAF Snetterton Heath Airfield, was built in 1942 and during the World War Two it was used by the U.S.A.A.F Eighth Air Force, USAAF Station 138 and was the home-base for these American Bombers, the twin-engined B-26 Marauder and the Heavy Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In November 1945 the airfield was abandoned by the Americans and in 1948 it was deserted, the former Airfield was converted into Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit. In many instances, much of the airfield will have been demolished in the intervening years, and returned to agriculture, or converted into an industrial estate, eventually to fade from the landscape altogether, but hopefully will remain a little longer in the memory of those who served there. The bases were home to brave young men and women who served the Allied Forces flying Fighters and Bombers from the runways of the Airfield, sometimes never to return.
Sourced from www.ukairfields.org.uk/snetterton-heath.html
Fifty years ago today, to the day and to the time, Monday August 14th, 1967, from 3pm in the afternoon, almost all the Pirate Radio Stations, bar one, closed down, one or two had already gone on that day and all the others had gone by midnight. Radio London, 266m, closed at 3pm on that afternoon and I was sat listening in the 'studio' at 'Radio Caroline West', more on this later, as Paul Kay one of the 'Big L' disc jockeys proclaimed 'Big L time is three o'clock and Radio London is now closing down'. The weather forecast just before this was also delivered by Paul Kaye, '... there will be fresh southerly winds and there is an unsettled outlook for tomorrow'; very prosaic.
'Wonderful' Radio London on Wikipedia-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Radio_London
Radio London Final Hour-
www.radiolondon.co.uk/rl/scrap60/finalhour/final.html
Radio Caroline flouted d the new law which came into force at midnight on this day in 1967 and chose to isolate themselves from the UK which meant the DJ's couldn't come back here and advertising revenue and supplies had to be sought from abroad. American, 'Billy Graham' type religious programmes were a vital mainstay to keep the finances coming in to operate the MV Mi Amigo, Caroline's southern ship anchored off Walton-on-the-Naze/Clacton in the Thames Estuary and Radio Caroline North, the MV Frederica anchored in Ramsey Bay off the Isle of Man. Today, Monday 14th 2017, Manx Radio on 1368kHz medium wave are hosting a 5-day extravaganza along with Radio Caroline which is now aboard the ship MV Ross Revenge and anchored on the River Blackwater in Essex and is back on the air again, see-
www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html
they are playing music from the era and have to say that not all of it is good! According to the schedule, there is a commemorative program starting at 14:00hrs BST - 'Live from the Ross Revenge' and there are other features as well during the 5-day remembrance programming. A a small tribute to 'Caroline', Ronan O'Rahilly's pirate radio ship and after Radio Atlanta, was the 1st fully successful off-shore, i.e. in International waters beyond the 3 mile limit of the UK authorities.
The three sets of mosaic pictures shown here are from my archives from 1966-1968, when I was an avid pirate radio fan and listened to them all, a full list of these is, along with other details, is given in the last, 3rd, set of pictures along with a news clipping regarding why the then postmaster general, Ted Short, under the labour governments telecommunications minister, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, had decided to close the station down. This 1st set of 5 pictures shows the covers from the 3 books which were purchased in August 1967, 'Radio Caroline', by John Venmore Roland, Paul Harris's book, 'When Pirates Ruled the Waves' published in 1968 and Adrian Johns 'Death of a Pirate', published in 2011. All very well written and all give varying accounts of the different facets of the era; the last 'Death of a Pirate', probably the most useful history of it all, well after its 'heyday'. At lower right, own up time. Being a bit of a whizz with electronics, something which has stood me in good stead over the years, particularly in my last job at the Australian National University, a couple of pictures, the only two, of my radio studio at my parent house in Rotherham, in 1966. Those were the days of the 'Practicals' - Wireless and Electronics, and TV followed as well. So, building a low power transmitter and obtained a crystal to operate on medium wave, yikes!, the crude and dated setup was used to broadcast music in about a 1 mile radius of the transmitter; a pole sat atop a flat-roofed bungalow, now, since 2013, sadly demolished and also 50 years since its construction by 'Fred Moncaster, my grandfather the builder and featured here a short time ago, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/31862800414/
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the name was chosen, craftily, so the existing Carline North or South radio 'jingles' could be used which were recorded onto magnetic tape using the Grunding TK20 tape recorder. The 'studio' was equipped with a 'transcription unit' as they were called by professionals, this one was lifted out of a 'Dansette record player' which at this time had become a less useful piece of domestic family equipment! To the left of the Grunding tape machine a home-made 4-channel mixing console with master fader, bass and tone controls. Announcements were made on a cheap Sennheiser microphone supported by an extendable rod clamped to a lab retort stand with 2 large, weighty, circular TV magnets on the stands base to stop it toppling over! Behind the microphone, a valve amplifier for the microphone. Out of shot to the left, beyond the LP cover and a picture of my future wife!, the homemade transmitter built bread-board style with the crystal tuned to around 227m if memory serves correctly. The LP covers on display, of course no CDs or MP3s, were Bernstein's version of '2001 A Space Odyssey' at the back above the tape machine and poking from under it, 'Disraeli Gears' by Cream, behind the microphone, the Incredible String Band's 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' and over on the left, 'On the Threshold of a Dream', by the Moody Blues... not a bad set from 1967! The state of the 'studio furnishings' is clear to see! at lower right, the DJ himself in residence, there were two of us, the other, an old school chum, Mike Taylor who had the 'Saturday morning slot'. Head phones and speaking live from Caroline West, 'Grant Walker', think this IS too much information, the name chosen to again reflect the name of one of Caroline South's DJs, Johnnie Walker, and still going, though now on BBC Radio Two. Here the DJ can be seen cueing up a piece on the tape deck, probably recorded from the BBC afternoon pop programme presented by 'Fluff', Alan Freeman, 'Pick Of The Pops', and the stuff recorded in lively fashion to avoid any over-voicing or 'Fluff' coming in before the end what was usually no more than 2-2.5 minutes of music; John Peel's 'Top Gear' programme, from 3-5pm, the two hour slot just before 'Pick of the Pops', was a completely different matter in terms of the length of the music he played. In front of the woollen jumpered DJ, no central heating or double-glazing in those days, the Grunding microphone is in action as well as the 'studio mike' and in between the two LP covers seen earlier is a copy of Bob Dylan's 'Greatest Hits'... What more can I say... Guilty!
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Sitting at the helm of MTV Europe, this desk deals with satellite uplinks responsible for piping television to screens across the continent. Displayed here are video feeds from the Hotbird and Astra satellite grids, among others. These control suites are the brains of a modern behemoth; awesomely connected steering wheels of the high-technologies which tirelessly keep the worldwide transmitters on-air around the clock.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (2009). Accommodation for Leeds Metropolitan University. Recipient of the 2010 Best Tall Building Europe award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the Boat School to build three traditionally-built Whitehalls as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group of explorers during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013.
Students at the School are building one 16-foot Whitehall, the "Scout Boat", and two 21-foot Whitehalls. Though Powell launched four Whitehalls onto the river in 1869, one, the 21-foot "No Name", was lost to the river shortly after the descent began.
The white oak from which the boats are constructed was supplied by Newport Nautical Timbers www.newportnauticaltimbers.com/ . The 16-foot boat will be planked in larch from eastern Washington, which is as close as it is possible to come to the original white pine planking used on that boat.
Whitehalls are the iconic American pulling boat.
They emerged in New York City and, possibly, shortly thereafter in Boston in the 1830's. It is thought the name derives from Whitehall Street in New York City, though no one is sure. By the mid-19th century, they could be found anywhere there was a sizeable body of water - the East Coast, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Coast at San Francisco all boasted boatbuilders turning out Whitehalls.
The boats were usually used under oars and occasionally sail as fast harbor ferries and the boat used to take harbor pilots out to meet inbound sailing ships. They have a fine reputation as fast, easy-rowing vessels that are capable of carrying a great deal of weight.
Nearly all Whitehalls were carvel-built with white cedar planking on an oak backbone with oak frames. (Carvel planking means that the planks butted up against each other, edge to edge, which results in a smooth hull). The finer boats were highlighted with a bright sheer plank (the top plank) varnished to catch one's eye.
There is surprisingly little known about the boats used by the 1869 Powell Expedition, the first to descend the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. We do know that the Powell Expedition boats were built in Chicago IL to Powell's specifications.
It's known that the EMMA DEAN, or the "Scout Boat" as Powell called it was 16 feet long and planked in white pine, that the other boats (MAID OF THE CANON, KITTY CLYDE's SISTER and NO NAME) were 21 feet long and planked in white oak with twice the number of frames and doubled stems and stern posts. (NO NAME was lost to the river shortly after Powell began the descent, though her crew survived).
There are no complete descriptions of the boats themselves, no pictures, and only a few scattered references made to the boats in the surviving journals and records of the Expedition.
The three boats we are building for the BBC are being constructed to the best information available, using the general scantlings provided by John Gardner's historical work, extent plans, our significant experience in building Whitehalls over our 32 years, and the historical data available to us.
The boats will be completed by mid-July, 2013.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades. If you're interested in our building a boat for you, please feel free to give us a call.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
Culture Secretary will outline how independence can boost £400 million sector.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop will today set out how the additional powers of an independent Scotland could support increased TV and film production and help the economy.
Radio and TV production currently employs 3,200 people and had a turnover of £400 million in 2011. However, Ms Hyslop is expected to highlight that the sector in Ireland employs over 6,000 individuals, with Ireland’s RTÉ national broadcaster alone employing almost 2,000 people, against 1,200 employed by the BBC in Scotland – demonstrating what more could be achieved with full control of financial powers.
In a speech to the Royal Television Society in Glasgow, Ms Hyslop will highlight the Scottish Government’s commitment to not only continue, but to build upon current tax incentives for the industry in an independent Scotland.
Ms Hyslop will say:
“Our radio and broadcasting sector is a £400 million industry of enormous importance to Scotland and employs 3,200 people – as well as the many self-employed and freelance staff vital to the sector. And in addition to TV and radio, we also know that the film and video sector are enormously valuable.
“The Scottish Government values the contribution that filmmaking, animation and television production make to Scotland’s rich cultural life with public sector investment in support for the screen sector, across production, education, training and exhibition, increasing to £21 million in 2012-13.
“We have consistently championed Scotland as a location for international film and TV productions and we work hard to ensure Scotland is widely recognised for its world-class talent, crews, facilities and breath taking locations. Scottish Ministers are firmly committed to supporting a sustained increase in production.
“Scotland is a creative and dynamic country and we must be ambitious to do more. Our sector lags behind that of nations comparable in size, such as Ireland and Finland.
“Of course, creating a Scottish Broadcasting Service will do much to address this. But we can and must do much more.
“When you examine the support given in other countries, the potential of Governmental support to encourage the sector is clear. For example, it is telling that in the face of the economic difficulties of the last few years, Ireland has not just maintained but progressively strengthened its support for the sector and continues to do so. In fact, next year it will increase its support still further.
“We are already taking the action we can to support the industry under present constitutional arrangements – we are currently considering a number of proposals for developing and operating a Scottish film studio.
“But with the powers of independence we could do much more for this vital industry. Independence would change broadcasting for the better, both for the industry and for the public.”
Jack Bonney (monitoring) and Joe Newham (guitar tech)
Public Service Broadcasting behind the scenes, O2 Academy Brixton, London, England.
29th November 2015
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IS THE CORDUROY-CLAD BRAINCHILD OF LONDON-BASED J. WILLGOOSE, ESQ. WHO, ALONG WITH HIS DRUMMING COMPANION, WRIGGLESWORTH, WILL BE TOURING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE UK IN 2013 ON A QUEST TO INFORM - EDUCATE AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY – ENTERTAIN.
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Must be credited. Photo courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting. ©2023 SDPB
Southern Television & Broadcasting Co., Inc. stock certificate for 49 shares of stock in broadcasting company in Shreveport, Louisiana, issued in January 1933. Coll. 80 Box 4
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©2021 SDPB
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IS THE CORDUROY-CLAD BRAINCHILD OF LONDON-BASED J. WILLGOOSE, ESQ. WHO, ALONG WITH HIS DRUMMING COMPANION, WRIGGLESWORTH, WILL BE TOURING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE UK IN 2013 ON A QUEST TO INFORM - EDUCATE AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY – ENTERTAIN.
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IS THE CORDUROY-CLAD BRAINCHILD OF LONDON-BASED J. WILLGOOSE, ESQ. WHO, ALONG WITH HIS DRUMMING COMPANION, WRIGGLESWORTH, WILL BE TOURING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE UK IN 2013 ON A QUEST TO INFORM - EDUCATE AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY – ENTERTAIN.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) asked the Boat School to build three traditionally-built Whitehalls as replicas of the boats used by John Wesley Powell and his group of explorers during their first-ever descent of the Colorado River in 1869. The BBC will film a reenactment of the voyage later in 2013.
Students at the School are building one 16-foot Whitehall, the "Scout Boat", and two 21-foot Whitehalls. Though Powell launched four Whitehalls onto the river in 1869, one, the 21-foot "No Name", was lost to the river shortly after the descent began.
The white oak from which the boats are constructed was supplied by Newport Nautical Timbers www.newportnauticaltimbers.com/ . The 16-foot boat will be planked in larch from eastern Washington, which is as close as it is possible to come to the original white pine planking used on that boat.
Whitehalls are the iconic American pulling boat.
They emerged in New York City and, possibly, shortly thereafter in Boston in the 1830's. It is thought the name derives from Whitehall Street in New York City, though no one is sure. By the mid-19th century, they could be found anywhere there was a sizeable body of water - the East Coast, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Coast at San Francisco all boasted boatbuilders turning out Whitehalls.
The boats were usually used under oars and occasionally sail as fast harbor ferries and the boat used to take harbor pilots out to meet inbound sailing ships. They have a fine reputation as fast, easy-rowing vessels that are capable of carrying a great deal of weight.
Nearly all Whitehalls were carvel-built with white cedar planking on an oak backbone with oak frames. (Carvel planking means that the planks butted up against each other, edge to edge, which results in a smooth hull). The finer boats were highlighted with a bright sheer plank (the top plank) varnished to catch one's eye.
There is surprisingly little known about the boats used by the 1869 Powell Expedition, the first to descend the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. We do know that the Powell Expedition boats were built in Chicago IL to Powell's specifications.
It's known that the EMMA DEAN, or the "Scout Boat" as Powell called it was 16 feet long and planked in white pine, that the other boats (MAID OF THE CANON, KITTY CLYDE's SISTER and NO NAME) were 21 feet long and planked in white oak with twice the number of frames and doubled stems and stern posts. (NO NAME was lost to the river shortly after Powell began the descent, though her crew survived).
There are no complete descriptions of the boats themselves, no pictures, and only a few scattered references made to the boats in the surviving journals and records of the Expedition.
The three boats we are building for the BBC are being constructed to the best information available, using the general scantlings provided by John Gardner's historical work, extent plans, our significant experience in building Whitehalls over our 32 years, and the historical data available to us.
The boats will be completed by mid-July, 2013.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding is located in Port Hadlock WA and is an accredited, non-profit vocational school. You can find us on the web at www.nwboatschool.org .
Our mission is to teach and preserve the fine art of wooden boatbuilding and traditional maritime crafts.
We build both commissioned and speculative boats for sale while teaching students boatbuilding the skills they need to work in the marine trades. If you're interested in our building a boat for you, please feel free to give us a call.
You can reach us via e-mail at info@nwboatschool.org or by calling us at 360-385-4948.
6KH Radio was one of Britain’s early radio stations and the first to transmit within Hull and its environs. It was one of the relay stations set up by the BBC to increase coverage of its UK-wide broadcasting and was designated the ‘6KH’ call-sign representing Kingston-upon-Hull. 6KH Radio began broadcasting on 15th August 1924 using a 200W transmitter at a frequency of 896 kHz and just when commercial radio sets were becoming available to an eager public. 6KH Radio broadcasted a schedule of BBC programs as well as others of local interest, including a Children’s Hour. This is a membership for their Children's Hour Birthday Club.
In 1926, the BBC was nationalised and a change of policy saw the company reorganised into two new radio services, BBC National and BBC Regional. This was made possible with the development of more powerful transmitters able to broadcast over longer distances. This ensured the demise of many relay stations, including 6KH Radio which ceased transmitting on the 31st October 1928.
As standard practise for radio stations and newspapers of the time, each had their own slots for children’s programmes with dedicated clubs that issued welcome packs to new members which would have included their membership badge, such as this one. 6KH Radio also transmitted a weekly 30-minute programme to regional schools each Friday afternoon.
In 1923, the BBC formed Radio Circles, which were clubs for listeners to the Children's Hour programmes. Initially, these were based on local stations such as Manchester (2ZY), Nottingham (5NH), Sheffield (6FL), Stoke on Trent (6ST), Liverpool (6LV), Hull (6KH), etc and each of these stations issued their own distinct membership badge. With the nationalisation of radio under the BBC in 1926 and the developments of better transmitting technology, the local stations had been reorganised into regional ones by 1928. The Radio Circle clubs had also been reorganised and thererafter, each issued a standard badge showing the iconic sunburst, rabbit and cockerel, differentiated only by a bar attached to the badge showing the region's name. The Radio Circle clubs were discontinued by the BBC making their final birthday request broadcast on the 31st December 1933. The BBC stated costs as being the main factor for their decision to end the Childen's Hour Radio Circles.
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References:
news.bbc.co.uk/local/humberside/hi/people_and_places/hist... (Hull’s first radio station - 6KH).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Regional_Programme (Early days of BBC radio & station ID codes).
www.mds975.co.uk/Content/ukradio.html (General history of UK radio).
www.transdiffusion.org/2001/08/15/regions1
www.facebook.com/lostworldLE/ (This Facebook account - The lost world of light entertainment has quite a few snippets of information about the BBC Radio Circle clubs).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Hour (BBC Children’s Hour radio programme, 1923-1964).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Regional_Programme (Early history of the BBC radio, includes list of relay stations and regions).
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Enamels: 3 (dark blue, light blue & white).
Finish: Gilt.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: approx 1” diameter.
Process: Die stamped.
Imprint: THOMAS FATTORINI LTD, HOCKLEY ST, BIRMINGHAM (1924-1929).