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Broadcasting Place Leeds voted best tall Building in Europe 2010
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From May 1956 until recently, this was the beating heart of regional telly in this part of the North West on the ITV network, but now all that has been transferred to the characterless and frankly unprepossessing Media City on the other side of the Irwell in Salford Quays - a venue shared by the BBC, who also broadcast from the iconic (and should never have been closed) Television Centre. Anyway. this was Quay Street Studios, home to a television station named by founder Leonard Bernstein after his favourite place - the Sierra Granada mountain range in the Andalusia region (pronounced 'Andaloothia') of Spain.
"What Manchester sees today London will see tomorrow" was his proud boast in the year when Britain and France invaded Suez, only for America to tell them to get out of there. Because it wasn't a war they started, they had to get jealous but I digress.
This was also where Richard Madeley (big, BIG fan of Tesco!) met Judy Finnegan who cheerfully told him on his first day at the station back in 1982 that she 'was his mummy' and, let's face it, the years haven't exactly been kind to her!
Of course, I should really have taken a few photos of this in the past when it was an active TV studios but what spurred me into action was Peter Kay's tribute to the station Goodbye Granadaland and that was a week before I took these shots. Why a week you may ask? Well, because I forgot to charge my camera battery the night before I first went (June 16), I had to make do with the camera on an old mobile phone. I only took a few photos with that because I was used to MY camera. Anyway, long story short, as soon as I got home that day, I put the battery on charge and it was ready the following week. This rather long shot is of the main entrance on Great John Street but there is a more close-up view and, if you click on 'All Sizes' on that you can just about make out where the letters 'GRANADA TELEVISION' would have been on the canopy.
Oh yeah, you may be wondering how the title came about. Well, years ago when the telly started at half nine in the am, they were the words you would have heard uttered in the dulcet tones of Graham James or whoever was announcer that day.
Showing my age, aren't I? But hey, I don't give a fuck!
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.
Finally a word from the person, who the Labour Government empowered to rid the international waters around Britain's coast of the offshore Broadcasters, Edward Short, the Postmaster General, in the days before British Telecom, when the Post Office did it all. In this newspaper clip from the now defunct 'News of the World', ever a rag to promote sensationalistic claptrap, in this and other instances, reported on the state of the Offshore Broadcasters, particularly if there was sex, a financial scandal or murder involved, one could rely on the 'News of the Screws' to tell all. As can be read, much was made of the 'danger to shipping', the use of 'Maritime Broadcasting Wavelengths' and 'Interference', all sounded a bit of a stitch-up, the writing was on the wall and there wasn't going to be any negotiations or reprieve. The supporting, hand-drawn/written documents are my own, there being no computers, printers and such in these days so it all had to be done by hand; though Practical Electronics wasn't all that far off in producing articles for the 1st bread-board logic circuits etc and a decade later the first computing circuitry. In 1966 it was pen and pencil and on the left a pictorial representation of the Medium Wave radio band showing at the bottom, the wavelength end around 195m, Radio Caroline south and then listing a;; the others then extant in 1966 along up to the longer wavelength end at 550m with the 'Home Service' as it still was at that time and below that the 'Third' and below that the last of the pirate ship frequencies used, 390m, the 'sweet music station, Radio 390. Following on to the right, 2 tables now, fancy!, showing the details of all the ships, the 1st, detailing frequency/wavelength, transmitter PEP power, the station operating times and location with service area. The second table lists all other information available in the 1966/67 era, again station name followed by position of the ship, light vessel or fort, the latter in the Thames Estuary and were all military, gun-emplacement, structures built for the 2nd World War. Following on from their locations, the owners of the vessels, the Thames forts having simply just been occupied as they were left empty, the dates of commencement and demise of the radio services from each vessel/fort and also the advertising rate; Radio Caroline with 50 and 20kW transmitters on its two ships and hence with the greatest coverage, commanded the highest rate of UKP90 for 30 seconds advertising. Radio London with 75kW and Britain Radio/Radio England, broadcasting from the ship, the MV Olga Patricia also apparently renamed later to the MV Laissez Faire with 55kW each station, were the next most expensive at UKP56. To the right, above the two tables is a hand drawn map of just segments of the UK coastline, showing at top right, the west coast of Scotland and the location of Radio Scotland, an old light vessel. To its right, the north-east Yorkshire coast near Bridlington and the location of Radio 270, both stations could be received in the late afternoon, when changes in the Ionosphere during sunset assisted in signal reflection, something which was also the cause of the famous 'Luxembourg effect' of station reception fading in and out. Radio Caroline North was anchored off the Isle of Man and didn't get included in this drawing, but its south of the position of Radio Scotland, about 85 miles away. The lower part of the diagram shows the larger Thames estuary and the positions of the forts, Radios Essex, 390 & City near Southend-on-sea and to the north of these, off the coast of Walton-on-the-Naze/Frinton-on-Sea/Clacton-on-Sea and Colchester, Radios England, Britain, London and Caroline South.
It is currently 14:20 and this work has been on-going since the middle of last week, with all this text narrative typed in whilst listening to the on-line version of Radio Caroline North, so its now 45 minutes to when I know exactly where I was, 50 years ago, listening over the airwaves, scanning the dial from station to station, but mostly listening to Radio London as they were the ones which decided to close in the afternoon so staff could get back to London for the parting, if it can be termed in that way. Paul Kaye was the last voice to be heard on the station, at just a minute or so before 3pm, with the words already quoted, 'Big L time is three o'clock and Radio London is now closing down', then the airwaves went silent but I could still here the slight hiss of the transmitter's 75kW carrier signal and waited a few 10s of minutes until that too was switched off... then that was that. Time to re-tune to Radio Caroline and wait out the rest of the day until just before midnight Radios 270, and Radio Scotland also went; all the other had variously given up and the dates are in the lower right table shown here. After midnight, there was only one voice transmitted on 2 frequencies, 257 and 259m on the medium waveband, Caroline North and South, with Johnnie Walker and Robbie Dale in fine form, hosting the midnight-hour program on Caroline South. Be that as it may, the stations now had little more than 7 months life left, before they too finally succumbed; but the Phoenix it seems, not quite extinguished, has once again risen from 50 year old lukewarm ashes! 'We shall overcome', as was the persistent message of the final hours on MV Mi Amigo and Frederica/Caroline....
Paul Kaye, the first and last DJ on Radio London, died on the 4th November 1980, aged only 46...
From May 1956 until recently, this was the beating heart of regional telly in this part of the North West on the ITV network, but now all that has been transferred to the characterless and frankly unprepossessing Media City on the other side of the Irwell in Salford Quays - a venue shared by the BBC, who also broadcast from the iconic (and should never have been closed) Television Centre. Anyway. this was Quay Street Studios, home to a television station named by founder Leonard Bernstein after his favourite place - the Sierra Granada mountain range in the Andalusia region (pronounced 'Andaloothia') of Spain.
"What Manchester sees today London will see tomorrow" was his proud boast in the year when Britain and France invaded Suez, only for America to tell them to get out of there. Because it wasn't a war they started, they had to get jealous but I digress.
This was also where Richard Madeley (big, BIG fan of Tesco!) met Judy Finnegan who cheerfully told him on his first day at the station back in 1982 that she 'was his mummy' and, let's face it, the years haven't exactly been kind to her!
Of course, I should really have taken a few photos of this in the past when it was an active TV studios but what spurred me into action was Peter Kay's tribute to the station Goodbye Granadaland and that was a week before I took these shots. Why a week you may ask? Well, because I forgot to charge my camera battery the night before I first went (June 16), I had to make do with the camera on an old mobile phone. I only took a few photos with that because I was used to MY camera. Anyway, long story short, as soon as I got home that day, I put the battery on charge and it was ready the following week. This shot is of the main entrance on Great John Street and, if you click on 'All Sizes' you can just about make out where the letters 'GRANADA TELEVISION' would have been on the canopy.
Oh yeah, you may be wondering how the title came about. Well, years ago when the telly started at half nine in the am, they were the words you would have heard uttered in the dulcet tones of Graham James or whoever was announcer that day.
Showing my age, aren't I? But hey, I don't give a fuck!
Negatives - Outside Broadcasting and Filming - Lions v Otago at Carisbrook - 8 June 1977
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Broadcasting Place Leeds voted best tall Building in Europe 2010
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Click here for a walkthrough of the interior: www.leedsmet.ac.uk/news/index_broadcasting_place_190509.htm
Circa 1940. Fritz was at this time broadcasting a show of himself on piano (often accompanied by his wife, Olya, an accordionist and singer) over the Binghamton, NY, airwaves of WNBF, located at the Arlington Hotel.
Front view of RCA 1-kw broadcast transmitter of Fig. 167 [a schematic]
Fundamentals of Radio by Frederick Emmons Terman. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1938.
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.
Leeds Metropolitan University. Architects Feilden Clegg Bradley. Voted Best Tall Building in the World 2010 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) is Gibraltar's public service broadcaster. It has provided the community with a radio and television service since 1963.
Modelled on the BBC, the Corporation was established in 1963 with the amalgamation of Gibraltar Television, a private company, and the Government-owned radio service, Radio Gibraltar which started regular broadcasting in 1958. Unlike the BBC, the majority of GBC's funding comes in the form of a grant from the Government. GBC did receive a small amount of income from the levying of a television licence fee. However, it was announced in Gibraltar's budget speech of 23 June 2006 that the TV licence was to be abolished.
This was taken during the Royal Gibraltar Regiment's Queen's Birthday Parade at Grand Casemates Square on 10th June 2010.
James Murphy - GBC Cameraman
The Gaza Humanitarian Information Service, created by the communications NGO Internews and funded with a grant from DFID, began operating on August 12th as Jossor ma’Gaza - “Bridges with Gaza.”
It includes a 5-days a week, 50-minute radio broadcast aired on the Jossor regional radio network and televised nationally by Palestine TV Live and is also available on cell phone, Facebook, and YouTube. The broadcast is produced by two-dozen journalists, the editorial and production staff in Ramallah and a dozen “street reporters” in Gaza.
The broadcasts are providing people with vital information about aid and support that is available to them, such as how to access food vouchers, safe drinking water and healthcare services, and the dangers of unexploded ordnance. They also provide a feedback mechanism - the street reporters are interviewing people about what they need, what works and what doesn't. This information is then fed back into the UN's humanitarian response planning and coordination, to try to ensure that aid agencies are delivering what people actually need.
Picture: Gaza Humanitarian Information Service/Internews
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Description: 2YA Control Room, Waring Taylor Street, Wellington
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From May 1956 until recently, this was the beating heart of regional telly in this part of the North West on the ITV network, but now all that has been transferred to the characterless and frankly unprepossessing Media City on the other side of the Irwell in Salford Quays - a venue shared by the BBC, who also broadcast from the iconic (and should never have been closed) Television Centre. Anyway. this was Quay Street Studios, home to a television station named by founder Leonard Bernstein after his favourite place - the Sierra Granada mountain range in the Andalusia region (pronounced 'Andaloothia') of Spain.
"What Manchester sees today London will see tomorrow" was his proud boast in the year when Britain and France invaded Suez, only for America to tell them to get out of there. Because it wasn't a war they started, they had to get jealous but I digress.
This was also where Richard Madeley (big, BIG fan of Tesco!) met Judy Finnegan who cheerfully told him on his first day at the station back in 1982 that she 'was his mummy' and, let's face it, the years haven't exactly been kind to her!
Of course, I should really have taken a few photos of this in the past when it was an active TV studios but what spurred me into action was Peter Kay's tribute to the station Goodbye Granadaland and that was a week before I took these shots. Why a week you may ask? Well, because I forgot to charge my camera battery the night before I first went (June 16), I had to make do with the camera on an old mobile phone. I only took a few photos with that because I was used to MY camera. Anyway, long story short, as soon as I got home that day, I put the battery on charge and it was ready the following week. From May 1956 until recently, this was the beating heart of regional telly in this part of the North West on the ITV network, but now all that has been transferred to the characterless and frankly unprepossessing Media City on the other side of the Irwell in Salford Quays - a venue shared by the BBC, who also broadcast from the iconic (and should never have been closed) Television Centre. Anyway. this was Quay Street Studios, home to a television station named by founder Leonard Bernstein after his favourite place - the Sierra Granada mountain range in the Andalusia region (pronounced 'Andaloothia') of Spain.
"What Manchester sees today London will see tomorrow" was his proud boast in the year when Britain and France invaded Suez, only for America to tell them to get out of there. Because it wasn't a war they started, they had to get jealous but I digress.
This was also where Richard Madeley (big, BIG fan of Tesco!) met Judy Finnegan who cheerfully told him on his first day at the station back in 1982 that she 'was his mummy' and, let's face it, the years haven't exactly been kind to her!
Of course, I should really have taken a few photos of this in the past when it was an active TV studios but what spurred me into action was Peter Kay's tribute to the station Goodbye Granadaland and that was a week before I took these shots. Why a week you may ask? Well, because I forgot to charge my camera battery the night before I first went (June 16), I had to make do with the camera on an old mobile phone. I only took a few photos with that because I was used to MY camera. Anyway, long story short, as soon as I got home that day, I put the battery on charge and it was ready the following week. This rather long shot, taken at the back of the studios from Atherton Street, is of the top of the office block and you can just about make out where the big letters proclaiming 'GRANADA TV' would have been. Because they were so high up, I think that getting them off would have been a bit of a mission and not one for those with a fear of heights.
Oh yeah, you may be wondering how the title came about. Well, years ago when the telly started at half nine in the am, they were the words you would have heard uttered in the dulcet tones of Graham James or whoever was announcer that day.
Showing my age, aren't I? But hey, I don't give a fuck!
Oh yeah, you may be wondering how the title came about. Well, years ago when the telly started at half nine in the am, they were the words you would have heard uttered in the dulcet tones of Graham James or whoever was announcer that day.
Showing my age, aren't I? But hey, I don't give a fuck!