Engineer - (TV studio cables) : John Graham

Transcript

They gave me the job of master controller. This was working very closely with British Telecom in monitoring the circuits which were bringing the video circuits into the studio from the rest of the world, particularly network programmes into us, and ITN news. Normally we would employ a permanent circuit, permanent private wire circuits, between various places to the transmitters so that we could talk to them and to London Tower so that we could have our vision circuits switched. These would need to be booked through Faraday House in London, with a couple of weeks notice and it was quite amazing that no matter where you wanted lines run to they'd be able to provide them very, very efficiently.