Overview
This page contains news and press articles, cuttings and other related memorabilia sent in by ntlPA members. In addition, there are a number of related pictures and images that can be viewed in the ntlPA Gallery.

Acknowledgements

  • Gordon Verity, Paul French and Phil Waterton for supplying articles and cuttings
  • Andrew Jameson for sending in the Video and Audio clips that were sourced from web sites run by You Tube and Richard Lamont
  • John Fuller for the loan of the VHS tape containing the West Country TV programme
  • Paul Bond for putting the 3 videos of the Emley Moor mast disaster & subsequent tower build on YouTube

Documents

ARTICLES TO DOWNLOAD
Adobe Acrobat Reader will need to be installed on your computer to view. Also required is the Free FLV Player to view some of the video files.
Engineering in Colour 1970 PDF
Hampshire Magazine
‘on Crawley Court’ published February 1976 and sent in by Gordon Verity (2Mb)		 PDF
IBA Staff Newsletter
published March 1976 and sent in by Gordon Barry (3.5Mb)		 PDF
IBA Mar-Apr 1990 Newslink
St. Hilary – The Welsh Nerve Centre sent in by Gordon Barry (1.4Mb)		 PDF
IBA 500th Transmitter PDF
Engineering the Ch4 Network (Marconi Communications & Broadcasting magazine article) PDF
IBA Technical Reviews
Introduction
A total of twenty-four Technical Review booklets were published by the IBA during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Thanks go to Gordon Drury for scanning all the reviews which are available for download in PDF format.

Copyright notice and information on Technical Reviews (docx 17.0Kb) IBA_TechnicalReviews_1972-1988

No.1  (36.6Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 1_Measurement and Control

No.2  (44.3Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 2_Technical Reference Book

No.3  (29.0MB)   IBA_Technical Review 3_Digital Television

No.4  (34.4Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 4_Television Transmitting Stations

No.5  (29.7Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 5_Independent Local Radio

No.6  (39.9Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 6_Transmitter Operation and Maintenance

No.7  (33.4Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 7_Service Planning and Propagation

No.8  (38.2Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 8_Digital Processing DICE

No.9  (29.6Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 9_Digital Television Developments

No.10 (21.7Mb)  IBA_Technica lReview 10_A Broadcasting Engineers Vade Mecum

No.11 (33.0Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 11_Satellites for Broadcasting

No.12 (32.4Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 12_Techniquesfor Digital Television

No.13 (22.2Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 13_Standards for Television and Local Radio Stations

No.14 (30.1Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 14_Latest Developments in Sound Broadcasting

No.15 (21.8Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 15_Microelectronics in Broadcast Engineering

No.16 (34.5Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 16_Digital Coding Standards

No.17 (36.6Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 17_Developments in Radio Frequency Techniques

No.18 (32.8Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 18_Standards for Satellite Broadcasting

No.19 (23.8Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 19_Technical Training in Independent Broadcasting

No.20 (25.2Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 20_Developments in Teletext

No.21 (18.0Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 21_Compatible Higher Definition Television

No.22 (20.9Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 22_Light and Colour Principles

No.23 (23.3Mb)  IBA_Technical Review 23_Developments in Aerials for Broadcasting

No.24 23.4Mb)   IBA_Technical Review 24_The DMAC-Packet System for Satellite and Cable

Media

Copyright Notice

All video and audio clips on this page are assumed copyright of Granada, BBC and ITA/IBA where applicable. If by publication on this web site, there is an unacceptable infringement of copyright, the material will be withdrawn on receipt of reasonable and justifiable e-mail requests.

AUDIO CLIPS TO DOWNLOAD
You will need an MP3 player such as Windows Media or Real to listen to these MP3 files
BBC Radio 1
Announcement Broadcast in 1969 (288 Kb)		 MP3
GRANADA
Announcement Start of day broadcast announcement in 1970 (128 Kb)		 MP3
GRANADA
Announcement Start of day broadcast announcement in 1980 (94 Kb)		 MP3
HIGH QUALITY IMAGES
IBA HQ Visit to Chillerton Down; 1959 photo from Mick Gulliford (3.77Mb)
IBA Area Engineers Conference; 1983 photo from Gordon Barry (1.18Mb)		 JPG
JPG

VIDEO CLIPS TO DOWNLOAD
You will need FLV Player to be installed on your computer to view the clips. Click here if you require the free player
Broadcast about NICAM in 1989 (17.7Mb) FLV
IBA Engineering Announcement
Penultimate Broadcast 24th July 1990 (31Mb)		 FLV
IBA Engineering Announcement
Final Broadcast 31st July 1990 (36.3Mb)		 FLV
IBA Engineering Announcement
Transcom Broadcast 7th August 1990 (24.6Mb)		 FLV
IBA-Transcom
(Part 1) Introducing Transcom in 1990 (15.5Mb)		 FLV
IBA-Transcom
(Part 2) Introducing Transcom in 1990 (14.2Mb)		 FLV
BBC2 One Foot in the Past
A ten minute film by the BBC and Simon Armitage in 1993 for BBC2′s heritage and landscape programme, focussing on the Emley Moor Mast (17.5Mb)		 FLV
WestCountry TV
An eleven minute programme made in 1993 entitled ‘Communications Innovation at Work’ (101Mb)		 DivX

External Links

Emley Moor video – in 3 parts on YouTube -