What about TV ?
TV combines many areas of electronics.
TV and Radio it seems has always been in my life and whilst growing up has seen several changes.
Radio has also had a tremendous journey from my childhood struggling to listen in mono to Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg on long wave drifting in and out then radio one
medium wave 247 metres (subsequently 275 and 285 metres) and stereo VHF (FM band 97-99MHz) onto Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio
until now internet streamed on demand with catch up, listen again and pause.
Similarly TV moved from monochrome TV (black and white ) with 405 lines to 625 line colour TV and on digital 1080p High Definition TV then the advent of HD streaming TV on demand.
My Memorable Radio Baptisms.
- Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart with Junior Choice
- Radio 1 Tony Blackburn (with Arnold - woof woof)
- The top 40 on Radio 1
- Kenny Everett breakfast Radio Shows.
- Noel Edmonds breakfast Radio Shows.
- Capital Radio - Nicky Horne with Your Mother Wouldn't Like It
(I always remembered it as "Music that your mother wouldn't like").
- Nightline on LBC with Jeremy (Beadlebum) Beadle,between September 1979 and 22 June 1980.
- Radio 1 John Peel with the legendary Festive 50
- BBC London with Danny "The Candy Man" Baker
TV was also not 24hrs having a closedown at night and afternoons when the test cards were shown for engineering purposes and a lot of people have drunken or insomniac memories of 25 minute OU programmes,
even if they weren’t OU students, because for years it was all that was on telly at that time of night.
Let's not forget my generation had just three TV channels BBC1, BBC2 and ITV until 2 November 1982 when Channel 4 started with Countdown.
