Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John Williamson Newsgroups: uk.tech.broadcast Subject: Re: Televising a major live event in the 1990s - eg Funeral of Diana Princess of Wales Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 10:36:23 +0100 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <10u57v1$ms6f$1@dont-email.me> <10u6has$1mk3$1@dont-email.me> <10u6lbe$2p9f$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net SRWqtWQuJCwNZImQxni/4AnyqOFzcRwHmAsvqYb7bR/VIhzqLD Cancel-Lock: sha1:a36ggs3ziQv54HxlTj0m0NwWXYo= sha256:/hKa0nSimHycZcjSl1QrrGH2JC5Pevy24qiG8MHmnDc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/50.0 In-Reply-To: <10u6lbe$2p9f$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com uk.tech.broadcast:69930 On 15/05/2026 09:26, NY wrote: > On 15/05/2026 08:17, JMB99 wrote: >> I remember on some programmes (Treasure Hunt?) you would sometimes see >> a second helicopter being used as a relay. > That was for voice comms with Anneka rather than video. I always > wondered whether video (maybe not in broadcast quality) was fed back to > the studio without it being used in the programme (or whether the > cameraman or video recordist or someone in the comms helicopter was > providing voice commentary) because there were occasions when Wincey > seemed to know more about what was going on and where Anneka was than > Anneka was saying in her report to the studio. > > Nowadays Anneka would be wearing a GPS receiver and the > studio/contestants would know exactly where she was at all times. But > this was - bloody hell! - 44 years ago (TH started in 1982). The transmitted video and sound for Treasure Hunt was shot on camcorders for later editing, with a two way voice link to the studio for Anneka's conversation with the contestants. In the '90s, they'd just have used cellphones. Even the camcorders were pushing the limits at the time. The studio end did *not* have a live video link. The USP of the programme was that the only clues the contestants had were what Anneka described and the reference library in the studio. They couldn't even use Wikipedia or other references we now have on our phones. The whole idea now would be ridiculous. (I used to have fun trying to work out the clues in locations I had visited while not looking at the screen.) -- Tciao for Now! John.