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  1. Weather Satellite

    Date released
    1 Dec 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1643A
    NoS ID
    023882
    Story no
    3 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Weather Satellite. DESCRIPTION: Tiros II, launched from Cape Canaveral by a Thor-Delta rocket, is a 280 pound satellite, packed with many instruments, including television cameras and...

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  2. Why Planes Vanish (2014)

    Director
    Miles O’Brien; Tristan Quinn
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology

    Television documentary. The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 stunned the world. In an era of smart-phones and GPS, how could a 270-ton passenger jet vanish? The programme tells the...

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  3. Musical Shakespeare (2008 Television)

    Series
    Teachers’ Trade Secrets

    Educational television. Students in groups are given different instruments to represent different emotions. Drums, for example, can portray anger. As they read a monologue, the students play instruments...

    Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Shakespeare productions Online Online

  4. Uncertain future of satellite TV network (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview on a television programming budget for the coming three years and future competition in the television market (possibly in the context of the Sky-BSB merger). Male speaker and interviewer not...

    LBC IRN LBC IRN Radio Radio Online Online Audio Audio

  5. Antony Part on satellite television systems (1982)

    Genre
    Interview

    Sir Antony Part, Chairman of the Government Satellite Television Advisory Panel, on his recommendations rejecting the direct television satellite system proposed by the BBC in favour of the MAC vision system...

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  6. Uncertain future of satellite TV network (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male speaker on the uncertainty of the future of a television network (possibly BSB, or the post-merger British Sky Broadcasting) should Rupert Murdoch fail to secure viewing figures....

    LBC IRN LBC IRN Radio Radio Online Online Audio Audio

  7. Pirate TV stations (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview on satellite pirate television broadcasts. Male speaker and female interviewer not identified.

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  8. Launch of Sky TV (1989)

    Genre
    Special

    Actuality of the start of Rupert Murdoch’s Sky satellite television channels, supposed dawn of a new age in television. Lists the highlights of the television service. Also contains a section from...

    LBC IRN LBC IRN Radio Radio Online Online Audio Audio

  9. Satellite television proposals (1982)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Paul Maurice reports on the Home Office decision to give the go-ahead for the launch of satellite television services in the UK, and proposals for service in cooperation between British Telecom, Marconi, and...

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  10. BSB satellite launched (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Simon Israel interviews Anthony Simonds-Gooding, British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) chief executive, about the launch of a satellite from Cape Canaveral which will carry the new BSB television service. The...

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