Regional TV Geekery
I made this!
Someone on Bluesky noticed that there were lots of recordings of ITV all from the same time but from different parts of the country. Seems lots of people were recording Octopussy that day.
So I thought it might be interesting to see what they looked like all played together, and amazingly they synced up perfectly
(, Fri 8 May 2026, 20:13, Reply)
I like this.
The thames tv sound is burned into my subconscious.
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Octo I ruin everything., Sat 9 May 2026, 5:42,
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I'm not sure why it's surprising that they were in sync
Wouldn't they all just switch to the same feed?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 9 May 2026, 7:10,
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You can see the cue mark on the top right on a couple on the first frame, the black and white moving mark. that was used to mark transition from the network feed so local companies could do their adverts/promos.
they knew how much time each break was, so when the mark vanished, play your 2m tape, then back to network feed.
(, Sat 9 May 2026, 14:03, Reply)
