ABT2 Station Close Compilation 1980s

ABC Hobart Tasmania station close recordings from Beta video tapes recorded between 1981 and around 1985. Back then program transmissions ceased for the night and restarted in the morning. The ABC ran a black and white test pattern for around 5 minutes before the signal went to snow. Later they used a Philips test pattern generator overnight. Some televisions from that era would switch off automatically after a few minutes of only receiving snow for this reason, assuming the owner had fallen asleep watching TV. Can you believe Sony Music among others think they own the rights to our national anthem? KZbin copyright detection is broken.

[@nowster]

The first "black and white" test pattern is "Pulse and Bar". There would have been colour on the pulse making it look a bit purple. It was used a lot by the BBC too. The second one is a luma ramp.

[@tasmanianhistorychannel4982]

Thanks for that, I was wondering what they were given the Philips test pattern was around by then. Some more info here: rewind.thetvroom.com/38779/features/the-history-of-the-bbc-trade-test-transmission-part-4-4/

[@Igloo3471]

18 August 1982, late 1982, 24 December 1982, 25 December 1982 and Barrie Fraser on closedown for 26 December 1985.

[@SatsukiVM]

0:00 This one uses Richard Clayderman's "Ballade Pour Adeline"

[@RGC198]

Excellent video. Well done and than ks for sharing.

[@TimRipley]

On the 1985 clip, why is there different start times on the two main tx? I notice that ABT opens at 7:30am, but ABNT doesn't for another 20 minutes?

[@tasmanianhistorychannel4982]

Not sure how they ran things back then but Launceston may have run its own programming to some extent. That or they didnt open up the office as early in the morning to switch things on.

[@jaredwilson5505]

Hi everybody here we are the abc tv closedown 1980s you be alright up there

[@brookcrowley4254]

I still don't know why ABC never reminded its viewers to turn off their TV sets!

[@tasmanianhistorychannel4982]

Either the test pattern tone or hash coming out of your speaker when the transmission ended would make you do that with the TVs we had back then, even if you were fast asleep.

[@joshgalka9414]

Amazing!

[@GG-ud8id]

As a kid the end of transmission clock used to scare me, it was just such dodgy animation

[@tasmanianhistorychannel4982]

Looks to be a real clock with some sort of video effect to make it look like a graphic. You can see the hand bounce when it moves.

[@GG-ud8id]

@@tasmanianhistorychannel4982 sort of video effect to make it look like a graphic....like animation....

[@nowster]

Real clock. The camera would have been monochrome and the various levels of grey would have had different colours assigned to them by a gadget in the studio. Notice the shadow of the second hand causing the hour markers to dim as it passes. Compare also with the BBC1 globe and clock from the 1970s and early 1980s (eg. during Monty Python's spoof continuity announcements).

[@saxongreen78]

6:14 - I think it's this in the background: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGTUg2OplNp7eM0