First official TV Broadcast in South Africa in 1976 - Eerste SAUK TV-Uitsending in 1976

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First official TV Broadcast in South Africa in 1976 - Eerste SAUK TV-Uitsending in 1976

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The first 48 seconds of TV in South Africa, broadcast on 5 Jan 1976. Video clip shows Heinrich Marnitz and Dorianne Berry.
Die eerste aantal sekondes van TV in Suid-Afrika op 5 Jan 1976. Beeldmateriaal vertoon Heinrich Marnitz en Dorianne Berry.

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@petelovesbevsills 13 жыл бұрын

I cannot believe we had to wait until 1976 before we were finally 'allowed' to view TV. Thank you for this upload that brings back loads of memories!

@SO_DIGITAL 14 жыл бұрын

I'm afrikaans speaking. I would like to point out to English speaking visitors that the style of Afrikaans the presenter is using is VERY formal and not the kind of Afrikaans one would normally use in everyday conversation. It was fun to see the old logos again. It is also good to know that these tapes have been preserved.

@Spacekriek 12 жыл бұрын

I'm Afrikaans-speaking and Heinrich Marnitz is definately speaking Afrikaans.

@hnorky 14 жыл бұрын

Just days before my 9th birthday! I remember our family's first set, a 23-inch Grundig colour unit we bought at Greatermans (if memory serves) in Cape Town. I remember those brief test transmissions and have vague recollections of watching a clip of the German pop show "Musik Laden" through a shop window one afternoon.

@arweiss100 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this incredible archive footage of this inaugural, history making broadcast.

@TheJaking87 14 жыл бұрын

Dorianne Berry went on to co-present eighties evening magazine show 'Prime Time' and later on 'Good Morning South Africa'

@GaynorPaynter01 11 жыл бұрын

Do you perhaps have a longer piece to upload? I'm also interested in the fact that it was colour. I suppose we just associate it with black and white because most of us had black and white TVs back then. Very interesting upload thank you, and I love this formal Afrikaans. It is such a picturesque language to listen to when spoken beautifully.

@chezik100 11 жыл бұрын

Actually the first advert was for hamburger patties. the brand slips my mind right now but it had cowboys riding full speed into a fort riding on a wagon.

@kmfw72 10 жыл бұрын

5 January 1976 Experimental broadcasts in the main cities began on 5 May 1975

@RetroGUY77 9 жыл бұрын

Over in Blighty, the first colour broadcast was Wimbledon in 1967 and full colour came in by 1969. It took until 1976 before more colour tv's were being sold than black and white.

@kmfw72 14 жыл бұрын

@orlando318 Entirely for political reasons. Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) got TV fifteen years before, but didn't get colour until the 1980s. Malawi didn't get its own TV service until the 1990s,

@Gratobe 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks for confirming the date telly started in SA

@kmfw72 14 жыл бұрын

@1prouddemocrat That's right - in 1969, the commission of inquiry said that in the future, people would be able to pick up TV via satellite, so it made sense for South Africa to pre-empt that by bringing in its own TV service.

@fishnose1 12 жыл бұрын

Test transmissions started well before this. One could see TV in SA about a year earlier.

@harry10313 12 жыл бұрын

@shmuli9 in Indonesia started in 17 August 1962, the day of our independence and the Asian Games opening, and became coloured since October 1979. just for adding info :)

@335Mad 11 жыл бұрын

Colour was introduced way before this, we got TV really late when it was already in colour overseas.... People still bought black and white TVs as it was cheaper though.....

@shmuli9 13 жыл бұрын

The lack of television in South Africa until 1976 was disseminated widely in the rest of the world. (The British had broadcast TV in the 1930s, the Americans in 1946, and most of the rest of the world by the early 1960s.)

@TraderKeith 10 жыл бұрын

Interesting though the title says 1976 the guy says 1975 in Afrikaans. Which is it? Did he make a mistake?

@EuphrasieF 12 жыл бұрын

At least in the US, the transition from black and white to colored happened in the 1960s. By the 1970s, it was pretty much all color.

@hebneh 8 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed that South Africa didn't have TV till 1976 - that is very late for an industrialized country. The USA had very crude, very localized broadcasting by the late 1920s but television really didn't start to become common till the late 1940s, but only in big cities. It wasn't till 1952 that it was able to spread to less populated areas.

@kmfw72 14 жыл бұрын

Looks a bit like the London Weekend logo!