Teilifís na Gaeilge pre-launch engineering tests and test transmission (1996)
A short engineering test, captured during pre-launch test transmissions for the Irish-language …
Not to be confused with a test card, which is regarded as a TV channel’s standard downtime test pattern. Test signals are other test patterns/mechanisms that are used for specific technical reasons and are generally broadcast for short periods – for example, as part of an engineering test. Examples: pulse and bar; sawtooth.
BBC Two closedown (29th July 1984)
BBC Two comes to the end of a day of jazz.
BBC One start-up (13th January 1991)
BBC One wakes up to Ceefax.
Black and white pulse and bar followed by test card – and reinstatement of colour burst (4th November 1984)
A very brief clip to demonstrate how pulse and bar was sometimes radiated minus colour burst.
BBC One test card followed by Ceefax AM (full edition) (4th January 1988)
The first non-public holiday weekday of the new year and BBC One starts its day with news and …
BBC One test card followed by Ceefax AM (full edition) (19th January 1988)
A chance to view an entire Ceefax AM broadcast from early January 1988 – including the test …
BBC One test card followed by Ceefax AM (full edition) (21st January 1988)
An entire Ceefax AM broadcast from early 1988 – including the pulse and bar and test card that …
BBC Two closedown (13th May 1979)
A Saturday night closedown from BBC Two in what was the final weeks of this on-screen presentation …