Category: Test Cards
From the days when gaps in the programme schedule were filled by the test card and music.
BBC Two start-up (30th January 1982)
A fairly standard BBC Two start-up routine for the period.
BBC Two closedown (13th May 1979)
A Saturday night closedown from BBC Two in what was the final weeks of this on-screen presentation package.
Open University programme discusses test cards (1976)
In this excerpt from a 1976 Open University programme, some discussion about the uses of the familiar Test Card F pattern.
IBA Engineering Announcements (partial): The Test Card (October 1985)
Shortly after the 30th anniversary of ITV, and not far off the 15th anniversary of IBA Engineering Announcements, the programme takes a look at the history of the test card and other test patterns.
BBC Two start-up (24th May 1981)
Peter Bolgar welcomes BBC Two viewers to a Sunday afternoon of sporting action, courtesy of Sunday Grandstand.
BBC Two test card new year wishes (1st January 1983)
NC2 overlays a new year message on the test card.
Granada closedown (1985)
Graham James closes down Granada for the night in 1985.
BBC One start-up (partial) (September 1982)
We join BBC One just ahead of a lunchtime opening.
BBC Two test card and BMTV opening (1989)
In the late-1980s, the BBC broadcast an overnight service called British Medical Television.