Channel 5 is 10 years old this month! - Techwatch: Satellite TV forums, FTA, Cable, Hardware, & Tech forums

Analoguesat · 11-03-07, 02:14 PM

March 30th 1997 saw the launch of the fifth national terrestrial station.

I ran across this pre launch promo on youtube which was transmitted in the weeks before the channel launched. Many of the shows must have been pretty poor - I dont think any of them are still on air!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uS0je55G8M

wod · 11-03-07, 02:23 PM

do you remember when they came around and tuned your video recorder so you could get it

Analoguesat · 11-03-07, 02:30 PM

I tuned all the family kit in!

BGonaSTICK · 12-03-07, 12:04 AM

I worked with a very talented assembler programmer who gave up his very well paid job to become a Channel Five TV re-tuning guy on about £10k a year with no long-term prospects.

Strange world...

Gav · 12-03-07, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BGonaSTICK

I worked with a very talented assembler programmer who gave up his very well paid job to become a Channel Five TV re-tuning guy on about £10k a year with no long-term prospects.

Strange world...

Maybe he was the sort of person who wanted to annoy other people by tuning their tvs into pure drivel ?

diapason · 13-03-07, 07:45 PM

They interfered with the Channel 36 from video recorders, but I altered the output of mine all those years ago and never had any problems.

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