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12th Jan 2023, 7:55 pm | #1 |
Octode
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, UK.
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Film of Telefusion Wired TV
One for aerial spotters! A lovely nostalgic Pathe report on the coming of wired television to Chesterfield, Derbyshire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiz-gM4Xz3Y Steve |
12th Jan 2023, 8:13 pm | #2 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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Re: Film of Telefusion Wired tv
Lovely!
Sad to say that if you look up "Catherine Street" on Google Street View, those guys' handiwork has been removed, and the aerials are back... along with satellite dishes! https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2357...7i16384!8i8192 |
14th Jan 2023, 4:49 pm | #3 |
Heptode
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: High Wycombe, Bucks. UK.
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Re: Film of Telefusion Wired tv
The film about Chesterfield's early cable TV system was quite interesting. There were other such cable TV networks around the country.
The town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire had a similar system, described in detail here: http://aeolian-hall.myzen.co.uk/cabletv.htm Also have a look at the home page on that site for other vintage stuff. There's also the Rediffusion cable and TV rental tribute site https://rediffusion.info/ Those old cable TV systems faded away after UHF terrestrial TV coverage improved in the 1970s thanks to a rollout of new relay transmitters. Then in the 1990s a new generation of broadband cable networks were built, offering lots of TV channels, telephone and internet services. From a quick postcode search, it appears that Chesterfield is currently served by 3 UHF TV relay transmitters (one carries all the Freeview channels, the other two only have BBC / ITV / C4+5). Chesterfield is also served by Virgin Media cable so there's much more choice now. |
14th Jan 2023, 4:59 pm | #4 |
Heptode
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: Leicestershire, UK.
Posts: 690
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Re: Film of Telefusion Wired tv
Telefusion had a retail shop at Nuneaton in the late 70's. I presume one had to rent their TV's to obtain the cabled service ?
Rog |