Sheffield cable TV pre 1980s

[davep]

I once remember Sheffield Cablevision doing a football match from Bramall Lane, 'cos they had to put a scaffolding unit up across the cricket pitch (roughly where the south stand is today).

Those were the days when it was almost unheard-of to televise a football match (you very occasionally got some odd highlights if you were lucky).

[Jabberwocky]

I remember watching it to see if they showed any film of the city and I sat there for an hour one day while a bloke showed how to change a plug.

He had an audience and I remember watching them yawning and falling asleep.

[Albert T Smith]

Just after I was married we lived on Archer Road, Millhouses. in 1962 British Relay Wireless ran a cable under the eves of all the houses and paid the occupier a Shilling per year rent. ( a Shilling is now 5p ).

 

We did not have a television in those days, We'd just got married so we had other things to occupy our minds!! Though now we've got four Television's!!

[Jabberwocky]

I remember the black plastic disk under the eaves of the roofs.. wasnt that the cablevision box?

My neighbour used to use it for target practise with his air rifle.

[volvoB10M]

Sheffield Cablevision started broadcasting on August 29th 1973 and ceased on January 2nd 1977. After it closed the old ITV company ATV in Birmingham began transmitting on that channel.

 

In the Sheffield area, for several years, a local company offered cable TV subscribers an experimental public access channel . Sheffield Cablevision - the community cable television experiment began operations on the British Relay network at Sheffield, Yorkshire. For about 2 hours every night 8 to 10 the channel transmitted community TV - shows made by the public with help from a professional staff of six. It all ended in 1977, despite good local viewing figures, politics and the costs were to blame

 

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[Albert T Smith]

Sheffield Cablevision started broadcasting on August 29th 1973 and ceased on January 2nd 1977. After it closed the old ITV company ATV in Birmingham began transmitting on that channel.

 

In the Sheffield area, for several years, a local company offered cable TV subscribers an experimental public access channel . Sheffield Cablevision - the community cable television experiment began operations on the British Relay network at Sheffield, Yorkshire. For about 2 hours every night 8 to 10 the channel transmitted community TV - shows made by the public with help from a professional staff of six. It all ended in 1977, despite good local viewing figures, politics and the costs were to blame

 

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The office was situated down Shoreham Street / Matilda Street area and I was on the last live broadcast that they did to talk about Muscular Dystrophy. ( I made a right **** up of it !! Nerves ).

[Cycleracer]

Just after I was married we lived on Archer Road, Millhouses. in 1962 British Relay Wireless ran a cable under the eves of all the houses and paid the occupier a Shilling per year rent. ( a Shilling is now 5p ).

 

We did not have a television in those days, We'd just got married so we had other things to occupy our minds!! Though now we've got four Television's!!

 

LOL, must be an age thing Albert, I married 30 years ago with a portable black and white and now have several tele's.

[Albert T Smith]

LOL, must be an age thing Albert, I married 30 years ago with a portable black and white and now have several tele's.

 

In the fifties and early sixties people did not look a television as long as they do these days. Probably this would be because of the poor reception along with the minute viewing picture.

 

Personally I was out on my cycle almost every evening or at Heeley swimming so by the time I'd get home, it was off to bed.

 

I believe that cable television still as a great future. One being, If those homes that are connected by cable, each connected a digital video recorder camera which could automatically switch itself on when it detected movement in the home during the night and sent the pictures to a central recording source.

 

I believe the house breakers, burglar's in short thieves, would be soon working for a living.

[davep]

You would have to have some way of disabling it if you were in, or the monitoring guys could get their own free amateur porn channel !!!!!!

[Geddy Lee]

The thing I remember about Cable Vision is that guy Alan Biggs, was on it doing the sport. He did very well after, going to the sports departments of Radio Hallam and Five Live.