Talk:ILEA Educational Television Service

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?

• Source: "Both the ULAVC and ILEA had converted into colour production by 1980, however, the now old GPO VHF cable network was only just capable of transmitting high quality colour (it was originally designed for analogue black and white in 1967)."

https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/videoarchive/ilea-channel-7-network-1968-1979/

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Created by Nylix4488 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Nylix4488 (talk) 01:03, 23 November 2024 (UTC).

• I am not seeing the information about it being in black and white explicitly mentioned in the article or the provided quote. The article even mentions a test color broadcast, but not what happened after. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:04, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
  • @Nylix4488: Please respond to the above concerns. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:24, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the fix, but it still doesn't completely match the article. The article does not directly support the "still broadcasting primarily" wording, and indeed the article doesn't even directly state if there was still a black-and-white broadcast in 1979. Given that this is a TV station-related nomination and with how this has been stuck for a while, I'm asking Sammi Brie for help with the nomination and article. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:57, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

• I've actually heard of this thing, believe it or not. And I have indeed located a reference to this effect in The Times Educational Supplement. We are good on that front, but there is still a paragraph missing an ending citation, Nylix4488. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:17, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

• @Sammi Brie: Since this hadn't been done in weeks, I've added the ref. ミラP@Miraclepine 23:49, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• Let's roll. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• Sammi Brie I don't see the words "black and white" in the article. SL93 (talk) 01:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• @SL93: Look for "monochrome". Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• Thank you. I'm not sure why the hook is worded differently, but I will promote it. SL93 (talk) 02:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)