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Re: Top 269 vid final edit complete & uploaded & thanks

Postby HappyCamper

badtemperedcyril wrote:The truth is, video tape was apparently quite expensive back in the day, so they tended to re-use them several times over. There are loads of TV listings (TV/Radio Times) of televised snooker matches in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s but hardly any survives.


yes. a lot of live broadcasts such as sports or teleplays wouldn't even have been recorded at all. some but not many programmes would have been archived onto film, for international sales or if it was considered noteworthy enough to be archived. there were even agreements to wipe programmes so they wouldn't be rebroadcast, due to worries that they would stop producing new shows. episodes of all sorts of classic tv like dads army, dr who, morcambe and wise, which would have an huge market for home video or streaming just gone.

Re: Top 269 vid final edit complete & uploaded & thanks

Postby Iranu

Unfortunately the rise of VHS was understandably not predicted, so recordings of sports or series weren’t seen as important because it was expected that viewers would either see it when aired or not see it.

In some ways it’s amazing that so much has been preserved.

Re: Top 269 vid final edit complete & uploaded & thanks

Postby badtemperedcyril

The 1962 Joe Davis 100 break (in under 6 minutes) was believed lost until it was discovered in 1985. There’s always hope, perhaps, that new footage will be found, but more likely in some attic than in the BBC archives. Interestingly, more of the televised snooker in the 60’s was by ITV. And, a televised 102 break by Fred Davis in Australia in 1960 (must be the earliest) was found not all that recently.