{"id":5559,"date":"2016-05-28T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=5559"},"modified":"2016-05-28T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:55:32","slug":"early-days-of-eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/early-days-of-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Early days of ENG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Bob Auger<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I have just discovered from BBC News where I was fifty years ago &#8211; sound recordist at Jodrell Bank, with Granada TV, Ford Zephyr estate car and three-man crew. There to report on first ever pictures from the Russian moon lander.<\/p>\n<p>Video recorder in back of the estate was 405 line (monochrome) helical-scan Ampex, with vidicon camera &#8211; used for local news only.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I remember, we arrived back in Manchester too late for the news and so it was never used. A pity, because no other TV company had this advanced ENG kit at that time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Footer --><\/p>\n<h1>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"western\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1061\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"ianfootersmall\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall-300x104.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ianfootersmall.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- END Footer --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Auger I have just discovered from BBC News where I was fifty years ago &#8211; sound recordist at Jodrell Bank, with Granada TV, Ford Zephyr estate car and three-man crew. There to report on first ever pictures from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/early-days-of-eng\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/alec\/","display_name":"Alec Bray"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 10 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 28, 2016","modified":"Updated on May 28, 2016"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 28, 2016 2:55 pm","modified":"Updated on May 28, 2016 2:55 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5559\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}