[Tech1] Clive Doig

[Garth Tucker]

I have another anecdote, only Clive could  vouch for its veracity.

Grandstand again. Clive fed up because he was constantly being thwarted when applying for promotion (he was such a brilliant vision mixer they didn’t want to lose him) he thought he would do something spectacular. The first half of an international Rugby match from Twickenham was coming to an end when the broadcast would return to the studio for Half-Time. As the count down started Clive, the Vision-Mixer, slid off his chair and disappeared under the desk. The count down continued 4 3 2 . . . and on 1 that ethereal finger appeared from behind the desk and punched the button bringing the transmission to the the studio. 

Clive is alleged to have said he knew he could hit the right button because he could see the reflection of the desk on the glass wall at the back of the gallery.

Clive was promoted away from Vision-Miixing soon after apparently.

I would so much like this to be true.

Garth