Showing posts with label Bermuda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bermuda. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Aden to Bermuda and beyond - Part 2

Welcome to Part 2. This is what else Bermuda has to offer (leaving aside shorts and sunshine):


That's from the 10 April 1965 edition of the Bermuda Recorder.  And where it refers to 'Television Enterprises' it means Television International Enterprises Ltd (TIE). Colin Campbell was one of the people who set up and ran TIE, alongside Sir David Stirling.

So: this article says that TIE handle programming in 'areas where Thomson Television [International] Ltd have interests'. And, certainly, they handled programming in Aden, where Thomson Television International (TTI) provided the technical expertise and equipment. 

So: can we safely assume that where TTI went, TIE went too? They did in Jamaica, as is apparent from Ministry Paper No. 61 of the Government of Jamaica, dated 16 May 1962. The paper sets out the agreed arrangements for setting up the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation. And look who the managing agents are: 


Anywhere else? Let's find out in Part 3.

Aden to Bermuda and beyond - Part 1

Here's something else from Aden, borrowed from Broadwcast's Aden page. It's from the 26 August 1965 edition of the Aden Chronicle and is, as you can see, a puff piece for Doctor Who - which had started on 4 July 1965. 


Now look at this article (which I found all by myself) from the 14 August 1965 edition of the Bermuda Recorder


Yes. It's  exactly the same story. Although, in Bermuda, the show started to air  after it was published (on Mondays, from  13 December 1965). 

Evidently, recycling press releases as news isn't quite as modern a phenomenon as it may appear. But Bermuda's press  has more than that to offer, as we shall see in Part 2.