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Very true. Move Wimbledon into a studio. You just know it makes sense.

I don't see the point of OB on radio. How do we know they are genuine?

I'd be more than happy to move Wimbledon to the bin ...

Nothing against tennis or it's devotees personally, but when - in 2019 - programmes are still being bumped for the f****ng tennis, it reminds me how much I detest sport on TV. A hatred borne of (a) not really liking sport at school and (b) a childhood of missed TV thanks to sport overrunning, or simply just being there. Made all the worse with only 3 channels to chose from.

Oh you unromantic cynic you. Brian

Yes spend the money on CGI tennis. Brian

No I'm not a sport fan either, but I don't go around spoiling other peoples enjoyment of it. Brian

Those were the days! Cricket too.

Worst of all to a young one was the budget speech. Mind-numbingly boring and elbowing aside episodes of genuinely important stuff like Tin Tin or Blue Peter.

Three channels? You were lucky...

Bill the Yorkshireman

You had 3 channels? We only had one, until I was eight.

How do you know a TV OB is genuine?

Youngster. None at all until I was 8 or so, and they built a local BBC TV transmitter.

When we got ITV, the transmitter was half a mile away. I had to make an attenuator and put it in the antenna lead.

We didn't get anything in Edinburgh until Coronation year - I was 13! My parents didn't buy a tv set until about 1960, we watched the Coronation in a friend's house. The room was packed

I'd nearly left home and started work when ITV arrived. ;-)

Didn't realise the capital was so much later than Glasgow. The temporary Aberdeen one at Redmoss was in place for the coronation too.

Father was in the motor trade and went to the London show each year, so saw TV at his sister's place, long before it made it up north. And saw it as a way of getting out taking the family to the cinema. So got one as soon as it arrived. ;-)

They were both served by Kirk o'Shotts, which (according to Pawley) actually opened on 17 August 1952. Not having parents who were interested in TV I didn't note the date.

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But then being an idle bastard you decided to stay on the dole and watch day time TV - no?

Yes - the dole was very good to me. Got me a house worth over a million with a Porsche parked outside. And a large enough pension for my needs.

Why I don't whinged on and on about how unfair life has been and want to go back to the 50s, like you.

Exactly. If the Americans can stage a lunar landing from a studio in California, why would anyone need to move outside?