service information

Service Information was a weekday broadcast on BBC2 of engineering information for the radio and television trade. These announcements were made by the BBC continuity announcers of the time and were read over basic in-vision captions.
The "programme" was broadcast on BBC2 during trade test transmissions and was not aimed at the general public. It was not billed in the schedule. They went out three times a day 10.00a.m., 11.30a.m., and 2.30p.m. From 20 January 1975, the bulletin was broadcast just once each day, at 10.30a.m.. The transmission times of these bulletins was moved if other programmes were being shown. For example, the Wednesday broadcast from October 1977 onwards was aired at 11.30 a.m. due to Gharbar being shown at 10.20 a.m. The final broadcast took place on 23 December 1982. The IBA (and its predecessor, the ITA) had a similar programme called Engineering Announcements.

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