26th July 1976
Channel Television switches to colour
Channel Television switched from black and white to colour broadcasts in 1976, with a party in a tent beside its transmitter on Jersey’s Freemont Point. It had taken a long time and much discussion for the technicians to work out how to transmit the signals without causing interference to neighbouring networks, on account of the power that their own transmitter would need to put out. In the end, they settled on installing a SABRE aerial in Alderney, developed specifically by IBA engineers. This relayed colour broadcasts from Stockland Hill in Devon, and thus completed the “colourisation” of the UK’s independent television network.
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Other events that occured in July
Jersey’s Theatre Royal burns down
- Jersey lost its theatre on the morning of 31 July 1863. It was discovered ablaze at 4am and, by 9am, nothing was left of the £5000 building.
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Prince Charles and Camilla visit Jersey
- The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visited the Channel Islands as part of their tour to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee.
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Record-breaking Jersey cow finds fame
- A Jersey cow found fame when she produced more than her own weight in butter in a single year.
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A dying man confesses to murder
- A dying man confessed to having killed a woman for which the victim's brother had earlier been tried, convicted, and hanged.
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