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 Evening Post editor is tried for publishing secrets
- The Jersey Royal Court sat on a Saturday to hear a case against WE Guiton, both owner and editor of the Jersey Evening Post.
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Queen Elizabeth II visits Jersey
- The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh began their 1957 tour of the Channel Islands by sailing in to St Helier on the Royal Barge.
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St Saviour’s hospital’s foundation stone is laid
- St Saviour’s Hospital, on Prince’s Tower Road, was purpose built to care for patients’ mental health. It took three years to construct.
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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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