Does anyone remember working in the early 'sub regional' tv studios in the 1960s?
I worked in the Southampton studio at the South Western  hotel building.As engineers we were the original multi-skilled team working on cameras,sound,telecine,radio studio,OBs and even film processing.....often you could do several of these jobs in one day!
We produced the nightly news programme South Today in what was in fact an ex hotel bedroom with two cameras in the main studio and a third in a radio studio across the corridor. We were a special breed of people and went on to jobs all over the place having gained a terrific grounding in basic broadcasting.special tribute and thanks to Ken Nicholas the engineer in charge who encouraged us all.

Norman Austin was the STelE for most of my time in Norwich but as "integrated" engineers we did a bit of everything, and my abiding memory is of Inky clearing his throat before reading the news upstairs in the sound studio.

Very interesting to see the replies so far but I'm sure there are many more who like me owed their BBC careers to the substantial grounding we got in the old sub regions.........also of course there were jobs we did which have completely disappeared...are there any ex film processors out there for instance..remember the film editors trying to get us to clip extra films for rush developing onto the running film.....and even tearing films off as they came out of the drier cabinet?.....and that long lost skill of changing the magazine without stopping the machine.........videotape?.they don;t know half of it !!
Pete