eBay is great. I'm not going to lecture you on just how you use it, but as you know, you can define certain search criteria and come up with a whole host of ridiculous, useful, useless or just plain barmy stuff.
Now, I lived in London for many years in the 1990s. When ending up in Cricklewood, above the Beaten Docket pub in a very strange flat, I had cable TV installed in my bedroom. This was an era of a lot of local television station attempts - indeed Diamond Cable in Nottingham did something similar with a very tall, gurning bloke who ended up on just about every piece of 'community' programming, until obviously they were taken over....
In London, they had L!VE TV, with it's Topless Bunnies playing darts with bouncing weathermen (or something) but also something else - that really was something else - Channel One. Channel One, owned by Associated Newspapers, was an attempt at a 24 hour news station for the capital and according to Rosenblum's blog, one based on NY1 in the United States.
My memories of this station was that it was actually very good, very slick and very well produced. Perhaps it had too much money loaded into it that it was never going to get the potential to do well in a market that didn't have much interest in a Cable TV station, which didn't show breasts or midgets.
Back to eBay - I typed in a week or so ago "Channel One". And found this, which is now part of the TV Studies collection (well OK it's the first item):
Now, I lived in London for many years in the 1990s. When ending up in Cricklewood, above the Beaten Docket pub in a very strange flat, I had cable TV installed in my bedroom. This was an era of a lot of local television station attempts - indeed Diamond Cable in Nottingham did something similar with a very tall, gurning bloke who ended up on just about every piece of 'community' programming, until obviously they were taken over....
In London, they had L!VE TV, with it's Topless Bunnies playing darts with bouncing weathermen (or something) but also something else - that really was something else - Channel One. Channel One, owned by Associated Newspapers, was an attempt at a 24 hour news station for the capital and according to Rosenblum's blog, one based on NY1 in the United States.
My memories of this station was that it was actually very good, very slick and very well produced. Perhaps it had too much money loaded into it that it was never going to get the potential to do well in a market that didn't have much interest in a Cable TV station, which didn't show breasts or midgets.
Back to eBay - I typed in a week or so ago "Channel One". And found this, which is now part of the TV Studies collection (well OK it's the first item):
And it's a Channel One Sweater. Whats amazing is the quality, it's not like the usual mass produced tacky merchandise, the Channel One logo, with the number 1 making the 'hole' in the figure zero, is even tagged onto the back.With spending money like this, it probably helped spell the end of a television station that had so much talent, but sod all people viewing. A damn shame.
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