In article , Mortimer
wrote:

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Don't/didn't TV studios have some form of backup generators in case of
power failure? At least enough to power VTs and sufficient lighting for
news reports etc, even if not enough to light whole studios?

At the time, the emergency generator was only set up for BBC1. Nothing on
the BBC2 side was maintained. The larger generator was on its way but
hadn't been installed. I had the great fun of pushing the "start" button a
few years later when the mains voltage had dropped so low that the 50v
battery (which ran all the routing systems) was only delivering 38v.


I suppose for a first night launch, they'd probably planned live events
that would have taken a lot of power for lighting.

the only Live 'special' was fireworks from Southend. Well away from West
London.

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