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Mortimer wrote:
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?

TV centre had IIRC two feeds from different parts of the grid or whatever
and both failed.

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

It would have needed a massive generator to fully run TVC. It did have a
small standby one which could manage a continuity announcer.

Think the maximum load at TVC was 11Mw. But Charles will likely remember
better.

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