Some Operational Aspects of Stereo Sound for Television

The speaker has been a Sound Supervisor with the BBC in London for a number of years.For the last two-and-a-half years he has had a special responsibility for the operational development of stereo sound within the Television Studio Operations Department, preparatory to the commencement of the BBC's Public Stereo Television Service at the end of August this year.Up to that date, BBC experimental stereo transmissions using the Nicam 728 system had been running for some ve years.Over four thousand programmes were transmitted with stereo sound during that period, allowing considerable opportunities throughout the BBC for the evolution of techniques to realise fully the potential of this new medium.In this paper, he explores the background to some aspects of the new stereo environment.