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For the record, it was more than enough work to do. All listings, previews, film reviews, supplementary material had to be generated by hand from paper copies from BDS (Broadcasting Data Services). It was labour intensive and there was no IMDB or internet to verify information, instead we relied on Halliwells and reference books to make sure we were correct.
Again, there was no spell-check in the native software we used and so everything we generated had to be proof-read a couple of times in order to make sure we didn't get into any legal trouble with the material we published.
So if a producer of "This Morning" got in touch with us at 10:20am wanting a recipe on air by 10:40am, it would be faxed over to us (remember that), the recipe would then be typed into the template (edited on the fly) and then proof read by a couple of us before it made the air. It was hard and fast work...
What happened to Intelfax? As far as I know, it got wound up after losing its main subtitling contract for C4.
Over and out,
Darren Lock
Ex-Intelfax and proud of it!
Historical details of Central and other ITV Companies
Good find, I assume he did more than just those 3, I wouldn't have thought there was enough to do.
Intelfax seems to have disappeared without trace, I wonder what happened to them?
Intelfax seems to have disappeared without trace, I wonder what happened to them?
For the record, it was more than enough work to do. All listings, previews, film reviews, supplementary material had to be generated by hand from paper copies from BDS (Broadcasting Data Services). It was labour intensive and there was no IMDB or internet to verify information, instead we relied on Halliwells and reference books to make sure we were correct.
Again, there was no spell-check in the native software we used and so everything we generated had to be proof-read a couple of times in order to make sure we didn't get into any legal trouble with the material we published.
So if a producer of "This Morning" got in touch with us at 10:20am wanting a recipe on air by 10:40am, it would be faxed over to us (remember that), the recipe would then be typed into the template (edited on the fly) and then proof read by a couple of us before it made the air. It was hard and fast work...
What happened to Intelfax? As far as I know, it got wound up after losing its main subtitling contract for C4.
Over and out,
Darren Lock
Ex-Intelfax and proud of it!