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The '''socs603''' account was used by YSTV at some point. After lack of use it was permanently removed.

"A Hard Drive used as a coffee rest is not the use for which it's best"

...d by [[Rhys Milling]] on the lead-up to [[Freshers' Fair 2021]] wanting to use it for [[digital signage]]. ...setups and trying to reduce computing involment. It is also planned to be used for authentication to the University filestore.

...6]] - provided by the University of York Computing Services department for use by YSTV in the 1990s. The account was used as the primary email and [[website]] account for use by members and those wishing to contact the station. The password to the ac

...ll]] for use on [[Elections 2003]] (in the days when idents would only get used for special occasions such as this). It shows an Eeyore (off of Winnie Th

The YSTV Gold [[Idents|ident]] was created for use in [[Small Screen]]'s feature of the same name in May 2005. It consisted o ...[2000 Logo|modern YSTV logo]] appearing at the end of the sequence. It is used to introduce classic programming from the station's archive.

This was put together by [[Emma Winter]] in 1995, and parts were later used in the 1995 [[Review of the Year]]. It was cut to Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy", as later used by [[Dave Baker]] in [[I'm Too Techie]].

...e zooming a projector feed or keystoneing a warped picture. It can also be used for aspect ration conversion, for example, a 4:3 video source can now be f

...5]] - provided by the University of York Computing Services department for use by YSTV in the 1990s. The account was used for email and [[website]] associated with the [[Grapevine]] service. As wi

...hting rig, and remotely controlled using a serial interface. It used to be used at [[OB:Outside Broadcasts|Woodstock]], hung above the stage. When Woodsto The control software we use is located at [http://www.camerapad.com/cameras.asp http://www.camerapad.co

[https://slack.com Slack] is an instant messaging app for teams, used by YSTV since it was set up by [[Sam Willcocks]] in 2015 as a replacement You can customise emojis, loading messages and bots. Oh and by the way, we use it so much, Slack deletes old messages, ask any admin to Slack about that!

...to an [[Idents|ident]] in it's own right, in which role it continues to be used regularly on air.

...] on the day of the first YSTV Live using existing drone footage, and were used throughout the spring and summer terms. The idents are:

[[Image:CameraOperator.jpg|thumb|right|The KY-1900 in use for camera training in 1993]] Used from before 1992- approx 1996.

...'s programmes on demand and online (on campus) in October 2004, this ident used the "swirls" from the station logo to produce the "O" of online.

...in filming (or so they thought!) due to a technical hitch, which was later used in the title sequence. Some of the same clips appear in the [[Closure]] co

...camera, but is so useful and of good enough quality that it gets regularly used on air. The main feature is that is can be panned through 360 degrees and It was first used by YSTV at [[Roses]] Ball in May 2003, and on air for the first time in th

...s 2003]] (at the very end of the era when big occasions like this would be used to playout a number of programmes and station promotional pieces).

...nfused with the [[STV VT]] made for the [[Elections 2006]] broadcast which used puppets to explain how single transferrable voting works.

Mainly as an exercise in learning how to use the newly aquired [[The Mac|Mac]], [[Rob Sprowson]] digitally remastered th ...guest appearance, though in the 1998 remake the [[Maurice]] framestore was used to zoom in on this.

...duce the odd effect of Ed cleaning the ident off the wall. This was often used at the end of a night's programming.

* Able to withstand potentially decades of abuse (although in 2014 a certain [[Robert Walker | Technical Director]] managed * To use one of the numerous spare NEC 17" monitors donated by Computer science...

...equence featuring various different pieces of control room equipment being used. ...mmer 2006, but it is still retained by YSTV, the top piece currently being used by [[YSTV News]].

..." theme as the Big Breakfast, and a special setboard with a hole in it was used to cover the big projection TV set so that we could do transitions to and The show's logo made innovative use of the recently introduced new [[2000 Logo|YSTV logo]].

...hrough the fire escape over an old set board from [[Election 98]]! It was used on programmes such as [[Games Disaster]], [[Lolita]], [[Red Braces]], [[YS ...creen was in [[Elections 2003]], after which the new [[Panasonic Max]] was used for the purpose. These days it is usually left outside Derwent JCR for th

...working for a company who were throwing them away as too old to be of any use. There are however significantly lighter than the [[Panasonic F10|F10s]] (d ...and chase round sports pitches following the action. They have also been used occasionely for drama and music productions when students request that the

...hist:Heads of Archives|Head of Archives]] you probably won't find anything useful here, and even if you are I don't know if any of this kit exists or wher ...rom computer graphics cards, and other consumer devices. This isn't really useful for YSTV, so we have a few ways round using it:

...version of "Jingle Bells" apparently written by YSTV member [[Phil Toms]] used as a bed. The version in the archive (see below) credits it to "Chris and ...pus Today]]. Some of the clips were Christmas related, many were not. Re-used on [[Open Day]] programmes and the like as a filler for years afterwards.

...hort of ideas for [[Idents]] in the Summer of 2012, it was decided to make use of [[Matt Johnson]]'s talent for eating paper (see [[Newsrind]]).

Formerly known as Fly and used by [[Tom Lee]] for mysterious dev-things, [[Ben Allen]] found and re-purpo ==Some times Marty has been useful (from memory)==

...e scale coverage was organised. An XF30 5200 lumen projector was hired and used to project onto a screen on the left of stage, although could only really

...for shows which wanted more than one 'set' - such as [[Campus Today]] and useless on any shot involving [[Ian France]] who was taller than any of the boa == In Use ==

It was first used as a holding graphic at [[Woodstock 2002]] and became an ident when the [[

...in)|Bulletin]] and [[YSTV Week]] were avoided though - the end titles were used as opening titles (they didn't feature the programme name), and the new li ...ded with the new [[YSTV Week]] being promoted. However the name was later used again for the post-[[YSTV Week]] incarnation of the station's news output,

The '''Single Transferable Vote VT''' is used during elections to explain to the viewers how the voting system works. I ...re counted to [[Kate Gordon]] through the use of jelly babies. This was reused in for [[YUSU Elections 1996]].

...ell]] for us on [[Elections 2003]] (in the days when idents would only get used for special occasions such as this). It showed various plastic fish (from

...ell]] for us on [[Elections 2003]] (in the days when idents would only get used for special occasions such as this). It shows the [[2000 Logo|YSTV logo]]

Built in the 1970s and used by Yorkshire Television these were acquired by YSTV. ...o circuit boards make them very easy to repair, since all of the circuitry uses discrete components (except for a couple of 7400 series logic gates on the

Less intensively used than the [[Distribution Network]], the availability of the campus contribu ...e audio and video connectivity. As far as is known, YSTV has never made of use of this system, which anyway has mostly been unusable since the chemistry f

...iple overlapping effects tracks, with some copyright free music sampler CD used for audio. The music suffered from having no obvious edit point, so had to

...rly performed the same function, but had become top unreliable and hard to use. ...ered high spec when it was built by the station in {{unsure|2002}}. It was used for a short time as a video edit system before moving to it's current role

...te animal" as opposed to "You're the guy who sends the YSTV e-mails" being used. It was also frequently remarked by many that it was the only part of the ...e 2013-14 committee elections what the incoming [[Station Director]] would use instead of a 'Cute Animal'. Incoming SD [[Liz Pascoe]] took a vote at her f

A new PIC, a PIC18F2455 using a 20MHz crystal, has replaced this PIC through use of an extra 'daughter' board. This change in PIC was to allow easier coding ...up with why there are loads of unconnected [[BNC]]s on the back. - The Mux used to hold a distribution amplifier for creating 8 outputs of each main outpu

...The two of them wore [[Games Disaster]] boiler suits, the red of which was used as the chromakey backdrop, with a YSTV logo on the back, making it look as

...Thompson]], who was filmed by [[Charles Blessing]]. Notable ingenuity was used during this filming, such as John holding his hands up and swaying, then t ...cal issues, giving the "techies" precious seconds and minutes to change a fuse or re-wire a plug.

...ow program and preview banks, allowing the full suite of transitions to be used to mix between shots on both the left and right channels. ...-accurate switching of the downstream keyers. The applet would intercept a user's keystroke, and select the appropriate cameras for the left channel (on t

...hist:Heads of Archives|Head of Archives]] you probably won't find anything useful here.}} ...the DC plug is the correct polarity. However, if the mains to 12V supply used isn't powerful enough the camera will probably quickly turn itself off.

...uld be used to do cuts and fades between the two channels, which led us to use it once or twice as a self-contained OB vision path. It became largely redu

...le runs were brought back to the station where all the usual equipment was used. URY were setup in YSTV's studio space due to a room booking error with YU YSTV used their studio space this time to interview the bands ready for use in introduction VTs for the Finals.

* [[Goodricke-Physics-Hub]] The long daisy-chain used to get from [[G/046]] through to the [[P/X/002|old studio]] and thence to ...] The odd one out of the [[New Broadcast Network|1998 project]] because it used the old [[Original Broadcast Network|Rediffusion]] cabling for nearly all

The set makes use of the [[Sofa]], re-re-painted YSTV Week set boards (after they were painte The title has also been used (very briefly) for a filler news programme between [[Bulletin (again)| Bul

...as hosted from Derwent JCR and didn't really have a set as such - the show used what was available in way of furniture there. This can perhaps be forgive ...the way up the EN2K+3, which appears to have been the final time "EN" was used quite so much in the pre-production. This coincided with efforts to make

The same song had earlier been used (in the original form) as sound track to the Tribute to [[Men of YSTV 1995

...orkhorse deck for capturing tapes brought in for editing, as well as being used heavily for recording live shows.

...e also used, as in many cases the short clips of election night programmes used in these are the only elements of the programme left today. These include ...ght 2000]] by [[John Biltcliffe]]. The use of music proved quite handy to use in the background of clips from other compilations with different soundtrac

...st for configuring menus... which dont really need configuring for what we use them for. * incredibly useful for aspect conversion work, such as putting howard into the path, or con

...Star camera in the main hall, allowing for far more control over the shot used that usually allowed by the camera in the dining hall. ...ce (alledgedly!) a title sequence of effectively the same concept has been used for the BBC's coverage of local elections and by-elections since May 2006!

...radio services to householders over wired networks. The university network used much of the same technology as a small urban area commercial system, but w ...d. Audio-only channels were fed via power amplifiers so that outlets could use passive loudspeakers without further amplification, on the same basis as 10

YSTV's first giant logo banner was purchased by [[Sarah Leese]] in 2005 for use at outside broadcasts such as [[YUSU Election Nights]] and live coverage su ...g a YSTV version was brought to a station meeting. It was turned down because it was thought that our logo would normally be on a big screen of some sort

[[Image:F10inUse.jpg|thumb|250px|right|F10 in use on [[Open Day]]]] ...s had better colour and needed less light to give good picture. Their last use on-air was [[Elections 2006]], although all 5 are still stored in the stati

[[Image:VisionMixer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Vision mixer in use]]

...]], as a pun on "This Is Your Life" and the "YOUR:" branding that had been used across campus since 2001. He took a big red book around campus and got st ..."This Is Your Life" similarities were played down, with the theme tune not used and, in 2006, the title simply being "YOUR: Manifesto". The big red book

During the latter half of 1994, the [[Panasonic MS4]] was coming under heavy use in the field, in the studio and for dumping down to the Umatic. At times th ...h [[Lolita]] and [[Vanbrugh Paradise]] made use of the new kit, partly because the version of Adobe Premiere on the Mac tended to lose lipsync with longer

...d green for the purpose (with a green cloth over the patch bay). This was used from January 2004 to July 2006, and provided a much bigger (and more impor ...lt and a decent, moveable green screen area created. This was brought into use from October 2006.

...room were both placed in the JCR, this year the terrace room next door was used for the set and the JCR for the control area. This allowed as much noise ...t of the set BBC Sport's snooker coverage was using at the time! The desk used since [[SU Elections 2001]] was placed in front of this. For the intervie

...g, monitoring a scene or single-person electronic news gathering. We often use them for big OBs such as [[OB:Roses|Roses]], [[hist:Golden Bodge|Golden Bod ...asiest way to diagnose this is if the camera forgets the date/time between uses. All settings will have to be reset every time the camera is turned on/off

...ews" running around Heslington meaning that both of YSTV's DV cameras were used (including the one recently acquired from Accenture), and there was a rare ...d the Barbican Centre where it was held. This event also marked the first use of [[DeathStar]] - where it was almost christened "Perv Cam" due to its loc

...no Dom, it sounds good. I like it", but who can say why. Naturally, this caused the gentleman to reach a basis of argument, all fighting purely to oppose ...sharing site but 'files', 'filestore' and 'cloud' are all taken! I better use 'data'"

...t now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future. ...following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and

...the [[P/X/002]] set which was used for [[Trivial]] and [[Closure]] (and cause much confusion in later years when trying to identify the programmes!).

[[File:Banner.JPG|thumb|right|YSTV's logo in use on a banner in Derwent Nucleus.]] ...for the newly formed student television station, and they have remained in use ever since. The realisation of those letters into a visual logo has varied

To ensure that the camera is not damaged by untrained users a system of camera training was instituted in order to make sure that tho

It uses the Coffee Bar set, draped with cloth, with a red background, occasionally

...PC with capture card as part of the [[Einstein TV]] deal. The machine now used as [[Graphics PC]] was first built as an edit machine, but was barely powe ...the [[video server]] for live VT playout. This meant any machine could be used to run the software, although it stayed on the renamed VTPC for several mo

The first made use of two BBC Micros for scoring, using custom software written by [[Matt Hamm

...eing large and unwieldy, and as there was only (room for) one could not be used with multiple camera set-ups. Additionally the controller had a rather noi Still in use in 2007, after a glitch when the serial port stopped working at Christmas 2

...and its "window" setboard were used again to give a display for Michael to use. The [[Election Night 2000]] silver-topped trestle table also featured in o ...at the other end of the studio. A pile of boxes covered in black drape was used as a proxy for the letter. The whole thing was composited together on the

...nder times were all to common. In practice, because of this it was rarely used for much other than short VTs and title sequences towards the end - for ex ...in the summer term of 2003. The Mac continued to be used for play out because of the poor TV out from the graphics card and concerns over reliability. Th

...ble for the project, and what was going to be done about all the cables we used in there. ...to [[G/046]], with the audio also continued to Vanbrugh so that URY could use it as a Goodricke - Vanbrugh link for Goodricke Elections hustings.

...nced line audio earlier were already known at YSTV where it was frequently used to convey low level microphone signals down incredibly long pieces of dirt ...any remaining scraps of telephone and mains cables around the studio were used as an extention. The signal did eventually deteriorate, usually with the p

Programmes recorded before 1993 use a 45 second time clock that is very obviously coming from a BBC micro or si ...[[Interregnum]] this was discontinued, and [[SU, Lies and Videotape]] made use of an intermediate style of timeclock briefly in 1994.

...via [[Watch Online|our website]]. It mirrors the [[Contribution Network]] used to get video from around campus back to YSTV's studios for broadcasting [[ ...) and balanced audio around the campus, but the carrot of allowing them to use it during the conference season was unappealing, and nothing happened.

The circuit would be controlled by an Atmel AVR because [[Michael Cullen]] likes these. ...cquired them for around a fifth of their wholesale value). They would also use Mike's pipe-dream protocol called yvp, (YstvVisionPath) so that they could

...e audio track was Zombie by The Cranberries. Unusually YSTV output was not used, instead inserts were taken from the plethora of free tapes that descended

...tems it was logical to retain the same location so that cables could be re-used and the transition period when both systems were operating made easier. As

Produced in association with York Sport and [[Nouse]]. The York Sport Show is a round up of the Wednesday sports matches. As ma The videos are embedded on the [http://www.nouse.co.uk/ Nouse website] with their weekly sports round-up. The video are also linked to fr

...there is free space to be able to record something. The idea is that every use of the tape should be recorded, so that it should be possible to recover th The software used a devious modulus-odd-number algorithm to locate records quickly within th

...radford's Photographic Film and Television Museum (now the National Media Museum). ..., YSTV had arranged a deal with them which meant that NaSTA stations could use copyrighted music if they paid £30. Unfortunately the 1989 NaSTA hosts, G

...or some time it was thought of as the "flagship" station ident and as such used before the flagship show [[YSTV Week]].

...n mixer]]. [[Kevin Bowman]]'s bedroom, being next door to the kitchen, was used as the control room - the camera cables were fed out of the kitchen window ...and we then recorded it in the afternoon. It failed to actually record because someone had connected the vision mixer directly to the monitor and the VHS

...[NaffoCue]] (an autocue, who successor is [[Faffocue]]), the software that used to run [[clock]], and also for designing the current [[2000 Logo|YSTV logo

...vice itself. Written by [[Roger Moffatt]] in 1986, it remained in constant use until 1994. ...new pages), and supervisor mode (for purging old unused pages and other housekeeping). Pages could be scheduled to appear for certain periods of time, pe

...ly leading to a blue tint, this wasn't spotted during recording due to the use of a black and white preview monitor. Subsequent recordings took a colour p ...the mixer had to be squashed into the cramped kitchen no camera comms were used and the camera operators (usually [[Tim Pollard]] and [[Helen Rix]]) were

...morning to film it before the stuff all melted. Initially the idea was to use the patch of ground where the entrance to the Roger Kirk Centre resides tod

...nd [[Ian Martindale]] backed up extensively by [[Rob Humphrey]]. YSTV also used live wireless interviews from the balcony of Central Hall with [[Jay Forem