Europe by Satellite - European Council, Dublin, 13 Dec 1996

Not terribly exciting, just something from my old VHS archives. It's a recording of the holding screen and music for the EbS (Europe by Satellite) live feed of the European Council meeting in Dublin, December 1996. Youtube has mangled most of the wonderful analogue sparklies.

Finding stuff like this (live satellite up-links in particular), was the real novelty of owning motorised-dish satellite television back in the 1990's. All kinds of things were live and unencrypted, like behind-the-scenes at news and sporting events. In the case of Europe by Satellite, live streams can now be found online.

link: http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/