Image orthicon cameras still used in the 1980s in Europe

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The last tv cameras with electronic tubes where used in Romania up untill 1970-1972, when the studios of the 2nd Channel where also moved into the new hadquarters of the Romanian (State) Television, on Calea Dorobanţi (lor)/Dorobantzi Way (Way of the Dorobanţi), near Herăstrău Park. The broadcasting of the 2nd Channel was stoped in the '80's, because of make economies, comrades! It was anyway a channel that was only recived in Bucharest area.
There where plans to introduce color television in Romania, but because of political reasons we had to wait 'till 1983. Even then "comrades, comrades stay calm in your plaices" had something to comment.
TV.R. (Televziunea Română/Romanian Television) aquired Betacam equypment in 1988...

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But perhaps this find is still worth the final delurking:

Hessischer Rundfunk, one of the poorer public broadcasters in (then West) Germany, still used Fese KOD cameras as late as October 1976:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiQOTLndQw#t=503

Video from this OBV is included herein from 6:25 to 7:26. To my taste it looks already a bit embarrassing, in an otherwise full colour broadcast and even combined with 16 mm colour footage of the same event. It could be that HR at this point used to send out this oldtime van for parliament coverage on its regional UHF network and did also so this day, in spite of this particular session being of relevance for the national news, too.

For the East German side I've been told that DDR-F officially decommissioned its last B&W control room in 1980 after it was hardly used anymore for a couple of years. The space has been reused for a playout suite from which the school broadcasts could be handled by a single engineer.