Image orthicon cameras still used in the 1980s in Europe

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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.