Baird Beaming Transmitter

The Baird Beaming Transmitter is a transmitting station located in Kalis.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

The Baird Beaming Transmitter appeared exclusively in the UK portion of the Marvel Comics continuity.

Flywheels suggested to the Autobots he had been teamed up with that they could jam the signal controlling the zombie army that was roaming the streets of Kalis. Meeting a positive response, Flywheels then suggested they'd use the old Baird Beaming Transmitter that was only a ten klik-drive away.

While the Sparkabots distracted the zombies, Flywheels and Ultra Magnus went to the transmitting station not only to stop the dead but also to find out where the signal came from. At the Baird Beaming Transmitter, Ultra Magnus reluctantly gave Flywheels his gun back so he could act as guard. After some fiddling with the building's main terminal, Ultra Magnus's managed to jam the signal just in time for both units. One zombie in the building somehow wasn't affected by the loss of transmittance and readied to attack Ultra Magnus, but Flywheels took him out. City of Fear!

Regeneration One

Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

Twenty-one years after the Last Autobot's regeneration of Cybertron, Soundwave led the remnants of the Decepticons in a raid on the Baird Beaming Transmitter, killing the Autobot guards and taking control of the device. He then used it to direct the ordnance of one of Cybertron's orbital defence satellites against the Last Autobot's tower in Iacon, destroying the ancient Transformer. Counterpoint

Notes

• The Baird Beaming Transmitter was presumably named after [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}John Logie Baird|{{#if:||John Logie Baird}}]], the inventor of the first television.