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Harry Carpenter
The news of the death of BBC commentating stalwart Harry Carpenter brought back a happy memory of meeting this delightful man at the Open Golf Championship when it came to the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake in the Wirral...
False advertising from ITV
ITV50 Album Well, this is a conundrum and no mistake. Whether it's a genuine mistake by the record company or the worst example yet of dumbing down for profit, I cannot say. I bought the ITV 50 Album this afternoon...
Transdiffusion Network - Update
A new year and it's straight into our latest update! In this edition of Transdiffusion News: Radio One revolutions, did you get the Pure Evoke II for Christmas? London News Network closes, Lew Grade in the 1950s, BBC infrastructure, fall...
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Television
All Systems Freeman - 3
1960s: At the top of his game.
All Systems Freeman - 1
More than a legendary broadcasting figure, Alan Freeman was a 1960s icon.
All Systems Freeman - 2
Kif Bowden-Smith continues his personal memoir of Alan Freeman.
Day in the life
Thames's first day on air
No Strings Attached
The magic of Supermarionettes
ITSWW
Twice forgotten
ABC Weekend Television
The three section triangle
Colour my life
Watching BBC-1 change to 625 colour
Rediffusion London
The adastral star
Yorkshire Television
The Chevron
The fools return to the hill
The politics behind television's post-war return
The Adastral
Symbol of Rediffusion
Tellytubby television
Because you're all stupider now
Pay Per View
The loss of a public funded BBC would be a tragedy, says Kif Bowden-Smith
Before 24/7
Because once you could measure television in minutes
Not only at bedtime
Television with gaps - morning, noon and afternoon
A dissenter
One company had to be different in everything it did
Goodnight from TWW
...to two countries
ABC Off
Branding with malice aforethought
The Fools On The Hill Return
Kif Bowden-Smith on the politics behind the return of TV in 1946
ABC Weekend Television
In the Midlands and the North, the ultimate TV station starts the day
The grammar of television
How presentation - and daily start-ups - provided the full stops and commas of TV
Grampian Television
The weird way to start each day with the northern Scotland contractor
Betraying The Viewer
Kif Bowden-Smith thinks the ITC isn't working
Granada (pan-North)
From the North and showing it - Granada shows its roots
Strike Service
What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise
London Weekend
The cuckoo in the nest re-invents the daily start up
Radio with pictures
Constant and unchanging - an environment where branding was king
A Post Office genre
Bureaucracy, slow and deliberate, creates a new art form
Thames Television
Keeping up the traditions set by ABC Television
TVS
The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies
Yorkshire Television
Combining ABC and Rediffusion the opposite way to Thames
Good afternoon, Britain
Kif Bowden-Smith starts the day with ITV
Brainwashes whiter
Kif Bowden-Smith is driven slowly mad by musical jingles
Why marches?
Kif Bowden-Smith on the habits of a lifetime
Affairs of State
Kif Bowden-Smith on the state funeral of Churchill
625 Comes North
Kif Bowden-Smith on the opening of bbc-2
Getting it right
Kif Bowden-Smith watches Rediffusion add respectability to ITV.
Granada TV Network
The Inverted Dipole
Camelot Falls
Kif Bowden-Smith on the death of JFK
A Balanced Weekend
Something for everybody
Here is the news
ABC Weekend and ABC at Large
Golden Age
ABC in context
The ABC of ABC
Perfect branding - 1960s style
The Way To Do It
Setting yourself apart
The Crossroads Option
Kif Bowden-Smith on the workings of an optional network
Patterns of Expectation
Kif Bowden-Smith on christmases past
Radio
Revolution at the BBC
The birth of Radios 1-4
Your station of the stars 1
The world's greatest radio station
Dropping anchor
Starting out changing the broadcasting world
Your Station of the Stars 2
From the Grand Duchy to your living room
Offshore infrastructure
The challenge of broadcasting from the sea
