Russ J GrahamBlog
You can't beat a good daily start-up
The Socialist paradise (ahem) of North Korea's NCTV starts the day with a march. Literally a march.
The yearbook mystery
When researching for Transdiffusion features, I often come across titbits of information that don't fit anywhere. Here's one of them in an experimental video format.
Sky low
I'm no particular fan of this present government. I'm hardly unique in this, but I'm still finding it hard to accept that we appear to have got both the furthest-to-the-right government the country has had since the war and the...
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Television
Central pre-launch logo
Russ J Graham looks at a 'what might have been' for Central Independent Television's on-screen design
ATV Midlands unused design
Russ J Graham on the ATV Midlands logo design that never was
The slow death of S4C?
S4C appears to be in trouble. What has happened in Cardiff - and Wales - to scupper the broadcasting success story of the 1980s?
Blair's Broadcasting Legacy
Looking back on the outgoing PM's impact
Nigel Kneale
Sci-fi genius
The edit that rewrote history
Exploding the myth of TV's 1939 closedown
Part 7: Lew Grade
The ultimate rite of passage
Weekend World
The competition
Who's the boss?
Takeover talk spoils the party
Voice of Thames
Tom Edwards remembers
Lights camera inaction
The big launch makes a damp squib
Taking Shape
Build a better ITV company
The shotgun marriage
Lord Hill's diagnosis creates a new company
The players
The companies that made Thames
Everybody Out!
Off with the show
10 - Grampian
Something essentially different
9 - Ulster
Walking a tightrope
8 - London Weekend
Got there in the end
6 - Westward
A suspicion of greatness
1 - Granada
Because someone had to win
2 - Thames
Without you, I'm nothing
3 - Rediffusion
Deep pockets, deep thoughts
4 - ABC
All bloody entertaining
7 - Central
If we can't have ATV...
5 - ATV
It's that man again
Part 6: The ITA
By the time ABC arrived, many decisions had been made. Howard wanted them changed.
Part 5: Commercial TV
Howard pushes ABPC to take the plunge
Part 4: The BBC – II
Thomas wins a war, and loses a battle
Part 3: The BBC - I
The Corporation doesn't know what to do with Howard Thomas
Strange Magic - 1
Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV - part 1
Part 2: Commercial Radio
Radio advertising by the back door
Strange Magic - 2
Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV - part 2
Safe in their hands
Who will keep the BBC running?
A Tribute to Gwynfor Evans
Russ J Graham remembers the will behind S4C
Part 1: Getting Started
Making headway in Manchester
Gilbert Harding
First television star
GMTV
The unused 'Sunrise TV' name and symbol
Anglia
Knight in shining armour
ATV
Bold as brass
Border
Solid and reliable
Channel 3 North East
Suddenly gone
Carlton
London is dead
Central
Natural successor
Channel
Baby of the class
GMTV
Good morning, sunrise
Harlech
The shock of the new
Granada
Definitely from the North
LWT
Unwanted brilliance
Meridian
Turnaround
Rediffusion
Auntie with adverts
Scottish TV
Licence to screen tedium
Southern
Southern approaches
Teledu Cymru
Regionalism restrained
TSW
Gus Honeybun v Mad King Ludwig
TWW
Hard done by all
TVS
Now in colour
Tyne Tees
Pillar to post
ATV Network
The shadowed eye
Westcountry
Never known
Granada
An untraced pre-launch symbol that didn't point north
Carlton Television
The franchising-winning symbol that never was
TWW
An ident used on-screen that never really took off
Westward
Plain sailing
Yorkshire
Young pretended
Suddenly Gone
The branding decisions that 'made' C3NE.
Force majeure
Russ J Graham wonders if BBC4 is a godsend or a ghetto
A Short History
A company to be proud of
Crisis at ITN
Preparing for D-Day
Disaster
It all goes wrong
Curtain up
Getting ready to go
London Calling
Many hands make television work
A Call To Arms
Russ J Graham writes an open letter to the Welsh Assembly
First to the top
Instant ITA wastes no time
Big Brother's Bigger Brother
Russ J Graham on those who have been kicked out of ITV
Everything I know
...was taught to me by Blue Peter, says Russ J Graham
Moving the Furniture
Slap an on-screen logo on and all will be alright.
Perforated Television
The main fault with modern television has to be Londoncentricity, says Russ J Graham
J'accuse
Russ J Graham on the end of live presentation
Giving up television
Russ J Graham doesn't watch here anymore
Free to view future
Micropayment and minibundles: how DTT could have recovered
Yes, it's no
Russ J Graham on the trials of getting C4 on air
Four what it's worth
C4 killed quality television, says Russ J Graham
Goodbye Britain
Thatcherism killed TV-am, writes Russ J Graham
Muriel Young
Continuity Announcer
Lost Language of Art
Television is an art form, says Russ J Graham
Vital vulgarity
The Television Act 1954 didn't create ITV, notes Russ J Graham
Drowning Flipper
Russ J Graham on the tv-am strike
Principal Instrument
Russ J Graham says the BBC is the best
ITV 1957
Covering just 4 regions
1964 and all that
Russ J Graham on a design revolution during a social revolution
ITV 1967
Consolidation
ITV 1977
Maturity
ITV 1987
Towards 100%
Rewriting history
Russ J Graham on the broadcasters' greatest flaw
Earthquake '81
Russ J Graham sees the end of ATV Midlands
Talent for television
Good presentation should be insidious, says Russ J Graham
Mosaic
The ITA decides how ITV will be
Words and Pictures
Russ J Graham looks under 'C' and finds a rude word
First Reports
Television comes to the BBC
Slow to dominate
US networks
Long fortnight
Russ J Graham reviews the 14-day rule and Suez
Out of time
ONdigital becomes ITV Digital. It's doomed anyway.
Start the day the Granada way
Granada says hello in the 1960s.
A pause in programming
The ways to avoid closing down
After the Break
Advertising your own programmes
Three Lions
London, Midlands and the North
From the North
Capitol Studios in Didsbury
ABC Scrapbook
A look back at ABC entertainment
Charting
ABC vs ATV in the ITV ratings war
A Success Story
From zero to hero
A Choice of Viewing
The spread of the ABC regions
End Game
And the walls came tumbling down
Crisis at ITN
No news is bad news
Perpetuum Mobile
Reaching new heights
Radio
No ads please - we're British
Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio... in 1933
Psion Wavefinder
Reviewed: The glow-in-the-dark PC DAB receiver
A new lease of life
The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.
A local service
The BBC had tough decisions to make in the choice of direction for establishing a service.
