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The birth of television

1946: The BBC Television Service re-opens.

Confusion surrounding TV aspect ratios has all happened before…

Younger television viewers of the early 1950s had their very own startup

Exploding the myth of TV’s 1939 closedown

Video recording is not new. In fact it goes back a very long way.

What was it like to buy a TV over 50 years ago?

The politics behind television’s post-war return

Abram Games creates the first animated TV identity

1946 - and BBC Television makes plans after the war

Take a tour of Alexandra Palace

The BBC Television Service opens - twice

Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early

The BBC embraces television - and a new service is born

JLB pioneers television - but John Reith needs convincing

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