Celebrating 75 Years of BBC Television
The 75th Anniversary of the launch of the BBC Television Service from Alexandra Palace was commemorated by a small party at AP on Wednesday 2 November, 2011. Richard Elen was there to describe the scene.
It was 60 years ago today…
1946: The BBC Television Service re-opens.
A Broader Aspect
Confusion surrounding TV aspect ratios has all happened before…
Children's air
Younger television viewers of the early 1950s had their very own startup
The edit that rewrote history
Exploding the myth of TV’s 1939 closedown
Pictures of the dawn
Video recording is not new. In fact it goes back a very long way.
Previous articles
Your first set
What was it like to buy a TV over 50 years ago?
The fools return to the hill
The politics behind television’s post-war return
Oh, that Symbol...
Abram Games creates the first animated TV identity
Television is coming back
1946 - and BBC Television makes plans after the war
The London Television Station
Take a tour of Alexandra Palace
The opening of the BBC Television Service
The BBC Television Service opens - twice
Baird's independent television
Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early
The fools on the hill
The BBC embraces television - and a new service is born
Baird versus the BBC
JLB pioneers television - but John Reith needs convincing
