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What Of Radio Luxembourg?

It’s all change for Europe’s wavelengths in 1934… but what will Radio Luxembourg do?

The inauguration of “Southern Television”

A Southern Rhapsody is about to hit Reading. Will you be watching?

TV cable across Atlantic?

Will it ever be possible to exchange television across the Atlantic? Bell Laboratories have a plan to lay a cable in 1955

‘Lord Haw Haw’ to face treason charge

Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling no more

B.B.C. sheds battledress

Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio

Opening shots in TV war

There’s a new kid on the Granada block: Phil Redmond aims to take the North West franchise in 1991

Tune-in battle on the radio

Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959

Television Service inaugurated by P.M.G.

The opening-day speeches from the new BBC Television Service

TV channel 4 storm

It’s decided: the fourth channel will be… a mess

Long Reads

The changing trends in television design

Televisions are getting larger (24 inches!) while their cases get smaller; aerials are getting more sophisticated; transportable TV sets are here… it’s all go at the 1958 National Radio Show

The German Freedom Radio Station

What are the people of Nazi Germany listening to in 1940?

BBC Television is 25 years old

A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961

Elsewhere on TBS

18 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV

Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964

12 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV

Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Sunday in 1964

Watch carefully – it’s TV’s big night

Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation

JOHN EDMUNDS tells you: What it is like to be A TELEVISION ANNOUNCER

How does an ABC announcer cope with the fans, the long hours and… toothache?

What is the future of ASSOCIATED-REDIFFUSION?

John Spencer Wills tells Rediffusion shareholders about the ups and downs of the financial year 1960-1

Curtain up to-night on Midland ITV

Over on our site about Alpha, the joint studios of ABC and ATV in Birmingham, it’s launch night for ITV in the Midlands