Features
Shotgun wedding
Has the IBA managed to bring peace to the Westward board room? And even if so, will they force Westward to merge with a rival bidder? Peter Fiddick of The Guardian speculates in October 1980
Fast forward into a new century as TV tunes into the digital age
How Central’s new £15 million television centre in Birmingham uses state-of-the-art technology to put the ‘broad’ in broadcasting in 1996
How TV Commercials get made
Rediffusion’s advertising agency on what makes good and bad television ads in 1965
Broadcasting under Communism
Burton Paulu on how television and radio was organised under Communism in Europe in 1967
Thames puts faith in C5
Thames is left as the sole bidder for the new Channel 5 licence in 1992… but investors are restless
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Marconi mobile television
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954 – see why in our new microsite
Computer suite – no admittance
It’s all go as the advertising department at Rediffusion installs a computer in 1966
Tonight’s Thames Television and Channel 4… in 1985
A look at what was on Thames in London and Channel 4 on Wednesday 12 June 1985
Back in time for TV: 28 April-4 May 1965
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 28 April-4 May 1965 for a look at what was on the telly
Back in time for TV: 5-11 May 1966
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 5-11 May 1966 for a look at what was on the telly
Freddie Phillips
You know him from Trumpton and Camberwick Green. We know him from his 8 daily start-up pieces for BBC-1 (two on Sundays) in use 1964-7. Have a listen to them on our SoundCloud channel
Television starts the day
Listen to Television start the day each day on Transdiffusion’s free SoundCloud playlist
► Quick march
On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
✎ Made in Yorkshire
A Kickstarter campaign is launched to fund a documentary about YTV
✎ Sir Ken Dodd 1927-2018
Looking back at the life of Liverpool funnyman Ken Dodd
✎ Sit down, Nigel Barton
Dirty Feed has a great examination of the changes between the script and the production of 1965 Dennis Potter’s ‘Stand Up, Nigel Barton’ play