Features
Highlights of 1966
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1966, with stars such as David Frost, Bernard Levin, Ian Hendry, Joe Orton and James Mason…
Back in time for TV: 1976
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1976 to find out what was on the telly…
Programme preview for Wales and West
TWW’s programme controller provides a rundown of forthcoming ITV programmes to the South Wales Argus in 1961
Back in time for TV: 1975
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1975 to find out what was on the telly…
A rationalised ITV structure
The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why
Can TV’s ‘lost weekend’ be brought to life?
The leading television critics from the broadsheet newspapers gather in July 1968 to discuss what ITV should look like on weekends when the contracts change
Haldane Duncan 1945-2018
Scottish television director Haldane Duncan has died aged 73. Read his autobiography we first published in 2006
A World Listened and Watched
How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the assassination of President Kennedy
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Commercials? You’ll love ’em!
From the vaults: Tyne Tees Television’s ‘The Viewer’ listings magazine explains television advertisements to a new audience in 1959
Waterfall watermark
How do you get watermarked paper for your new ITV company when you can’t afford watermarked paper?
TWW & WWN archives
For researchers: source documents relating to TWW and Teledu Cymru from the Transdiffusion archives
ATV Centre: bringing colour to life in the Midlands
The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you
Forecast for colour
Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready
Euston – a bird’s eye view
The new Thames Television studios are about to start rising on the Euston Road in February 1969
News at 9.00 – news at 10.00?
Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately
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
Bringing you the latest news…
Something we just found from ITN, and it’s amazing
Locally great, globally useless
A decision has been made that makes Independent Local Radio less independent, less local and less good radio, says David Heathcote
Routine Sheet Database
A new resource from Transdiffusion… but what now?