Features
I.T.V. in the Midlands opened
ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them
Crossroads: special souvenir website
Celebrate 3,000 years of Crossroads with our special souvenir website from 1978
Back in time for TV: 1977
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1977 to find out what was on the telly…
Why ITV is pulling out all the plugs
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
Back in time for TV: 1976
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1976 to find out what was on the telly…
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
How ITV Was Received on Merseyside
The Liverpool Echo reviews Granada’s first night on air in 1956… and finds that the picture is terrible
Southern get switched off
Reading’s Evening Post rushes out a front page splash to announce that Southern TV has lost its franchise in 1980
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
From the Televault: The Avengers!
Join us for a look back at The Avengers and The New Avengers, plus the autobiography of Patrick Macnee
Highlights of 1967
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1967, including the Seven Deadly Virtues, The Gamblers, Betjeman’s London and Lady Windermere’s Fan…
TWW & WWN archives
For researchers: source documents relating to TWW and Teledu Cymru from the Transdiffusion archives
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…
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
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
New Star Trek: Picard trailer released
Official trailer – with (spoilers) Data and Seven of Nine – shown at the San Diego Comic-Con tonight
ITN reaches for the stars
More people chose to watch ITN’s coverage of the moon landings than the BBC’s.
Bringing you the latest news…
Something we just found from ITN, and it’s amazing