Features
Television’s most famous street
A trip behind the scenes of the frantic treadmill involved in producing two episodes a week of ‘Coronation Street’ in 1979
Back in time for TV: 1986
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1986 to find out what was on the telly…
The symbols of success
Get ready for ITV in this interview from 1989 with the designers of the new look
Colour TV from Aberdeen today marks decade of Grampian viewing
Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971
Eight nations see TV relay triumph
Television pictures get from Rome to Copenhagen, Paris, Bonn, Hilversum and London in an exciting new development in 1954
Technical operations: the ITV network
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
Television apparatus
Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on
A Superb Souvenir of the Year’s Television
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
The fall of Teledu Cymru
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
Gremlins hit big TV opening
The Daily Mirror pokes fun at the disaster that was Harlech’s launch night
Building for Channel 4
A gallery of photos from the construction of the Beacon Hill Channel 4 extension in the early 1980s
Border Television choose a Symbol
‘The Stage’ newspaper reports in 1960 on how Border TV will look when it launches
Stop watch man starts UTV
The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Regional Railways Identity Management
The 1992 rebranding of British Rail’s Regional Railways is explained by our sister site Retropia
INTERTEL: the International Television Federation
Our fantastic huge new site all about INTERTEL, the documentary series made by Rediffusion, NET, Group W, the ABC and the CBC between 1960 and 1968 has arrived
This is the European Broadcasting Union… in 1962
An in-depth examination of just what the EBU does for us all in 1962
Introducing Radio Caroline
Ronan O’Rahilly has died at 79. In tribute, here’s our Radio Caroline microsite
Introducing the folk who live in Weavers Green
From the vaults: over on Transdiffusion’s my1960s.com, the TVTimes introduces us to the cast of the new ITV soap opera Weavers Green in 1966
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
Hello again, old friend
Network Distributing launch their streaming service with three nights of ABC Weekend TV
A clarification
It’s as easy as ABC
Lockdown 6-pack II
Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown