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John Mead: Part I – from Bristol to BFN
Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead begin at the beginning
John Mead: Part II – Granadaland
Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead reach the Granada days
John Mead: Part III – Telly Welly
Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead from when he joined TWW
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Full houses for first Scots TV show
How did the launch of the BBC’s Kirk o’Shotts TV transmitter go down with viewers in 1952?
How it feels to face the TV camera
A camera test exposes the behind-the-scenes choices announcers have to make in 1951
Hopes of Yorkshire television
No, not that Yorkshire Television. This is the first television for Yorkshire, the BBC, which could be on air by 1950
Mendip mast opening – full colour plan
Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people
Lucifer throws light on TV electioneering
Will television have an effect on voters at election time? Leeds University plan to find out, using an ‘electronic brain’ in 1959
Boarders repelled – says Caroline
Radio Caroline’s first brush with the law a little over a month after it launched
Into the fifth year
It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV
New television standards: effect on British television
An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959
Project Telstar: Communications Experiment
A detailed, technical exploration of the Telstar satellite from 1962
The billion-dollar builders
Rediffusion’s INTERTEL strand asks: what do recipients of American aid think about America in 1962?
Magnificent trio
Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
The new look
Over on our refurbished Thames site, the Reading Evening Post looks in to what exciting programmes the new Thames Television will be offering us in 1968
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
Gerry Marsden 1942–2021
Gerry Marsden has died at 78
Necrolog 2020
A reminder of those we’ve loved and lost this past year
Martin Lambie-Nairn 1945–2020
Vale to the designer’s designer