Features
Receiving the ITA programmes
Rumours that ITV will be hard to receive swirl in March 1955. TV Mirror magazine tries to set the record straight
Birth of a Station
All it takes is $250,000, a lot of persistence and a sports director who won’t hyperventilate on camera
The Television Centre – its significance for professional visitors
From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters
Iris Jones
An interview from 2001 with Teledu Cymru continuity announcer and actress Iris Jones, republished upon her death on 29 June 2017
Commercial television: They’re buying in Britain
What are the prospects for the new ITV? A US magazine finds out in early September 1955
How ITV set the pace in colour
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
A Year Before
The Robert Fraser Lectures [5/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority looks forward to ITV in a speech given in 1954
The Advertisements
The Robert Fraser Lectures [4/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority wonders how TV advertising will work in 1955
Off We Go
The Robert Fraser Lectures [3/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority explains ITV to Daily Mail readers in 1955
John Lord – television teacher No. 1
Meet television’s first on-screen teacher, appearing on our screens in 1957
New TV system needed
Did Associated-Rediffusion’s managing director predict digital television in 1962?
► Highland Recording Studios
A demo package of jingles for Radio Forth, NorthSound and Moray Firth Radio from 1981
✎ BBC Annual Plan 2017/2018
What’s new for the BBC in the next year?
✎ Virtual DXing
Twiddle your knob online with this LW/MW/SW live website
✎ Brian Cant 1933-2017
The saddest of sad news