Features
ACTT members visit East Germany
Four members of the ACTT union go on a trip to East Germany in 1960 and like what they find
It’s Crossroads’ 3,000th Birthday
The TVTimes celebrates 3,000 years of ‘Crossroads’ in 1978 in a – frankly bonkers and baffling – celebratory article ‘written’ by ‘Meg Mortimer’
‘ITV was the start of the Coca-colonisation of Britain’
In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955
Receiving the Home, Light and Third
Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951
Keeping them Wide Awake
Inside TV-am’s popular children’s magazine show, the Wide Awake Club, in 1988
Broadcasting in the West
It’s 1949 and regional radio from the BBC Home Service is at its height. Our new special site reprints a BBC West of England booklet going behind the scenes of radio in the west and south west
Tempo: the impact of television on the arts
Angus Wilson reviews the contribution made to the arts by ABC Weekend TV’s ‘Tempo’ in 1964
This is Thames
A 1979 promotional leaflet gives us a glimpse inside Thames Television’s plans for the 1980s
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Here is the news… costing one million dollars
ITN’s News Editor Mark Andrews is shocked by Barbara Walters in 1976
Voices off guide the casting director
The TVTimes finds the secrets of Associated-Rediffusion’s casting director Weston Drury in 1956
Tonight’s ABC Weekend TV… in 1964
A look at what was on ABC Weekend TV in the North on Saturday 31 October 1964
This week’s ITV children’s programmes… in 1974
A look at what was on ITV for children this week in 1974
Tonight’s Anglia TV… in 1971
A look at what was on in the east of England on Sunday 19 September 1971
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
Get Zzzapped!
A new website goes in depth into the 1990s television comic ‘Zzzap!’
I shall say goodnight till it be morrow
The end came for the BBC Two 2s last night
Shaun O’Riordan 1927-2018
One of the longest-serving ATV directors has died