Features
Wake up to breakfast TV!
Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983
The beginning of a new service
From the vaults: pay a visit to the newly opened Brookmans Park transmitter in 1931 as the BBC’s “Regional Scheme” begins
A short history
From the vaults: Russ J Graham provides a short history of Rediffusion and British Electric Traction
Back in time for TV: 1980
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1980 to find out what was on the telly…
The results are in
ATV’s first annual report after the 1968 contract changes reveals the ups and downs of the new ITV
Back in time for TV: 1979
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1979 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
That’s except for viewers in the Midlands
From the vaults: regional variations apply to Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1971
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
From the Televault: Rediffusion studios tour
We’re on our way to Wembley… and to Television House in Kingsway
From the Televault: Harlech accepting the challenge
Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air
Welcome to Thames Television
First published a year ago, listen to Thames Television’s inaugural luncheon on their first day of broadcasting on 30 July 1968
Tonight’s Rediffusion… in 1968
From a year ago: a look at what was on Rediffusion in London on Monday 29 July 1968
Crossroads: special souvenir website
Celebrate 3,000 years of Crossroads with our special souvenir website from 1978
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.
Locally great, globally useless
A decision has been made that makes Independent Local Radio less independent, less local and less good radio, says David Heathcote