Features
Color City
The grand opening of NBC’s new colour studios in Burbank, California, is celebrated by the ‘NBC Chimes’ staff magazine in 1955
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
A World Listened and Watched
How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the assassination of President Kennedy
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
‘Early Bird’ spreads its wings
The first geostationary satellite linking Europe and North America goes into service in 1965
Tory-Weighted Programmers For Britain’s Comm’l TV Spark Rumpus
The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried
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
Routine Sheet Database
A new resource from Transdiffusion… but what now?
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