Features
WHY the sets and aerials need to be altered
‘Professor’ A M Low explains to people who want the new ITV in 1955 just why they’ve got to change aerials and TV sets
Thames on the cover of the TVTimes
The programming powerhouse of Thames, as seen on the covers of the TVTimes
Thames in the ITA and IBA yearbooks
How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988
Yorkshire Television presents…
Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Marconi mobile television
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954 – see why in our new microsite
Val Parnell – Paladin of the Palladium
TVTimes interviews the man behind Sunday Night at the London Palladium in 1956
Factsheet 1966: Independent Television Programmes
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Back in time for TV: 17-22 June 1969
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 17-22 June 1969 for a look at what was on the telly
Tonight’s Independent Television… in 1968
A look at what was on ITV in the whole country on Thursday 8 August 1968
Tonight’s Anglia Television… in 1979
A look at what was on Anglia in the east of England on Wednesday 1 August 1979
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
✎ Made in Yorkshire
A Kickstarter campaign is launched to fund a documentary about YTV
✎ Sir Ken Dodd 1927-2018
Looking back at the life of Liverpool funnyman Ken Dodd
✎ Sit down, Nigel Barton
Dirty Feed has a great examination of the changes between the script and the production of 1965 Dennis Potter’s ‘Stand Up, Nigel Barton’ play