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Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead begin at the beginning
Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead reach the Granada days
Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead from when he joined TWW
How did the launch of the BBC’s Kirk o’Shotts TV transmitter go down with viewers in 1952?
A camera test exposes the behind-the-scenes choices announcers have to make in 1951
No, not that Yorkshire Television. This is the first television for Yorkshire, the BBC, which could be on air by 1950
Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people
Will television have an effect on voters at election time? Leeds University plan to find out, using an ‘electronic brain’ in 1959
Radio Caroline’s first brush with the law a little over a month after it launched
It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV
An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959
A detailed, technical exploration of the Telstar satellite from 1962
Rediffusion’s INTERTEL strand asks: what do recipients of American aid think about America in 1962?
Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
Over on our refurbished Thames site, the Reading Evening Post looks in to what exciting programmes the new Thames Television will be offering us in 1968
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Sunday in 1964
Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation
Gerry Marsden has died at 78
A reminder of those we’ve loved and lost this past year
Vale to the designer’s designer