Features
Back in time for TV: 1978
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1978 to find out what was on the telly…
I.T.V. in the Midlands opened
ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them
Back in time for TV: 1977
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1977 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
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
Commercials? You’ll love ’em!
From the vaults: Tyne Tees Television’s ‘The Viewer’ listings magazine explains television advertisements to a new audience in 1959
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
From the Televault: The Avengers!
Join us for a look back at The Avengers and The New Avengers, plus the autobiography of Patrick Macnee
Highlights of 1967
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1967, including the Seven Deadly Virtues, The Gamblers, Betjeman’s London and Lady Windermere’s Fan…
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