Features
BBC ‘Colourful One’
It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel
About About Anglia
From the vaults: in 1975, Anglia takes a peek behind the scenes of their local news magazine
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
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
Stop watch man starts UTV
The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Clangers in the Romper Room
From the vaults: the TVTimes meets Miss Rosalyn of Anglia’s The Romper Room in 1967
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
Introducing the folk who live in Weavers Green
From the vaults: over on Transdiffusion’s my1960s.com, the TVTimes introduces us to the cast of the new ITV soap opera Weavers Green in 1966
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
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
Gay Byrne 1934–2019
A personal retrospective of Ireland’s greatest broadcaster
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.