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The Television Act
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: How vague legislation created a pin-sharp television system
Choosing the companies
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954
Trouble with transmitters
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Setting up ITV gets serious – transmitters (or the lack of them)
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ITV puts its announcers in the picture
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
When Huw was told: ‘You looked just like a frightened rabbit’
ITN’s house magazine The Lens looks back from 1983 at Huw Thomas’s on-air career
Telefis Eireann will cater for every taste
Telefís Éireann is ready to launch. A local paper in Dundalk takes us through what to look out for
Back in time for TV: 1989
For the last time in the present series, H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1989 to find out what was on the telly…
BBC apology for Honved fade-out
There’s a thrilling end to a football match, so here’s the Show Band Show instead
Continental television stations
A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967
How can they get out of the MESS?
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
The billion-dollar builders
Rediffusion’s INTERTEL strand asks: what do recipients of American aid think about America in 1962?
Magnificent trio
Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
The new look
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
18 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964
12 January 1964 on ABC Weekend TV
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Sunday in 1964
Watch carefully – it’s TV’s big night
Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation
Gerry Marsden 1942–2021
Gerry Marsden has died at 78
Necrolog 2020
A reminder of those we’ve loved and lost this past year
Martin Lambie-Nairn 1945–2020
Vale to the designer’s designer