Features
Can TV’s ‘lost weekend’ be brought to life?
The leading television critics from the broadsheet newspapers gather in July 1968 to discuss what ITV should look like on weekends when the contracts change
Back in time for TV: 1974
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1974 to find out what was on the telly…
What will ITV-2 be like?
ITV-2 is coming soon, says the Daily Telegraph in 1971. But what will it look like?
Why balance should be banned
In the aftermath of ‘Yesterday’s Men’ in 1971, Sean Day-Lewis argues we need more bias and less balance on the BBC
Shoestring splendours
In 1969 Ted Willis told the House of Lords it was time for ITV to consolidate. Did a trip to the Westward and Scottish studios change his mind?
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
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
Waterfall watermark
How do you get watermarked paper for your new ITV company when you can’t afford watermarked paper?
They watch your viewing
The Independent Television Authority took on new powers in 1964. The TVTimes in February 1965 explains what these are and how the ITA is structured
Forecast for colour
Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready
Euston – a bird’s eye view
The new Thames Television studios are about to start rising on the Euston Road in February 1969
News at 9.00 – news at 10.00?
Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately
ITV-2
A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
Track in on… Guy Bloomer …White Sea to Wembley
Peter Ling travels to Wembley to meet Guy Bloomer, deputy manager of the studios in 1959
Track in on… Vyvienne Moynihan …Who Manages to Laugh
Peter Ling goes to Room 518 on the fifth floor to visit the manager of the drama department Vyvienne Moynihan in 1959
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
Bringing you the latest news…
Something we just found from ITN, and it’s amazing
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
Routine Sheet Database
A new resource from Transdiffusion… but what now?