Articles by Eric Croston

Regional News Programmes

Published 4 September 2023

Three different ways of doing news for three different ITV regions

Progress in engineering

Published 10 April 2023

Technological developments abound at the IBA: teletext, satellites, standards conversion and much more

The ITA Tower

Published 27 March 2023

The new concrete Emley Moor mast is commissioned

Behind the cameras

Published 13 March 2023

Photographs of the people behind the pictures

All through the night

Published 13 February 2023

24-hour radio of all types from ten ILR stations

TV Wizardry – In and Out of the Studios

Published 6 February 2023

New technology sweeps ITV, with ENG, computer editing and ½-inch tape at the fore

Technical operations

Published 27 January 2023

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

Extension of Independent Local Radio

Published 23 January 2023

The next round of ILR stations has been approved

An arm’s length from Carlisle

Published 9 January 2023

Border Television punches above its weight

UHF television coverage

Published 24 December 2022

UHF coverage maps for ITV in 1979

Pictures from the Sky

Published 21 December 2022

It sounds amazing, but one day soon we could all be watching television that arrives at our homes from a satellite

The history of television

Published 3 November 2022

Examining Granada’s 13-part series looking at Television

The Authority’s Plans for Channel Four

Published 2 November 2022

Inside the 20-year battle for a fourth channel

New Initiatives on Channel 4

Published 2 November 2022

There’s always something new and different on Channel 4

Channel Four News

Published 2 November 2022

The country’s newest, and most innovative, news programme

Film on Four

Published 2 November 2022

Channel 4’s first two years have seen an explosion in British filmmaking

ILR Meeting the Challenge

Published 19 October 2022

Innovation comes from local radio – and vice versa

Electronic technology to serve the Grampian area

Published 5 October 2022

A tiny company serves the largest area thanks to modern technology

The Changing Face of Downing Street

Published 5 September 2022

Yorkshire Television peers through the revolving door of 10 Downing Street

Sharing the Best

Published 23 May 2022

A system of networking on early 1980s ILR

Focus on a crisis

Published 2 May 2022

ITN is called into action when a siege at an embassy in London comes to a shocking end

Selection of ILR areas and companies

Published 25 April 2022

A second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations could soon be approved by the government. How will they be chosen?

The Sporting Week – Behind the Scenes

Published 18 April 2022

World of Sport airs every Saturday on ITV – but work on the programme begins on Tuesday

Focus on Cardiff

Published 6 December 2021

The second phase of ILR begins as CBC comes on air in Cardiff

The birth of a channel

Published 2 August 2021

The first brand new national TV channel in almost 20 years has arrived

ITV’s Regional Strength

Published 9 October 2020

What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976

Technical operations: the ITV network

Published 14 August 2020

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

Television’s most famous street

Published 10 August 2020

A trip behind the scenes of the frantic treadmill involved in producing two episodes a week of ‘Coronation Street’ in 1979

Building for Channel 4

Published 29 July 2020

A gallery of photos from the construction of the Beacon Hill Channel 4 extension in the early 1980s

Consulting the Oracle

Published 27 July 2020

Inside ITV’s teletext service ORACLE in 1985

The ABC of TV

Published 10 March 2020

From chromakey to cycloramas, the jargon of television production in 1975 is explained here

The Sound of ILR

Published 1 October 2018

Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977

Waking up to Television

Published 7 June 2018

Looking forward to the arrival of TV-am, later in 1983

Minority Television in Action

Published 21 May 2018

The IBA celebrates diversity on ITV in 1983

A Solid Step Forward

Published 12 March 2018

A look at how IBA transmitters were going solid-state in 1975

Light Entertainment 1970

Published 5 September 2017

A look back at your favourite ITV light entertainment shows from 1970

So you want an ILR station?

Published 7 August 2017

How can you get the IBA to build you an ILR station in 1979?

CITV 1963

Published 19 June 2017

A look at what children were watching on ITV in 1963

The IBA’s flying-squad

Published 30 May 2017

The work of the mobile maintenance teams in 1974

New Directions

Published 23 May 2017

How Central changed ATV’s drama output

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
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