Articles by Russ J Graham

Some pure joy from 1979

A look at what was on Tyne Tees on Sunday 21 December 1980

The BBC-1 Christmas jingle from 1967

Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.

There’s a power cut in central London

French television looks on in amazement as les rosbifs interrupt breakfast by adding television

A look at what was on television on Tuesday 16 November 1999

A look at what was on the BBC on Sunday 2 November 1986

A look at what was on HTV on Sunday 5 October 1980.

How The Age reacted to the birth of ITV

How the Ottawa Citizen reacted to the birth of ITV

How the Glasgow newspapers reacted to the birth of ITV

How the Daytona Beach Morning Journal reacted to the birth of ITV

A look at what was on the Home Service on Thursday 14 September 1939

British Pathé captures ABC’s first moments in Didsbury

A new microsite looking at Quay Street in 1966

Transdiffusion’s newest televault site has a wonderful exclusive to share with you…

The Times newspaper today reports the death of Sylvia Peters, the BBC’s chief female announcer in the 1940s and 50s.

A look at what was on LWT and C4 on Saturday 30 June 1990

Some really good news in amongst this week’s misery.

A short videoblog about Harlech Television’s notepaper in 1969

A look at what was on ABC in the midlands on Sunday 13 May 1956

A printers’ strike gives us the opportunity of comparing what was on ITV on Monday 28 April 1969

Found on the end of a reel-to-reel tape…

The singer-actor-comedian-writer-producer has died aged 62

A look at what was on Tyne Tees Television on Monday 16 April 1984

A new minisite from Transdiffusion devoted to the soon-to-be-gone Wembley studios.

We just found something good deep in our archive.

The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969

Broadcasting pioneer Cliff Michelmore has died at the age of 96

Remembering Sylvia Anderson, co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of many of the nation’s favourite children’s adventure shows.

Goodbye to one of our greatest media historians

A look at what was on LWT on Saturday 14 March 1981

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service in the week of Sunday 12 March 1950

A look at what was on HTV on Monday 27 February 1989

Kennedy vs Nixon and history vs understanding

A look at what was on the BBC’s radio networks on Monday 7 February 1938

A new charity anthology of writing about The Avengers is released today

I think we now know ‘what’, but not ‘why’

A look at what was on Television South on Saturday 28 January 1984

Broadcast and basic cable in the US decides how to fight back against Netflix

BBC Breakfast Time launches

The late David Bowie makes an early appearance on ‘Tonight’ in 1964

Bringing old teletext pages on VHS back to life

A TV studio made out of Lego and awesome