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A new microsite looking at Quay Street in 1966

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

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

A short videoblog about Harlech Television’s notepaper in 1969

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

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

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

We just found something good deep in our archive.

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

Kennedy vs Nixon and history vs understanding

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

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

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

Recreating the pre-history of TVS

The latest slow TV production from BBC Four

When is a live show not a live show?

A man’s lonely crusade to save humanity from possible outer space attacks by Donald Sutherland

Showtime trails the 2017 return of the 1990 cult classic ‘Twin Peaks’

Coming from Network Distribution in 2016…

An open online archive of digitised wax cylinders from the dawn of the 20th century

A quick glimpse behind the scenes of the original Cosgrove-Hall ‘Dangermouse’.

TTT chief announcer dies at home

BBC-4’s biopic gets a repeat showing

A report from the funeral of Redvers Kyle

BBC Wales looks at the principality in the 1980s – a decade of unemployment, depression and Superted

ITV offers a look into Ev’s strange world

Archive treats from BBC Four this Christmas

How to make dots that flip

The Guardian’s pick of this year’s Xmas adverts

The Daily Telegraph have an obituary of Redvers Kyle that concentrates on his time as host of ‘Looking and Seeing’

It’s #ThamesDay across Transdiffusion’s social media channels

Friday 4 December at 1.40pm at Rawdon Crematorium, Leeds

Feature length videos from the Transdiffusion archives

Channel 4’s new look examined

Channel 4 celebrates ITV30

A British museum of television and radio would be nice

The eldest of the three Beverley Sisters has died

There’s only one BBC