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What’s new for the BBC in the next year?

Twiddle your knob online with this LW/MW/SW live website

The saddest of sad news

A YouTube channel of IBA engineering announcements

Actor Peter Sallis has died

How video tape recording worked

Election coverage guru Gary Rodger gives us a run down of what to tune into and where on election night

Vale John Noakes

Radio North Sea International was bombed in 1971

Congratulations to Transdiffusioners Jon and Kate Bufton

John Mead’s fun account of a life behind the camera is now available as an ebook

Disc jockey and presenter dies

Exciting new developments today here at Transdiffusion

Some pictures from the Transdiffusion Birmingham Soirée, held on 25 March 2017

A new book promises to bring the horror of growing up back into your life

Bradford is leaving the UK without a decent television museum

Following links back in your analytics software can be fun!

The anniversary of a groundbreaking drama series

The wrecking ball takes the last hint of Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle

…because you lost at Valentine’s Day

BBC Radio newsreader Howard Philpott has died

Magpie gets weird in 1967

Some pure joy from 1979

An informal meet-up for archive television and radio fans on 25 March 2017

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 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