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✎ Sylvia Peters 1925-2016

28 July 2016

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

✎ World population explosion

18 June 2016

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

✎ A word on Harlech notepaper

18 May 2016

A short videoblog about Harlech Television’s notepaper in 1969

✎ Grampian mystery

24 April 2016

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

✎ Victoria Wood 1953-2016

20 April 2016

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

✎ Fountaineer

12 April 2016

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

✎ #EverettDay

3 April 2016

We just found something good deep in our archive.

✎ Cliff Michelmore 1919-2016

17 March 2016

Broadcasting pioneer Cliff Michelmore has died at the age of 96

✎ Sylvia Anderson 1927-2016

16 March 2016

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

✎ Asa Briggs 1921-2016

15 March 2016

Goodbye to one of our greatest media historians

✎ Dancing around the maypole

24 February 2016

Kennedy vs Nixon and history vs understanding

Avengerworld

6 February 2016

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

We broke the code

2 February 2016

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

Less is more

21 January 2016

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

33 years ago this morning

17 January 2016

BBC Breakfast Time launches

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men

11 January 2016

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

Teletext time travel

7 January 2016

Bringing old teletext pages on VHS back to life

Lego Television Centre

4 January 2016

A TV studio made out of Lego and awesome

Proto-TVS

3 January 2016

Recreating the pre-history of TVS

We’re riding in a wonderland of snow

21 December 2015

The latest slow TV production from BBC Four

Quatermass and the pits

20 December 2015

When is a live show not a live show?

Sinong Doktor

18 December 2015

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

Population 51,201

18 December 2015

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

Networking

18 December 2015

Coming from Network Distribution in 2016…

Firing on all cylinders

17 December 2015

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

Behind the scenes at ‘Dangermouse’

16 December 2015

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

Kathy Secker has died

16 December 2015

TTT chief announcer dies at home

Best possible taste

15 December 2015

BBC-4’s biopic gets a repeat showing

Celebrating Redvers

4 December 2015

A report from the funeral of Redvers Kyle

Wales in the Eighties

3 December 2015

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

The World According to Kenny Everett

2 December 2015

ITV offers a look into Ev’s strange world

Andy Pandy To Zebedee

1 December 2015

Archive treats from BBC Four this Christmas

Flippin’ tech

30 November 2015

How to make dots that flip

12 ads of Christmas

29 November 2015

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

Looking and Seeing

28 November 2015

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

#ThamesDay

23 November 2015

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

Funeral details for Redvers Kyle

21 November 2015

Friday 4 December at 1.40pm at Rawdon Crematorium, Leeds

Transdiffusion Television

21 October 2015

Feature length videos from the Transdiffusion archives

In pieces

5 October 2015

Channel 4’s new look examined

Just for openers…

22 September 2015

Channel 4 celebrates ITV30

For the want of a museum

12 September 2015

A British museum of television and radio would be nice

Joy Beverley (1924–2015)

1 September 2015

The eldest of the three Beverley Sisters has died

One BBC

25 August 2015

There’s only one BBC

Edward Heath night

22 July 2015

A treat for archive TV fans on Sunday 26 July

A snog from Europe

23 May 2015

A topical trip to the French archives

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