8 January 2021
Rediffusion’s INTERTEL strand asks: what do recipients of American aid think about America in 1962?
24 December 2020
Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
11 December 2020
Over on our refurbished Thames site, the Reading Evening Post looks in to what exciting programmes the new Thames Television will be offering us in 1968
26 November 2020
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964
19 November 2020
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Sunday in 1964
12 November 2020
Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation
5 November 2020
How does an ABC announcer cope with the fans, the long hours and… toothache?
29 October 2020
John Spencer Wills tells Rediffusion shareholders about the ups and downs of the financial year 1960-1
16 October 2020
Over on our site about Alpha, the joint studios of ABC and ATV in Birmingham, it’s launch night for ITV in the Midlands
10 September 2020
We’ve lost Dame Diana Rigg, best known to us as Mrs Peel in ABC’s The Avengers. Patrick Macnee and Ian Hendry tell the story of the series in our special website from 1976
23 June 2020
The 1992 rebranding of British Rail’s Regional Railways is explained by our sister site Retropia
28 May 2020
Our fantastic huge new site all about INTERTEL, the documentary series made by Rediffusion, NET, Group W, the ABC and the CBC between 1960 and 1968 has arrived
16 May 2020
An in-depth examination of just what the EBU does for us all in 1962
21 April 2020
Ronan O’Rahilly has died at 79. In tribute, here’s our Radio Caroline microsite
28 October 2019
From the vaults: over on Transdiffusion’s my1960s.com, the TVTimes introduces us to the cast of the new ITV soap opera Weavers Green in 1966
1 October 2019
What goes on high above us all at TWW’s studios?
3 September 2019
We’re on our way to Wembley… and to Television House in Kingsway
6 August 2019
Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air
30 July 2019
First published a year ago, listen to Thames Television’s inaugural luncheon on their first day of broadcasting on 30 July 1968
29 July 2019
From a year ago: a look at what was on Rediffusion in London on Monday 29 July 1968
15 July 2019
Celebrate 3,000 years of Crossroads with our special souvenir website from 1978
2 July 2019
Join us for a look back at The Avengers and The New Avengers, plus the autobiography of Patrick Macnee
1 July 2019
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1967, including the Seven Deadly Virtues, The Gamblers, Betjeman’s London and Lady Windermere’s Fan…
19 June 2019
For researchers: source documents relating to TWW and Teledu Cymru from the Transdiffusion archives
17 June 2019
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1966, with stars such as David Frost, Bernard Levin, Ian Hendry, Joe Orton and James Mason…
3 June 2019
The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you
24 May 2019
Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready
20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
16 May 2019
The new Thames Television studios are about to start rising on the Euston Road in February 1969
7 May 2019
Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately
6 May 2019
A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
2 May 2019
Peter Ling travels to Wembley to meet Guy Bloomer, deputy manager of the studios in 1959
25 April 2019
Peter Ling goes to Room 518 on the fifth floor to visit the manager of the drama department Vyvienne Moynihan in 1959
22 April 2019
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973
18 April 2019
Peter Ling pops to Wembley to talk to Len Fraser in the Property Store in 1959
11 April 2019
Peter Ling visits the first floor office of property master Des McCormack in 1959
8 April 2019
Our new subsite goes behind the cameras at ABC in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960
4 April 2019
Peter Ling watches Pam Elliott wield a panstick for Rediffusion in 1958
21 March 2019
Peter Ling pops up to the second floor to meet Albert Short, head of the post room
18 March 2019
Our new microsite takes you behind the scenes of Radio Luxembourg in 1965: from the staff to the adverts, from how to buy airtime to how to visit… and packed with audio clips recorded by Transdiffusion at the time!
14 March 2019
Peter Ling goes down on to the studio floor to meet FM Tony Hulley in 1958
7 March 2019
Peter Ling pays a visit to the Rediffusion Club and talks to bartender Betty Bowes in 1958
1 March 2019
Read issue 18 of the UK’s pioneering LGBT+ newspaper Gay News from March 1973, fully digitised and free
4 February 2019
All television production requires training, especially when it’s amateurs in front of the camera. In 1959, ABC Weekend set out to teach the vicars, priests and bishops of Britain how to work in TV