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Yes, commercial T.V. is here

Published 22 September 2020

Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?

A Superb Souvenir of the Year’s Television

Published 20 March 2020

Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television

Stop watch man starts UTV

Published 31 October 2019

The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television

Track in on… Guy Bloomer …White Sea to Wembley

Published 2 May 2019

Peter Ling travels to Wembley to meet Guy Bloomer, deputy manager of the studios in 1959

Track in on… Vyvienne Moynihan …Who Manages to Laugh

Published 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

Track in on… Len Fraser, Prop and Mainstay

Published 18 April 2019

Peter Ling pops to Wembley to talk to Len Fraser in the Property Store in 1959

Track in on… Des McCormack looking after P——!

Published 11 April 2019

Peter Ling visits the first floor office of property master Des McCormack in 1959

Track in on… Pam Elliott who made up her mind

Published 4 April 2019

Peter Ling watches Pam Elliott wield a panstick for Rediffusion in 1958

Track in on… Albert Short for general post

Published 21 March 2019

Peter Ling pops up to the second floor to meet Albert Short, head of the post room

Track in, as… Tony Hulley steps on to the floor

Published 14 March 2019

Peter Ling goes down on to the studio floor to meet FM Tony Hulley in 1958

Track in on… Betty Bowes, the dark lady of the tonics

Published 7 March 2019

Peter Ling pays a visit to the Rediffusion Club and talks to bartender Betty Bowes in 1958

Sentenced to death

Published 8 January 2019

Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967

ACTT members visit East Germany

Published 12 November 2018

Four members of the ACTT union go on a trip to East Germany in 1960 and like what they find

Voices off guide the casting director

Published 26 October 2018

The TVTimes finds the secrets of Associated-Rediffusion’s casting director Weston Drury in 1956

‘Air hostesses’ – new style

Published 17 October 2018

Meet Muriel Young and Daphne Anderson, announcers for Associated-Rediffusion and ABC (aka ATV) in 1955

1964 and all that

Published 6 September 2018

A personal look back at 1964 from David Heathcote

How I grew up with ITV

Published 3 September 2018

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development

That was the decade that was

Published 28 August 2018

James Green of the London Evening News looks back at a decade (and slightly more) of Rediffusion and ITV in 1967

Where is TV’s ‘Nouvelle vague’?

Published 24 April 2018

Can Associated-Rediffusion do television plays for television? Nobody else seems to be doing so, writes Peter Graham Scott in 1961

REDIFFUSION64

Published 13 April 2018

A special feature website on the relaunch of Rediffusion London in April 1964

Backstage with ‘On Stage’

Published 29 March 2018

⧉ Going backstage with the producers of A-R’s ‘On Stage’ in 1957

Ideas galore

Published 22 March 2018

Pay a visit to A-R’s Here and Now in 1963 to learn about diving, dancing and diamonds

Mu

Published 19 January 2018

Ten questions for Muriel Young, star of ‘Twenty Questions’ in 1960

Christmas Day on Associated-Rediffusion… in 1957

Published 24 December 2017

A look at what was on ARTV on Christmas Day 1957

It’s about time

Published 18 December 2017

⧉ A gallery of Rediffusion clocks

Rediffusion’s voices of authority

Published 17 December 2017

⧉ A gallery of Rediffusion continuity announcers with audio clips

Tonight’s Associated-Rediffusion… in 1955

Published 22 November 2017

A look at what was on ARTV on Tuesday 22 November 1955

Schools television: the first 10 years

Published 13 November 2017

⧉ An in-depth history, first published in 1967, of Rediffusion’s programmes for schools

⧉ The Butchers

Published 29 September 2017

⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, a 1961 visit to the film editing department at Television House

⧉ Gigglers, gogglers and gumption

Published 15 September 2017

⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, director James Butler talks about the hell that is studio visits by the public

⧉ Achtung! Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Published 8 September 2017

⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, director Mark Lawton is seconded to West Germany in 1961… and the results are Not Good

John Lord – television teacher No. 1

Published 18 July 2017

Meet television’s first on-screen teacher, appearing on our screens in 1957

New TV system needed

Published 11 July 2017

Did Associated-Rediffusion’s managing director predict digital television in 1962?

CITV 1963

Published 19 June 2017

A look at what children were watching on ITV in 1963

Tonight’s Associated-Rediffusion… in 1956

Published 8 February 2017

A look at what was on A-R on Wednesday 8 February 1956

ITV 1955: The view from Australia

Published 22 September 2016

How The Age reacted to the birth of ITV

ITV 1955: The view from Canada

Published 22 September 2016

How the Ottawa Citizen reacted to the birth of ITV

ITV 1955: The view from Scotland

Published 22 September 2016

How the Glasgow newspapers reacted to the birth of ITV

ITV 1955: The view from America

Published 22 September 2016

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

✎ Fountaineer

Published 12 April 2016

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

Forward march

Published 30 November 2015

An unpopular war in the Middle East forces a change of identity for the biggest ITV company

Redvers Kyle 1929-2015

Published 19 November 2015

Remembering one of the consummate voices of ITV

Tonight’s ITV… in 1955

Published 22 September 2015

What was on ITV on Thursday 22 September 1955

Rising star

Published 22 September 2015

Associated-Rediffusion starts the day with pomp and circumstance

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