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Who invented television?

Published 14 December 2023

An expert answers the question which many people ask as they watch their TV screen

High Definition Television – A British Achievement

Published 20 October 2023

There’s a lot for the British to be proud of when it comes to TV

How television works

Published 8 September 2023

This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?

Broadcasting in Britain: The Coming of Television

Published 2 December 2022

Part two of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The history of television

Published 3 November 2022

Examining Granada’s 13-part series looking at Television

BBC Television is 25 years old

Published 2 November 2020

A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961

Baird Television and the fire

Published 16 September 2020

Disaster strikes television development as the Crystal Palace burns down

Television apparatus

Published 31 July 2020

Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on

The John Baird

Published 3 August 2018

The [now-Royal] Television Society attends the opening of a pub commemorating the developer of TV

He created television – but couldn’t mend a fuse

Published 15 August 2017

Margaret Baird talks to the TVTimes in 1969 about married life with the inventor of television

If only he could be here now…

Published 14 August 2017

Margaret Baird talks to the TVTimes in 1969 about her life with the inventor of television

It all began with green stripes on my face

Published 15 November 2016

Noele Gordon remembers testing colour television with John Logie Baird in the 1930s

TV80: Television To-day

Published 2 November 2016

The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television

Pictures of the dawn

Published 1 May 2005

Video recording is not new. In fact it goes back a very long way.

Baird’s independent television

Published 5 April 2003

Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early

Baird versus the BBC

Published 1 February 2003

JLB pioneers television – but John Reith needs convincing

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Tuesday 19 March 2024