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The Authority’s Stations: West and North Wales

Published 3 August 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: north and west Wales

The Authority’s Stations: North-East Scotland

Published 20 July 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: northern Scotland

The Authority’s Stations: The Borders

Published 13 July 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: for the England/Scotland border

The Authority’s Stations: South-West England

Published 6 July 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: the west country

The Authority’s Stations: Northern Ireland

Published 29 June 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: Strabane and Black Mountain

The Authority’s Stations: South and South-East England

Published 8 June 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: Southern region

The Authority’s Stations: introduction

Published 5 May 2023

The first part of a weekly series on the ITV transmitters in 1962

Technical operations

Published 27 January 2023

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

BBC transmitters in 1965/6

Published 15 August 2022

BBC Technical Information maps of VHF and MW transmitters

In tune with Channel 4

Published 4 July 2022

The Channel 4 main transmitter network is complete, but there’s more to do

Welcome to the NEW Region…

Published 21 January 2022

Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter

The ITA transmitter network

Published 5 November 2021

Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority

To the North

Published 10 May 2021

A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s

Hopes of Yorkshire television

Published 8 February 2021

No, not that Yorkshire Television. This is the first television for Yorkshire, the BBC, which could be on air by 1950

Continental television stations

Published 23 December 2020

A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967

“Holme Moss is the wildest place I’ve ever worked”

Published 14 October 2020

60 men battle the elements to bring BBCtv to the north of England in 1951

Building for Channel 4

Published 29 July 2020

A gallery of photos from the construction of the Beacon Hill Channel 4 extension in the early 1980s

Factsheet 1966: ITA Engineering

Published 4 October 2018

An introduction to the ITV transmitter network in 1966

WHY the sets and aerials need to be altered

Published 20 August 2018

‘Professor’ A M Low explains to people who want the new ITV in 1955 just why they’ve got to change aerials and TV sets

In an ITA transmitting station

Published 19 July 2018

A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966

Independent Television in 1959

Published 8 April 2018

Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959

BBC-2 transmitting stations

Published 27 March 2018

BBC-2 transmitters in service and planned in 1968

A Solid Step Forward

Published 12 March 2018

A look at how IBA transmitters were going solid-state in 1975

Breakdowns

Published 20 February 2018

Instructions for transmitter staff in the event of screens going blank

Receiving the ITA programmes

Published 17 July 2017

Rumours that ITV will be hard to receive swirl in March 1955. TV Mirror magazine tries to set the record straight

The IBA’s flying-squad

Published 30 May 2017

The work of the mobile maintenance teams in 1974

They work right on at the end of the road

Published 24 December 2016

Spare a thought for the men keeping the Lichfield transmitter on air at Christmas in 1964

Television Comes to the Centre of England

Published 17 December 2016

The Radio Times explains the technical achievements in building the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in 1949

Up on Emley Moor…

Published 1 December 2005

Former ITA Engineer David Lee’s story of the fateful day in 1969

VHF off

Published 1 September 2001

The joys of 405-line television

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