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Articles about VHF

B.B.C. Television comes of age

Published 2 November 2023

21 years from the official start of the BBC Television Service, the Earls Court Radio Show looks at how the BBC are celebrating at the exhibition

Holme Moss

Published 6 October 2023

All you ever needed to know about an engineering achievement high in the Pennines

A guide to BBC Radio in the 90s

Published 27 August 2023

Stickers to put on your radio, plus a guide to tuning in the new BBC Radio 5

Get set for radio changes…

Published 14 July 2023

BBC radio stations are moving. Here’s how to find them

VHF: Sound Broadcasting at its best

Published 30 June 2023

How the new VHF-FM broadcasting system will benefit you – and how to tune in

The BBC and the Pilkington Committee

Published 16 June 2023

The BBC gets its response to the Pilkington Committee in early

T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

Local radio, wavelengths and Radio 1

Published 16 September 2022

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

BBC Studiolympia News

Published 6 September 2022

A souvenir of your visit to the Ideal Home Show in March 1965

BBC transmitters in 1965/6

Published 15 August 2022

BBC Technical Information maps of VHF and MW transmitters

BBC VHF-FM transmitters in 1974

Published 24 May 2022

Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK

Thirty Productive Acres

Published 15 April 2022

A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments

The ITA transmitter network

Published 5 November 2021

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

New television standards: effect on British television

Published 19 February 2021

An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959

Your own radio station

Published 15 November 2018

BBC Local Radio is coming: what’s in it for you?

A Solid Step Forward

Published 12 March 2018

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

Relay race

Published 10 November 2014

Comparing VHF and UHF

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Thursday 28 March 2024