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BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s why

The opening-day speeches from the new BBC Television Service

It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel

Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983

In the aftermath of ‘Yesterday’s Men’ in 1971, Sean Day-Lewis argues we need more bias and less balance on the BBC

CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978

David Attenborough looks back at a year of BBC-2 in colour

Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968

A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961

From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters

The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937

The 1937 viewer may be surprised to learn that some parts of television are – gasp! – not real

The Radio Times talks about the thought that goes into postponing a programme

The former editor of the Daily Herald decides what is public service broadcasting and whether the BBC manages to produce it

The Radio Times explains how the BBC used to go looking for advice

The BBC’s Norman Collins explains television for the benefit of new Midlands viewers

A fine slice of sexism from 1955

The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946

BBC Monitoring is examined in 1950

A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down

The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics

The Director-General steps in and bans broadcast of a docudrama

TV Mirror pays a visit to Lime Grove’s studio canteen in 1954

The BBC finally fights back against its critics

The man who made BBC2

As war comes to the world, the Radio Times is ready

The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968

The big event that brought television into the lives of the masses

A BBC leaflet sent out with paper licences in 1982 gives us an outline of its history, organisation and policy

BBC-2 News for Spring 1968 brings you all the 625 and colour information you need

Dave Hastings listens to Attenborough

David Hastings on how the BBC isn’t helping its own defence

Selling off bits of Beeb

Better than his bad press deserves

The spaghetti harvest of 50 years ago

The end of the BBC as we know it?

Sir Ian Trethowan, BBC DG, profiled

David Brockman looks back at the seventies and the then-massive BBC commitment to Network Production Centres outside London

This time, Glen Aylett takes on the BBC’s top job

James Pittman takes on the whole shebang. Good luck.

The events of last year were just the latest, says Glenn Aylett

Richard Elen finds the Green Paper less dangerous than the DG

Richard Elen asks if the BBC really needs far reaching change

Ian Beaumont takes over another channel