Geography
Hopes of Yorkshire television
8 February 2021
No, not that Yorkshire Television. This is the first television for Yorkshire, the BBC, which could be on air by 1950
Mendip mast opening – full colour plan
3 February 2021
Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people
Television for local communities
18 January 2021
Border Television’s managing director on his station’s place in the world
Yes, commercial T.V. is here
22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
Colour TV from Aberdeen today marks decade of Grampian viewing
24 July 2020
Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971
How ITV Was Received on Merseyside
4 July 2019
The Liverpool Echo reviews Granada’s first night on air in 1956… and finds that the picture is terrible
A rationalised ITV structure
27 May 2019
The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why
How to receive BBC-2
22 May 2017
BBC-2 is on its way to the north of England. This 1965 leaflet tells you all you need to know about receiving it
The miracle of Eurovision
13 May 2017
The story of the Eurovision Network, told from the point of view of 1961
Television Comes to the Centre of England
17 December 2016
The Radio Times explains the technical achievements in building the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in 1949
One service, two areas, three audiences
12 January 2015
The trials of covering Wales and the west of England
The wool and the scouse
18 August 2014
In 1980, the Daily Telegraph reports on a challenger for Granada
That’s except for viewers in the midlands
28 July 2014
Regional variations apply to Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1971