Geography

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

A local newspaper takes issue with the new Central Independent Television in the East Midlands

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

Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people

Border Television’s managing director on his station’s place in the world

10-3, 10-3, you’re ruining our television reception

Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?

Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971

The Liverpool Echo reviews Granada’s first night on air in 1956… and finds that the picture is terrible

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

BBC-2 transmitters in service and planned in 1968

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

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 story of the Eurovision Network, told from the point of view of 1961

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

Reaching for the service area

The physical networking arrangements of early ITV

The trials of covering Wales and the west of England

Television arrives in the Midlands in 1949

Transmitter problems for Yorkshire, Tyne Tees and Anglia

In 1980, the Daily Telegraph reports on a challenger for Granada

Regional variations apply to Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1971

The regional story

Anglia was never the region it seemed

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

After 46 years, does Ulster Television know where it’s going?

BBC North East two decades ago

Broadcasting in Cumbria

The notable ITV starts and closes

All the stations, all the times

Regions and how they work now

The joys of 405-line television

Starting a network

Covering just 4 regions

Consolidation

Maturity

Towards 100%

The ITA decides how ITV will be

Television comes to the BBC

How ITV could have been done

Stealing television

Notable ITV starts and closes

The spread of the ABC regions

Setting yourself apart